Neversoft
May 2002
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To be honest with you, you have to try pretty hard to get banned by me "outside" of the comments threads. Seriously, normally you can flame me (people do) and give me shit and I'll just flame back but I admit I'm pretty draconian when it comes to the comments threads...
I don't enjoy banning people but either myself of Kalvaitis post the rules in every comment thread and yet people still can't stick to them... I could condense the comments thread rules into one sentence: "Comment on THIS release ONLY and ONLY after you've seen at least a sample - or expect to be banned" but then people would probably have issues with that. You also mention that I'm biased towards certain people, this is true: Nobody specific but if you've been a member for a long time or have a lot of posts then it's more likely that I'm PM them a warning instead.
Also, believe me when I say the rules are needed in every comment thread on the main page - I tried stopping for a while (approx 6 weeks ago) and they immediatley turned into a turgid flame war.
So yeah, I can kinda see what you're saying I do ban people with very little warning and for the slightest reason but only in the comments threads, I'm pretty amiable everywhere else I don't want people to think I enjoy being a cunt but we've tried the softly-softly approach in the comments threads and it didn't work and frankly if somebody has 20 posts under their belt and they've only been a member for a month and they break the (VERY obvious) comment-posting rules then they kinda deserve what was coming to them - Take that guy in the Alone In The Dark thread that I banned: He hadn't seen the sample, he hadn't a clue if it was a good release or not, he posted a "review" based on a .jpg which is fuck all use to anybody. If I hadn't banned him he would've been flamed like fuck and the whole thread would turn to shit simply because of one persons inability to follow simple rules.
In future, I'll at least "try" and issue a warning unless they're really taking the piss but the line has to be drawn somewhere.
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