What always baffled me, however, is that given all this talk recently and not-so-recently about discourse on the internet, is that GameSpot even still continues to support the System Wars forum. It's about as close as you can get to /v/ on 4chan without leaving GameSpot and even before Jeff's firing was regarded as a cesspool that moderators and staff used to cordon off the worst of the idiocy. Essentially, it seems that through various actions, the GameSpot community has evolved to the point where the predominant portion of the community was once the most undesirable factor. Somehow, the cockroaches were the ones to survive.
Yeah, System Wars is a weird one. Never really saw the need for it, since all it did was reinforce the behavior the board fostered. My guess is they're only keeping it around these days because it's practically the most active board on the site, but even that's pretty flimsy reasoning. Made more sense to have it around back when GameSpot was experimenting with a much lighter rule set. Was a lot more accommodating to such a lawless wasteland.
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