"Dont act like a dick. Dont stroll into a Bayonetta 2 review thread and tell us that the game should be on other consoles. Dont waltz into an Xbox One thread with intentions of showing us your hard-on for the PlayStation 4. Dont prance into a Vita thread telling us how great Monster Hunter on 3DS is."

Oh God yes. This immediately separates the good posters from the bad.

I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one who thought that .

I wasn't naming any names.

^This

It's that their is some rather seiver bias from the top down.  They let some unsavories breed, and like a bunch of gnats soon you have little annoying ones everywhere.

Buy at least it keeps the sundews happy.

I'm hoping it will calm down in a few months.

Fair enough, understandable. I admit at the time of writing this thread I was indeed very frustrated and grumpy.

These arent rules. I dont have sigs turned on, could you link it?

I was all for this, before the new mods were added. Since then though, I think 2 have left. Its worth noting, reporting does work, its just not everyone uses the function.

I reported 6 posts yesterday. I got 5 people banned. I felt like a snake in the grass, but damn... It was worth it.

This isnt a "longing for the old days" thread. Khuutra left because he was sick and tired of the forums not being about videogame chatter. Thats why he joined the Penny Arcade forums. He wanted to talk about playing videogames and the people here didnt really want to talk about playing videogames. He wanted a thread for talking about Zelda games. He wanted a thread to talk about Mass Effect. He wanted a thread to talk about Fire Emblem. He wanted these threads to be popular and have chatter.

VGChartz isnt/wasnt that place. The community here just isnt/wasnt that kind of community.

Its not really vague at all. If you constantly post anti-Sony threads, you will be moderated. Same goes for Microsoft/Nintendo. If you go into threads over and over again, telling us that PSABR didnt review well and it bombed, then youre violating the rule because its a pointless comment.. Its a hit and run comment.

If the member in question does it over and over again then they are quite obviously trolling or baiting for a reaction. They need to be purged.

Nope. I dont have signatures on, so I dont even know what your signature is (or in this case, was. lol). The rules on signatures are already in place. If youre breaking said rule, thats your problem. Not mine.

See above. Has nothing to do with me being a mod. Great addition to the thread.

I think rather than making a lot of threads every Week, you should just have one big "The Life of Ryan Spurgeon" thread. Its bound to be a hit. Just update your thread title with any new story you have.

Been saying this for years, mods need to be more hands on claming things down before they get out of control and actually having a conversation with repeat offenders on why they're being so fucking dumb.

If that ever happens be sure to send a message to any moderator with the proof and we'll look into it.

It's a response fuled by the lack of moderation.  People can't have a decent discussion because there is a certain group that will do what they can to make any conversation impossible.  When things get reported, they don't get acted upon.

But you do understand that type of response is exactly what a lot of those people want. It gives them the fuel to keep going. Basically what happens in that situation is the people doing pre-emptive complaining are giving drugs to a bunch of drug addicts...AKA, they LOVE it. 

As for the lack of moderation, each report is carefully reviewed to see if the person that is being reported should get moderated. If they didn't get moderated, then chances are what they said wasn't trolling/flaming (or it was borderline and we keep an eye on them to see if they do that type of thing often).

It happened two days ago, I clicked Report, and nothing happened.  If the process for reporting infractions is broken then that needs to be fixed or we need to be told the process is broken and what alternative is in place.

We were told, not too long ago, NOT to message moderators individually.  That doing so may get us banned.  We were also told to use the report button, and to use it only once per issue. 

Are we getting a complete reversal on policy now?

When I was a moderator on another board, we got notice of any infraction, we posted a comment in a thread regarding the submission, what we did, and why.  If the notification required follow-up with the person, we posted that information as well, unless it was "private".  So generally, any communication with the person who notified and the person who violated board rules was included.  This was to ensure everyone knew what was going on and everything was above board.

As a forum member, I want the rules to apply equally.  Right now they aren't.  There are people here who may not be getting away with murder, but they're certainly able to walk around and freely slash people with knives and no moderator bats an eye.  I shouldn't have to have a preferred moderator to communicate with, the moderation should be unbiased.  If it isn't unbiased, if the point is to have moderations with specific biases who offset the moderation of other moderators with specific biases, then there is a real issue with moderation.  

I guess the real question now is, what happens when I click "Report".  What happens to that report?  How does the moderation staff know that something was or wasn't reported, how do you know what action or inaction took place, and the reason/logic behind why that action or inaction took place?  Because honestly, up to this point I figured when I clicked report that every moderator knew what was reported and why it wasn't actived upon or if it was why it was.