PLEASE READ! - Why Bomb Squad was locked!

"To be honest i don't think it's fair to punish all of us for a few spamers and trolls, sure there was a lot of bullshit going on but at times there was actual conversation"

There is only one person who truly cares about his post count and we all know who it is.

UCLA WINSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

"There is only one person who truly cares about his post count and we all know who it is."

@BoG
Good post. I think this is just really hard for some people to deal with right now. Hopefully we'll figure something out later down the line.

"Black_Rose said:

"To be honest i don't think it's fair to punish all of us for a few spamers and trolls, sure there was a lot of bullshit going on but at times there was actual conversation"

We aren't punishing all of you who posted in the BS for what skul or ic9 did, do not interpret it that way. We are trying to make Giant Bomb better, and this is something we felt would help.

Don't think that we moderators have it out for all of you, that is not the case. So many times over my e-life, I've seen people bash mods for having a vendetta against fun. I had never personally witnessed it, but with all the complaining, I thought it had to be the truth. Now, as a moderator my self, I think I see where the accusations are rooted.

Some of you may be familiar with the fundamental attribution error, which states that many people erroneously attribute negative actions to the nature of a person when the situation they are in is a much stronger factor. I feel people commit this error concerning moderators all over the place. We don't want to end fun, we just want a greater number of people to enjoy themselves. Only a small number of people actually enjoy mindless forum chatter, most feel it belongs in a chat room (and it does). We aren't born mean people, we are simply put into situations that require us to get mean at times. When our goal is only to improve things, people think we are destroying their fun. For me, my only goal has been to promote discussion of one of my passions in life, gaming. Unfortunately, I've seen to many good users leave because good gaming discussion is ignored while "rate the user above you" and topics like BS have hundreds, even thousands of posts.

You must understand the situation we are all in. We've hit a point where we must go one way or another as a forum, down the road of anarchy, ending up as the final resting place for those banned from every other forum, or a place where people can go and discuss gaming with others, and enjoy an experience free of  "QFT" or "lulz yer rong" posts. Why do so many people complain about a place like gamespot having no good users left? Because the trolls in system wars were rampant, and the off topic attracted those who openly hated on video games, they just wanted a place to chat. It is a tough situation, and out of love for the place we have been since the beginning, we only want to see love for giant bomb.

In the end, topics like BS only attract users like Skulsoldier or Italycanadian9. I'd be surprised if you could find one instance of them actually discussing video games (aside from a favorite game or something). I, as does the rest of the mod team, want Giant bomb to be a great place. I hope you guys can understand this, and do the best to help us out. Thanks for reading my rant."

I take issue with your last sentence heavily violating your own fundamental attribution error definition, BoG.

"Black_Rose said:

"To be honest i don't think it's fair to punish all of us for a few spamers and trolls, sure there was a lot of bullshit going on but at times there was actual conversation"

We aren't punishing all of you who posted in the BS for what skul or ic9 did, do not interpret it that way. We are trying to make Giant Bomb better, and this is something we felt would help.

Don't think that we moderators have it out for all of you, that is not the case. So many times over my e-life, I've seen people bash mods for having a vendetta against fun. I had never personally witnessed it, but with all the complaining, I thought it had to be the truth. Now, as a moderator my self, I think I see where the accusations are rooted.

Some of you may be familiar with the fundamental attribution error, which states that many people erroneously attribute negative actions to the nature of a person when the situation they are in is a much stronger factor. I feel people commit this error concerning moderators all over the place. We don't want to end fun, we just want a greater number of people to enjoy themselves. Only a small number of people actually enjoy mindless forum chatter, most feel it belongs in a chat room (and it does). We aren't born mean people, we are simply put into situations that require us to get mean at times. When our goal is only to improve things, people think we are destroying their fun. For me, my only goal has been to promote discussion of one of my passions in life, gaming. Unfortunately, I've seen to many good users leave because good gaming discussion is ignored while "rate the user above you" and topics like BS have hundreds, even thousands of posts.

You must understand the situation we are all in. We've hit a point where we must go one way or another as a forum, down the road of anarchy, ending up as the final resting place for those banned from every other forum, or a place where people can go and discuss gaming with others, and enjoy an experience free of  "QFT" or "lulz yer rong" posts. Why do so many people complain about a place like gamespot having no good users left? Because the trolls in system wars were rampant, and the off topic attracted those who openly hated on video games, they just wanted a place to chat. It is a tough situation, and out of love for the place we have been since the beginning, we only want to see love for giant bomb.

