They've already changed that rule.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=7027691

TruckOSaurus said: Alright, so we've established that necro-bumping will be moderated only in instances where the bump is done with malicious intents (flaming/trolling) or when there is no valid reason for doing so (like say a 4 year old Vita thread ). So, bumping your own prediction thread is fine. Bumping someone else's prediction is also okay as long as it's done in a respectful fashion (so "Your prediction failed, don't you feel dumb?" = BAD, "It seems you were way off on this one" = OKAY).

Who on earth would do something like that?! Ban him!

I agree with this. Often times I see blantantly ignorant or offensive posts about the above mentioned group, and I routinely mark them for moderation. Unfortunately, I have yet to see any action taken against those posts. It's either because of the mods own ignorance about the topic (in which case we need a more diverse group of moderators) or their own preexisting bias. Either way I hope the mod team finds a way to stay fair to all kinds of groups.

TruckOSaurus said: Alright, so we've established that necro-bumping will be moderated only in instances where the bump is done with malicious intents (flaming/trolling) or when there is no valid reason for doing so (like say a 4 year old Vita thread ). So, bumping your own prediction thread is fine. Bumping someone else's prediction is also okay as long as it's done in a respectful fashion (so "Your prediction failed, don't you feel dumb?" = BAD, "It seems you were way off on this one" = OKAY).

Much better!!  Good job guys!!!

Requested permabans are a thing of the past? That makes me very happy, but I just don't know why!

New Necro Rule:

Necro-Bumping (Namely posting in a non-Official/Moderator approved thread 30 days after the most recent post) will be treated as a form of spamming if the post in question has no valid reason for being posted, or treated as a form of flaming/trolling if the post in question is malicious in its intent. It will be up the moderator to rule on whether a necro-bumping post is pertinent or not.

If you don't like the name would you not give the option to change it.
Also if some one is flame baiting can you not call them names? I agree with the rest good job

The rules and changes seem reasonable.

The new rules are mostly welcomed.

Keep the good job, guys.

I'm glad the moderation team seems to put so much effort into changing the rules for the better.

However, as far I'm concerned, a rule is as good as its enforcement. Take the safe for work avatars/usernames etc rule. It seems that every year, there is a thread with someone complaining about avatars and signatures becoming too nsfw. Then the mods create a thread and inform everyone that they will be more strict with that, then people remove them for a while, only for everything to go back to what it was a few months later. Then a year later, there is another thread with the same topic, and the whole process happens once again. Also some people are forced to remove nsfw content while others are not. This creates confusion and people not taking the rules seriously. I hope something can happen about this as well as the rest of the rules (i.e. actually be enforced across the board). In my opinion, the more grey areas you have, the worse it becomes and the more unfair the whole process appears to be.

Like the reports about muslims not being treated equally, I also think that there seems to be double standard about certain games. People are allowed to make fun of COD players for being dudebros, but say that x ninty game is for kids and you get banned. I don't see how this is fair (I don't play cod games, but still). Also, sometimes you ban someone for saying that x game is shit and then someone does the same gets away with it (and I'm not talking about cases that people are being sarcastic). Lastly, people get banned for spamming because their post lacks content and then there are tons of posts with a simple "nope", "no", "lolz" or even empty posts in which they quote someone they agree with and add nothing to the discussion and yet they don't even get an official warning.

Anyway, just some thoughts. It's up to you what you wanna do with the forums, but I think a more (at least seemingly) fair treatment would be much appreciated.