I ask that because I think its relevant here on gamespot, because mods are more active than on other sites. Also, I may say that I find that their interpretation of rules and terms of agreement can seem biased sometimes.
For example, I find the frontier really thin between trolling and just trying to express your opinion, which one goes in a complete other sense that most people on the board. In that particular case, I find that it goes against the principle of legitimacy of disagreements in democratic societies. Yeah, it may seem far-fetched to some of you, but thats a fact. In democracy (that site has been made in one and its users are from democracies), disagreements are accepted, because it helps us keep an open-mind and get the ideas and values of minorities.
Just an example, you may find it right or not for that to have been moderated, thats not the point, the point is your general opinion on mods' work here.
"wow, this thread is so full of whining sony fanboys, please grow up and stop blocking other people's comments by marking them as bad comments, thats called censor.
Its not because someone has different views than you that you need to just ignore what they say. Doing that is called immaturity. "
I posted that on the $399.99 PS3 news thread, because sony fans were marking comments like (its not that of a good deal, theres no backward compatibility on that version) or (even so, Sony still dont have really good exclusive titles coming out, I prefer to wait until they have some) has bad comments, by giving thumbs down like 20 times to those posts. Literally hiding the opinions they didnt like.
IMO, that doesnt make any sense, that news wasnt exclusive for Sony lovers, we had the right to make an opinion on it. Even more, those who marked those posts as bad comments are generally people who already have a PS3, I could say the same, that they didnt belong on that thread.
Thats why, personnally, I thinkthat the mods' job here is so-so, I was angry when I got one of my topic locked, but it was a fad, I didnt know it was against terms and rules, so on that, they were right, but on that example I gave, I dont think it was trolling, but more giving an opinion going against the majority. Maybe thats the term "whining" that got the mod to moderate it, even so, whining may seems pejorative for certain people, but we have to concede that some time its the only word appropriate to really describe the situation.
Express yourselves, on the case I gave, on your own experiences with mods, even youre experience AS mods, and on their general work.
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