In the end, topics like BS only attract users like Skulsoldier or Italycanadian9. I'd be surprised if you could find one instance of them actually discussing video games (aside from a favorite game or something). I, as does the rest of the mod team, want Giant bomb to be a great place. I hope you guys can understand this, and do the best to help us out. Thanks for reading my rant.

Ok, I've been quiet in this little civil war for quite a while now. So I'm just going to put my position out there.

Let me start off with the buzzing question in my mind since the first time I saw BS locked, what makes the mod's think that closing one topic will eliminate spammers? Trolls don't sign up and then go; "oh man, BS is locked, guess I'll go to some other site!" If trolls kept hitting BS it's because that was the most liveliest thread on the forums, if I were a mod, the last thing I would even consider doing was locking the topic that attracts trolls, a topic that doesn't even mean anything, therefore trolling there shouldn't even be that much of an issue. By locking it the mods are just letting the trolls go and infest meaningful threads. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to demean Bombsquad or anything, I just find it quite illogical to stop trolls from trolling in a topic that isn't about anything, where people don't argue about things or discuss anything about the site or video games and just divert the trolls attentions to the topics that people actually come to Giantbomb for. From a theoretical standpoint, I think that decision by the mods was not the best one.

As for the chatting aspect, I love chatting with the people here, it's really fun. It's the reason why I like Giantbomb so much because I can discuss video games, make and communicate with friends about nothing at all in BS just like they are my friends in real life, void of any discussion topic that has to do with Giantbomb or video games. Ew, I just read those sentences and they came off awfully sentimental on my part, sorry :P

My point is, I could care less on whether I'm talking to my GB friends on a thread or an IRC. But please don't go closing a thread were we hang out on the count of trolls, that, in my opinion, is just a little too ridiculous.


Spare me for the wall of text guys :)

This seems like 10% of the people want it locked or dont care... the other 90% wants it open.....

"I take issue with your last sentence heavily violating your own fundamental attribution error definition, BoG."

"we just want a greater number of people to enjoy themselves. Only a small number of people actually enjoy mindless forum chatter

Sorry BoG, but I stopped reading there.
By closing it, you're lessing the number of people enjoying themselves.
Everyone enjoys forum chat. We're not all going to go out of our way to log onto fucking AIM to talk to each other. It's an Off-Topic forum, chatting with each other should be allowed. Go to any other forum, they don't think users are posting in chat topics because they're spamming or running up their post count. I'm sorry, this is just ridiculous."

My point is, I could care less on whether I'm talking to my GB friends on a thread or an IRC. But please don't go closing a thread were we hang out on the count of trolls, that, in my opinion, is just a little too ridiculous.

That is what happened and that is why I am so fucking pissed

"Ok, I've been quiet in this little civil war for quite a while now. So I'm just going to put my position out there.

Let me start off with the buzzing question in my mind since the first time I saw BS locked, what makes the mod's think that closing one topic will eliminate spammers? Trolls don't sign up and then go; "oh man, BS is locked, guess I'll go to some other site!" If trolls kept hitting BS it's because that was the most liveliest thread on the forums, if I were a mod, the last thing I would even consider doing was locking the topic that attracts trolls, a topic that doesn't even mean anything, therefore trolling there shouldn't even be that much of an issue. By locking it the mods are just letting the trolls go and infest meaningful threads. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to demean Bombsquad or anything, I just find it quite illogical to stop trolls from trolling in a topic that isn't about anything, where people don't argue about things or discuss anything about the site or video games and just divert the trolls attentions to the topics that people actually come to Giantbomb for. From a theoretical standpoint, I think that decision by the mods was not the best one.

As for the chatting aspect, I love chatting with the people here, it's really fun. It's the reason why I like Giantbomb so much because I can discuss video games, make and communicate with friends about nothing at all in BS just like they are my friends in real life, void of any discussion topic that has to do with Giantbomb or video games. Ew, I just read those sentences and they came off awfully sentimental on my part, sorry :P

My point is, I could care less on whether I'm talking to my GB friends on a thread or an IRC. But please don't go closing a thread were we hang out on the count of trolls, that, in my opinion, is just a little too ridiculous.


Spare me for the wall of text guys :)"

"twenty0ne said:

"To be honest Hamz, this completely sucks. You guys are locking down what made Giant Bomb fun... a home, per-say. I thought Giant Bomb was going to be different - no censorship, no harsh mods etc.

This is not what I expected, and I'm utterly disappointed. I'm not going to some stupid IRC - that's not the same and not an acceptable alternative."

