Yea this was very much needed. This site having Xbox fans is a positive thing as it allows more diversity in opinions and discussion. Stadia fans on the other hand...

These ideas touch too much on pre-emptive moderation, which is not something I can support.  I am an XB-first gamer (I do probably 60% of my gaming on XB, 30% on PS, 10% on Ninty), and I'd like the community to be more friendly to XB content.  But, mods saying yes or no to the existence of threads based on who starts them or their opinion of the source material (which often doesn't exist) is much too heavy handed, IMO.  That kind of control is too big of a price to pay to get rid of some (really not that bad, relative to most of the internet) trolling.   

Also, that sounds like a shitload of work for mods, which makes it less likely to be evenly applied (because there won't always be someone ready to research the source material or the history of the user).  That ain't good.  

Personally, I like the spirit of this new effort, and I hope it is successful.  But, as always, I prefer that the mods err on the side of being too lenient rather than too strict.  

It's a revolving door I feel I get stuck in too. Shots are always being fired. I think the best thing we can all do to try to bridge the gaps between the fandoms, is to continue to focus on shitting all over Stadia. This noble purpose born from ignominy is the most the platform could ever hope to achieve, and more than it deserves.

Again, I think it comes down to the number of fans of each company. More fans means more people who will react to criticism.

That's one of the factors yes.

Well I'm not exactly what you might call a new Xbox user, but I haven't found much use for my Xbox One in several years now. However, I have now officially decided to hold off on the PlayStation 5 for a year to purchase a Series X here in 2020, SOOO...you will probably be seeing me around the Microsoft forum more often starting later this year. So there's somebody anyway, if you can stand me!

Anyone interested in discussing games like The Medium or Call of the Sea will find a fellow traveler in me, seriously. And I'm glad to hear those sorts of discussions should be safer to have in the future.

I have one request to the article writers ton this website oo to help with this issue. Whenever you are writing something related to both consoles how about instead of posting a thumbnail photo of Sony or Playstation how about you use a photo of whatever is being discussed? I've seen multiple articles that are related to both consoles and the picture is usually either the PS4 logo which seems biased. That is all. Thanks!

I support this, but that is something that should be enforced for all 3 consoles and PC.

The thing is that because of the respective fanbases, it's a bit less necessary to focus on the other systems. Both Nintendo and Sony have active users who are fairly vigilant in reporting questionable posts, and in shooting down trolling posts or threads which makes most users less likely to make them (although it makes some users more likely to troll). Microsoft has less of those users, so the mods have to pick up some of the slack in that regard. 

I agree they aren`t in the same situation, but I`m thinking more on users behavior than thread unsafety for the other 2 systems. Hopefully Series X (or GP) will do a lot better next gen and Xbox community will return to size they had during 7th gen, at least my memory from the forum at that time was that there was more Xbox fans than Sony in here (it can be wrong though).

I do agree the threads from Nintendo and Sony would need less protection, but we do have some users do the behavior that mods are trying to prevent on Xbox threads on threads for the other 2 companies. So sure mods don`t need to pay as much attention, but if someone is doing that behavior and get reported they should be moderated just the same as if someone was doing that on a Xbox thread (sure I know it won`t always be done or fast since the burden of the team is quite heavy).