Banned at nintendoage, anyone know why?

[Koa Zo]

I'm not a particularly active member here, or any other forum for that matter, I've been actively gaming for 30+ years and occasionally have something to add to a discussion, but for the most part I just browse and read other people's posts. Rather innocuous I would think.

I've looked at nintendoage off and on for a few years but never felt a need to join since I don't have a lot of time for more forums.
However about a month ago decided to put some feelers out regarding selling my SFC/SNES collection. Nintendoage seemed like a good community to start with.

I read their faq and didn't notice anything prohibiting starting an account with the intent of advertising sales or auctions of Nintendo games.
Some members mocked my sales thread and a moderator asked them to adjust their behavior and wished me luck.

Over the Christmas holiday I wanted to browse the nintendoage forums and discovered that "You have been banned from this site."

I'm just confused why I was banned and why they wouldn't have provided me some feedback as to what the problem was.

Does anyone have any idea what their problem would be?

[needler420]

I got banned from there also for making a topic questioning whether or not people selling reproductions was legal or not.

I also recently got banned from n64forever for telling admin I was going to put him on ignore. Stinger is a noob.


Two sites I wouldn't recommend any one is N64forever or nintendoage due to their staff. You'll get banned from nintendoage just for making fun of the VGA and grading games. Same for N64forever their collectors so if you tell someone they spent a stupid amount on something you'll get in trouble. The censorship sucks really bad on these two sites.

N64forever also sucks because it's a really small community it's like 1,500 total members with like only 2 dozen or so being active.

After having a incident with a staff member I knew I wasn't going to last long after. I kind of wanted to close or delete my account on my own anyway so I wasn't really sad to see it banned.

I'ts not like you can't resign up under these sites under a new email. I just refuse to use a site that is run in certain ways.

The only site I ever returned to from getting a banned account is gamefaqs.I've been using gamefaqs like over a decade now but my accounts from a kid were banned for trolling etc.


We don't need them digital press is our new home. If you want a site to trade games on I recommend CheapAssGamer it's staffed and modded really well.

[LimitedEditionMuseum]

People usually sign up on message boards and ignore the rules and regulations then get mad when they are banned. Im actually talking about the guys in the modern game forum about this same topic.

[Koa Zo]

People usually sign up on message boards and ignore the rules and regulations then get mad when they are banned. Im actually talking about the guys in the modern game forum about this same topic.

I read their faq (...) a moderator (...) wished me luck.
I read the rules, and I had a moderator wish me luck.
That is why it is particularly odd that I was banned.
I'm not mad. I'm just confused.

[wingzrow]

I've heard Nintendoage were a bunch of stuck up rule sharks, but never to this degree.

Wow.

[Guyra]

Well, if we knew your username there, maybe we could find out? It's hard to find out with nothing to go on. ;)

As for Needler, from what I see from the thread there, you weren't banned for your thread, but for your behaviour - although, that said, I wouldn't have banned you that easily, if it was up to me. In fact, a lot of the blame lies on the guys who derailed your topic like they did(and weren't that much better, in my opinion, in their behaviour). ;)

PS: I'm not really a NintendoAge user, but my user is in the database due to the merge of PSC(where I'm quite active), NintendoAge, and SegaAge.


I've heard Nintendoage were a bunch of stuck up rule sharks, but never to this degree.

Wow.
Yeah, same here. I'm quite curious about why OP was banned, though. :S

[InsaneDavid]

It's their way of sending you a Christmas gift. On a somewhat related note, I've only ever made one post at NA, in this thread (second to last at the bottom) (http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=10&threadid=20654) and was shocked I didn't get the ban hammer.

[LimitedEditionMuseum]

I read the rules, and I had a moderator wish me luck.
That is why it is particularly odd that I was banned.
I'm not mad. I'm just confused.

Not you. People who know how strict Nintendo is but test them then bitch when they get banned.

[Rickstilwell1]

Maybe they can ban you for inactivity? Maybe it's their way of speeding up the website when it slows down?

[wiggyx]

Maybe they can ban you for inactivity? Maybe it's their way of speeding up the website when it slows down?

I didn't get banned (as far as I know), but my account did indeed disappear at one point. I never post, so maybe that's the issue.

