The people of SW had spoken. And then, the people of SW actually had spoken. It has been decided in this threadthat there will be no official system to decide the winner of the System Wars. Free debate has triumphed!

Now, I'd like to look back on how I saw this whole ordeal.

It all started with a seemingly random sticky that came at a suspiscious time, right when the Wii passed the 360 in sales, and on Labor Day weekend. I took it as just a survey to see what SW thought at first. When I saw that a decision was going to be made based on the majority opinion, I felt like sheep were getting cornered, so I voted for sales originally to back our side. When the obvious decision was made, I dismissed it as something we'd all forget. Then I saw it being used for the rest of the day. Debate in SW was halted by people saying "oh well, this thread doesn't matter, lolz the rule." Basically trolling, but backed by a moderator who joined them.

The second sticky was made to decide how to implement this new decision. Since the other thread was nowhere in sight, I went in and criticized this whole mess and the moderator behind it. Casey was there, and arguing against me. Then some GUFU arrived, and we had him cornered. He responded by deleting all of our posts to get the thread "back on-topic," and moderating us for participating in a debate he was part of. I was disgusted.

Later, I tried again, posting in the thread he told us to go to to "complain about losing." I got few responses, none of which from Casey, and the thread sunk.

I accidentally clicked on his profile once, and saw that he wasn't taking this well. I left a comment. It got rated -4 quickly, a lot of people were on his side.

That sticky was a mess for the next few days. Half the comments were deleted, and finally, Casey truly snapped, telling us to "leave him the **** alone." I went back to his blog and commented again, and this time I was suspended for a day - the mod way of saying "get out of my face."

It was clear that nothing was going to change his mind, so all I could do was hope that SW had some common sense somewhere.

While I was gone, something happened. The second sticky was taken down, and there was a new poll. Apparently people had pointed out a genuine flaw in the former poll that not even Casey could ignore, and so the whole plan started againfrom scratch. Cake created the poll linked above with the third option, and that option won by a landslide. And all was well.

Now what? Hopefully SW will never try to tame itself again. Hopefully Casey can lighten up about the issue and rebuild his respect, 'cause I do like the guy normally. And hopefully, this story will act as a sign that SW isn't just a pit of nothing, there actually is some interesting stuff down here.

Cheers.