There has been some grumblings lately about the banning of users from some gaming website for their comments and overall disagreement with the editing staff. The creative minds behind Loot Ninja created this site for a number of reasons. The first being our sheer love of video games. The second, we want to see what everyone else thinks. If you look at the format of almost every sports talk show now on ESPN( PTI, First and Ten, Rome is Burning, etc), they are all based solely on the principle that people like to disagree and more importantly, people like to watch and/or read people disagreeing.
In everything, there are limitations and gaming forums, blogs, and such are no exception. Thoughtless racism, random cursing, and all the other things that can make a forum painful to read and maintain are not needed and discouraged. On the contrary, if no one ever disagreed with us, my job would be pretty boring.
We have put up some pretty controversial articles in the past year and by God have we paid the price for it. There have been some editorials that have been written that I think people took out all of their frustration on us and let us hear it. But you know what, we don’t ban people. Some comments have been taking off ueobscene content for the sole reason of keeping the site at a level of decency. But, mark my words. WE HAVE NOT BANNED ANYONE. EVER. An argument against this is that maybe we have not had the exposure or the sheer number of readers to constitute banning. Maybe. One thing is for certain, there are some readers that have gotten my blood pressure up. Yet, we have bitten our proverbial tongues and responded in a manner befitting a respected gaming site. There are numerous times we have even semi-retracted stories or backtracked ourselves for maybe misinterpreting a news story or press release. This is what responsible journalists too. They admit mistakes.
I guess what I am saying here is that we really appreciate our readers feedback. We have even created a top commenter portion of our site. I would be naive not to expect a reader who will post something so abhorrent , that they will get try to get banned. Well, there is a first time for everything I suppose. People get banned from the Playboy mansion or even at Denny’s.
This site does not exist as a money making venture. All three of us are gainfully employed. Our rent does not depend on the success of this venture, but that does not mean we do not give 100% to make this a top notch gaming site and hope to take it to the next level. We three hope you will come along with us.
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Write a Comment»Amen brotha. We want to hear exactly what our readers have to say. The only time something gets deleted is when it gets caught by the spam filter (which also filters out racist stuff, which is basically the only thing you can’t get away with here).
You know, I really like that you want free speech, controversy, arguments even, yet you still have morals about it. keep up the good work
Completely disagree with that, that was a horrible post
Jk, I actually really liked that post. I’m glad that someone has stepped up and done something like this. I know a few other places that I belong to that if you do something along the lines of that, you are either temp-banned or your posts are deleted. I understand that some posts are vulgar and have to be deleted, but I am glad that you guys won’t delete something I post if I completely disagree with what your saying.
On a side note - do the top commentators reset every month or something?
yes, they are currently set to reset every month. We’re still working out how we’re going to keep track there, but rest assured there will be some contests involved
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