Giant Bomb does not want to have moderation on forums

And likewise, the need for moderation is as much preventative as it is reactive- just look at the people who go into the various console's forums and intentionally throw up flamebait. So long as that thread gets one response, that's enough to successfully troll. Just looking at a PSN ID thread I posted in not too long ago, someone's jumped in and posted "XBOX LIVE FTW" which is entirely unnecessary and looking for trouble. Sure, chances are it'll get ignored, but all it takes is one post to cause an avalanche. Hiding the post just covers up the issue- there needs to be some way to say "hey look, this post is asking for it, so just get rid of it, k?"

Fanboy flame wars are just as bad as a good troll spamming a forum to death. We can't expect everyone to be a model, upright citizen all the time, but we do need someone to clean up the garbage posts when they happen.

awesome. this is what i was hoping for. thanks guys. you guys rule to no end.

"Just looking at a PSN ID thread I posted in not too long ago, someone's jumped in and posted "XBOX LIVE FTW" which is entirely unnecessary "

Moderation is quite useful as it helps prevent a Lord of the Flies type scenario.

I believe there should be some form of moderation.

"There has to some form of moderation
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It's ballsy, but I like it.

"Glad it's not as strict as Gamespot
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We need alittle bit of moderation cause theres a tits and ass thread and a chick thread, I don't want giant bomb becoming 4chan!

Getting moderators isn't a problem in my mind. GB just needs to make the right calls on who becomes one. They also need to be willing to demote a mod if he/she becomes a little corrupt, something "that other site" should have done.

"Moderation is quite useful as it helps prevent a Lord of the Flies type scenario."

I don't think its the matter of the actual community becoming uncivilized, but rather an attack by trolls from some other site. It happens.

The moderation is done by the people isn't it? If someone is posting stupid crap, you can lower the rating on their posts so that they can't be seen anymore. Either way I agree there needs to be some form of moderation. Even if 99.9% of the people who post here are awesome and follow the rules all the time, you're always going to get that 0.1% who are going to be a dick for the sake of being a dick, and that's what you need moderators for. We'll see how it goes, I guess.

"As stated in the podcast, the staff said that they don't want to have to clamp us down. They expect us to stay civilized. But as we all know, not everyone is civilized so let's not take this for granted. If many of us keep being d*cks they could just decide to put mods in. Let's be mature guys.
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"As stated in the podcast, the staff said that they don't want to have to clamp us down. They expect us to stay civilized. But as we all know, not everyone is civilized so let's not take this for granted. If many of us keep being d*cks they could just decide to put mods in. Let's be mature guys.
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"Realkilla789 said:

"As stated in the podcast, the staff said that they don't want to have to clamp us down. They expect us to stay civilized. But as we all know, not everyone is civilized so let's not take this for granted. If many of us keep being d*cks they could just decide to put mods in. Let's be mature guys.
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I agree, but like i said on earlier topics about this, it would be silly to assume there wont be a slight 1% who spoil it for everybody else. Some people get some kind of juvenile buzz out of creating chaos for other website users, same can be said for any website, but the important question is, how far does GB have to moderate.

Ive seen websites with no moderation at all apart from the original admins, just don't think that's going to be the case here, 10000+ accounts, somebody is going spoil it for everybody else, the odds are too great, and I'm not being negative just realistic, i have faith for the most part us GB'ers will be fine, hopefully it will calm down now we have a couple of mods.



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I think there does need to be SOME moderation........But over-moderation can and will ruin a forum's community. If you need proof check out the Game Informer forums. You could say I am an exile from there.

people will act like jerks with or without mods around but at least with mods the jerks get removed more quickly.