Time to get on my soapbox a little and express my views, thoughts, feelings and opinions on a few things. Some related directly to GiantBomb and recent events and others related to general random things. Take from this blog what you will, if you hate it then let me know by leaving a rage fueled reply in the comments!

• Moderator Positions

For the time being we are NOT looking for or considering taking on any extra Moderators. We may have recently lost two of them but we are not looking to replace them anytime soon. So please cease sending us request and demands to become one, unless you are willing to make a donation to the Hamz Foundation for Alcoholic Beverages.

• The GiantBomb Staff

A lot of people are complaining about and demanding that the Staff become more actively and intimately involved with the community. All I'll say to this is simply take a step back for a moment and realise we have a very small number of Staff covering a very large and evolving industry. Thus the workload they have to deal with is both hectic and time consuming, have a little sympathy, support and faith for them and understand they can't always spend time to chit chat on the forums when they have work to do. I'd much rather they continue uploading top quality content to this website than see them decide to post a reply to my blogs.

• Wiki Moderators

They are the unsung heroes of this site and the authority on Wiki related matters. When they say jump, you say how high. Too many times now I'm seeing certain users continually act like they are Wiki Mods, or users go against the rules of the Wiki or not even consider consulting the Wiki Mods with Wiki related issues. This needs to change and people need to start realising that even though these fine gentlemen may spend a lot of time behind the scenes slaving over submissions and editing the Wiki they are very much active on the site. Their knowledge of the Wiki is unmatched and you should all give them the respect they are due.

• Karma / Flagging System

It would appear people would rather post "dude GTFO!" to trolls than be mature and simply flag the troll post(s) and let a Moderator deal with it. When I see a troll topic with 10 replies all of which are a variation on the above phrase I die a little inside. Are people that stupid or just that bone idle they refuse to flag content that they must know needs to be flagged? Are we going to have to take a stance that people posting in obvious flamebait or troll topics will also be moderated alongside the troll themselves? Suggest you all start using the flag option much more often.

• L4D2 Boycotters

They should have their Steam accounts banned and then bake their head in an oven. Nuff said.

• Wiki Specific Boards
  

There is now no excuse for not posting your topic in the correct and specific board it should have been thanks to the new feature added by Coonce which you can find more information on here. Posting about a specific DS game in the DS board is against our forum rules, the topics SHOULD be posted in the board on that games page within the Database. Once we get our more advanced moving tool we will begin to unravel the chaotic mess that some of the boards have become thanks to lazy users just dumping their topics in them.

End soapbox rant.