Oh so now I keep it 95? The other day you were talking about how often I pick on you by modding your shyt (I basically never do) and hurling personal insults at me but now I keep it 95, that's great.
I don't know why you have this obsession with NeoGAF. This isn't anywhere near becoming NeoGAF. If this was GAF, you would register and not have posting privileges for months and even then probably not have thread-creating privileges for at least a year, and even if you somehow made it to that point without being banned, 95% of the threads you make would have gotten your thread closed and you banned onsite. And forget creating an alias because you'd have to go through the same wait for posting and thread-creating privileges. So nah, this aint like GAF.
As far as I can recall this is the first time I've ever done anything to one of your posts or threads. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong (I'm sure you'd be able to provide links if that's the case too). And changing one word in a thread title is not something you should be offended by. It's not that serious.
And what gives me the right? The fact that
I have the right. It's that simple. I have the privilege by virtue of being appointed mod -
by the people no less. If you think I've abused that privilege, feel free to take it to whomever you like. If you wish for me to stop modding - just tell me and I won't hesitate to take that under serious consideration. That's no lie, it's straight up truth.
As for
why I modified your title... Let's start with two hypotheticals:
- If someone creates a thread that says Terrence Howard has been shot and it's not true? What would I do? I would probably delete or at least close the thread. That's blatant spread of misinformation and I think it qualifies as something that should be removed.
- If someone creates a thread that says PS4 price has been announced at $700, I'd do the same as above for the same reasons.
Those are different from what you did (hence I didn't delete or close your thread). In fact what you did may have been completely unintentional. What you did was say Kotaku said something that they didn't. Nowhere in their article do they say "PS4 will restrict used games". They said that Sony is being very fuzzy about it and they are which is why this warrants discussion. You are allowed to read between the lines but you aren't allowed to posit your inference as fact. I don't think that's unreasonable.
This relates strictly to "news" threads in my opinion. In the coli and in the arc we make plenty of "opinion" threads that are looser in a sense because they pertain to discussion around an opinion. News threads should convey news at least relatively accurately. For example:
Bad news thread that was made by someone not named @Cockmeat Sandwich and was closed:
http://www.the-coli.com/arcadium/91809-ps4-games-=-$99-99-a.html#.USoinqU4s-0
Divisive pinion thread with over 5 pages of discussion:
http://www.the-coli.com/arcadium/91...-look-back-xbox-360-realize.html#.USoi36U4s-0
If you don't think I even have the right to close the hypothetical threads, then I wonder what you think I, as a mod, should be doing at all. If you think I do have the right to close them but not do what I did here, I wonder where exactly your line is drawn.