Doesn't really bother me. I'm not a huge fan of the site. Just a big VGA circle jerk IMO.

[davidbrit2]

They probably banned you for selling games that weren't slabbed.

[Koa Zo]

Maybe they can ban you for inactivity? Maybe it's their way of speeding up the website when it slows down?
That's almost what I was thinking.
Rather, that I didn't reciprocate the greetings in the "introduction" forum. Which is exactly what I was intending to do when I went to log-on over holiday vacation.


Well, if we knew your username there, maybe we could find out? It's hard to find out with nothing to go on. ;)
(...) I'm quite curious about why OP was banned, though. :S
my user name over there is "Gun Nac"

[bigbacon]

They probably banned you for selling games that weren't slabbed.

what does that mean?

[Leo_A]

There's a small fringe of this hobby with a few dozen followers that are getting their game's graded and sealed in plastic by an organization called VGA.

It's basically a rip-off scheme with some loony follower's that don't play games that want to take their experience a step closer to something like coin collecting.

[Rickstilwell1]

That's almost what I was thinking.
Rather, that I didn't reciprocate the greetings in the "introduction" forum. Which is exactly what I was intending to do when I went to log-on over holiday vacation.


my user name over there is "Gun Nac"

Ah I see. I didn't bother ever posting in the greetings forum. I didn't join NA to make friends or introduce myself. I joined to expand my buying and selling to more people. Who I am is none of their business and I don't care who they are either. lol

[Sysop]

There's a small fringe of this hobby with a few dozen followers that are getting their game's graded and sealed in plastic by an organization called VGA.

It's basically a rip-off scheme with some loony follower's that don't play games that want to take their experience a step closer to something like coin collecting.
Do you reckon they'll accept my sealed copy of Fifa International Soccer for the PC?

[sloan]

Too many forums these days are run by overly controlling ego freaks. All you have to do to get banned is to look at them wrong.

This is why I don't even bother with so many of them, largely due to cliques and mind games.

[Sysop]

Too many forums these days are run by overly controlling ego freaks. All you have to do to get banned is to look at them wrong.

This is why I don't even bother with so many of them, largely due to cliques and mind games.
That's generally the risk with most forums out there, and one of the reasons why lurking is so prevalent. You have to get a rough feel of how a community operates before you dive nose first into it.

[wiggyx]

They probably banned you for selling games that weren't slabbed.

Win!


Too many forums these days are run by overly controlling ego freaks. All you have to do to get banned is to look at them wrong.

This is why I don't even bother with so many of them, largely due to cliques and mind games.

Yup, this.

Seems like that is the most banning-est game forum around. One guy I know even made a forum as a reaction of his being banned LOL!

http://nintendoagesucks.createaforum.com/

[bigbacon]

Too many forums these days are run by overly controlling ego freaks. All you have to do to get banned is to look at them wrong.

This is why I don't even bother with so many of them, largely due to cliques and mind games.

Yes, admining a forum can leave you in this state unless you actually work at it. I've been a moderator for EA for like 6 years now and it is a chore to remain impartial when deciding on actions but if you don't you'll get removed.

[needler420]

Win!



Yup, this.

Seems like that is the most banning-est game forum around. One guy I know even made a forum as a reaction of his being banned LOL!

http://nintendoagesucks.createaforum.com/


I'd join that forum.

NA really does suck so does N64forever. It's nice to see them put on the spot. Everyone just assumes that every time someone gets banned it was because they broke TOS and it's their fault when sometimes it comes down to senority,favoritism and an abuse of power. Sadly this exact thing happen to someone on CAG who contributed a lot to the site. They banned I amthecheapestgamer all over some he said she said bull shit. Not enough people know how to use the ignore feature.





It's like another poster said you have to lurk and reseach the site before becoming active in the community. Kind of like learn who is friends with the staff of the site so you don't piss those people off and things like that.

NA is a site for hardcore collectors like John Hancock. They pretty much will run off any non collectors. You won't last long making comments like CIB collecting is stupid or simply stating that you think someone paid too much for one of their collectibles will get you in trouble.

I know NA is very well known throughout the gaming sites I can see your guys ID on each site so I warn all that don't like this to stay away from N64 forever. It's a very small active community and once you get on the bad side of one of them it doesn't matter how you follow the rules or the TOS they will toss you.

