@Adventwold : And MS lost a lot with Xbox 1 (billions of $ actually), which is a gaming loss. So what ?

Microsoft is an empire in decline, no question. Their core strengths in the 1990s were their OS monopoly and MS Office; their core strengths today are... their OS monopoly and MS Office, both much the worse for wear. The 360 has been a wonderful subsidy for console owners, but I see no sign Microsoft is capable of being a genuine media company, a la Sony or Nintendo.

Trouble is, both cores are under threat. It's not just Google, Microsoft's entire biz model is going the way of vacuum-tube computing. Computing devices are ubiquitous, cheap, and should be run by open source; MS Office is just one of many platforms. Apple is back and will only grow stronger, while cloud computing, or something like it, is inevitable.

The future of computing is not monopolies. It is open source, cooperation, and strategic licensing. And I do have to blame Microsoft's top managers for not understanding this -- Ballmer & Co. are as clueless about this shift as Disney is about the digital media commons.

LOL, first you say "It doesn't matter who is profitable first, what matters is who will be the most profitable in the long run.

MS Entertainement Division is losing 130 million $ this quarter by the way..."

What kind of response is "And MS lost a lot with Xbox 1 (billions of $ actually), which is a gaming loss. So what ?"

So what? You answered it yourself, the $130 million is a gaming loss.

In that case what's the trolling toleration treshold?

Can I troll twice a week?

Four times per month?

Three times per day?

If you guys allow blatant trolls and your only criteria for banning is the amount of threads they open we are entitled to know what's the current agreed treshold by the moderating team. 

This thread in itself is not trolling, and Gebx posting anti Sony news isn't trolling in and of itself. Gebx was found to be trolling because he clutterred up the forums with multiple anti Sony news threads at the same time.

People are biased, and sometimes they'll post up stuff that is also biased and against the things you like. That in and of itself is not trolling. Now if I look on the front page and there are four threads all against the same company at the same time from the same person then that's taking it too far. And that's what Gebx did.

i care about MS. I love MS.

So you are saying there's no trolling, just spamming which means I can safely troll vgchartz as long as I don't spam?

Which brings me back to my original question: how many troll.. err "biased" threads can I post per day until it's considered spamming? Afterall, I'm sure many people in this forum are exercising self-restrain and they'd like to vent some. If Mario64 is allowed, everyone should be allowed.

There is trolling, and there is flamebait. This thread is iffy, but it isn't quite over the line as far as I'm concerned. You can ask some other mods if you like, and maybe they'll make a different decision, but all he's done is post some other person's opinions and agreed with them.

And there isn't any given number per day, if you want to post biased threads you do so at your own peril.

But just as Gebx had a consistent post history of anti-sony threads, so does Mario64 have a consistent post history of anti-microsoft threads.

Seeing as the only difference you appreciate and the sole justification for Gebx's ban is the amount of threads, we are entitled to know what's the treshold agreed by the moderating team so we can all have some fun flamebaiting, I mean posting "biased" threads.

If you aren't clear on this, it's a predictable behaviour that people will register sockpuppets just to test these tresholds without risking their "main" account which in turn would make the forums a worse place. In fact, such a behaviour might already be happening as we speak.

I care about Microsoft because they invented:
The Web Browser
The Operating System
The Desk

I mean without them I'd still be using Betamax.