Board 8 > LMFAO at my GameStop topic getting modded

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Guess we wouldn't want to offend our valuable business partners(because no one that isn't employed by GS would have been offended by that), I wonder how much advertising money GameStop pays CBS annually? Good to see the mods defending such an upstanding company that guts product, disposes of part of it, and then sells it as new.

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shutting down inflammatory topics on a niche video game contest message board is CBS/Gamestop's number one priority, yes

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What is this, some kind of joke?!
Go, then. There are other worlds than these.

SE doesn't even care about Gamestop's policy. You're getting more upset than the affected company; what does that tell you about your priorities?

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shutting down inflammatory topics on a niche video game contest message board is CBS/Gamestop's number one priority, yes

The topic wasn't inflammatory at all. It might not be particularly nice to say that GameStop is a cancer to the game industry, but it's the truth and it needs to be said.

SE doesn't even care about Gamestop's policy. You're getting more upset than the affected company; what does that tell you about your priorities?

I wasn't that upset about it until the topic got modded, and I'm more offended by the corporate censorship than GameStop's actual offense at this point. No wonder consumers are so easily abused in this era when the corporate world, and government for that matter, are all in on the same scheme.

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let's spin this into being Nintendo's fault somehow

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I didn't know having a topic deleted on a random sub-message board of a site qualified as "corporate censorship."

There is no reasonable explanation for its deletion beyond how bad it makes GameStop look, a company that advertises on GameFAQs. Surely CBS wants them to be portrayed in a positive light.

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Blulum posted...
I didn't know having a topic deleted on a random sub-message board of a site qualified as "corporate censorship."

There is no reasonable explanation for its deletion beyond how bad it makes GameStop look, a company that advertises on GameFAQs. Surely CBS wants them to be portrayed in a positive light.

this is my favorite post

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I bet this was all a plot by Nintendo to make third party games on other systems look bad.

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Seeing how that topic didn't violate the ToU, you can hardly blame Blulum for searching for more farfetched reasons as to why it was deleted!

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Damn soccer moms and grandmas buying Wii shovelware. They're keeping Gamestop in business long enough to pull stunts like this!

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At first I thought that you had accidentally mixed up Gamestop with Gamespot, which would actually make sense

What you actually meant is just hilariously stupid

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Seeing how that topic didn't violate the ToU, you can hardly blame Blulum for searching for more farfetched reasons as to why it was deleted!

+1 for making sense and not going for the clique derail.

You have to look to the far fetched for answers when more reasonable explanations have already been eliminated. What, am I to believe that they just deleted it at random and without any cause of any kind?

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You have to look to the far fetched for answers when more reasonable explanations have already been eliminated. What, am I to believe that they just deleted it at random and without any cause of any kind?

In fairness, I doubt the topic was deleted because CBS or GameStop cares what people here say about them. Moderations in general have been especially ridiculous lately, so "it was deleted for no reason" actually does seem like the most sensible explanation.

Contest it and see what the mods come up with, I'd say.

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Calling cancer cancer shouldn't be deemed offensive. It is what it is.

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You said that you called them - in your words - "a cancer to the game industry." How is that not against the ToU?

I don't think the ToU says anything about the use of the word cancer.

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comparing gamestop to a disease that actually in real life kills lots of people is kind of offensive

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comparing gamestop to a disease that actually in real life kills lots of people is kind of offensive

GameStop is killing the game industry, I never said it was killing -people-

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comparing gamestop to a disease that actually in real life kills lots of people is kind of offensive

That's implying offending GameStop is against the ToU, which it isn't.

You'd have a point if he said "Lasa is the cancer to Board 8," because then he'd be offending a user who posts here. But I don't see how offending a company is moddable.

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...and you wonder why I go for the "clique derail" instead of actually trying to be rational. Jesus.

If your counterargument consists of nothing more than "Jesus," then yeah, I'd suggest you go for the clique derail instead.

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You missed my entire point, which is that what Liquid says falls under the flaming category,

I didn't think flaming applied to corporations.


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From: Mr Lasastryke | #027
comparing gamestop to a disease that actually in real life kills lots of people is kind of offensive

That's implying offending GameStop is against the ToU, which it isn't.

