If it's offensive, the mods should go out of their way to ban them without you having to report it. It's the internet equivalent of the police watching a criminal stab someone to death right in front of them and then letting them run away.

Nope, the thread wasn't about opinion of the price of XBL, it was about an concrete discount that might be good for people interested in the service. I think your post would have been OK in a thread that was: "What do you think about the price of XBL" or "I think XBL is offering great value for the price". But it wasn't an thread asking for opinions, but a thread offering a service to users that like XBL. You came in (not alone) and started to destroy the thread by upsetting the people the thread was made for in the first place.

Think of it, if it was a thread about a discount to PSV-memory-cards and someone comes in complaining that they are even now more pricey than SD-cards.

Minor infractions? Do we talk about the JayWood-thread? I saw people destroying a thread that wanted to notice interested VGC-users about a great deal for XBL. I think the ban-hammer would have been swung the same in a thread about a discount on PSV-memory-cards for users complaining that even now it is more expensive than SD-cards or a thread about an offer of WiiU-bundled with 3 games for great price that users answers that WiiU has inferior graphics. Such posts are offtopic AND offending to the audience of the threads. But the same posts could be fine in a thread asking for opinions about XBL/PSV/WiiU or starting with a personal opinion about these things.

So could you - and I too. But we all three decided to post on VGC instead. What's your point?

good god, don't get me started

there goes my clean record :'(

I did feel that mods came down far heavier than normal. In a lot of other threads, people quite often go off-topic with hate, most common example are sales or metacritic score being bought up in a negative way when they aren't even relevant to the thread. But then again, JayWood probably had his cursor hovering over the report button for a good hour or so, and since mods mostly rely on people to report trouble makers, it's understandable.

Fantastic move by mods and I hope this continues.

No point in derailing a thread genuinely attempting to sell out a service.

Infact I did learn a lot how to post on threads after being banned on several occassions.

I'm not particularly sure what's going on with people on this site currently, but there does need to be more vigorous action taken. I don't know if it's because of a lack of truly active mods, or because of the things going on which are, but it certainly feels like things have escalated, and poor Jay, who merely tried to save people money, seems to be bearing the brunt of it.

Why can't we all just get along?

You're a reporter? Now i hate you even more ;o