Stuff: lol, where have I heard this before?? This forum consists of an international membership and you post something that belittles a specific nationality expecting none to find it . . . if not offensive . . than just inappropriate and vote accordingly . . AS THEY ALWAYS DO AND SHOULD . . . if offended.
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It's not "people" sitting in "lofty castles" . . . it's the community as a whole responding to anything they feel is inappropriate. The membership is well educated, worldly, hip, mostly mature and internet savvy having moved on from 4chan years ago. If they want 4chan they know where to find it and prefer to not have it served up on their favorite gaming forum.
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What do you expect the response to be when you post something that will appeal to a few members and offend even more . . . somehow only those that approve will have an opinion and +1 your post?
Why are you so surprised when the community responds in a predictable fashion?
Not trying to offend . . . just at a loss to understand why you don't. . . = )
Funny how sometimes things are offensive/spam when one member posts them(not saying me btw but anyone) and when another member posts similarly(i've seen it happen) the results are totally different.
(As an example I noticed several silly threads started here on GOG in the past week or so and depending on who the member was some were uprated and some were low rated, regardless if the content was offensive or not.)
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It's not the whole community, (There are exceptions I know.) it's
mainly just a small bunch of men and women who think it's their duty to be the shunning/content police of GOG.com....not many here vote.......if everyone or most voted the meter would likely break and posts ratings would fluctuate so fast your heads would spin.
And don't tell me everyone votes fairly and applies an even standard.....i'm guessing at least some unfairly rate stuff down for unfair reasons.
Also nice subtle punch at channers there. ;\
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C'mon, you act as if you KNOW how many people here downrated OP's post or disliked it, or how most would respond(of all GOGgers total). You have concrete numbers to back that up?
And I think OP expects people on both sides to say their peace on the topic at hand and interact with each other or leave. Not voting down his OP solely because they don't think his type of humor/content belongs on GOG while chastising him to death.