Originally Posted by
rossmum
fap told me to put this into a thread, so here you go.
This forum has been going downhill for months. It started with CMT and even now they're 'gone', the filth they left is still here. I'm sick of seeing threads spammed to hell or turned into flamewars because of moronic fanboys and wannabe internet crusaders thinking some sod needs 'saving' from the 'cruel and horrible flamers' who are just being honest. I'm sick of seeing foul rubbish spouted in any thread about anything that doesn't conform perfectly to somebody and his borderline neo-Nazi, extremist views. I'm sick of certain people constantly bitch-whinging about Metroid even though he stopped trolling long ago. But worst of all, nothing has been done about it at all. Dole was banned for - wait for it - a week, after Dr had the decency to go warn some of his posts (including his little hate-sprees on Russians and homosexuals) which I'd reported at least a month earlier. Timo, Ghost and jfap are almost never on, and Zeph is too busy with college and his little pranks to really do shit. As a result, even the attempts at intelligent discussion get driven into the mud by idiotic bickering over the most petty of details, and the few threads that the mods actually bother to lock are locked about 30-odd pages after they went off the rails.
Quite frankly, I believe this site is in need of a major reform - like the one we had when the new theme was installed, except focusing on cleaning out users rather than threads. Long-time members, myself included, are allowed to get away with nothing short of blue murder without so much as a slap on the wrist, while not-so-established members are either banned for a mere week for something that warrants at least a month, or are absolutely raped with infractions for one moment of stupidity. Being 'fair' has turned into 'doing the least amount of warning possible to keep the masses happy', and even the new detention section set up specifically for repeat offenders so the staff can discuss their situation with them has seen almost no use whatsoever. Decent threads where people could discover new things or learn about each other's tastes in music were deleted as 'spam', despite the fact that they contained less spam than most other threads.
Some action needs to be taken, and fast. I know that a lot of us came here to escape Gearbox as it was gradually overrun by stupidity - jumping ship before it went down, as it were - but without something being done, this site will go exactly the same way, and then where do we go?
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