Cleansing Conundrum.

[FunFan]

Ka-pi96 said:

heh, yeah it doesn't really work that well

Assuming 'executions' is referring to permabans then there's really not been that many that have been 'executed'. Besides, apart from a few exceptions most of those were deserved.

A decrease in forum activity is much more likely to be due to;

A. Lack of interesting sales battles. Let's face it, we all know who's going to come 1st, 2nd and 3rd this gen in both home consoles and handhelds. There's nothing exciting to see there. But there was when that graph showed a lot of activity. The PS3/X360 were very close. This point is also backed up by the increase in activity around the PS4/XOne launch when people were wondering how they'd start out.

B. Lower than expected Nintendo sales. Everybody knows we've got a lot of Nintendo fans on this site. And I think it's fair to assume that most people like to talk about things more when they are doing well. Nintendo were doing insanely well when there was a lot of activity, now they've declined quite a bit and so has the activity. At least this guarantees there will be a pretty decent increase in activity around the NX launch though. If that goes well maybe the site can maintain some of that activity too.

C. The lack of updates. Seriously, this is a big problem. Software is better now with Machina dealing with it, but the big draw when we're talking sales numbers is always going to be the hardware and that just isn't updated consistently anymore. Ok the sales figures may not be as interesting as they were before, but something is still better than nothing.

D. The ads. Sure ads have been on VGC for ever, but there's only so much people can take and some of them have gotten really bad.

I'd say all of that's more likely reasons for a decrease in activity than the sites moderators.

What are you talking about? This is just an hypothetical situation. *Looks around nervously*