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nickitolas said:


Ecchi was never great, you clearly haven't been around for long

Cladocera said:
The sentence I quoted gave me that impression, but if you say it like this then I can see it be a waring. Apologies on my part. However, you accusing, or at least implying, that the staff wanting to gatekeep and censor the voice of people is very baseless and not helping anyone.
The staff have made their stance on this matter: They do not tolerate trolls, botting or score manipulation under any form including vote brigading.
Pretty sure this is already stated in the guidelines, but even if it isn't, this should be common senses and people should not need some rules to tell them to not do so. All the admins want is fixing the mess. It should be obvious that they don't want this to affect any genuine users. But they've been put in a difficult position that they can't simply choose the path that hurts no one, but still be able to solve the problem at hand. Most likely some sacrifices must be made. I don't know what their solution is so excuse me for not prying deeper. The point is they're not trying to censor anyone's opinions but simply trying to solve a very real and serious problem.
I'd rather not walk down this path, but well...
I believe me, you and everyone all know who are the people that directly and indirectly responsible for this mess. And no matter how hard some of you trying to justify or sugarcoat this with "they are legitimate users",
It's an undeniable fact that in no way, shape or form, all 50k-or-so accounts giving it 10 are legitimate under the site guildelines.
And before anyone jumps the gun and insists that:
they're genuine people actually liking the show enough to go to a site they've never known of to create an account and rate it 10/10, let's me just ask all of you a question:
Where did all that support go?
If any of you defending this actually bother to check the three episode discussion threads (2, 3, 4), you'd see not even a tiny bit fraction of the whole 50k users that's supposed to love this so much joining into the dicussion and showing their support, discussing their beloved anime episode.. In fact, I only see 3 newly joined users even bother commenting, including the very guy I'm replying to here. Outside of those thread a.k.a this thread, only handful of people defending the action. Where did all that 50k new users go? Did they just dissappear like that?
So please, don't hold onto the argument that they're genuine users. It is simply not true and judging from the fact above that there is no sign of activity, most of them are certainly not legitimate. And no, created by real people does not make it legitimate under the site guidelines, because any account, including bots if there is any, are all technically created by people.

So now, I have another question for all: You started this whole movement as a form of protest against what you clamed to be unfair censorship from Funimation by pushing it to be on top of MAL while countless of you, including the two ringleaders, keep repeating that MAL score is a joke, unreliable, does not have any credibilty and should not be taken seriously. What are are you even trying to achieve? Don't you see you're contradicting yourself here?
You claim that doing this is to send a message, then may I ask if the message has actually reached anyone? Because from what I see, neither Funi nor Tokyo MX has actually picked the series back after dropping it, for a obvious reason that you refuse to acknowledge and pushing this on SJW's fault. I'd like to point you to statements made by the people who actually worked on the anime as to shed some light into the reason why Funi dropped it, read up instead of kept spreading rumors:
https://twitter.com/BrittanyLaudaVO/status/1225582099341684738
https://twitter.com/MattShipmanVO/status/1225627628843012097

Now return to MAL. Some of you claming the 10s boost only happened because the show was being downvoted under the influence of SJWs because "Muh evil SJW ruining everything" and the downvoters are the ones started this (which lowkey proven to be not the case by none other than your Lord and Savior, Nuts himself https://twitter.com/Nux_Taku/status/1225765690231132161).
I'd like you to visit the episode discussion threads again and see for yourself. All I see is old users (you know, the ones being labled as "elitist" and "boomer" by some of you and supposedly downvoting this before your army came) are actively joining the discussion and majority showing their appreciation for the show.
In fact, it was receiving very positive reactions from this community. The score was 7.66 and actually increasing as recorded by this club. So tell me, where're all the SJWs at? Because I only see, and I'm not denying this, people started giving it 1's because they're "bitter" with what you started.

Now all that is on the table, someone please reply with no beating around the bush bs like you've been doing.
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Yeah no, not once I've claimed this is my site. I already stated that I'm a user, as well as many other, that support the decision of the staff. And pretty sure I've explained why I think this website would be fine even if there are bad consequences come out of this decision. So yes, backfires or whatever.

Oh wow, thanks for assuming my reading comprehension and act accordingly. It sure is necessary and verrrry funny, as much as this whole situation is. Spare me from such petty words tho.