I recently got this PM from Gamespot;

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From: GameSpot

Sent: Sep 25, 2010 1:41 pm GMT Subject: Terms of Use Violation - Point Loss! You have been moderated with a Point Loss for a Terms of Use violation. Your Profile level has been reduced. If you repeat this offense in the future, you may receive a more severe penalty such as Suspension or Permanent Banning. Having a paid subscription does not exempt you from being suspended or banned.

Here is a link to our Terms of Use:
http://www.gamespot.com/misc/tos.html

Reason for moderation: Offensive content
Action Taken: Delete Msg - You lost points for this moderation.

See your moderation history for details.

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My comment was in the All Time Greatest Villain section;

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Sep 24, 2010 8:07 am GMT This must be a memorable day for girl gamers everywhere, especially feminist ones, a Female Villain best a Male non-game movie villain who was voted to the finals by a bunch of non-gaming movie loving emo nerds from a pool of the best Gaming villains ever just because the Real Gamers didn't bother to vote enough..*sigh*

Let us all commemorate this day by wearing Pink. Can someone lend me a gun..I need to shoot myself..

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Now this was actually in response to someone who wrote something like Girl Gamers kicks Guy Gamer's ass and I admit I might have got a little OTT(and I was a bit er..intoxicated when I wrote that), but for one stupid anti-feminist rant amongst so many F words and S words and B words, seriously that made me Laugh..Out Loud.

There were so many comments there which were Anti-Korean just because Starcraft is so popular there yet none got moderated, whats funnier even was I got penalized with a loss of 17180 points, not that I care cuz I'm not even a subscriber, was planning to be one though but its really sad when chauvinist comments like the one I made are taken up with so much seriousness as if its a matter of world peace and profanity and racial slander are just ignored.

Now I've been a Gamespot member since 2005 and this is the first time I have committed such an offense, for which I do apologise but I also can't help wondering whether the severity of the penalty i.e. deduction of 17180 points was due to the fact that it was a comment which was a bit misogynist in nature but comments which are misandrist are ok and so are the racist and profane ones??

Know what, just go right ahead and flame me/ban me whatever..I've witnessed/am witnessing this pattern emerging almost everywhere on the internet that I really stopped caring..just thought I'd invoke a thought or two..whatever that may accomplish.

Excelsior.