You'd have a point if he said "Lasa is the cancer to Board 8," because then he'd be offending a user who posts here. But I don't see how offending a company is moddable.

that's flaming, which can be offensive

being offensive without flaming is something that you can in fact do and comparing a company that one dislikes to a life threatening disease that has very possibly affected the lives of people that use these forums is offensive

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Have you tried disputing the moderation?

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Mr Lasastryke posted...
That's implying offending GameStop is against the ToU, which it isn't.

No, but offending cancer victims might be.

I know I had a friend with depression who also had a family member who had died of cancer. This friend got quite offended when we passed a advertisement that compared depression to cancer; you know the kind of advertisement: "If someone had cancer, you wouldn't tell them to 'just get over it'. Depression is a disease."

So...yeah, probably that.

Stop offending cancer victims by calling them GameStop. It's quite offensive!

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I'd suggest dialing it down to 'Gamestop is a canker sore', but I'm sure there's someone grievously suffering from canker sores out there and therefore the reference to canker sores is moddable

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Stop offending cancer victims by calling them GameStop. It's quite offensive!

he didn't call Gamestop a cancer victim, I think he called cancer victims gamestop victims


gamestop please stop making tumors in peoples heads and junk

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Basically, this is the problem when the ToS calls for modding stuff as broadly defined as 'Offensive'. It ends up *all* being mod discretion, and hey, they've pretty openly admitted they do stuff just to troll

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I don't find it offensive at all

so

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From: metroid composite | #033
I know I had a friend with depression who also had a family member who had died of cancer. This friend got quite offended when we passed a advertisement that compared depression to cancer; you know the kind of advertisement: "If someone had cancer, you wouldn't tell them to 'just get over it'. Depression is a disease."

How is that even offensive to cancer victims or their families

It's saying that cancer needs to be treated seriously, and that likewise so does depression

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How am I supposed to respond to this?

I'll return the question: how was I supposed to respond to your initial argument? It was "How is that not against the ToU?" No further reasoning, no explanation, just the implication that saying GameStop is the cancer to the gaming industry is against the ToU. Blulum's initial argument was "saying GameStop is the cancer to the gaming industry is not against the ToU," and you essentially responded with nothing more than "yes, it is." Which is why I responded by saying that the ToU doesn't say anything about the use of the word "cancer." You didn't give me much else to respond to.

I didn't think flaming applied to corporations.

Exactly. This is what I was saying earlier.

being offensive without flaming is something that you can in fact do and comparing a company that one dislikes to a life threatening disease that has very possibly affected the lives of people that use these forums is offensive

I don't find it offensive at all. If comparing a company to cancer is against the ToU, it's an unwritten rule like "B8'ers invading PotD gets them modded." Stuff like this should be in the ToU, especially because there is no consensus as to whether or not it is offensive.

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so

...so there should be more information about this in the ToU, because there is no consensus as to whether or not it's offensive. Which is what I was saying. I'd have preferred it if you had read the entirety of my post.

Also, is Blulum Liquid Wind? I thought he always typed in lowercase >_>

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Basically, this is the problem when the ToS calls for modding stuff as broadly defined as 'Offensive'.

Exactly. Because the ToU is so vague anything can be modded.

Allen said he was working on a shorter and more specific version, though. Let's hope this will be an improvement!

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CBS....this is all a conspiracy somehow.

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I don't think I was vague at all! What else could I be referring to in my post besides flaming? I just said it would be easy to see how it could be interpreted as being against the ToU, and if you know anything about the ToU (which you act like you do), you'd know I was referring to flaming.

1) I actually didn't know what you were referring to - the ToU is vague, so you could have been referring to a number of statements in it.
2) I don't think it's easy to see how it could be interpreted as being against the ToU at all. The flaming portion of the ToU applies to users who post on the GameFAQs message boards, not companies. See Moogle's example - is it flaming to say that Microsoft is terrible? Or WalMart? That's ridiculous.

I criticized you for missing the point of my initial statement, and instead you talk about how, since I was apparently vague, that you had no other recourse but to be vague in return.

1) I don't know what I should say in reply to the "missing the point" business. Sorry for not immediately realizing what you were talking about? >_>
2) I don't think I was vague in return at all. I was saying that Blulum's topic wasn't against the ToU because the ToU doesn't mention anything about the word cancer. Later in the topic I supplied other arguments to back up my "Blulum's topic wasn't against the ToU" point.

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something to think about

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