03-10-2011, 11:46 PM
Ashe Wrote:Moderators on game forums are no different than moderators and staff here. What we (and they) view as necessary responses and troll control, others will view as "silencing the opposing positions" and "abusing their power". They are no dumber and no more biased than we, or any other forum staff, are. And I say "forum staff" mostly to make the point, as its a trait everyone holds and is in no way limited to a "power corrupts" point. Its that we all have different perspectives, and they deal with so much trolling that they probably just look for certain warning signs to delete from instead of waiting on the situation to play out every time, or else they'd never keep it clean.
TLDR - People like to post "Fuck you ____ for making a shitty game, fix your shit and stop nerfing my ____ while leaving op as fuck ____ in its current state, you obviously all only play _____ you biased fucks" and then rally up the mob when the post is locked/deleted and say "our first amendment is being attacked, they can't take criticism, they're all biased fanbois!"
Self fulfilling prophecy.
I understand why you would think that, because it happens all the time. But honestly, the threads I saw being deleted weren't like that at all. The concerns I saw being posted were real problems with the game, and they just wanted to know why Bioware had decided to go in that sort of direction. Most of them were just "This is what I liked about the game, and this is what I didn't like, and I wonder why Bioware decided to do this and that", and yet they were still deleted.