These two sites are the only sites I've been straight banned where it skipped suspension and it was for minor infractions or imo BS infractions.


That's most likely why TC was banned. I doubt he got banned for being inactive. He probably said the wrong thing to the wrong people and since their staff is like the government of Iran or China he got banned.

[Tupin]

Do people at NintendoAge even like video games? I mean, like playing them. I kind of get the feeling that they don't.

[Daria]

Are you sure you're banned? Every forum I've ever posted on labels their banned users and your account looks active.

[sloan]

I'd join that forum.
That's most likely why TC was banned. I doubt he got banned for being inactive. He probably said the wrong thing to the wrong people and since their staff is like the government of Iran or China he got banned.

Many game forums are really cults of personality. If it was Jim Jones in Guyana, most in the 'inner circle' on these forums would be found dead drinking the poison kool-aid. It really is that bad. In fact, the amount of kissing up and overall smooching witnessed at some of these is downright embarrassing. Very well could be the case that the OP on this thread unknowingly crossed one of the door greeters or ushers at the church of nintendoage.

Ironic on the Iran-China comment, because there really is no freedom of speech at many of the most popular game forums. You either do your best to massage the ego of the admin and mods, or you can be quickly sent off to 're-education' camp, if you know what I mean.

Moral of this story: OP, don't lose any sleep over this one, and chalk it up to the usual forum politics of the day. Move on and consider it a blessing.

[RCM]

Talk to the mods or something and get un-banned. I'm on Sega and Nintendo Age and have no issues with either forum.

[Koa Zo]

Are you sure you're banned? Every forum I've ever posted on labels their banned users and your account looks active.

I noticed that too when I accessed the forum from my phone. I didn't want to try to log in then, because I assumed that would tag my phone IP and block that access to the site.
From my desktop I just get a white page with "You have been banned from this site" message

So, now I discovered the issue...
I cleared my desktop browser, and am able to view the forum.
When I attempt to log-in, I get a "multiple accounts" error.

So what happened is: when I registered, I mistakenly used a wrong email address which I can not access. Because of that I could not confirm my registration nor log-in to the site. I could not find any admin contact information to address the error, so I ended up re-registering with my correct email address and everything seemed fine.
This makes me feel dumb. I guess I'm getting old :|


Talk to the mods or something and get un-banned.
Right, that's what I would have like to have done when I used the wrong email address, but there is no means to contact anyone from NA, afaik, unless you are logged in on an active account.

[Nescollector]

They are a sensitive bunch there (the moderators) give your opinion against VGA and it's all over :) Some good guys there, but digitalpress has been the best place for anyone, plus more mature (us old guys) crowd.

[Guyra]

I've contacted the admin there for you, hopefully he'll be able to fix this rather quickly.

[Flashback2012]

They probably banned you for selling games that weren't slabbed.

LOL

Hilarious. I had a good laugh reading that response. AtariAge and NintendoAge were on my list of sites I had considered joining up with for buying/selling but if NintendoAge is super pro-VGA and punishes people for speaking against that mockery of a system then no thanks, I'll stay put on the forums I'm currently on.

[Daria]

LOL

Hilarious. I had a good laugh reading that response. AtariAge and NintendoAge were on my list of sites I had considered joining up with for buying/selling but if NintendoAge is super pro-VGA and punishes people for speaking against that mockery of a system then no thanks, I'll stay put on the forums I'm currently on.

I don't like threads like this. Bunch of knee-jerk reactions and assumptions to what basically boiled down to a technical error. NA may be pro-VGA but I've never noticed the community to be anything less than friendly, no less than here at least and we certainly have our share of heated debates. I generally don't post a lot at NA because the conversations seem very much geared towards collecting and less on gameplay. But that's just my impression. My advice is if you were actually considering joining is to read through some threads, lurk, and form your own opinion. Clouded judgement and animosity seem to run rampant in this thread.

[sloan]

Clouded judgement and animosity seem to run rampant in this thread.

Rather, free speech runs rampant on this thread, and that is something you don't get the privilege of at many forum sites.

