Joseph Stewart38 said:Can we please just take a second to look at what the moderator Microsoft is actually doing over on the USA soccer subforum? It’s honestly ridiculous—they’re banning anyone who doesn't share their exact opinion, while basically acting as a bodyguard for everyone who joins in on the "hate train" against the national team. They’re scrubbing the thread so that only the pure haters are left standing. And of course, those same trolls can go post anywhere else on the site without any consequences at all; they're completely untouchable.
Ever since this tournament kicked off, I swear 90% of the bans have hit users who are actually rooting for the team. I haven't seen a single "hater" get slapped with a ban for anything they've said. And people say some wild stuff! From people calling each other names—like how Zinedine Zidane does it without getting in trouble—to all sorts of insults and swearing... it’s all just tolerated and ignored. But then, suddenly, Microsoft swoops in and hands out several bans to anyone with a different perspective within minutes, just so they can "clean up" the thread by removing the skeptics and letting the haters keep going exactly as they were.
I know I’m probably shouting into the void here and nothing is actually going to change, but I just didn't want this to go unnoticed. I’m sure plenty of others feel the exact same way. The bias from Microsoft is just terrifyingly blatant, and they’re so heavily protected—both the mod and their little group of "haters," as they call themselves—that it's hard to watch. Seriously, just swing by that thread and see what it looks like; if only to kill some time...
Ninety percent? Please, it's 100%. How can you even expect them to react fairly when everyone involved is the same? There aren't any rules being followed here—it's just the worst kind of biased mindset. These people insult and swear in such a low-class, uneducated way, yet the mods just follow their lead and ban whoever they're targeting. It’s like complaining to Lavrentiy Beria that Joseph Stalin is being a bit too rough.
Besides, most of the people posting in that specific thread are just narrow-minded and clearly lacking any real intelligence anyway.
And even in the "normal" threads, where they technically shouldn't be acting like they do in that stinking den of theirs, they still carry on that way because they know the mods have their backs. What's especially disgusting is how they target atomic gal gily—harassing her across different threads, making up weird stories about her dating some guy, etc. She basically just brushes them off like they don't matter, which apparently just infuriates them even more, leading to even more of that low-class, crude, trashy behavior.