Agreed. I will miss Bomb Squad..."

"Ok, I've been quiet in this little civil war for quite a while now. So I'm just going to put my position out there.

Let me start off with the buzzing question in my mind since the first time I saw BS locked, what makes the mod's think that closing one topic will eliminate spammers? Trolls don't sign up and then go; "oh man, BS is locked, guess I'll go to some other site!" If trolls kept hitting BS it's because that was the most liveliest thread on the forums, if I were a mod, the last thing I would even consider doing was locking the topic that attracts trolls, a topic that doesn't even mean anything, therefore trolling there shouldn't even be that much of an issue. By locking it the mods are just letting the trolls go and infest meaningful threads. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to demean Bombsquad or anything, I just find it quite illogical to stop trolls from trolling in a topic that isn't about anything, where people don't argue about things or discuss anything about the site or video games and just divert the trolls attentions to the topics that people actually come to Giantbomb for. From a theoretical standpoint, I think that decision by the mods was not the best one.

As for the chatting aspect, I love chatting with the people here, it's really fun. It's the reason why I like Giantbomb so much because I can discuss video games, make and communicate with friends about nothing at all in BS just like they are my friends in real life, void of any discussion topic that has to do with Giantbomb or video games. Ew, I just read those sentences and they came off awfully sentimental on my part, sorry :P

My point is, I could care less on whether I'm talking to my GB friends on a thread or an IRC. But please don't go closing a thread were we hang out on the count of trolls, that, in my opinion, is just a little too ridiculous.


Spare me for the wall of text guys :)"

Let me start off with the buzzing question in my mind since the first time I saw BS locked, what makes the mod's think that closing one topic will eliminate spammers? Trolls don't sign up and then go; "oh man, BS is locked, guess I'll go to some other site!" If trolls kept hitting BS it's because that was the most liveliest thread on the forums, if I were a mod, the last thing I would even consider doing was locking the topic that attracts trolls, a topic that doesn't even mean anything, therefore trolling there shouldn't even be that much of an issue. By locking it the mods are just letting the trolls go and infest meaningful threads. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to demean Bombsquad or anything, I just find it quite illogical to stop trolls from trolling in a topic that isn't about anything, where people don't argue about things or discuss anything about the site or video games and just divert the trolls attentions to the topics that people actually come to Giantbomb for. From a theoretical standpoint, I think that decision by the mods was not the best one.

"Jayge said:

"I take issue with your last sentence heavily violating your own fundamental attribution error definition, BoG."

We all make mistakes, though I still think what I said is true. I might be pushing the boundaries here, but it is the situation, that of mindless chatter, that attracts anyone who wants just spam. Honeslty, I have no idea what ic9 wanted here, but his topics were the same he has posted on just about every other internet forum (and been banned for it, just good italycanadian9). I've also seen them talk about it on gamespot, how they don't care about games, they just want to socialize. Whatever the case, we will see what happens. I'm sure skulsoldier and IC9 aren't done spamming, they still hate us all."

"Shocker said:

"twenty0ne said:

"To be honest Hamz, this completely sucks. You guys are locking down what made Giant Bomb fun... a home, per-say. I thought Giant Bomb was going to be different - no censorship, no harsh mods etc.

This is not what I expected, and I'm utterly disappointed. I'm not going to some stupid IRC - that's not the same and not an acceptable alternative."

Agreed. I will miss Bomb Squad..."

word...bad bad mods!!"

"BoG said:

"Jayge said:

"I take issue with your last sentence heavily violating your own fundamental attribution error definition, BoG."

We all make mistakes, though I still think what I said is true. I might be pushing the boundaries here, but it is the situation, that of mindless chatter, that attracts anyone who wants just spam. Honeslty, I have no idea what ic9 wanted here, but his topics were the same he has posted on just about every other internet forum (and been banned for it, just good italycanadian9). I've also seen them talk about it on gamespot, how they don't care about games, they just want to socialize. Whatever the case, we will see what happens. I'm sure skulsoldier and IC9 aren't done spamming, they still hate us all."

Your counter point is filled with fail, you have just fulfilled the dreams of the Scul and given hope to trolls. RIDDLE ME THIS

WHAT THE FUCK STOPS A TROLL FROM DOING IT TO ANY OTHER THREAD ON GIANT BOMB?
"

I still can't get over this shit. This is ridiculous. We can't have chat topics here... *sigh*
What kind of Off-Topic forum is this? Complete idiocy.

