bans
News
Attempts To Ban Violent Games In Venezuela Progress
10:00AM Stephen Totilo | The Associated Press reports that the Venezuelan government’s attempts to ban violent video games such as Counter-Strike, is weeks away from passing, though it isn’t likely to affect widespread sale of pirated games. More »
There’s a bug in the Ban Hammer! Seems that …
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | There’s a bug in the Ban Hammer! Seems that our recent redesign made our Hammer more sensitive to just about anyone, leading to random bannings. While bannings are generally a good thing (and make us happy), these bannings lack discretion and are giving good commenters the boot. So! Please check your commenter page. If there is a giant “X,” you’ve been banned. Read through your comments and check to see if you wrote anything assholish or stupid or stupidly assholish. If not, then you might be one of the innocents. Send your commenter page URL to tipsATkotaku.com so we can get you back in the commenting fold. More »
Surprise Ban Monday!
4:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Heads up, today is our favourite Kotakuday, Ban Monday. We LOVE Ban Mondays! While our hot line is open to ban recommendations at all times, we turn up the ban sensitivity on the Ban Hammer for this special monday. Here’s how it works: Send us the commenter page for anyone that should get the boot. If we agree (even slightly), we’ll swing. And swing hard. Though! No ban gloating. Gloating leads to Ban Hammer backfire, which could cause you to get the boot. Tuesday we’ll be back better, lighter, strong and faster. Know that today is a Surprise Ban Monday, so shhhhhhh. Don’t tell the other commenters — especially, those you want gone. More »Ban Hammer Runs Red with Blood
11:40PM Brian Ashcraft | To: Crecente From: Ashcraft RE: Sick House As we’ve been focusing on TGS and recovering from TGS and getting sick, the comment section has been unmonitored for a bit. Today, I literally went in and banned, shit thee not, over forty people. Maybe more. Banned people for hate speech, not adding to the conversation and trolling. Lots and lots of trolling. The bigger the site gets, the more readers and commenters it attracts. A good thing! But not all of them are interested in contributing and some are keen on detracting. Contrary to popular belief, I don’t like going into the comment section and banning people. It eats up time I could be spending doing other things, but if we don’t do that, our comment section will turn to… well… Not so good! Actually, after today’s blood letting, I’m somewhat exhausted, drained. Elsewhere, I got an email from a Japanese company I’ve written a magazine article about, asking when they could “check” the article. By “check”, they meant look at what I’ve written. I’m sure as you agree, I never show final copy to anyone but my editor — never, ever an outsider. The company was contacted by the magazine’s fact checker, which is standard practice as you know. I told the company that they’ve already confirmed the facts with the mag’s fact checker, but if they want to read my copy, they’ll have to wait. Until it’s published. This has happened to me oodles of times, and I’m sure I’ve written you about it. Never ceases to amaze me. Wonder what regular journalists do here… What you missed last night You wrote it, but my wife got an email from Nintendo, Co. Ltd. about this Giant Kaz Face Can you say Fils-Aime? Ninja Gaiden sword in Halo 3 PSP theme creator Pro Evo Wii More »
Ban Monday is Coming
5:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Whew! It’s been a rough couple of weeks. And after every big event, a new flood of commenters appear. While we do welcome the new folks, we also want to warn them. We ban here at Kotaku. Ban like crazy. So please do not confuse our comment sections with your run-of-the-mill forum, boards, blah blah. Next Monday (October 1st) is our favourite Kotakaday, Ban Monday. We are always open to ban submissions, but next Monday the ban sensitivity on the Hammer will be turned up max. Here’s how it works: Send us the commenter page for anyone that should get the axe. If we agree (even slightly), we’ll swing. And swing hard. Though! No ban gloating. Gloating leads to Ban Hammer backfire, which could cause you to get the boot. Tuesday we’ll be back better, lighter, strong and faster. Onward! More »
Major Nelson Clears Up The Xbox Live Mega-Ban
10:20AM Michael McWhertor | It’s a good thing Ashcraft wrote in last night’s report that the banning of some 23,000 Xbox Live accounts for taking advantage of a Call of Duty 4 beta exploit was “unconfirmed” because Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb says, quite clearly, that it’s not true. He writes in his Xboxy blog “We did NOT ban tens of thousands of folks yesterday as some are reporting.” More »
