Do not even THINK of posting in the forum without having at the very least read all my currently online Videogame Culture essays. Once both volumes of my first book have been published, they will also be required reading. Moreover, everything linked off this page is, again, required reading.

If your posts are getting deleted, it means that you need to think more before you post. So please do so! If the ratio of deleted to acceptable posts for a particular user becomes too high (i.e. if you waste too much of my time cleaning up your bullshit), please note that I will be forced to ban you.

Another major stupidity many people in forums seem to commit is this:

They post something that doesn't make sense, or perhaps they make a typo of some sort, then someone replies pointing it out, and then they go back and edit the original post, so that the other person's reply no longer makes any sense.

If you notice a typo or a mistake in one of your posts by all means correct it -- BUT NOT IF SOMEONE HAS ALREADY POINTED IT OUT FOR FUCK'S SAKES. Bottom line is that I want the threads in this forum to make 100% sense, and whoever tries to mess them up, for whatever reason, will simply be banned. So whenever you feel like editing one of your posts, THINK: is this edit going to fuck up the sense of this thread? If the answer is yes, DO NOT FUCKING MAKE THE EDIT.

there are only two ways of responding to this website's articles without getting banned:

1. "Awesome stuff, I agree with everything! Keep up the good work!"

or

2. "I did not agree with this, this and that point, for this, this and that reason."

Of course it goes without saying that if your reasons are retarded you'll still probably be banned, if not immediately then certainly at some point down the line.

And finally, a little bit more Nietzsche might perhaps help a few more people understand what is going on in here.