WHAT THE FUCK STOPS A TROLL FROM DOING IT TO ANY OTHER THREAD ON GIANT BOMB?
"

Tonight We Dine In Hell

WHAT THE FUCK STOPS A TROLL FROM DOING IT TO ANY OTHER THREAD ON GIANT BOMB?

"Pleasureizmine said:

"BoG said:

"Jayge said:

"I take issue with your last sentence heavily violating your own fundamental attribution error definition, BoG."

We all make mistakes, though I still think what I said is true. I might be pushing the boundaries here, but it is the situation, that of mindless chatter, that attracts anyone who wants just spam. Honeslty, I have no idea what ic9 wanted here, but his topics were the same he has posted on just about every other internet forum (and been banned for it, just good italycanadian9). I've also seen them talk about it on gamespot, how they don't care about games, they just want to socialize. Whatever the case, we will see what happens. I'm sure skulsoldier and IC9 aren't done spamming, they still hate us all."

Your counter point is filled with fail, you have just fulfilled the dreams of the Scul and given hope to trolls. RIDDLE ME THIS

WHAT THE FUCK STOPS A TROLL FROM DOING IT TO ANY OTHER THREAD ON GIANT BOMB?
"

Less attention and people, that is what."

"Karmum said:

"Pleasureizmine said:

"BoG said:

"Jayge said:

"I take issue with your last sentence heavily violating your own fundamental attribution error definition, BoG."

We all make mistakes, though I still think what I said is true. I might be pushing the boundaries here, but it is the situation, that of mindless chatter, that attracts anyone who wants just spam. Honeslty, I have no idea what ic9 wanted here, but his topics were the same he has posted on just about every other internet forum (and been banned for it, just good italycanadian9). I've also seen them talk about it on gamespot, how they don't care about games, they just want to socialize. Whatever the case, we will see what happens. I'm sure skulsoldier and IC9 aren't done spamming, they still hate us all."

Your counter point is filled with fail, you have just fulfilled the dreams of the Scul and given hope to trolls. RIDDLE ME THIS

WHAT THE FUCK STOPS A TROLL FROM DOING IT TO ANY OTHER THREAD ON GIANT BOMB?
"

Less attention and people, that is what."

There will always be a popular thread for the trolls"

Shocker, it may be boring for a while, but be creative with threads.

"BoG said:

Shocker, it may be boring for a while, but be creative with threads.

The whole of BS was just so that you can kick back and talk about random stuff, not to show off your intellect, that was what made BS great.... Not to mention a chance to meet a lot of new and interesting people, I think you guys have totally eliminated the social aspect of this site."

"BoG said:

Shocker, it may be boring for a while, but be creative with threads.

The whole of BS was just so that you can kick back and talk about random stuff, not to show off your intellect, that was what made BS great.... Not to mention a chance to meet a lot of new and interesting people, I think you guys have totally eliminated the social aspect of this site."

"Pleasureizmine said:

WHAT THE FUCK STOPS A TROLL FROM DOING IT TO ANY OTHER THREAD ON GIANT BOMB?
"

There's nothing stopping them. They are winning."

"Pleasureizmine said:

"There is only one person who truly cares about his post count and we all know who it is."

It appears like you are giving me an indirect insult, and I find it extremely pointless. I'm trying to help you all out by letting you chat somewhere else."

"Black_Rose said:

"To be honest i don't think it's fair to punish all of us for a few spamers and trolls, sure there was a lot of bullshit going on but at times there was actual conversation"

We aren't punishing all of you who posted in the BS for what skul or ic9 did, do not interpret it that way. We are trying to make Giant Bomb better, and this is something we felt would help.

Don't think that we moderators have it out for all of you, that is not the case. So many times over my e-life, I've seen people bash mods for having a vendetta against fun. I had never personally witnessed it, but with all the complaining, I thought it had to be the truth. Now, as a moderator my self, I think I see where the accusations are rooted.

Some of you may be familiar with the fundamental attribution error, which states that many people erroneously attribute negative actions to the nature of a person when the situation they are in is a much stronger factor. I feel people commit this error concerning moderators all over the place. We don't want to end fun, we just want a greater number of people to enjoy themselves. Only a small number of people actually enjoy mindless forum chatter, most feel it belongs in a chat room (and it does). We aren't born mean people, we are simply put into situations that require us to get mean at times. When our goal is only to improve things, people think we are destroying their fun. For me, my only goal has been to promote discussion of one of my passions in life, gaming. Unfortunately, I've seen to many good users leave because good gaming discussion is ignored while "rate the user above you" and topics like BS have hundreds, even thousands of posts.

