-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
Nintendo took down a Smash stage containing trans flag and suspended the player that posted it because it was considered a "political statement"
- Thread starter vestan
- Start date
Automatic flagging perhaps?
Something similar happened in Splatoon 2 if I remember right
Edit: I'm dumb, didn't read the escalation
Something similar happened in Splatoon 2 if I remember right
Edit: I'm dumb, didn't read the escalation
OP
OP
"political statement" violating Nintendo's TOS is news to me tbh. Also if it was an automatic suspension you'd think customer service would remove it but that doesn't seem to be the case. The user in question got in touch with customer support and the supervisor told them to contact corporate.
It's a bad look for them and they need to get their moderation in order.
Until they publicly comment on this, this is a shitty move made by a company that already has a shaky track record with this kind of thing.
The first time I read it the OP didn't load all of the twitter links so I didn't see the escalation to customer service, I just saw the last screenshot
"We want rights / we want to be treated as people"
N: hey now, that's a bit too political for gaming(TM). 9 hour ban for you
N: hey now, that's a bit too political for gaming(TM). 9 hour ban for you
No they don't, what are you talking about. All these things are getting moderated out.
They are taking everything down, not that i agree with them taking this down. I don't want people to think they are turning a blind eye to the idiots that are giving them a reason to not give us a proper online experience.
However this was probably flagged but should not have been taken down
Pretty sure they don't allow penises and those will be taken down
Anyway, I would be money this is from bad faith flagging and enough attention will get them to eventually leave these up. Splatoon had something similar happen IIRC and now allows that stuff
I imagine Customer Support doesn't have the authority to lift a ban.
Odds are this was just idiots reporting this, and Nintendo's system automatically removes content after a certain number of reports. Which is in of itself, a gigantic flaw in their infrastructure.
I imagine this gets reversed sometime next week.
It's only political because right-wing politicians decided to make it political. By that logic, anything can be made political. Hell, video games themselves are political, including that time when Nintendo teamed up with Congress to tag-team Sega.
Obviously a poor decision in this case, hopefully it gets reversed.
They are moderating a lot of the actual bad stuff too so can we not jump to conclusions some have in this thread so far.
They are moderating a lot of the actual bad stuff too so can we not jump to conclusions some have in this thread so far.
User Warned: Thread derail
I don't know which possibility is the more optimistic one: was this was the result of a mass flagging system working independently of human oversight, or did a human moderator OK taking this down?
Alternate overly-snarky, mean-spirited take: wow gee no wonder Nintendo was so happy to cover for Atlus with that lyrics debacle
Alternate overly-snarky, mean-spirited take: wow gee no wonder Nintendo was so happy to cover for Atlus with that lyrics debacle
Moderating the bad stuff is the bare minimum expected when you have a service like this going. It doesn't negate the fact that basic human decency is apparently ban worthy now because "politics".
