Posted by StapleButter

To make it clear, it's not that I don't believe in GalaxyHacker's skill. Everyone can have skill in a certain domain. It's just that for now we haven't seen much evidence of it.

Posted by Rainbow Mario

Ban is for make the site safe from people who may destroy it or whatever. Not because you're angry or don't like a person.

Posted by StapleButter

Posted by Splitwirez

Again, it isn't the hack, it's the hacker. You're just proving my point, as StapleButter did.

So, I'm not allowed to have an opinion that is different than yours or StapleButter's?

I didn't mean the guts to just hack the game, I meant the guts to go against the convention ("noone cares about SMG1 hacking") and violate precisely what everyone believes, without concern of being looked down upon.

I meant "rejecting" GalaxyHacker, not his work, and figuratively so. I'm not overreacting, I'm looking past the actual product, to the person who created it...something that you might be able to do if you weren't following StapleButter's example in hating him. I see no way that "He's a moron" can be a legitimate reason to ban a legitimate user. That is poor administration, banning due to opinions, even if they are shared. I couldn't possibly disagree with that 'reason' any more than I do. I'm not saying you're wrong, or I'm right, I'm saying we're all entitled to our own opinions, and there is no justification for attempting to change that, nor any for an opinion to be reason enough to ban a user.

You could just directly call me a dictator, it'd be a shitton faster.


Where have you seen that 'noone cares about SMG1 hacking' is some kind of 'convention'? The issue is that SMG1 is a complex game and overall the SMG games have lost in popularity over the time (not that there were many people willing to hack them to begin with, given how complex they are). If this convention crap was true, then why would Whitehole and Anarchy support SMG1?

Why would one be looked down upon for hacking SMG1?

You receive input based on how 'cool' what you pulled off is, and this mostly depends on how advanced the scene is. See, for example, the SMW scene. In the early days, a simple edited level was considered 'cool', but now? It's a mainstream thing, you have to get really creative to do something considered cool.

Same deal for SMG. Swapping files/textures around can give nifty results, but this has been possible since the day decrypting a Wii ISO has been possible, so it's not new.

It comes out as wrong when you come praising him for that as if he had made an entirely new game. You're greatly overestimating the coolness of the hack. Because meaningwhile, some persons have been putting lots of time and effort into making completely new, Nintendo-quality models for SMG2.5, and have their work been praised like that? Not even close.


"I see no way that "He's a moron" can be a legitimate reason to ban a legitimate user. That is poor administration, banning due to opinions, even if they are shared."

You realize that if this was true, you would already be banned, right?

Banning users for being idiots is a perfectly legit thing. Imagine that you're the CEO of some company. You have that worker who does his work right, produces good quality content. But whenever you criticize him, he gets angry and starts insulting everyone. Would you keep him?

(this is an example, not representing any real person)

This example is far-fetched because Kuribo64 isn't a company, but the point is the same. When a user has behavioral issues and causes trouble, it doesn't matter how competent or useful they are, they are treated like everyone else.