I'd like to take the time with this blog to go over a few things. Firstly a thanks to everyone on the forums for really making them a great place to be because the vast majority of you have really started to get into the swing of things. Gaming related topics in the forums have increased and we're also seeing less trolling, infact the only real trouble makers have already been dealt with and will hopefully never return. Overall the forums have become a cleaner place and its really all down to you the users for making common sense judgements before posting or starting new topics. You will also notice i've stickied Roll Call and WAYLT in the OT board so please, no duplicate topics even if they have "official" in their name it still doesn't make them official.

Aswell as this i'd like to point out and let everyone know we have some new Moderators that you'll see more around the website. The Mods in general would like to thank everyone who has tipped us off about problems around the site by sending us PM's. We appreciate users doing this until we get the report feature implimented which will allow you all to report a user/post/topic without the need to PM us. I'll also apologise now if you have sent a PM and recieved no reply from me or any of the other mods, our inbox's tend to get flooded quickly so we hope you understand lol.

I'm going to end this blog by explaining the recent turn around regarding the "Sexy Ladies" topics that were appearing all over the OT board. Basically we allowed it purely at the mods discretion because we were constantly editing and checking each post and picture in it to keep the topic clean. However duplicate topics were appearing almost every 5 minutes and people were posting in the original topic constantly and overall it began to take a lot of moderation time up just on the one topic. That and the Staff themselves felt such topics didn't really belong here on GiantBomb mainly because google can find you the exact same stuff and even better so we decided to pull the plug on all sexy lady threads.

I apologise if you feel its harsh or in some way breaches your freedom on the website but GiantBomb does allow users some serious freedom across the site in general and definately more than any other gaming site does. However we need to have some rules to keep the trouble makers in line so if you take the time to read the FAQ guide lines sticky in the OT board before posting there we'd appreciate it. At the moment there is no set in stone rules as everything has been at the moderation teams discretion on what we feel is cool or uncool to post in the forums and we hope to keep it like that. But there are just some topics that were decided to not be allowed on GiantBomb and sexy ladies topics is one of them.

Any questions regarding this then PM me otherwise have fun Bomb Squad :)!