[Nescollector]

Rather, free speech runs rampant on this thread, and that is something you don't get the privilege of at many forum sites.

Well said, no one in this thread will be called a hater just because you have you're own opinion.

[Tanooki]

I've had my run of hell off and on over there since I eventually ended up registering, but sheesh I'm seeing some really immature comments in here. Yes there are a couple mods over there which probably should be dealt with, but in all the majority of the leadership there is sane and fit to bother with things. My approach with forums is some light sarcasm and humor mixed heavily with fact and just being a realist. Many at NA hate that I do it and I get pegged as being 'negative' which is against some gray rule there of not bringing down other people. I even was temp banned there, was lifted with help, over simply being 'negative' and making a joke about handling a boo-boo with a variant NES cart sale.

Koa Zo -- Shame you have the account confusion going on there, hopefully the help you're getting here will clear it up and you can form your own opinion of the site through some use of it.

As far as the other comments go. I've never seen a ban over being inactive or accounts that just get erased, not saying it doesn't happen but I haven't seen it.

Needler you were being awful, I remember you, you had it coming so stop bitching like it wasn't your fault. Please do, go link up all the threads you started shit and got annoying, then repeatedly warned to knock off being a dick before you got the boot put to your ass for it. If I recall I think I was even for a time being nice to you and got over it.

You are right though that site does favor a bit too much the collectors vs the gamers and there is a very guarded nature towards VGA slabbing fools seeking perfection and people will get warned or possibly worse if they keep treading against VGA which I'm no fan of. Recently gameboyscotty asked honestly what the deal is with VGA since they won't publish their standards, people re-send shit in until they get the grade they like(money scheme?), and the blind faith into it with no reasoning. The topic went for pages, people went in circles, and the VGA people won when the mods shut it down because it was 'going nowhere' which seems to be it with that. I have no idea if it's because the VGA peeps have cash and donate to the server fund, or if it's for harmony in general, or people protecting their own financial stupidity treating games like trading stocks and commodities like gold and oil.

Leo A -- Pretty much yup. It's a rip off scheme and people do it so they can have a pretty wall hanger or so they can shove it up on ebay for 10x the real value to try and hose someone else for profit in the search for more perfection. The problem is, extreme collectors aside it confused the idiot pool who have no clue into thinking some copy of Top Gun sealed in the box is worth like $200 vs $20.

Tupin -- Sure some people do, there's just some who collect entirely or play just very little, it's a mix, not sure how even but it is a mix.

[wiggyx]

I don't like threads like this. Bunch of knee-jerk reactions and assumptions to what basically boiled down to a technical error. NA may be pro-VGA but I've never noticed the community to be anything less than friendly, no less than here at least and we certainly have our share of heated debates. I generally don't post a lot at NA because the conversations seem very much geared towards collecting and less on gameplay. But that's just my impression. My advice is if you were actually considering joining is to read through some threads, lurk, and form your own opinion. Clouded judgement and animosity seem to run rampant in this thread.

It's not about friendly or not, it's about how liberal they are with the ban hammer. There's really no debate about it, lots of people get banned from that site, and often having not broken any rules.

[needler420]

I've had my run of hell off and on over there since I eventually ended up registering, but sheesh I'm seeing some really immature comments in here. Yes there are a couple mods over there which probably should be dealt with, but in all the majority of the leadership there is sane and fit to bother with things. My approach with forums is some light sarcasm and humor mixed heavily with fact and just being a realist. Many at NA hate that I do it and I get pegged as being 'negative' which is against some gray rule there of not bringing down other people. I even was temp banned there, was lifted with help, over simply being 'negative' and making a joke about handling a boo-boo with a variant NES cart sale.

Koa Zo -- Shame you have the account confusion going on there, hopefully the help you're getting here will clear it up and you can form your own opinion of the site through some use of it.

As far as the other comments go. I've never seen a ban over being inactive or accounts that just get erased, not saying it doesn't happen but I haven't seen it.

Needler you were being awful, I remember you, you had it coming so stop bitching like it wasn't your fault. Please do, go link up all the threads you started shit and got annoying, then repeatedly warned to knock off being a dick before you got the boot put to your ass for it. If I recall I think I was even for a time being nice to you and got over it.

