VGC's stance on Thread Quality and Enforcement

[vivster]

Aeolus451 said:

vivster said:

As for your first sentence, no it's not. Facts are still facts, even in Trump's America.

Nothing is murky about the things I said. Baits are obvious, nonsense is obvious and hit and run are obvious. It's made even easier because the majority of those threads are committed by the same people over and over again. I am talking exactly about the threads where the intent of the thread creator is very easily to see. It doesn't even matter if it's malicious intent or ignoirance. Ignorance does not shield from punishment.

I say that as someone who very well knows how to strategically avoid rules yet still breaking them. Mods are already going around and ban people out of their own whims. They banned me several times while I wasn't technically breaking any rules and they let people go who clearly violate the rules with certain threads.

Modding is in the end is a bit subjective but it also adheres to common sense, which despite your defiance is not subjective. Especially not when it's written down into rules. Rules are just rules and all it needs to change them is to just write them down.

 

Let me give you a few examples:

A thread claiming a console version of a game runs better than the PC version based on a single unverifiable instance

A thread claiming graphical superiority by making completely false assumptions and wrong FLOPS calculations

A thread claiming that Donald Trump did not lie when he clearly was

A thread predicting 150m Xbox One sales because Crackdown looks awesome

A thread saying everyone who is giving BOTW less than a 9/10 is a hater

None of those threads are up for debate because they're ludicrous in the first place. It's easy really. If your claims in a thread can be verifiably refuted within the first 3 posts it's obvious that the thread content isn't worth it and the thread should be closed. They go way beyond innocent predictions. They're pure nonsense and do not deserve a public platform on a site that pretends to be neutral.

Oh so that's how it is? Being disconnected from the reality, people in general and spinning truth for their benefit are trademarks of the regressive left. I didn't bring it up btw. So please drop the trump digs and I will lay off with my favorite catch phrase/other stuff.

Anway, I highly disagree with your mindset involving 4, 5 and 6. You're trying to frame anything in murky territories as absolutes when they are not. What constitutes as common sense is subjective to each person. 

Threads that don't break the rules that aren't a big deal might be percieved as bullshit by someone else. It doesn't invalidate the threads because one person who's think their version of common sense is the only truth.

"I am talking exactly about the threads where the intent of the thread creator is very easily to see." You're talking about exactly what I said with that crap being a bad idea. Just from your asinine examples that you listed, it proves my point in how this is entirely subjective and it shouldn't be moderated in the way you want.  Who really gives a fuck if someone posts a thread about "150m Xbox One sales because Crackdown looks awesome"? Are you serious? If this sort of thread is what upsets you and what you think needs to be shut down by mods.... You need to take a step back from this stuff.

Sorry for the digs but this had to be said. Shit like what's currently going on this forum is exactly what gets  people like Trump elected. A world where bullshit isn't called out as the bullshit it is and slowly makes people think that bullshit is absolutely fine even when coming from an official candidate.

Cool if you want to live in a world full of bullshit and anti-intellectualism, I don't want to. A world where facts are called lies and opinions are put on a pedestal not because they're well founded but simply because they exist. And being in an actual democracy(even if this forum strictly speaking isn't one) I try to make my voice heard. According to the voices in this thread the majority agrees with me, including the mods. I know it's hard to grasp that sometimes the majority decides what is to be done but sometimes that actually happens.

Even if nothing comes out of this I will continue to call out the bullshit in this forum for what it is.