Pinside

"when I left Pinside in July, it was probably the greatest thing that I've ever done in pinball this far. It's an absolute sewer. And I want nothing to do with it. So any report I get from Pinside, a immediately disregard."

Opinion on Pinside forum being a 'sewer' and disregarding all feedback from it

"that thread has just become another one of Pinsley's perfect toxic dumpster fire threads In which so many people who have never played the game who have never stood in front of the game Who have never done anything other than log on to the internet to complain about something new Pinball related Are jumping in there and giving their two cents"

Pinside has become a toxic dumpster fire where people who never played games complain about them

"this this person's chasing things goes on this big tirade about how wrong I am about the game and how one man's opinion about this game is meaningless"

Defending against Pinside criticism about Willy Wonka opinions

"But when you get into this repetitive, constantly going into your thread, which that person, if they don't like your product, they could just drain your thread. If they don't want to see anything about it, they could drain it. They don't have the body product."

Pinside trolls repeatedly attack products instead of just ignoring them

"Pinside babies love to run into a burning house with a a canister of gasoline and Throw it around the place and then start complaining that things are burning"

People complaining about Pin Stadium ads should just ignore them instead of acting like entitled babies

"so here's what I did I called up the two biggest distributors I believe that are that are handling Oktoberfest and I asked them how is it selling and guess what they said it's not selling much at all"

Defends against pinside criticism about Oktoberfest opinions and confirms distributor sales info

"When I was banned from Pinside, when Robin was like no more, we will banish you from this forum... If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."

Being banned from Pinside made the show more powerful and independent

"Some of you out there have lost your ability to even enjoy this hobby. You've lost your ability to enjoy it. You've been sucked into Pinside. You've transformed from being a person who just enjoys pinball into someone who's like hyperly critical about everything happening in pinball."

Attacking pinball community members who are overly critical and negative

"don't you love threads like the Kanedas Wonka campaign? And I don't really understand why there are so many people who seemingly hate me, hate what I stand for."

Extended rant about Pinside forum hatred and personal attacks

"So I just read on Pinside that someone said that I suffer from manic, depressive tendencies. Now as someone who lives with me every day, do you feel that's true and accurate?"

Defending against accusations of selling out and manic depression from Pinside users

"I bet if you met me in person and many of you will at TPF this weekend I bet you will see that that spoil brat psycho fan asshole who's just a jerk who lied to the whole community that not that is not really the case"

Responding to critics calling him spoiled brat and liar

"As much as the die-hards on Pinside who grew up with Steve Ritchie's games are like, yeah, make it. They're like 5% of the pinball buying community and that's why Stern's nervous."

Stern is nervous about Steve Ritchie's game because die-hard fans are only 5% of buyers

"Just don't go on Pinside until you get your game. I sort of do feel bad for people who order their game. And all they do is they get inundated with an army of people who have never played the game telling them the game is shit."

Advises people who ordered Monsters to avoid Pinside until they get their game

"It is the greatest Pinball website forum community of all time. There's no way around it. There's no way around it."

Pinside is the greatest pinball website/forum/community of all time

"I am banned by the world's number one pinball forum. How ironic is just that, right? The number one pinball podcast in the world, which is this one, which you guys voted on, is banned from even representing himself on the number one forum."

Extended rant about being banned from Pinside and personal attacks from forum users

"You guys are all suckers, okay, and I'm gonna say this the reason why I think the Pinside Babies are suckers. You all are getting hoodwinked by Stern's marketing department"

Attacks people complaining about Beatles pricing as 'Pinside babies' who are 'suckers' being 'hoodwinked'

"Does anyone who's on Pinside know how to run a successful pinball company? Does anybody? Does anyone there successfully proven that they know how to run a pinball company and stay in business through good times and bad times"

Pinside users think they know how to run pinball companies better than Stern but have no actual experience

"I love that they never say this stuff to my face but it's always easy for them to make these insults about me online."

Frustration with Pinside users who call him names but won't confront him directly

"but on pinside if you say fuck you to the staff for doing something or you question them just questioning them it's not allowed they run a dictatorship right it is not an open dialogue about pinball"

Pinside staff runs a dictatorship and censors legitimate criticism while enabling scam companies

"Now if you don't think that this is totally indicative of the ridiculousness of Pinside and the moderators, pretending that the TWIPY award winning pinball podcast, the only one that's transparent with my listeners, you know, pretending I don't exist is like taking it's like saying that North Korea shouldn't be on the map."

Confronting Pinside moderators for excluding Kaneda's Pinball Podcast from definitive podcast list despite its popularity

"Hilton went on a crusade a crusade To inundate the moderators with complaints about me being allowed back on the site... Robin feels that Hilton is a positive member of the community"

Pinside moderators, especially Hilton, conspired to keep Kaneda banned despite support from other moderators

"will you get off your asses and ban this motherfucker once and for all? At what point are you going to like wake up and fucking extract the people from your forum that have led people astray"

Calling out Pinside moderators for allowing shills to mislead the community

"I want to reveal to you who I think is also responsible for many of you out there being burned and that culprit is pinside... pinside is equally to blame for a lot of you losing money. And you should be mad at them because they were shared information that could have saved you a lot of money."