You are right though that site does favor a bit too much the collectors vs the gamers and there is a very guarded nature towards VGA slabbing fools seeking perfection and people will get warned or possibly worse if they keep treading against VGA which I'm no fan of. Recently gameboyscotty asked honestly what the deal is with VGA since they won't publish their standards, people re-send shit in until they get the grade they like(money scheme?), and the blind faith into it with no reasoning. The topic went for pages, people went in circles, and the VGA people won when the mods shut it down because it was 'going nowhere' which seems to be it with that. I have no idea if it's because the VGA peeps have cash and donate to the server fund, or if it's for harmony in general, or people protecting their own financial stupidity treating games like trading stocks and commodities like gold and oil.

Leo A -- Pretty much yup. It's a rip off scheme and people do it so they can have a pretty wall hanger or so they can shove it up on ebay for 10x the real value to try and hose someone else for profit in the search for more perfection. The problem is, extreme collectors aside it confused the idiot pool who have no clue into thinking some copy of Top Gun sealed in the box is worth like $200 vs $20.

Tupin -- Sure some people do, there's just some who collect entirely or play just very little, it's a mix, not sure how even but it is a mix.



That is the biggest contradiction post I've yet to read. I remember you on NA. You use to send me random messages saying not to make negative comments about peoples collections.

[Flashback2012]

I don't like threads like this. Bunch of knee-jerk reactions and assumptions to what basically boiled down to a technical error. NA may be pro-VGA but I've never noticed the community to be anything less than friendly, no less than here at least and we certainly have our share of heated debates. I generally don't post a lot at NA because the conversations seem very much geared towards collecting and less on gameplay. But that's just my impression. My advice is if you were actually considering joining is to read through some threads, lurk, and form your own opinion. Clouded judgement and animosity seem to run rampant in this thread.

My apologies if my post fed into the whole NA bashing, I was merely enjoying davidbrit2's post regarding the jab to slabbed games (a practice that I am absolutely not a fan of).

[Daria]

My apologies if my post fed into the whole NA bashing, I was merely enjoying davidbrit2's post regarding the jab to slabbed games (a practice that I am absolutely not a fan of).

Oh no. you're fine, I was just saying not to be scared away from joining NA by the feedback in this thread.

Also I agree, slabbing is a horrible practice.

[Tanooki]

That is the biggest contradiction post I've yet to read. I remember you on NA. You use to send me random messages saying not to make negative comments about peoples collections.

Contradiction nothing. You were being a prick to people and posting some pretty douchebag type stuff. I had been getting shit from management more recently then and I was trying to save your ass from getting shown the door. It's not my fault your mouth works louder than your brain, you had it coming. I mean you don't just register to a site, and someone is doing a 'look what I found' or 'what do you think of this stuff I have' type post and you basically come in and call it shit in so many words. I doubt that would fly here either.

[needler420]

Contradiction nothing. You were being a prick to people and posting some pretty douchebag type stuff. I had been getting shit from management more recently then and I was trying to save your ass from getting shown the door. It's not my fault your mouth works louder than your brain, you had it coming. I mean you don't just register to a site, and someone is doing a 'look what I found' or 'what do you think of this stuff I have' type post and you basically come in and call it shit in so many words. I doubt that would fly here either.

You're way over exaggerating what I did. Not to mention you're just as much a shit talker as I was you just admitted you got temp banned. I was just unlucky and got permanent banned.

I wasn't naive enough to sit back and not call a spade a spade. When someone buys a $400 dollar strategy guide or a $1000 dollar VGA slabbed game I'm going to call a spade a spade. I did it in non insulting ways.

Not like I was going to say oh congrats on your $1500 dollar VGA slabbed purchase.

You make it sound like I was going around instigating trouble.


And I bet on here I could call a spade a spade just like I do on all the other games sites I frequent. NA just doesn't let people fly with poking fun at a collecting aspect.

Hence why multiple members have pointed that out.

[tom]

Banned at nintendoage, anyone know why?

Don't ask, be thankful

[Rickstilwell1]

Oh yeah, it also seems 9/10 of the time when people want to buy stuff from me on NintendoAge, they are from Canada or some other country and they like to spend a lot at once. Are the majority of Canadian gamers rich while the majority of USA gamers want you to lower your asking price? Must be a refelction of our economies.

