Low Content Post Penalty Rant

I'm going to get so much hate for this angry G-rated rant.

Hello, everyone, KnockDown Joe here and boy, this post is gonna ruffle your feathers and get few of you frazzled. But I don't mean it literally. Now, if you have been living under a rock like Patrick Star from SpongeBob SquarePants, welcome to the modern world where we can get food with a press of a single button on our phones on DoorDash or any other food delivery app and pay some bills and crap. Anyway, you know about how forums have strictness about staying on topic. Most of them have rules that they need to follow so that they can avoid penalties ranging from warnings to permanent bans and have a chance of being chosen to become a moderator.

But I want to point out to the direction of the site, the Skullheart forums. It came back in 2021 when ongoing development of Skullgirls 2nd Encore was caused by Autumn Games being holders of the IP, not Lab Zero Games. It became a perfect place to discuss all things 2nd Encore. The old one was archived and it had a tracker that tracks channels that stream both Skullgirls and Indivisible and has threads that point out to the discussion of other games. But the current one no longer has that and I already missed that.

I really had a lot of fun talking in the Skullheart forums. But needs a lot more improvements, so I made a few posts on the topic where we suggest improvements. Improvements include replacing a sigil of a cross with a sigil of a shuriken Valentine now has in 2nd Encore to reflect her cross update Mobile will also get at some point, a tracker that tracks live channels that livestream Skullgirls, missing sigils for the Season Pass characters and new prefixes.

There is a most active thread where we can discuss about Skullgirls 2nd Encore's Beta, which is now closed down since the balance patch dropped and wouldn't play on it since Annie is having an audio issue on PlayStation, which is why I wouldn't dare embrace Star Overdrive combos and the hotfix will remedy that.

I was coloring inside the lines, my fancy way of saying on topic and following the rules. It's the only thread that became so active. I posted a lot of messages and kept them high key as possible. I assisted moderators too and it can be legitimate to make sure that no user colors outside the lines, which is my fancy way of saying break the rules and get off-topic.

Now I'm here to get something off my chest. I have been talking about this in private many times. But it's finally time that I put my markdown on what has ticked me off and explain how did I get a bad day.

So here is this detailed warning message I was given for making a low value post; a low content post that associated with me being excited about the patch. This is especially since I have mentioned the same topics seveal times in other threads, which I do not get. Also, that warning message has a little bit of an error in grammar. I believe that penalizing users for low content posts would literally be a bullcrap practice that mods can do. And sure, I can hear them ask what about on social media. I'll get to that later.

Now let's talk about what happened before I got a bad day. The general balance patch was finalized and they confirmed that the patch would come out after Combo Breaker where the Skullgirls World Championship will take place at. I wanted it to come out before then, but they confirmed that it will come out after the World Championship. I was shocked that a small patch would contain bug fixes for the Renoir sisters, so I reacted. Then I got a warning for a low content post for the first time. Then on that point of time when the patch comes out while a hotfix is being worked on, I expressed my opinions on how excited I was because it can fix Annie's audio issue on PlayStation so that I can embrace Star Overdrive. Then BAM, I got warned again for the same situation and minutes passed, I got a two day suspension.

Unbelievable! How dare they penalize me for a low content post! None of the forums I signed up to involved getting penalized for a low content post. This wasn't the case with the situation over at GameSpot and with THQ. This is just blasphemy. As you can tell by my tone, I am NOT amused at this quality, S-tier perseverance I have ever experienced. I am going to show you something interesting that I made because apparently, I have to make this post because they had the audacity to be retarded like a brainless freaking ape on steroids!

Right off the hop, I'll share this here first, so here is Minette in her Elora palette. This is also in response to Spyro 4 getting in development by Toys for Bob independently from Activision. This is what her idle pose looks like and since she is coming as a Guest Star in Mobile along with Brain Drain and the third and final TBA Guest Star this year likely to be announced at EVO, her own set of sprites might be added to the palette editor and there is a good chance for her to make it to 2nd Encore as well because Guest Stars will always have their chance to be in 2nd Encore as full-fledged fighters because we already have assists.

They were tempted to dive right into a Season 2 Pass, but they have to stop and recalibrate their efforts a bit. What that means is that they have to get the remaining content out of the way. They are additional VO consisting of Annie's alternative voice pack, the Season Pass characters' Japanese combat VO and the Season Pass characters' English (and hopefully Japanese) Story Mode VO. That's why active development on 2nd Encore is going on hiatus after the hotfix until 2025 when the voice content get released while active development on Mobile is ongoing to release Guest Stars this year.

