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RolStoppable said:
Slade6alpha said:

All three sides act like that, no one is denying that. That second part is total BS, you're not fooling anyone. Has nothing to do with Sony's "domination," maybe they don't like you because of what you post and how you come across on this website. 

You forgot to address the third part. The guy who got celebrated in his return thread... that was me, because I smacked him around.

Yeah... I got nothing to say after that above post. Have fun with this Rol. 

Mods... good luck.  



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Slade6alpha said:
RolStoppable said:

You forgot to address the third part. The guy who got celebrated in his return thread... that was me, because I smacked him around.

Yeah... I got nothing to say after that above post. Have fun with this Rol. 

Mods... good luck.  

There is nothing above your post, are you on drugs possibly?



Kerotan said:

You're not at fault.  It's all the people that can't handle either you celebrating Nintendo or me celebrating Sony.  They just get so worked up over it.  

 

I know people will say I'm biased but the Playstation side definitely acts the most mature and gets their panties twisted the least.  

I don't know if that's true. I'm not a member of PlayStation Nation, Nintendomination or whatever the Xbox thread is called these days, so since I mainly follow the neutral threads, it's a lot more noticeable when someone's overtly positive. Of course, throughout the years it has changed (it seems like the overt Xbox support has almost vanished), but I'd say it's currently around the same for PlayStation and Nintendo.



Kerotan said:
 

And BINGO was his name oh... 

You see this is the problem.  They don't like it because I'm a Sony fan and the MS/pc/Nintendo fans throw a wobbler over it.

No, it's because the positivity is blatantly over the top. It has nothing to do with what company or brand you side with. I hate to use the Appeal to Authority card and I only speak for myself in this case, but I'm a Playstation fan and I find your excessive positivity cringey.

But when Nintendo fans do it,  it's cool.  No problem.  Probably because Sony/pc/ms fans don't get annoyed by it as much. But the point is it's the exact same thing.  

Care to provide some examples of this? That isn't to say you're wrong and for the sake of the argument, let's say some Nintendo fans do it, too. From my experience, the frequency of Nintendo fans being overtly enthusiastic is not as high nor as disruptive. Of course, I'm just one witness, but if the other mods have the similar experience, then there is a consensus.

So why don't the mods make a new rule.  No more positive cheering for your fav platform.  I'll stop posting positively.  But I guarantee you many won't.  I'll report them all for you to ban.  But I guarantee you they won't all be banned and after a while this new anti Kerotan rule will be relaxed like the last one just was for tbone. 

This is a strawman. Refer to my first response above. Also, the reason why the mod team and normal users are wary of you is because your comments tend to lure specific users and cause a lot of hostility. The function of a forum is to encourage discussion and debate, not to prod negative reactions from other people.

A mod just said I was free to leave.  I ain't going nowhere because I'm happy here for the most part.  But I'll put that right back at you.  If you don't want to be a fair moderator or if you can't handle the stress of it you are free to leave.  There's plenty of enthusiastic members ready to take over like the newest batch of mods. No shame in it either.  Just look at stalwarts like smeags.  You might even get your own retirement thread where we pat you on the back and tell you how great you were. 

You're free to stay as much as you're free to leave. However, if you don't bother changing your habits, then don't expect other people's perception of you to change either.



Kerotan said:

There is a group of Nintendo,  pc and Microsoft fans on this site who were glad but all of them were as bad if not worse then me.  Sure loads of them are long perma banned.

 

They only hate me because they just can't stand the sight of Sony fans celebrating their return to domination. 

 

Kerotan said:

@Rol 

Don't even remember your posts.  Must have been drowned out in the tsunami of support I was getting.  Have to say it felt so good being treated like King Kerotan again. And we all know you get jelly when you're not the centre of attention xD

For the first bolded, it seems odd to me that you would willingly throw yourself in the mix with other permabanned users but I mean you're more than welcome to bring that association onto yourself. 

For the next two bolded, that fact that you spout this crap unironically is a massive part of why people have issues with you as a user. It just plays to your (seemingly, I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt) self-absorbed ego and your enthusiasm for being a thorn in the side of a large portion of people. That doesn't exactly sound like a healthy contributor to a community to me. I doubt anyone would give a damn about your enthusiasm toward a video game brand if you managed to tone that down. To me it just seems like you're so invested in a manufactured console war mentality that you don't realize how immature it looks for people who are looking at your behavior from the outside. If you want to believe there's some grand conspiracy to persecute you for being such an amazing Sony warrior, more power to you, but there's probably a much more rational explanation for it in that you're just being a toxic influence on everyday discussions.



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Hynad said:
Slade6alpha said:
One thing that needs to be cracked down on and banned are these posters who come in to a thread just to circle jerk for their respective brand. It's a new kind of trolling that needs to be addressed. It's overly positive to a point where certain users do it, just to be annoying and bait others. Think Carl mentioned it once, I know Ryuu knows my grievances on the subject as well.

To me, it's no different than trolling against a company/console. You know what you're doing, you're not fooling anyone.

Should we get rid of the "nation" threads? Those are big circle jerks, aren't they? =P

But look at what is happening with Kerotan. Mods are starting to act on that kind of behavior.

I think having a safe echo chamber for a circle jerk is a good thing.



