Topic: What does this community mean to you?

@Dogorilla Well for one, moderation needs to be consistent. Locking my topics for being a duplicate or discussing modding and then letting others get away with it seemd like favoritism. Locking my topics andnredirecting me to another one or deleting a post of mine because I mentioning modding while others are free to do it just makes a person feel unwelcome and really makes a person not want to post if they are going to get a post locked and possibly banned from the site for going against the community rules. But then on the other hand Joe Blow is getting away with it all the time their posts arent deleted? I dont just doesnt seem right.

@Tasuki I get you, it's fair enough to be frustrated with that. Personally I don't think that's indicative of the site as a whole going downhill though.

@Dogorilla Thats just part of it. Just the overall quality has gone downhill. Alot of articles just seem like they are just posted just because. I get it the writers have to writer articles but it just seems that more are quickly rushed now or are passed of as news when it really isnt. I mean come one do we need to know what Masahiro Sakurai had for breakfast or some other meaningless article? As I said I get it the writers have to put out articles to keep the uppers happy and when there's no news related to gaming the gotta write something.

Also.you can see in the forum activity for proof that its gone downhill. Back in 2012 to 2015 you couldnt keep up with the forum activity, posts being posted every 5 minutes at any point of the day. Now I see hours go by in between forum posts. Just the other day I posted on a post and seven hours later that posts was still on the recent posts sidebar on the main page. Every morning 10, 15 years ago it would take me hours to catch up on the forum posts that went on while I was at work or asleep, now it takes me maybe 5 minutes.

And then like the articles the forum posts have gone down in quality people dont want to have conversations most of them are just people posting their options like facts and then arguing when you go against them. You try to bring up a conversation about retro games like an NES or Super Nes game and some one pops in well I just bought GTA IV on PS3 that's retro. Or hey I got Super Mario Land 3D on 3Ds thats retro and then the conversation just goes downhill into a PS3, 3DS, GameCube discussion when it started about retro games like NES and Super NES. Now I am not against discussing PS3, 3DS Gamecude etc but crying out loud create a PS3 discussion thread or find one instead of hijacking a current one. I mean if I see a thread about Classic cars I am not going to pop in and saw oh hey I just bought a 2016 Toyota Tacoma and then have some one else go oh hey I loved the 2012 Tacoma and another one go oh I have a 2009 one and before you know it the thread becomes a totally different thread. Again its that sort of stuff that makes people not want to post here or start a new thread.

Just all those things just add up and you can see how this site has gone down.