When I first came to Gamespot I was under the impression that Gamespot and the Gamespot community would be helpful, considerate and respectful. I can not be more wrong! My experiance with Gamespot is users get hostile when one tries to be friendly. Mods that are drunk with power, choosing to blame rather than help users. Gamespot the site is very black and white and railroads users with no second chances given especially when honest mistakes occur. Gamespot knows nothing of communication and they expect users to be all knowing, by assuming that every nuance and fine point about their site can be extracked from the very broad overview found in the Gamespot question thread. This thread is only an overview with no explaination of lingo used by the Gamespot community, or clear understanding of what exactly is expected from the users. This leaves users to learn by trial and error and when one makes an honest mistake, Gamespot then supports blaming the individual for wrong doing instead of offering a second chance and a explanation of why the mistake violates Gamespot policies.
Gamespot supports mods who have the attitude of where there is smoke there is fire. These same mods rush to judge before getting all the facts, and they prefer to blame and make accountable rather than educate and help users. I was moderated for disruptive posting and the mods automatically decided that this was a clear intent to annoy and or distract rather than see it for what it was, an honest mistake.These same mods pick and choose who violate this policy of disruptive posting. According to mod and user who goes by the name _SAM_ " Some of the officers have responded to a really old, bumped thread without realizing it." Here is an example of mods who abuse their moderator privallages. These mods were extremly hostile about my mistake by stating that it is my fault and that I should know better. With that said, what about these all knowing officers. Since bumping old threads is a huge issue amongst users, why are the mods excusing their officers from posting in old threads without realizing it, and convicting me of disruptive posting when these officers did exactly what i did and that was posting on old threads without realizing it. After i realized that bumping old threads was such an issue I tried to find an explanation of what this exactly meant. Once again I was in a hit or miss scituation. I contacted Gamewiserman ( a mod) about this and he was kind enough to explain this concept of bumping old threads, and said that some users do this just to annoy others. When he realized that I was new to the movie palace union he said not to worry about it and gave me the benefit of the doubt.
Gamespot did not say that posting on old threads was a violation, which leads users to believe that this is okay to do. If a user does not know that dead threads exist and what that means, then it is unrealistic to hold users accountable for posting on these threads. Gamespot has failed to provide such information to users and this sets traps for people who want nothing more than to enjoy what the community has to offer and does not want to cause problems. The movie palace mods said that my posts added little to no content to the thread, yet Gamespot defines little or no content by blank quoting and a single smily face. I did not do either of those things, I answered the posted topic with an appropiate responce.
Lastly, I requested that this moderation be reversed and as Gamespot's history demonstrates, Gamespot has gone into stealth mode and has not addresed this request. I did not sign up for hostility and strong arm tatics, I thought joining Gamespot would let me share my love of games and give me the chance to meet new people. I was apparently wrong!!
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