RavenXtra said:

 

-snip

For the next two bolded, that fact that you spout this crap unironically is a massive part of why people have issues with you as a user. It just plays to your (seemingly, I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt) self-absorbed ego and your enthusiasm for being a thorn in the side of a large portion of people. That doesn't exactly sound like a healthy contributor to a community to me. I doubt anyone would give a damn about your enthusiasm toward a video game brand if you managed to tone that down. To me it just seems like you're so invested in a manufactured console war mentality that you don't realize how immature it looks for people who are looking at your behavior from the outside. If you want to believe there's some grand conspiracy to persecute you for being such an amazing Sony warrior, more power to you, but there's probably a much more rational explanation for it in that you're just being a toxic influence on everyday discussions.

Well said Xtra. 

 

Kero I've been around for a while I don't post much, mostly just read but I get the feeling that VGC is a place you come to play - specifically to be a thorn in people's side and get a rise out of them.  Just an observation from a neutral third party and who knows I could be completely wrong.



RavenXtra said:
Kerotan said:

There is a group of Nintendo,  pc and Microsoft fans on this site who were glad but all of them were as bad if not worse then me.  Sure loads of them are long perma banned.

 

They only hate me because they just can't stand the sight of Sony fans celebrating their return to domination. 

 

Kerotan said:

@Rol 

Don't even remember your posts.  Must have been drowned out in the tsunami of support I was getting.  Have to say it felt so good being treated like King Kerotan again. And we all know you get jelly when you're not the centre of attention xD

For the first bolded, it seems odd to me that you would willingly throw yourself in the mix with other permabanned users but I mean you're more than welcome to bring that association onto yourself. 

For the next two bolded, that fact that you spout this crap unironically is a massive part of why people have issues with you as a user. It just plays to your (seemingly, I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt) self-absorbed ego and your enthusiasm for being a thorn in the side of a large portion of people. That doesn't exactly sound like a healthy contributor to a community to me. I doubt anyone would give a damn about your enthusiasm toward a video game brand if you managed to tone that down. To me it just seems like you're so invested in a manufactured console war mentality that you don't realize how immature it looks for people who are looking at your behavior from the outside. If you want to believe there's some grand conspiracy to persecute you for being such an amazing Sony warrior, more power to you, but there's probably a much more rational explanation for it in that you're just being a toxic influence on everyday discussions.

This reply would actually have substance if I wasn't replying to Rol.  I don't think this poster seriously so you shouldn't take my replies to him serious either.  But you gave me the benefit of the doubt so I think you knew that.  

 

Let's just look at the facts.  I've done things in the past that were wrong and I've been moderated heavily for it.  The most recent flag you have is the overly positive Kerotan.  But if you read through my last posts from the past week or two I've contributed very well to Vgchartz both in terms of threads and posts.  I'm still posting positive but not overly.  

 

So please get with the times and stop throwing out all these "oh if you don't change" lark because my latest contributions have been perfectly fine.  

 

But I'll tell you what wasn't fine.  Bending your own rules and not banning tbone recently.  Because as I've said if that was me quoting him I definitely would have been banned.  

 

I've gotten my house in order now it's time to get yours in order too. 



Ka-pi96 said:
Miguel_Zorro said:

We're having a civil war.

So which mods are #teamHentai and which are #teamPrude?

Just so I know who I should I give my support to of course

I was the leader of #teamsmut.

With me gone, the balance has shifted.



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Kerotan said:
RavenXtra said:

 

For the first bolded, it seems odd to me that you would willingly throw yourself in the mix with other permabanned users but I mean you're more than welcome to bring that association onto yourself. 

For the next two bolded, that fact that you spout this crap unironically is a massive part of why people have issues with you as a user. It just plays to your (seemingly, I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt) self-absorbed ego and your enthusiasm for being a thorn in the side of a large portion of people. That doesn't exactly sound like a healthy contributor to a community to me. I doubt anyone would give a damn about your enthusiasm toward a video game brand if you managed to tone that down. To me it just seems like you're so invested in a manufactured console war mentality that you don't realize how immature it looks for people who are looking at your behavior from the outside. If you want to believe there's some grand conspiracy to persecute you for being such an amazing Sony warrior, more power to you, but there's probably a much more rational explanation for it in that you're just being a toxic influence on everyday discussions.

This reply would actually have substance if I wasn't replying to Rol.  I don't think this poster seriously so you shouldn't take my replies to him serious either.  But you gave me the benefit of the doubt so I think you knew that.  

 

Let's just look at the facts.  I've done things in the past that were wrong and I've been moderated heavily for it.  The most recent flag you have is the overly positive Kerotan.  But if you read through my last posts from the past week or two I've contributed very well to Vgchartz both in terms of threads and posts.  I'm still posting positive but not overly.  

 

So please get with the times and stop throwing out all these "oh if you don't change" lark because my latest contributions have been perfectly fine.  

 

But I'll tell you what wasn't fine.  Bending your own rules and not banning tbone recently.  Because as I've said if that was me quoting him I definitely would have been banned.  

 

I've gotten my house in order now it's time to get yours in order too. 

I do love me some deflections

Let's be real here though. You've been a user here since September 2014, do you honestly think a reputation that long is going to be altered significantly after a week or two of laying low and behaving? As far as I'm concerned, this is like the post-rehab phase of a habitual alcoholic or drug addict that acts clean for a few weeks until the spotlight is off them and they can ease back into their same old behaviors. Whether you are genuine about this or not, reputations are difficult to change and sorry but a week or two of "not that bad" or even wholly positive behavior just isn't going to have a large impact.

Feel free to tell me anything you think I need to do, but it doesn't really change your own situation.