Admittedly, a lot of Gamespot members come here to post in the forums, mainly Off-Topic, since it's a fairly lively subforum. But there are some heavy-duty posters whose motives I'm questioning, and my question is, "Why are they here on Gamespot?"

Let's be clear on this: Gamespot is a gaming website, not a poster's version of heaven. I would venture to say that (for 95% of the community) the main underlying factor as to why we joined Gamespot is because of games. Yet there is that persistent 5% whose names you see on dozens of posts, day-in and day-out.

And that same 5% isn't really here to join in the gaming community. Why do I say that? Think about it for a minute: what normally is the first thing you do after you complete your initial registration to join Gamespot? Why, you build your Profile, right? It doesn't matter whether you start with your game collection, or work on your "About Me" section, or send out some Friend Requests, pretty much the majority of members work to erect a decent Profile. Some of the more well-known members of Gamespot have tremendous Profile pages, and they really look fantastic. Some are purely a visual pleasure.

But if you go and look at the 5-percenters, their Profiles are akin to an empty life: a blank page. Just an account name and nothing else. Not even a single game in their collection. I'm wondering why that is. Are they young people who perhaps have only kids games, and are perhaps too embarrassed to put them up for all to see? Or is it something else entirely, something dark and mysterious? Or are they here to cause trouble, by posting sensitive issues to cause good members to be either suspended or outright banned from Gamespot?

In all seriousness, would you really want to track someone who has an empty Profile? I think not: most of us track other members for their knowledgeable blogs, their well-written reviews, and so on. Do you think it might be a good idea to amend the Terms of Use so that if you join Gamespot, that certain areas of a Profile should be marked as mandatory to be completed?

It's troubling to me when a person comes here day after day, and does nothing else but open topic after topic on the forums, and has an empty profile painted in Stygian Black. I'm thinking they should be on a blogging website, not a gaming website. Sure, it's your choice whether to build a Profile or not, but as far as I'm concerned, if you don't build one, then you don't really have a desire to join the gaming community here: plus you're not contributing to our Community either.