A Petition to get rid of "Offensive Posting" moderation

I've wondered if the mods religious beliefs or lack of would affect moderation (or non modertation) in religious topics.

FamiBox

[QUOTE="FamiBox"]

I've wondered if the mods religious beliefs or lack of would affect moderation (or non modertation) in religious topics.

LJS9502_basic

Nah, the only thing that needs to happen is the ToU needs an overhaul in which none of the rules are left open to moderator discretion... because what is "offensive" to one person won't be offensive to another. So its like convicting criminals based on a judges personal morals instead of the state's law. Its really stupid and only getting worse.

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]

[QUOTE="FamiBox"]

I've wondered if the mods religious beliefs or lack of would affect moderation (or non modertation) in religious topics.

Funky_Llama

i get modded for almost everything. total BS. i should be like level 12 by now

[QUOTE="Funky_Llama"][QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]It's all in how you word things...and no their beliefs don't seem to be a determining cause.

LJS9502_basic

Well, you've been here a long while and don't have a reputation among the mods as a user who abides by the ToU, and also your opinions aren't aggressive enough to get you modded... I'm guessing if you happened to be a white supremacist or something you'd be more likely to get modded.Funky_Llama

Anyway, it's having control of yourself when posting. If you let emotions get the best of you then you will post inappropriately to the ToU. But then I'm an emotionless bot.:P

Oddly enough i almost never get modded.And i can be downright insulting to people.Then again i insult the people who are rude to others and make them look like they have the intelligence of a animal cracker but that besides the point.My posts at those times are very offensive and i dont ever get modded.It seems if your point is justified or you take care of a rude or offensive person yourself they wont mod you at all.

As for the religion topics i dont get modded there either.

You all are right though and since so many people are mentioning sticky threads with the TOU and some light moderation of it, it should be done.I kinda figured they would get the point by now.

Oddly enough i almost never get modded.And i can be downright insulting to people.Then again i insult the people who are rude to others and make them look like they have the intelligence of a animal cracker but that besides the point.My posts at those times are very offensive and i dont ever get modded.It seems if your point is justified or you take care of a rude or offensive person yourself they wont mod you at all.

As for the religion topics i dont get modded there either.

You all are right though and since so many people are mentioning sticky threads with the TOU and some light moderation of it, it should be done.I kinda figured they would get the point by now.

WolfGrey

[QUOTE="WolfGrey"]

Oddly enough i almost never get modded.And i can be downright insulting to people.Then again i insult the people who are rude to others and make them look like they have the intelligence of a animal cracker but that besides the point.My posts at those times are very offensive and i dont ever get modded.It seems if your point is justified or you take care of a rude or offensive person yourself they wont mod you at all.

As for the religion topics i dont get modded there either.

You all are right though and since so many people are mentioning sticky threads with the TOU and some light moderation of it, it should be done.I kinda figured they would get the point by now.

LJS9502_basic

How bout being insulting to someone who insulted someone else?

And since no one reports me for it, then i guess i shut them up pretty good.Otherise i would of been reported alot of times by now.

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]

[QUOTE="WolfGrey"]

Oddly enough i almost never get modded.And i can be downright insulting to people.Then again i insult the people who are rude to others and make them look like they have the intelligence of a animal cracker but that besides the point.My posts at those times are very offensive and i dont ever get modded.It seems if your point is justified or you take care of a rude or offensive person yourself they wont mod you at all.

As for the religion topics i dont get modded there either.

You all are right though and since so many people are mentioning sticky threads with the TOU and some light moderation of it, it should be done.I kinda figured they would get the point by now.

WolfGrey

How bout being insulting to someone who insulted someone else?

And since no one reports me for it, then i guess i shut them up pretty good.Otherise i would of been reported alot of times by now.

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]

[QUOTE="WolfGrey"]

Oddly enough i almost never get modded.And i can be downright insulting to people.Then again i insult the people who are rude to others and make them look like they have the intelligence of a animal cracker but that besides the point.My posts at those times are very offensive and i dont ever get modded.It seems if your point is justified or you take care of a rude or offensive person yourself they wont mod you at all.