[Sysop]

Oh yeah, it also seems 9/10 of the time when people want to buy stuff from me on NintendoAge, they are from Canada or some other country and they like to spend a lot at once. Are the majority of Canadian gamers rich while the majority of USA gamers want you to lower your asking price? Must be a refelction of our economies.
It's most likely a case of it's expensive to import stuff from the United States, so it's best to buy quite a lot in one go so that the shipping/import fee is spread amongst the items rather than just one item where the costs would be quite high.

[Ed Oscuro]

Needler seems to have chosen his username unconsciously.

It would be nice to always be able to say what you please, but I don't know why a site is beholden to be your anti-sealed-game-collecting soapbox, when the site is all about that. No, I think sealed game collecting is silly, too, but man the 'tude...THE 'TUDE!

[Tanooki]

You're way over exaggerating what I did. Not to mention you're just as much a shit talker as I was you just admitted you got temp banned. I was just unlucky and got permanent banned.

I wasn't naive enough to sit back and not call a spade a spade. When someone buys a $400 dollar strategy guide or a $1000 dollar VGA slabbed game I'm going to call a spade a spade. I did it in non insulting ways.

Not like I was going to say oh congrats on your $1500 dollar VGA slabbed purchase.

You make it sound like I was going around instigating trouble.


And I bet on here I could call a spade a spade just like I do on all the other games sites I frequent. NA just doesn't let people fly with poking fun at a collecting aspect.

Hence why multiple members have pointed that out.

You were instigating trouble. In the SE sealed pic thread you got snarky about it, then a member pointed out you were shit talking the site on yet another board and basically just had signed up there. In another case in a huge local score thread you just wrote 'reseller you own 70% of them' which sure was stating the obvious but did you need to thread crap the guy? No one made you push the keyboard and mouse around. The better one was the 'eight years of searching comes to and end thread' where you made fun of the topic starter for hunting that long and paying a lot of money for the obscenely scarce Lufia II strategy guide, and when a mod asked you to cool it, you gave him a line of crap in return which ended up with a ban threat if you didn't knock it off. Which you didn't in other spots and then got removed. I don't really think I'm exaggerating at all.

The sad thing is I more or less agree with you, but I keep my mouth shut more often than not and pick my comments I made. Yes games have gotten disgusting in price, too many 1990s flashbacks of sports card and comic assholes driving up prices on stuff and turning it into commodity trading like oil and gold which is a farce. I NEVER congrats people for VGA stuff, I think it's a scam and have posted enough times on it to be told to watch it too (by others, not mods, just so I don't get popped for it) it's just how the site is, they cater like 70/30 to extreme collectors. You're right NA has a thin skin with calling out some of the insanity that collectors commit blowing tens of thousands a year in sealed and/or vga games, odd collectibles and display stuff and so on, but it is fun to at least see them waste their money on it and get a memory out of it. That's the reason I'd try and be nice and warn you as I knew you'd get a boot to the ass for it after seeing that double warning in one thread.

My temp ban was because I don't sugar coat stuff and I am a realist, I don't call out people on overpaying really at all as I said, but it does infuriate the collector base. The one that did it was a jaws game someone sold, a rare screw variant accidentally for $4. He realized it after, and the ebay buyer took advantage of a mis-posting (lots of people do, I got a game+map+manual of Lufia 2 last year for $25 shipped.) I joked that 'it may be shady but...' and said you could send the common, write and say it's busted and don't take payment, or refund the cash with the same or another excuse. Half them in the thread after that saw the humor, the other half got mad and took it serious, hit the page moderator button(which harasses any mod/admin with PM spam) and one of them got hot over it and I got removed. That's what happened, it wasn't me shit talking peoples scores.

[B.A.]

Hey there guys and gals!

I was alerted to this thread, so figured this was as good of time as any to make my first Digital Press post!

OP, the issue was indeed your multiple accounts. I left the inactive one blocked and re-instated your Gun Nac account. I apologize for the confusion.

Everyone else, please carry on! :)

Oh BTW, I am an admin on NA, but I'm not a huge VGA fan. Mind blown I know!

[sloan]

..then a member pointed out you were shit talking the site on yet another board and basically just had signed up there.

