Kerotan said:
Good because my positive posting is genuine despite the attempts of some to portray it as overly enthusiastic in order to troll.
And my posts have a positive impact overall on here. If I don't enter comg or mediacreate threads everyday the total engagement by users in them drops dramatically.
People will like and dislike what I say depending on whether Playstation succeeding or its success being celebrated is to their liking but at the end of the day it gets these topics going. Sometimes I thibk people would rather they be inactive.
The likes of acevil who said he left because of me, well I don't see him posting when I'm not around so as far as I can see he would have left anyway.
Also padib made a good point. Mods dont engage with posters like they used to under smeags glorious rain. I and many others would be permabanned if it wasn't for the efforts of smeags, conegamer, Mr khan etc. Now I've not been banned much this last 6 months but instead of letting little things about my posting style irk you for ages before finally finding an excuse to ban me, how about you just engage a little over that period and I'd guarantee you'd see improvements.
I know Carl for instance doesn't like me so would rather take a sit and wait until "he slips up" approach (not my words). But that reminds me of Mr khan. He used to dislike me like Carl does now but still made the effort to improve my posting style. And it helped.
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Your posts having an overall positive impact is debatable when you're directly causing a lot of problems on the forum, wether you want to admit that or not. The reaction to your moderations in this very thread and the support the mod team has for each decision is proof of that. People like to browse the forum and discuss things without seeing the same old irritating posts about how X, Y or Z is so much better than A, B or C, or seeing the usual suspects offering nothing but negativity in topics.
These posts drag threads into back and forth, petty little arguments that turn people off. People like Acevil (because you used him as an example) are turned away from discussion because people like yourself are encouraging a negative environment and causing flamewars between people. Rather than discussing games, sales or platforms it's PS fan A trying to move goalposts and downplay Nintendo whatever, and vise-versa, while sitting back and watching the fireworks. Acevil has been here for almost 10 years, has 0 moderations and 13,000 posts so if you're driving someone like him away from the forums after a long and clean history, then it highlights that you've been causing a problem.
It's not for me to talk about other moderators past or present, but I'll say that the very reason we have this thread is so that we can engage with posters about problems they have. You've been told by moderators and regular members about your post style and the behavior they notice and guess what? Since you were moderated for it and chastised in here, you cut it down. It worked. You slip up from time to time but that's no real problem, we're all human. This time you weren't moderated for your positivity, you were moderated for concern trolling and baiting. If you take the same lessons from this as you did from your previous moderations, you'll go a long time ban-free.
If you're not happy discussing things in this thread then every single moderator is happy to talk through PMs, and both head mods are free to talk about things other moderators can't.
My own opinion of you is irrelevant to the job I do as a moderator, because I'm not the only one who sees your posts or handles reports about you. I can (and will) bring up your posts in mod chat if I think there's something fishy going on, but I'm not going to pull the trigger without asking for other opinions.