As for the religion topics i dont get modded there either.

You all are right though and since so many people are mentioning sticky threads with the TOU and some light moderation of it, it should be done.I kinda figured they would get the point by now.

WolfGrey

How bout being insulting to someone who insulted someone else?

And since no one reports me for it, then i guess i shut them up pretty good.Otherise i would of been reported alot of times by now.

[QUOTE="WolfGrey"]

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]No that means no one reported you. You can get modded if you are insulting to someone that was previously insulted.

Setsa

How bout being insulting to someone who insulted someone else?

And since no one reports me for it, then i guess i shut them up pretty good.Otherise i would of been reported alot of times by now.

Very true, which can be a problem sometimes.

[QUOTE="Funky_Llama"]Well, you've been here a long while and don't have a reputation among the mods as a user who abides by the ToU, and also your opinions aren't aggressive enough to get you modded... I'm guessing if you happened to be a white supremacist or something you'd be more likely to get modded.LJS9502_basic

Anyway, it's having control of yourself when posting. If you let emotions get the best of you then you will post inappropriately to the ToU. But then I'm an emotionless bot.:P

Anyway, most of the modded posts haven't been due to me getting pissed off; they're due to me simply not thinking that the post would be in danger of getting modded. After all, I have no way of anticipating whether the mod who sees it will have a gut feeling that I'm trolling.

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]

[QUOTE="Funky_Llama"]Well, you've been here a long while and don't have a reputation among the mods as a user who abides by the ToU, and also your opinions aren't aggressive enough to get you modded... I'm guessing if you happened to be a white supremacist or something you'd be more likely to get modded.Funky_Llama

Anyway, it's having control of yourself when posting. If you let emotions get the best of you then you will post inappropriately to the ToU. But then I'm an emotionless bot.:P

[QUOTE="enygma500"]some tool reported me for nothing again.Bioshockraptor

i hate it:evil:

[QUOTE="WolfGrey"]

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]No that means no one reported you. You can get modded if you are insulting to someone that was previously insulted.

Setsa

How bout being insulting to someone who insulted someone else?

And since no one reports me for it, then i guess i shut them up pretty good.Otherise i would of been reported alot of times by now.

Yeah, and it's the people who don't report who get modded, and then when they go to ask the mods to get an explanation as to why they get modded for responding to someone who insulted them that they get scolded fornot reporting. I don't abide by any, "no snitching," rule, I just think that if it is possible to respond intelligently then that should be preferable to reporting, that and I have a pretty thick skin so unless they're making some kind of slur I just brush it off and keep going with the discussion. But apparantly that's a less acceptable practice than posting flamebait and then reporting someone when they respond.

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]

No that means no one reported you. You can get modded if you are insulting to someone that was previously insulted.

WolfGrey

How bout being insulting to someone who insulted someone else?

And since no one reports me for it, then i guess i shut them up pretty good.Otherise i would of been reported alot of times by now.

That doesn't mean it's OK. Should I keep an eye on you from now on? ;)

A petition won't change anything. The way things are run here are and will continue to be flawed, at best.

I don't see a reason to get rid of it. Just follow the rules.

yea i just got banned for "overly graphic" which i thought was funny

and now i see a thread about a guy customizes himself with nail clippers if the mods wanna be fair everyone in that thread should be banned only to be fair across the board :I

yea i just got banned for "overly graphic" which i thought was funny

and now i see a thread about a guy customizes himself with nail clippers if the mods wanna be fair everyone in that thread should be banned only to be fair across the board :I

Norg

Banned or suspened? You don't want to get the two mixed up. The mods act first and ask questions later, so you could be permanently banned for saying you have been banned in the past.

[QUOTE="Norg"]

yea i just got banned for "overly graphic" which i thought was funny

and now i see a thread about a guy customizes himself with nail clippers if the mods wanna be fair everyone in that thread should be banned only to be fair across the board :I

Banned or suspened? You don't want to get the two mixed up. The mods act first and ask questions later, so you could be permanently banned for saying you have been banned in the past.

