RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Fortress of Awesome Chat Man. The internet is filled with nazis...

I make a couple mods look like total retards in front of everyone at Gamespot, and they delete my account, the thread, and ban people for even mentioning the incident.

Maybe if your rules weren't so half-assed, I wouldn't be able to use them against you, dumbshits.

Video game moderators are all assholes. I've been on major tech sites where the IT guys posting are total narcissistic dicks and they never get censored for it.

Narcissism was involved. But it wasn't the precipitating factor.

Gamespot has garnered a row of fuckwits for staff. So they tend to say really stupid things in their articles. The topic happened to be the exhibition of homosexuality in Mass Effect. Suffice it to say, I was a voice of a dissent.

As has already been established, GS is a nazi site. Keeping this in mind, I policed every single aspect of a my posts, insuring that nothing could be construed as hateful, bigoted, or a personal attack--which is probably what pissed people off the most about what I had to say. It's easier to write off an inarticulate "redneck" than it is to deal with a conservative, former English-major. The "born that way" crowd was getting pissed.

Something else to note here is that Gamespot mods are volunteers. They're former "civilian" posters. So they're bred from the same retard stock, and are every bit as reactionary as the people they moderate. So when my posts started getting labeled as "offensive" or "insulting"--despite a lack of offensive material as defined by their ToU--the moderators started doling out demerits.

I honestly didn't care that much because I don't post there that often (for obvious reasons) and there really is no point in trying to get them to reconcile their own mistakes. But I knew I could use the opportunity to have a little fun with them.

So with as much politeness and courtesy as I could muster, I offered up an indignant post in the mods forum that outlined exactly how my posts followed their terms of use guidelines, and that penalizing me based solely on the offense of others was a slippery slope. No one touched the thread for, if memory serves me correctly, at least 24 hours. I know for a fact that multiple mods were there at the time. So it's not like they missed it. People were too scared shitless to touch this brick. Finally, one of the more reactionary mods by the name of Mystic_Knight speaks up. Oh joy.

I made three threads in their so called "Moderation Clarification Station". Normally, in this particular forum, the mods limit their replies to one to two posts that state a reason for moderation with little to know argument before locking the thread regardless of the poster's opinion. As I'm able to show here however, every now and again, you can drive them over the edge:



Thread locked. The other mods that see this are probably cringing at this point.

New thread:



Thread locked. Note how agitated he's becoming. And he ends up referring me to a mod.....But....He is a mod himself. How odd.

New thread:



No more clarification. No more Mystic_Knight. Just some dude who saw another mod on the ropes, probably tired of watching him make a fool of himself and everyone else in the process.

It's not their usual practice to do so in that forum, but they waited a while for those particular threads to be pushed down by others, and then deleted them as soon as they were off the map.

I was able to cache the third thread. The date places it outside of annual deletion date range.

Something to note here about GS policy that's of major relevance:

Mods. Are. Never. Wrong.

Above all else, they don't want to show weakness, so regardless of where the blame lies, regardless of whether or not it was the mod that fucked up, the poster who was penalized is always at fault. There will be no admission whatsoever of any mistakes or wrong doing by Gamespot faculty or volunteers. And if they find a very obvious or blatant example of such a thing, they'll either go out of their way to rationalize it or outright ignore it--as you saw here.

I knew it probably wouldn't pan out, but I figured I'd follow through on the CS thing and shot them an email about the bias and complacency of their moderators. They responded:



No response after this.

There was a few days lag between responses that he was using to play dumb even though I offered up direct quotes.

I was tempted to go on ahead and complain to Cnet afterwards, but I just don't care enough to try.

I tried logging on yesterday only to find that my account has been banned for a couple months now with those threads having been deleted.

Get Tor. Spoof your IP. Create a new ID. Annoy them.

I'm banned from the gears of war forums for calling people out on being fuckwits. Worth it.

I get banned about once a year from AICN, usually for discussing spoilers that haven't been cleared by whatever studio gave the staff freebies that week and/or pointing out that critics have no journalistic ethics whatsoever.

I get banned from here almost daily, but that doesn't matter because I just cry to his wife during our Draw Something game and she fixes that quick-fast-in-a-hurry. Suck on THAT, mods!!!

Now, now, references to wives are off limits here. You now have to spam yourself, or something.