Keep piracy talk out of Emulation threads

[Chazore]

Captain_Yuri said:

It reminds me of how PC threads were way back when. Basically, almost every PC thread had at least one post talking about how PC gaming was bad cause of piracy. And the mods hardly did anything and it went on. Eventually, after a few years with tons of whining and a few mod changes, the site caught up to what every other site had for years and that shitposting PC gaming is a bad thing.

And now, we have emulation being beat to the same drum. You have people like DF guys promoting emulation every sunday and not piracy. Microsoft, you know, the people who made Xbox got DF to reveal Scorpio. If Emulation was so bad, would a company like MS associate themselves with a channel that promotes it and has been promoting it for some time now...? And it's similar to many other sites which actually does something when piracy is not relevant to the discussion even if it is about emulation.

Sighh, time to wait the next few years so we can have a thread where we can talk about having an API improvement in an emulator without someone talking about piracy lul

It does remind me of it, but it's also why I wanted to turn things around and prevent such talk from going on, as if nothing had changed, but it still shows that some people have refused to change their mindset in general, even with information being presented, so it becoems more of a people issue than a platform one. At this point we create a few PC threads, they usually die within a day or three, unless they are a thread that people will use to argue over (like the Emu one), in which case they will last days, possibly a week or more, but that just shows that the site isn't willing to talk about that side of gaming unless it's to talk ill of it.

 

I didn't join this site for that kind of crap. I joined ebcause I wanted to turn things around. But it seems the non understanding folk are to be protected vs those that actually know what's even going on, so really no progressive talks can even be made, because the non progressive folk will just come in, destroy the threads and get protection while doing so, while those talking about said emus can somehow be cited as "linking piracy material" and then be banned on the spot, so really it's alrerady been decided on what happens before it's even happened. 

I find it silly on how some ehre refuse to see the other side and also seeing emulation as a bad thing, especially when we've got other companies talking about it/promiting it themselves.

 

I honest to god do not want the emulation topic being sent back to the dark ages on this site. We should be better than this in terms of the site progressing, rather than regressing back to a state where it devolved into shitposting a topic. Those that disagree with emulation, no one is holding you at gunpoint, no one is demanding you go into every Emu thread and derail it with piracy talk. The notion of wanting to protect those who don't like the subject and seek to derail it speaks volumes by the way.