it has never been a moderatable offense to post news articles.  every bit of significant good/bad news about ms/sony/nintendo get posted by someone.  nintendo's stock double after pokemon go,.. there were several threads on that.  nintendo's stock dropped 18% after releasing a statement saying that pokemon go's impact on nintendo's financials is limited,.. obviously there was going to be a thread about that too.  it's not like this is a blog post filled with inflammatory statement in attempts to skirt the rules around flamming. 

this is news,. cold, hard, objective news.  a thing happened, this article simply informs you as to what happened.

i'm not sure exactly where the rules line up on this one but imo,. the only moderatable posts in this thread are the ones derailing a thread that was being quite cival solely on the grounds that they don't like the person that posted a perfectly valid source of news without any inflammatory commentary.

but that's just my opinion.

Twice now really?.

Haven't you given warnings to the OP before on Nintendo baiting and subjects of letting out opinions that are that bit hard to handle?, or am I the one missing something here?.

Rol has already pointed out what I wanted to say, nothing more should needed to be said at this point reallym if you want to deny the bans on the OP and refuse to put two and two together and at least form a mental profile, well that's on you, not me. If someone or the hive gets riled up and believe me we know it has then you should know what happens when the eprson you ban for one cause is going to cause it again.

I'm not stupid to take notice that the OP has had a thing for posting negative Nintendo news while offering contempt towards the company and at times getting banned for speaking out as such, You can't call me naive for thinking that there isn't any sort of connection, I mean some on here have pointed me to his twitter profile and that tells me all I ever need to know outside this site. THis isn't me directly attacking someone, this is me simply pointing out what the OP is doing and what the OP has done in the past, just like the OP is doing right now with negative form information and yes it is negative because shares going down isn't a good thing for Nintendo and I know OP takes pleasure in watching Nintnedo fail, this has also been displayed in past posts as being an objective fact, you cannot erase that history and you shouldn't ever feel the need to tell me otherwise.

"Share price for Company X has fallen."

"Yeah, well, uh ... OP is a witch!  Burn them!"

Deflection can be fun to watch.

Actually, I look forward to this system people seem to be proposing where you can't post negative articles for a console manufacturer you don't like.  We could set up checkpoints and even build a WALL.  "Excuse me, comrade, you've posted an article about how filthy the bathrooms at NinXstation HQ are.  I need to see your Papers." (said with hand resting meaningfully on ban button)

Maybe everyone should declare which House they belong to when they sign up?  It could kind of be like Harry Potter.  Nintendor, Playstatherin, or Xboxlepuff?

Wait, let's take it a bit further:  You can only post negative news about the House to which you belong, because clearly posting positive news about your own House is also biased.

Mods, I call for an official review of this proposal.  This could be fun.

These are the people that stabilize the global economy, folks.

Righto. I just hope you do take notice of this sort of thing elsewhere in the future and act on it than letting someone like Rol bring it up till it needs to be addressed. 

a lot of what gebx posted didn't really count as news,.. he posted a lot of the inflammatory blogs to which i agree moderation ought to kick in at least eventual.  constantly quoting flammatory statements is basically the same as writting it. 

but as news article,.. fuck if i care that it was probably kowenicki that posted about how sony needed to sell a building to deal with their stuggeling finances.  doesn't change a damn thing about how bad sony was finacial back then. 

i'm not a fan of moderation based on perceived history.  that's when moderation gets into the bad place where moderation is massively inconsistant, ..moderation on what maybe perhaps you could have been implying instead of what was written.  write some rules and apply them.  frankly the moderator shouldn't even need to see the poster to decide if the post fails to meet the rules.

The graph only takes the US users into account, though. We don't know how many active players there are in the rest of the world.

My thoughts on this would be "stop making stupid posts to get a rise out of people".

However, the thread's been derailed to the point that the topic isn't even being discussed anymore.

If you create threads and don't at least participate in them to keep them on topic, it shows that you have no actual interest in the topic itself and are posting for reasons that you really shouldn't be. The people calling out the OP are correct based on 2 things, a) daredevil.shark's history regarding Nintendo topics on this forum and b) his participation (or lack of) in this thread's discussion.

However, that doesn't mean people should throw around accusations based on who the OP is. If you have a problem with who has posted it, or think they have done so for negative reasons, feel free to message a moderator or file a report about it. Don't drag threads off topic.

Locking this up, as it's gone straight down shit creek.