So we now have an interesting development to how virtually amazing they look in their Bianca and Elora palettes as they were able to add idle poses to the palette editor under the custom section for an HD view. Objectively, the best characters in the Spyro franchise are the two goddesses and they are two of the best girls like Sally Acorn and Bunnie Rabbot from Sonic SatAM.

Now before I get to the argument regarding posting posts about how angry we are about the patch, let's take a clearer and full HD look at the Renoir sisters in their Linda and Louise Belcher palettes. I believe that we now have a clear view for these two palettes now that the palette editor is having idle poses in the custom section.

So, I have compiled these four interesting palettes with a clearer insight and had to share them here becuase I got timed out for a low content post for two freaking days! This is bullcrap. So with no perseverance goggles on, no freaking bias! It is NOT necessary to just penalize those who make posts that associate how excited they are about upcoming patches! This is legitimate. So in a business sense, why the heck would a moderator intend to penalize users for low content posts when they were respectful and on topic? You need to understand that they do this to be retarded, not to appease them or take their job very seriously.

Now, they have argued that if we make a post about how angry we are about that patch. Like, we know that the patch they pushed in back in June 2023 sparked backlash and criticism over censorship about removing racial violence, voice lines that pertain to racism, removing and altering art that show the characters' panties, editing palettes and... the comb on Filia's hair? So what if we make a post about how angry we are about that controversial patch?

This doesn't seem like a good idea to me. We are still getting penalized for a low content post, even though it's an angry post. Is it possible that you posted a reply about how angry you are about that patch? Sure, that brings drama to the forums following that controversial patch. But to penalize users that posted a reply about how excited they are about the patch that brings Minette and Annie's Elora and Bianca palettes and the Renoir sisters' Linda and Louise Belcher palettes and a new mechanic from SEGA vs. Capcom: The Next Level or 2XKO to 2nd Encore and Mobile for a low content post is a stupid practice whatsoever. It's like having a Reignited version of Enter the Dragonfly and calling it Enter the Dragonfly Reignited or some crap since Spyro vs. Mega Man. Even though that message was angry, they can also be penalized for a low content post.

Another thing I like to point out is that penalizing those for low content posts banked on lampoonery. Sure, they can get stern at all times, but we would be practically fooling ourselves if we say that lampoonery has nothing to do with getting penalized for low content posts. Of course, people who are excited for new stuff would post their feelings. If any of the forums involve a low content post penalty, then the serious aspect wouldn't be there for most reasons as any of the users who get excited is thanking the developers.

Think of this as a business. If you become a mod, should you attempt to make a lampoon out of yourself just by simply penalizing a user after they posted a post that associates with being excited for an upcoming update for a low content post? No, you shouldn't because all that does is not just hurt the experience, but also gives a user an unhappy bad time and wrecks the fun. Do you understand what I mean?

Now let's talk about the only thing that is dignified in this rant. That is social media. So why is it that social media is the only thing to be dignified? There are three reasons.

The first reason is straight up freedom of speech. Everybody has the right to post messages that associate with being excited for future patches on social media or whatever without worrying about getting a penalty for a low content post and it's considered dignified enough for users to not experience the bullcrap. Except that I am not allowed to swear on social media. None of the social media platforms I'm on even involved a low content post penalty.

Secondly, a good deal with the Terms of Service in social media is that they have serious stuff printed on there. Users need to abide by the Terms to have access to it once they sign up. Their account can be terminated for impersonating, bullying, harassment and other bad things under the zero tolerance policy that can cause the termination of their accounts. Especially child pornography, which can make them a pedophile and this is something you don't want to be because it's the worst criminal offense to send you to hate city forever and you'll have to be a registered sex offender or go to jail. And if you follow a user who was exposed a pedophile, immediately unfollow them and never reply to them. Ever.

Now, if I recall correctly, former EVO president, Joey Cuellar, has been exposed as a pedophile by Mikey. His story shown that he paid people tokens to take their clothes off and jump into water hazard pools at the Southern Hills Gofland. The people he paid tokens to were allegedly young underage boys. After Mikey's story went public on Twitter, a lot of people withdrew from EVO 2020 in light of the situation. And this is something that we don't want to do so that we can have a safe, welcoming environment.

And thirdly, a Terms of Service on social media is not as common as the ones in gaming websites with forums today, and it's largely dominated by GameSpot with its entry of its own Terms of Use. To have a social media having a strict Terms of Service is a very smart choice.

