@spindie3 Here's the thing: personal views are always part of a worthwhile review. To deny that is to deny a person's humanity. What good reviewers do is present the technical and the personal and show the reader why a game is good/ok/bad. The reader then applies their own perspective alongside the review to decide if the game is for you. Information without personality is just a product feature list.

@jark888 I do too, but I also like a little emotion. To me, emotion is like cologne; a little dab is all you need. Too much makes everyone else gag.

I'm glad that Gamespot is taking an active role in addressing the idiocy happening in the comments sections. What happened in response to the GTA V review was frankly embarrassing; I hope that people are understanding that this is why videogaming is seen as the realm of maladjusted teenagers and psychos. This site, like any site, must take a stand and decide what is acceptable and what is not. This is not censorship, this is applying standards and ,frankly, telling people to grow up.

What the GTA V debacle should have shown is "ignore the trolls" does not make them go away: it makes the well-mannered users go away while the comments further degrade. I don't even think anonymity is the issue. When espn.com aligned their comments to Facebook the only major changes have been non-Facebook users like myself don't comment and the ignorant comments have real names and bad Facebook pictures beside them. To me the best solution is moderation. People that can't go 3 posts without being ignorant or insensitive should be banned, full stop. People that insist on their "freedom" to act like a jerk-off can exercise their freedom elsewhere.

@dragonkantus I'll never forget when San Andreas was being made I would see people post things like "I don't wanna play as a black guy!" The first thing I would think was "If I can play hundreds of games as a white guy, you can play 1 as a black guy-suck it up!" I should have posted it back then, but I don't post too often.

@WTA2k5 Well, the first "get me a sandwich" and "you must be ugly" posts have arrived. That train's never late.

@geralsmith0286 People online are still people though. Societal change is slow, but it does happen over time. As online societies mature, online manners, mores, and taboos will grow also. Look at people getting fired over Facebook posts or dumb Twitter posters get publicly humiliated. I think as time passes and search engines improve people will realize the internet won't be a hideout for jackassery forever.

@geralsmith0286 @Entropy2k @Nzilla Yes, but maybe if we as a society start discussing this seriously things can improve. Maybe a person ready to change gets exposed to how people really feel about this behavior and says "wow, I sound like a jerk" and stops. Of course bad behavior will never disappear entirely, but I've seen society change too much in my life to say a situation will never improve. Anyway nice talking to you, and thanks for sharing your viewpoint with me.

@KumaTenshi29 @Smokescreened84 Ironically enough, this post sounds a little whiny to me LOL.

@geralsmith0286 @Entropy2k @Nzilla Why be so passive about it though? Nothing changes if the only thing you do in life is shrug your shoulders. Like the old saying "evil triumphs when good men do nothing." I've been harassed in real life (racial, not gender). The people responsible would have continued forever until I stood up and called the police on them. Did they change their life? I don't know, but even if they didn't the harassment stopped.

@Nzilla Ok, sure it's not curing cancer, but why can't this be talked about? Look at the visceral reactions this topic elicits. That's a clear sign that this topic needs to be addressed in a fair and thorough manner. Even people that don't think there is a problem need to be heard out so we can get some improved behavior out of this. If online gaming becomes more fun because the jerks that make it a chore are shaped up or shipped out, we all win.