The mods are stupidly harsh - they'd just put your post down under some other offence anyway.

Norg

I seriously suggest you delete your post. Nothing good will come from it.

If they got rid of it, then I we would see "yo mama" jokes evrywhere.

Well, you've been here a long while and don't have a reputation among the mods as a user who abides by the ToU, and also your opinions aren't aggressive enough to get you modded... I'm guessing if you happened to be a white supremacist or something you'd be more likely to get modded.Funky_Llama

A long time ago I was modded for something that I said that could of offended someone. Well, in that same topic I told the moderator that what he also said in his post could of possibly offended me. Well, he just re-worded what he said and that was it. We dont get that pleasure, we just get straight up modded or suspended. I think they use their personal opinions too much on what should and shouldn't be modded. They all need to be on the same page. Another subject, was my previous sig which I had for a long time was a gif. jessica alba was removed by one mod who apparently though it was too sexually explicit. So now I have a pic of ben stiller. Figure if its a guy in my sig no one will think its too sexual, even though he is lookin pretty sexy as zoolander.

[QUOTE="Funky_Llama"]Well, you've been here a long while and don't have a reputation among the mods as a user who abides by the ToU, and also your opinions aren't aggressive enough to get you modded... I'm guessing if you happened to be a white supremacist or something you'd be more likely to get modded.horgen123

[QUOTE="horgen123"][QUOTE="Funky_Llama"]Well, you've been here a long while and don't have a reputation among the mods as a user who abides by the ToU, and also your opinions aren't aggressive enough to get you modded... I'm guessing if you happened to be a white supremacist or something you'd be more likely to get modded.Funky_Llama

[QUOTE="Funky_Llama"][QUOTE="horgen123"] I think the mods openly say they don't want those kind of opinions here... LJS9502_basic

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]

[QUOTE="Funky_Llama"]Exactly, they find it offensive.Funky_Llama

We can petition all we like, it won't change anything.

my_mortal_coil

QFT... if you don't like the way the Gamespot forums are moderated, you've just got to respect the house rules. I don't like the way they're moderated, which is why I, personally, have been spending less time here than I used to.

That being said, I just wish they'd hand out less "Trolling" mods. If you post anything in the Wii Forums apart from "NINTENDO IS TEH GENIOUS!!1!" then you're going to get moderated for "Trolling" regardless of whether or not you own a Wii and several games, as I do.

[QUOTE="Funky_Llama"][QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]Er I think it has to do with hate speech...

LJS9502_basic

[QUOTE="Funky_Llama"][QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]Er I think it has to do with hate speech...

LJS9502_basic

Refrain from using inappropriate language, including language that may look, sound like, stand for, hint at, abbreviate, or insinuate profanity, hate speech (including but not limited to racial, ethnic, or religious slurs), illegal drugs/controlled substances or illegal activities. Gamespot TOU

Out of curiosity, does anyone who's saying "it should be re-written so it's not up to moderator discretion one bit" have a version of the ToU they would like to propose that would accomplish that but which would still account for all of the things that the bigwigs at CBS would like to keep off of their forums?

American laws don't leave anything up to interpretation - and that's why bills are thousands upon thousands of pages long and are not read by anyone, ever. If we were to define "trolling" such that there was nothing left up to interpretation, then the Terms of Use would basically be like your standard end-user license agreement (more pages than people who've actually read it), and rather than claiming "moderator discretion" as the reason why they felt their moderation was invalid, they'd instead invoke the defense that the Terms of Use is so long that nobody can realistically be expected to read it.

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[QUOTE="Funky_Llama"]How do you define hate speech?ChiliDragon

Refrain from using inappropriate language, including language that may look, sound like, stand for, hint at, abbreviate, or insinuate profanity, hate speech (including but not limited to racial, ethnic, or religious slurs), illegal drugs/controlled substances or illegal activities. Gamespot TOU