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Abbath posts many threads, and daredevil, Nsanity used to post a lot too. Too bad they don't do that anymore.

I just posted clickbait n4g news articles  

Excellent thread! Will read properly later!

There's something seriously wrong if that's the reason people won't join.  It's a site for gaming discussion and sales charts / discussion not soft anime porn.  As I said other sites to satisfy that sexual need. 

Again I said limits... And and new users do get banned from this site if they have a subjective avatar/username/sig or they will get a warning... Something like that will 110% discourage new users from joining the site. Its less about sexual need and more about having more freedom to choose an avatar/sig/username that blah user likes. Again, within limits but users of this site should be able to have the same freedom as other sites. If they don't its discouraging to new users.

And just cause its a site for gaming discussion doesn't mean people can't have lewd usernames/avatars/sigs... Many games like Bayonetta/DoA have plenty of lewd characters.

I wonder what is going to happened when everything becomes full digital. No more game tracking and Consoles won't be here because we will just stream games.

ioi said a while ago that they had something in mind for digital tracking, but who knows if that's still the case!

I think you're missing the point in which Captain_Yuri touched on.  It's more about less intrusive rules and more effective moderating.  Let me give you an example that has happened to me.

My personal stance on how each console company approached the market: Nintendo = caters to their core fans.  Sony = caters to gamers in general.  Microsoft = caters to the widest audience they could possibly appeal to.  I had forgotten the exact wording, but I created a sig based on this personal perception.  Guess what?  I was banned for it.  For an honest expression, I was banned without any substantial objective reasoning.  I suspect it was Kowenicki who reported me because he made snide remarks about my sig right before I was banned. Which leads to my next point.

We've had less participation on these forums because as I mentioned in an earlier post less controversy.  Kowenicki is a known Microsoft supporter and downplayed most anything Sony.  Now that the PS4 is the clear "winner," there's less for most Microsoft supporters to post to promote their console of choice.  One user just mention Nsanity.  The same applied to him.  He always posted pro Microsoft news and negative Sony news during last gen.  This is not the case anymore given the PS4's status.  And this least to my last point.

Call a spade a spade.  If someone is being a bias fanboy, call him out.  So back to "less intrusive rules and more effective moderating," you're banned for saying words like "fanboy."  I'm not condoning namecalling.  But the problem here is that, users have gotten away with the action of fanboyism because intrusive rules that prevent some from objectively posting a point a view allowed others to get away with bias subjectiveness.  This will allow for more posting in the shortrun as fanyboy try to get away with their console agenda.  But this hurts in the long run by discouraging some from posting an objective view point that might offend others for the wrong reasons, thus leading to an undeserved ban or a warning. 

It's getting to the point to where rules are just for the sake of control, and less for the sake growth.

Im surprised no one mentioned that we virtually have no XBOX team on this site. The major driving force of activity on this site was the PS360 war and all the little bets made on this site.