Note to self: Make sure you always use different names on different gaming forums.

[Atarileaf]

I only get banned from hockey sites. You think PS3/Xbox 360 flame wars are bad? Its kiddie time compared to fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Vancouver Canucks on Hockeybuzz.com


Stupid Nuck fans!!!! :fist::p

Actually its very easy to get banned over there. Just question the mighty "Eklund" - guru of imaginary rumors and insider connections. :D

[mailman187666]

Digitalpress is the only game forum I've ever really posted on and i may have debated here and there but have always chosen my fights. Sometimes I highly disagree with people here but I just let it go. Games are a big part of my life, but not really worth arguing with people about. They are meant to be fun/played/collected and we all have our preferences. If someone wants to poor cement on them, who cares, you weren't the one that paid for it.

[djshok]

You'll get banned from nintendoage just for making fun of the VGA and grading games. Same for N64forever their collectors so if you tell someone they spent a stupid amount on something you'll get in trouble. The censorship sucks really bad on these two sites.

LOL an entire forum of twats who take VGA seriously ROFL

Good thing I never post there.

[JSoup]

I only get banned from hockey sites. You think PS3/Xbox 360 flame wars are bad? Its kiddie time compared to fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Vancouver Canucks on Hockeybuzz.com


Stupid Nuck fans!!!! :fist::p

Actually its very easy to get banned over there. Just question the mighty "Eklund" - guru of imaginary rumors and insider connections. :D

This, but with tokusatsu. Go ahead, try making an account on one of the major toku fansubbing sites. Not all, but a fair few are a nightmare to post on, if you're not fanwanking over a given show or otherwise licking the subbing teams balls, you're going to have a hard time getting by. I recently ended my membership to TV-Nihon on the same grounds.

[treismac]

I stick to "Gamer's Gauntlet" when I pop on over to Nintendo Age here and there. If, like me, vga grading, slabbing games, collecting for the sake of collecting, etc get your goat, stay clear of the "Collector's Corner" and you'll be fine. ;)

[bust3dstr8]

We join up on these type of sites to share our passion for gaming.
If you join a site that you can't be yourself and have fun...what's the point?
Life is too short to pussyfoot around so you don't upset some poor basement
dweller mod. If they don't like you and you get the banhammer....fuck 'em.
The place probably wasn't for you anyway.

[o.pwuaioc]

I appreciate their e-zine, and I've had at least one successful transaction at SegaAge, but man, oh man, VGA grading of video games is the most idiotic thing I've ever seen.

So long as people are recommending forums, I'm generally satisfied with Racketboy.

[PapaStu]

Well I'm glad that your account was fixed Koa Zo. Thanks to those who reached out to NA mods and to B.A. for coming in and letting you know what was up.

What I think most of you are forgetting is that each site has it's own community and posting style. Mods/Admins can help guide that (in either a good or bad way), but what the many users do is what really sets the tone of the site. For years there was 'bad blood' between AA and DP. On occasion bad blood has appeared between NA and us, Sega-16, the NeoGeo forums and I'm sure a number of others that have slipped my mind in the 9 years I've been a member of this site. Sites are geared towards different mind sets and different things may mean more to one group than another.

So a group of active NA posters are all up on VGA, it doesn't make the rest of the site a cesspool or . It's no different than people here being all up different flavors of the month. We used to have some serious lively NES discussion. We've had SNES, Genesis, PS, Intellivision, 2600 and pretty much any system you can shake a stick at. While DP paints much broader strokes (which works for some and not others) that doesn't mean that content found on NA, AA or elsewhere is crap. That simply isn't the case.

Am I on NA? Yup. Doesn't mean that I care about slabbed games (no fucks given) or that I even care about all of what makes NA... NA. Their community is just as strong as this one, even if I've never made that effor to become a part of it. People get support and help there, just like here. They do contests, create original work like their monthy newsletter, just like DP created the fanzine for years.

Because it's just so much easier to shit on everyone else that threads like these happen. You don't need to like other places, but you don't need to pull the find the stupidest shit and slam their entire user base for it either.

Since the point of this thread was to figure out why someone was banned and it was figured out and fixed, this thread has served it's purpose.