You must understand the situation we are all in. We've hit a point where we must go one way or another as a forum, down the road of anarchy, ending up as the final resting place for those banned from every other forum, or a place where people can go and discuss gaming with others, and enjoy an experience free of  "QFT" or "lulz yer rong" posts. Why do so many people complain about a place like gamespot having no good users left? Because the trolls in system wars were rampant, and the off topic attracted those who openly hated on video games, they just wanted a place to chat. It is a tough situation, and out of love for the place we have been since the beginning, we only want to see love for giant bomb.

In the end, topics like BS only attract users like Skulsoldier or Italycanadian9. I'd be surprised if you could find one instance of them actually discussing video games (aside from a favorite game or something). I, as does the rest of the mod team, want Giant bomb to be a great place. I hope you guys can understand this, and do the best to help us out. Thanks for reading my rant."

"pyromaniac said:

"BoG said:

Shocker, it may be boring for a while, but be creative with threads.

The whole of BS was just so that you can kick back and talk about random stuff, not to show off your intellect, that was what made BS great.... Not to mention a chance to meet a lot of new and interesting people, I think you guys have totally eliminated the social aspect of this site."

That is what Off-Topic is for."

"pyromaniac said:

"BoG said:

Shocker, it may be boring for a while, but be creative with threads.

The whole of BS was just so that you can kick back and talk about random stuff, not to show off your intellect, that was what made BS great.... Not to mention a chance to meet a lot of new and interesting people, I think you guys have totally eliminated the social aspect of this site."

That is what Off-Topic is for."

"Karmum said:

"pyromaniac said:

"BoG said:

Shocker, it may be boring for a while, but be creative with threads.

The whole of BS was just so that you can kick back and talk about random stuff, not to show off your intellect, that was what made BS great.... Not to mention a chance to meet a lot of new and interesting people, I think you guys have totally eliminated the social aspect of this site."

That is what Off-Topic is for."

No it isn't...so every time I wanna ask some how they are doing, you want me to make a new thread?"

"Karmum said:

"pyromaniac said:

"BoG said:

Shocker, it may be boring for a while, but be creative with threads.

The whole of BS was just so that you can kick back and talk about random stuff, not to show off your intellect, that was what made BS great.... Not to mention a chance to meet a lot of new and interesting people, I think you guys have totally eliminated the social aspect of this site."

That is what Off-Topic is for."

No it isn't...so every time I wanna ask some how they are doing, you want me to make a new thread?"

"Karmum said:

"pyromaniac said:

"BoG said:

Shocker, it may be boring for a while, but be creative with threads.

The whole of BS was just so that you can kick back and talk about random stuff, not to show off your intellect, that was what made BS great.... Not to mention a chance to meet a lot of new and interesting people, I think you guys have totally eliminated the social aspect of this site."

That is what Off-Topic is for."

No it isn't...so every time I wanna ask some how they are doing, you want me to make a new thread?"

"Pleasureizmine said:

"Karmum said:

"Pleasureizmine said:

"BoG said:

"Jayge said:

"I take issue with your last sentence heavily violating your own fundamental attribution error definition, BoG."

We all make mistakes, though I still think what I said is true. I might be pushing the boundaries here, but it is the situation, that of mindless chatter, that attracts anyone who wants just spam. Honeslty, I have no idea what ic9 wanted here, but his topics were the same he has posted on just about every other internet forum (and been banned for it, just good italycanadian9). I've also seen them talk about it on gamespot, how they don't care about games, they just want to socialize. Whatever the case, we will see what happens. I'm sure skulsoldier and IC9 aren't done spamming, they still hate us all."

Your counter point is filled with fail, you have just fulfilled the dreams of the Scul and given hope to trolls. RIDDLE ME THIS

WHAT THE FUCK STOPS A TROLL FROM DOING IT TO ANY OTHER THREAD ON GIANT BOMB?
"

Less attention and people, that is what."

There will always be a popular thread for the trolls"

One less one will probably stop them somewhat, however. The thing is, if you pay no attention to them, they will go away."

"pyromaniac said:

"Karmum said:

"pyromaniac said:

"BoG said:

Shocker, it may be boring for a while, but be creative with threads.

The whole of BS was just so that you can kick back and talk about random stuff, not to show off your intellect, that was what made BS great.... Not to mention a chance to meet a lot of new and interesting people, I think you guys have totally eliminated the social aspect of this site."

That is what Off-Topic is for."

