HK-47 said:
No belts and zippers is fine, but I dont get no negative discourse. I hate one sided topics where dissenting opinions cant be expressed.
Hating is not the same as expressing a negative viewpoint. Hating is when you enter a FF thread to hate on FF with no critical purpose other than to hate on FF.
Example:
"FF has sucked since FFVI and this won't be any different!" <-- adds nothing to the conversation, discussion, or serve any meaningful purpose to the thread other than baiting people into defending FF and degenerating into list wars.
"Man, the new screens aren't looking too hot. I expected a little more out of the battle engine after all this time, but it looks like a step back from FFX-2 and FFXII." <-- not hating, but simply commenting on the content. This is fine and will NEVER be surpressed. People can argue whether it's really a step back, but it's actual discussion.
"Fuck FF, who the fuck cares anymore?" <-- hating, will be banned on sight.
"Haha looks like FF is still the stupid turn based RPG that Japanese love. Hard to care when there's stuff like Fable 2 and Oblivion out there." <-- trolling, will be banned so hard.
I hope that makes things clear. I'm not in any way surpressing opinions, but some comments simply don't contribute in any meaningful way. We know there are people that don't play JRPGs, we know there are people that hate FF or hate Nomura. They don't have to change their taste, but there's no point expressing the same recycled opinions in FF-centric threads over and over. It gets old. People that do give a shit about the thread's content are totally free to express any opinion, negative or otherwise, but it should be based on actual criticism, and not just a general "i hate this entire thing" vibe which is what I'm trying to cut down on.