Gamespot used to prevent using the word "class" in posts, because it could enable spam posts. By stopping users from using particular words, it helps to stop flaming, which is just another type of spam.
[QUOTE="Artosa"] So someone should like a game because it is popular? and scores from gamespot mean nothing, they have proved themselves that they are curropt Statistically? Yes. :P Gamespot scores aren't inherently 'curropt,' some reviews just aren't consistent with other reviewers. In the case of Bioshock however, it was consistent.
Yep, when one wishes to fight for his/her civil liberties, a PC game forum will definitely be the first place to visit.
mirgamer
Exactly what I was thinking. This isn't a country we are talking about, it's a forum - analogies work better when they are relevant. Bioware set up the forum and technically they can ban and lock whatever and whoever they want. Saying we must stand up and challenge unfair oppression is a bit over-enthusiastic. People don't live in the forum, they choose to go there and post under the terms and conditions Bioware set-up. Essentially we are complaining that Bioware won't let people post particular words in an online forum which is owned by them. I don't think they went about this the best way, but what people are saying about it being Bioware's forum is true.
Its the same reason why Catholics can't accept I don't believe in jesus....
Trust me it would be more benefitial arguing with a wall
All_that_is_Man
Catholics don't want you to not believe in jesus because they think something bad will happen to you if you don't. It's not really comparable to system wars, just because you don't like halo doesn't mean you will go to hell. There is so much hate on the internet...
The problem is when people say Halo sucks, or Crysis sucks. They weren't bad games, but people bash them for their own personal satisfaction. Maybe someone dislikes halo being an xbox exclusive, or they dislike it because they were dissapointed by it due to hype, some people might dislike crysis because they couldn't run it. Some games are genuinly bad, and you can say that with evidence to support it, it's just that people get lazy and say a game sucks when they really mean they just didn't have fun playing it.
Driver issues, motherboard bios? Is the computer over heating? You might have to feel around the case a bit to check. Could be anything, try defragging your hard drive. Have you added in new parts/installed anything major recently? If it persists and is really becoming a major problem, you could always back up the HDD and do an OS reinstall (as a last resort).
Physical damage from moving the case or something, overheating from bad ventilation (not enough fans) or over-usage, and not enough power as people have said. I think some of the circuit components actually have life-spans, maybe they are just getting really old... My friend had a card that stopped working because part of it melted (so he tells me).
I can understand them trying to stop this kind of discussion getting out of hand. Homosexuality isn't an easy issue to discuss because some people think it's immoral and other's don't. You can't really argue morals, that's why it ends in mess. How do we know that the user's who got banned didn't do something deserving of a ban?
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