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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Gamespot, how I hate you so

You know about Gamespot. You've read the drama over firing their employees because they rated a game badly. Now, I have another story. But this comes from a user from their forum, and this is my story.
The message board I use on GS(gamespot) mostly is their system wars board, where fanboys fight to the bloody death over video game consoles, and once you're in, you never get out. Really. You can't-at least I couldn't-stop arguing with the fanboys who had little sense of logic. But, anyways. I have been suspended, point lossd and eventually banned for my antics on the System Wars messgae board. But there's just one problem: I was simply posting comments that were just to be taken as jokes, as actual thoughts and opinions. But the moderators didn't realize that. No, they thought I was a troublemaker, someone who was trying to brush all over their life in their paint-by-numbers world. Someone who was trying to bend the rules-just a little-to make my valid points.
And here's what I get:

It's probably small, so in case you can't read it, here's the list. With my opinions, from bottom to top:
1. Disruptive Posting-trying to make a little joke. Message Deleted for no reason.
2. Trolling-Making a topic about how Nintendo doesn't care about it's fanboys. An actual post, mind you, not some one sentence thing. Get suspended for no real reason. Topic also deleted.
3. Trolling(again)-noted someone's items about my post, and wrote back about them. Person who reported my moderation "got a good mark." What?
4. Even more trolling-Making a post about how people say that "ZOMG there r good gamz 4 Wii!!1!1". Message deleted for no real reason.
5. Disruptive posting-making a stupid joke. Message was reported and deleted for no reason.
6. Censor Bypassing-said F***. Well, the post was longer, but I did say f***. Really.
7. Moderation Discretion-make a joke topic making fun about ps3 and 360 fanboys. Get suspended for it. WTF?
8. (the return of)Trolling-replied to someone's previous post.
9. Off-Topic Posting-Somehow, this is resorted to "point loss". A warning would've been fine, Gamespot.
10. Flaming-Oh, now this is just great. Somehow, someone thinks that arguing against someone else's post gets me suspended. What? This is just lame.
11. Trolling-It just won't stop!! now I'm being warned for saying that I reported someone.
12. Moderation Discretion-Exceeded 5 quotes in a post. Really, gamespot? You really have to punish someone for over 5 quotes in a post? Wow. Just wow.
13. Disruptive posting-Message deleted for no reason at all. Why?
14. Trolling-I can't take this anymore. Now my messages are being deleted for no reason at all.
15. Moderation Discretion-Once again, exceeding 5 quotes in a post. Now this is just being ridiculous.
*oh yes, it gets worse*
16. Disruptive posting-posting a "ya rly" pic. This is just getting worse and worse and worse. It's as though Gamespot is so desparate to find a way to punish me. This will occur again, just let me warn you.
17. The final Trolling warning-This gets from painful to just dreadful. My post is deleted for simply replying to someone's post.
18. The final Disruptive Posting warning-posting an "O RLY?" pic.
19. Ban Dodging, Permabanned-This is a long story, and where my punishments end. I'm suprised it took them this long to simply realize this.
***
Before I had the Gamespot account that got banned recently, I had an account with my name as GEMMINI_CYBORG. Yes, the name sucks. But I was banned for some "disruptive posting", so what did I do? I made a new account, with a different email, so I could still post and have fun. This went on for years, even when I barely visited gamespot for months, maybe years at a time. But somehow, the moderators found out that my name and everything was actually from my old account. Which had been banned. So they banned me. And now I have no Gamespot account and nowhere to post, even NeoGAF, because to post on NeoGAF you, and I'm serious, "have to have a paid e-mail account". Because I have a free email, I can't get an account for NeoGAF. Thanks NeoGAF!

So that's my horrid tale, and hopefully I'll get a couple visitors from this. And some people who think it sucks.

Also, I will be posting more often now so yaaaay :-)

1 comment:

Chus said...

This is what I think: GameSpot