spurgeonryan said:
Doobie_wop said: I've been banned twice, both times involved overly sensitive Nintendo fans and one of those times involved an overly sensitive Nintendo fan who also just happened to be a mod. It's a weird thing with this site, it doesn't matter if your arguments are reasonable, if they hurt the feelings of the majority (in regards to the thread being posted in) then the minority (the controversial poster) will be the one to take the hit. The thread then goes on about how much these developers/fans/analyst/writers/reviewers suck without backing them up with well thought arguments or without any restraint on who they are offending (offending is a bit strong). When posts like 'HD fanboys are jealous of the Wii and third parties are trying to destroy Nintendo!!!' are repeated by twenty different posters in a thread and then someone comes along and disagrees with that notion and actually provides an explanation, you'd think the angry one liners would be the ones being told off. Debating on this site always ends up being a risk, because no matter how right you may be or how well thought your argument is, if it offends some 'group' of fans, you bet your ass your gonna get banned. It's one of the main reasons why I don't post anywhere near as much as I used to.
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I try not to do too many arguments on either side because I am afraid of that happening as well. A couple weeks back I had a simple comment on an article voted down because it was not tottally for the side that the majority was on in the article!
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Pfft, it's not our fault if you get downvoted. It's natural for people to want to downvote people who strongly disagree with them.
And banning for trolling has nothing to do with your opinion and everything to do with how you state it.
Fine: Microsoft's first party has been slipping up lately / Nintendo seriously needs to show some games for the Wii U / It was a ridiculous idea for Sony to add that to the Terms of Use.
Bad: Microsoft's entire first party is worthless shit / Nintendo will never make a good console and is run by morons / Sony are clearly fucking gamers over, as usual.
All of those were invented, by the way, so don't go looking for them.