No it isn't...so every time I wanna ask some how they are doing, you want me to make a new thread?"

Say hello to instant messaging/PM system?"

Yeah locking the tread and pissing off the community isn't giving them any attention now is it. Jesus Christ you want to be a mod here so bad you would silence your own opinion  and agree with a mod.
"

"pyromaniac said:

"Karmum said:

"pyromaniac said:

"BoG said:

Shocker, it may be boring for a while, but be creative with threads.

The whole of BS was just so that you can kick back and talk about random stuff, not to show off your intellect, that was what made BS great.... Not to mention a chance to meet a lot of new and interesting people, I think you guys have totally eliminated the social aspect of this site."

That is what Off-Topic is for."

No it isn't...so every time I wanna ask some how they are doing, you want me to make a new thread?"

Say hello to instant messaging/PM system?"

"pyromaniac said:

"Karmum said:

"pyromaniac said:

"BoG said:

Shocker, it may be boring for a while, but be creative with threads.

The whole of BS was just so that you can kick back and talk about random stuff, not to show off your intellect, that was what made BS great.... Not to mention a chance to meet a lot of new and interesting people, I think you guys have totally eliminated the social aspect of this site."

That is what Off-Topic is for."

No it isn't...so every time I wanna ask some how they are doing, you want me to make a new thread?"

No, because it'll get locked lololololol

UGH! This is so dumb."

The trolls will continue to come, wether the thread is big or not. I've heard many times "if you don't pay attention they'll go awayr" and that's 100% not true, they keep bugging and flaming. Killing BS doesn't help to get rid of trolls, in fact is a point for them, this is what they wanted you've played their game and sadly they won this time

i've connected to the gamesurge server, but giantbomb isn't on the list of channels.  ???

EDIT: nevermind

"i've connected to the gamesurge server, but giantbomb isn't on the list of channels.  ???"

Karmum we all have seen you agree with every moderators decision every time in any topic or problem that come to fruition.

"Karmum we all have seen you agree with every moderators decision every time in any topic or problem that come to fruition."

"The trolls will continue to come, wether the thread is big or not. I've heard many times "if you don't pay attention they'll go awayr" and that's 100% not true, they keep bugging and flaming. Killing BS doesn't help to get rid of trolls, in fact is a point for them, this is what they wanted you've played their game and sadly they won this time"

"Karmum we all have seen you agree with every moderators decision every time in any topic or problem that come to fruition."

"Black_Rose said:

"The trolls will continue to come, wether the thread is big or not. I've heard many times "if you don't pay attention they'll go awayr" and that's 100% not true, they keep bugging and flaming. Killing BS doesn't help to get rid of trolls, in fact is a point for them, this is what they wanted you've played their game and sadly they won this time"

If anything it'll make them troll more, because they found out that they are winning."

"Okay, long counter post coming up because GB's quote system is too wonky for me to break it down point by point.
This isn't a personal problem we have with the mods, it's a problem with an action taken that allows a LESSER number of people to enjoy themselves than previously, directly contrary to your statement that you want a greater number of people to enjoy themselves. Obviously there is a sizeable group of people that enjoy Bomb Squad. Around 20 people can be counted as regulars or semi-regulars at last count, excluding Karmum who we have exiled. 20 ACTIVE members is quite a large number when you think about it. We enjoy our thread yes, but our thread doesn't pevent other people from enjoying other parts of Giantbomb. Bomb Squad can easily co-exist with the other threads on this great website.

People who want to discuss any specific topic are still free to create those, and likely tons of people will post there. It's not like they're gonna be like: "BOMBSQUAD?!?! I REFUSE TO USE THIS WEBSITE BECAUSE IT HAS A CHAT THREAD!". No; people who like chat threads will participate, people who don't will pass over it.

And no, you are flat out WRONG about topics like BS only attracting people like scul or IC9. We have 20 active, participating members who do not spam and are valued members of the community here. We have two (three if ou count the recently banned Cartman) famous spammers who frequented that thread. 3... against 20...

3...                                                                                      20...

Hmmm... It seems pretty clear to me which group is attracted to the thread more. Trolls just hit BS because it is the most active topic, not because they only troll chat threads. BS actively discourages and reports trolls and spammers, we do not encourage that sort of behavior, despite popular belief to the contrary. Lock BS they'll troll elsewhere, and you'll have 20 unhappy BS regulars on your hands. No one wins in that situation.

Keep BS, we contain any trolls that come to BS, we have our chat thread, everyone else can use the rest of the forum for whatever they want to talk about.
"