In fact, if this proves my theory correct, YouTube censors out bad words at moderate and severe levels to prevent them from showing on auto generated captions. That drew inspiration from one of Fox's American animated sitcom that's been a hit so far and has white characters that have jaundice, a yellow discoloration of the skin and no tongue moment when characters say words with an "L", even in later seasons that have episodes with revamped animation, and that is The Simpsons. The other animated shows that have the same style of animation and have tongue movement when characters say words with an "L" and have no jaundice on white characters are Futurama and Disenchantment.

That's why the censorship policy is on YouTube's Terms of Service. Which means the low content post penality will never be involved and they will likely have a jolly good time. But at the Skullheart forums, they get penalized for a low content post? Oh my God...

Before I release my anger that is brewing in me, let me get to the next part of this rant. Rules are enforced on forums for two reasons. The first reason is to make sure that users bring respect to the forums and they can avoid getting penalties ranging from warnings to permanent bans. And they have serious stuff on there to enforce making a safe and welcoming environment for everyone without any sexual harassment. But autism is no excuse for egregious conducts.

Second reason, the first thing to do when users signed up on the forums is to read the forum rules before posting. Violations will cause penalties and the low content post rule is not on the forum rules, yet you want to penalize users for low content posts just to tick them off, even though I don't see it on the forum rules. To penalize users for a low content post while it is not on the rules makes no business sense and is a totally retarded and scummy practice. It's legitimate for us to be excited about future stuff and post low content posts as long as they are on topic and respectful. We don't want a site that has the forums that involve a low content post penalty because we fans couldn't stop being excited or express our opinions.

It's now time that I am going to release my anger inside me, so not a warning, this anger is G-rated to have no swearing, so get ready as I'm about to release my anger inside me.

I am NOT amused at this. I don't know what to begin with. Why the heck are you raping users in the butt just by penalizing them for low content posts when they were inside the lines?! Do you really think that it can do you any good and people are going to be thrilled from being given a penalty for a low content post?! A user has posted a reply about how excited they are about the upcoming patch and you like to penlize them for a low content post?! God! You couldn't... I don't know, leave the user alone? You're literally making a lampoon out of yourselves. Are you kidding me? This was worse than those chain letters we've seen on the Simpsons. I mean, look at them! Ah yes, my cherished characters, Principal Skinner, Edna Krabappel, Milhouse Van Houten, Ralph Wiggum, Sideshow Bob, Ned Flanders, Nelson Muntz, Barney Gumbel, the Bouvier Sisters.

I bet people would bribe mods and admins not to penalize them for a low content post because this is absolute bullcrap. You CANNOT tell me that you are taking your job very seriously, because you pitched to yourselves that you like to darn near penalize users for low content posts. If people wanted a rule, they would back it. But if you are taking your job seriously, they wouldn't do it. If it wasn't for the fact that the Skullgirls community is so small, people would then say "Oh, I'm not gonna post that and risk getting penalized for a low content post!" That practice does NOTHING but deter and give people a very bad freaking day! What on Earth were they thinking?!

Now, remember what I said about GameSpot? That situation made me think of something familiar. I can't quite put my finger on it. Oh yeah, it's sounds a lot like the vs. game thread situation on GameSpot. You know, the part where the user got multiple suspensions about their desire to post their vs. game thread on System Wars wasn't being fulfilled because they were told to make vs. game blogs. It sounds a lot like that.

Get out of here with that freaking bullcrap! Penalizing those for a low content post is NOT an option and is a totally scummy and stupid practice! If you left the user alone after they made a post that associated with being excited about Star Overdrive and hadn't penalized them for a low content post, it is considered staying inside the lines and it's highly likely that they are following the rules and being respectful and they would have a jolly good time. In fact, you would take your job very seriously. People would be thrilled if you hadn't did that stupid practice.

Capcom-Unity has had a little lenience about being excited about anything. It was once known for having user content, including usernames, forums and comments. And now, it is a focus on news and updates. GameSpot had not involved the low content post bullcrap because its Terms of Use is very strict and its forums streamlined their strict policy against trolling and politics. In fact, if there was a new Sly Cooper game in the works after Disney owns the rights to, users would then make replies about how excited they were about a new Sly Cooper being owned by Disney, but didn't get penalized for a low content post. Same thing on social media. You don't have to penalize users for low content posts as long as users are respectively expressing their opinions, thanking the developers and staying inside the lines.

If there is one thing to agree on from all this, it's gleefully positive that at least the developers got my bug report about the blue PSN avatar issue that happened twice. But beyond that, penalizing those for a low content is straight up construed as blasphemy! This is just absolute bullcrap. I hope, wish, suggest, request, beg and pray that no moderator EVER does this stupid crap ever again, attempting to penalize users for a low content post. I don't even have anything to throw it to. I really don't. I'll see you next time. I need a drink to calm down. Goodbye.