Blizzard Forum Policy: A Truly Sad State of Affairs

I wanted to put this in it's own blog for the sake of preservation as I believe the censorship achieved by Blizzard today was quite extreme, assinine and (yes I'm gonna go here) Nazi-esque (or Leninistic perhaps).  The below is a post I made on the rogue forums which was deleted: 

You know, as someone who frequents these boards quite a bit and that can still post, I find it amazing what my peers are being banned for at this time. Calling themselves names, making friendly jests (and calling names), when there has been so much bad language and hate spewed on these forums in the past with not even a batted eye.



Sadly, the rogue forums, while always filled with stupid, have become moreso of late. People read something somewhere (maybe even here) and spew the garbage right back while putting some spin on it. The spin keeps on going and eventually even the good intentioned information becomes trash.



* People believe that testing a spec and posting results with no control group is conclusive evidence.

* People believe that because they top damage meters they know all about their class and their spec must be viable and/or superior.

* People believe that their opinion is fact

* People believe that if they make a claim and someone contradicts their opinion, that the person contradicting their claim is bound by burden of proof rather than the other way around.

* People believe that attacking a person's armory is a good way to get out of having to supply proof.

* People's armories are typically pretty bad and will always have an excuse when their armory is poor. Sad fact: Zodar has plenty of info on items that can be obtained through quests that are typically superior to what people have.

* People believe because they have right to post openly, that they actually know what they are talking about when they, most likely, have never read Rod's sticky.



The people that have been banned so far are people that actually don't exemplify the above qualities. People that have 1/2 a clue and are typically far more eloquent that I am.



The sad fact is that this thread will probably get deleted and perhaps I will get banned too. Sadly, the policies that don't allow people to openly discuss are what is worst this situation. Of course Blizzard has every right to censor what they please, but they should take a look at their policies and ask themselves the question:



What are we so afraid of? As they have shown via their CM's tremendous ban button pushing might, we can all be silenced. The problem you create by doing that, or allowing CMs that have yet to post in these forums (I can't remember the last time I saw a blue post) ban people, is that you leave the rest of the masses (in this case far less knowledgeable) to suffer the lack of information or understanding that they deserve and actually pay for via your monthly fee.



In summary, I am saddened by what has transpired here today and believe that by being pig-headed and dropping the ban hammer you are creating more bad than good. While you've missed the real trolls, racists, homophobes, hate-mongers, and other people that are actually a detriment to these forums, you've kicked some of it's most solid contributors.



That friends is what we call Epic Fail

/end post 

Blizzard pushed very hard today and achieved Epic Fail status by further deleting this post.

Reference the comment train within the Rogue Compendium started by Myrx:

http://www.gameriot.com/blogs/The-Rogue-Compendium/The-Great-Forum-Banning-of-914/

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