Pinside is equally to blame for people losing money on Heighway Pinball by blocking information that could have saved investors

"it comes down to usually one thing is people are fucking jealous they're not getting in LE for some reason it's like pro and premium buyers have to justify their decision by crapping on the LE"

LE haters are just jealous they can't afford premium versions

"I keep reading on pinside that people keep like questioning me like Chris doesn't know what he's talking about... if it doesn't have that art package um let's see I will stop recording my podcast for an entire month"

Challenges people calling him wrong about Iron Maiden LE art package

"I want to say that honestly reading all the people moaning and groaning and crying, I mean I almost feel like I need to do another Pinside babies episode because it really wasn't the end of the world when they announced this thing"

Blames pinball community for overreacting to Pirates spinning disc removal

"I have to say the, the climate, the climate is getting like, it's just the same toxicity from the same people all the time... it's the same losers with no life who chime in day in and day out"

Pinside has become toxic and unhealthy

"I literally was embarrassed being a pinball enthusiast reading pinside this weekend. I was embarrassed by people's complaining, by their crying, by their moaning and groaning about what they got on Saturday when it came to that little teaser video"

Embarrassed by pinball community's complaints about Iron Maiden teaser video

"In the world of pinside and the people on pinside, it's so obvious sort of how your people want you to behave. Like you have to slam everything Stern does. You have to call Stern cheap. You have to call out, you know, Stern's lack of innovation and creativity. And then you have to praise every other manufacturer out there for what they're doing."

Pinside mob mentality requires slamming Stern and praising other manufacturers

"They removed all of those poll threads from pinside simply because they clearly got wind that Kanedas pinball podcast was the origin of that poll... clear indication of the prejudice and bias that exists on pinside against this podcast"

Attacking Pinside moderation for removing Big Trouble vs Oktoberfest polls due to association with his podcast

"this is a great example in my mind of why pinball's side moderation is bad. The problem with allowing this to be its own thread is it almost creates more of a dramatic sort of controversial, oh my god Houdini is not good"

Disagreement with Pinside moderation allowing separate negative threads

"the moderation is very one-sided... Robb and decided long ago who he was going to protect and build a bubble around on that site... There's too many stupid threads about nothing on there. Like, if you go on that site, it is like navigating an asteroid belt trying to find the threads that actually have value"

Kaneda criticizes Pinside moderation as one-sided and the site as having too much irrelevant content

"I think pinside really is just a garbage pale lately of like nonsense over and over and over again. The only good threads on pinside. And this is why I like pinside though. This is not all bad. The only good threads are the owner threads where people actually talk about games they talk about issues they help each other out."

Pinside is mostly garbage with only owner threads adding value

"a lot of the problem is, is that people that are actually knowledgeable of what's going on in the industry don't post. They're not even on Pinside"

Chris believes people who are knowledgeable about the industry don't post on Pinside anymore

"Thank you for banning me for life Pinside. I appreciate it."

Attacking Pinside for banning him

"when there was no license music in this game people bitched and moaned and complained and then Stern announces here here's two and there may be more here's two people bitched and moaning complained about what two songs they were about how they were just going to repeat it's like it's like you can't you can't please these people ever"

Pinside forum creates toxic negativity even when companies give fans what they want

"You go over to Pinside, a place where the moderators are now asking people not to talk about anything other than Mike's Pinball project. That if you talk about something else, they might eject you from the thread or moderate your post."

Pinside moderators protecting Mike from Homepin while censoring criticism

"I don't know if you guys feel it, but Pinside, man, it's like a dump. It's a toxic waystone. It is not what it used to be because all the good people have left."

Pinside has become a toxic wasteland due to poor moderation allowing trolls

"they've let the lunatics and the inmates run the asylum"

Pinside forum has deteriorated due to poor moderation allowing constant negativity

"I still believe that Pinside represents such a small small portion less than probably 10% of Stern's actual customer base and and within that 10% I bet 90% of those people who complain about this stuff all the time are hypocrites and will go buy the game if the theme is what they want"

Pinside represents less than 10% of Stern's customer base and complainers are hypocrites who keep buying

"pinside is a vortex it's a black hole it is a place where you can get sucked into it and it can destroy your love of the hobby"

Pinside forum causes people to leave the hobby due to negativity and addiction

"all you have to do is step back just a little bit and look at the things that go on on Pinside and in the pinball collecting world. If you step back just a few feet from it, you start to realize just how ridiculous a lot of the arguing is, a lot of the threads are, the drama, like the anger, the fighting, the bickering"

Strongly advocates avoiding Pinside forums and toxic pinball community discussions

"I do a pinball podcast. And I call it like it is. All right. I call companies out when I see them misdeed lines, when I see them refusing to give people refunds. I'm not the bad guy. All right. Kaneda hasn't prevented any alien pinball machines from shipping."

Pushback against people who blame him for drama around struggling pinball companies

"how do you have the most popular pinball forum and you don't have the major companies participating simply because you'd rather build a safe haven for a few trolls who just want to tell Stern to f off every chance they get"

Criticizes Pinside for allowing trolls to drive away manufacturers

"get off your moral high horse that you're helping these people out they don't exist they're not on Pinside"

Attacks price police on Pinside for interfering in for-sale threads

"pinball is predominantly a white older male hobby filled with board guys with some of them have a lot of money some don't uh it's not a pinside is not a place for women or families or like you know a lot of there's not a lot of diversity in the hobby"

Pinside witch hunts over perceived offensive language are ridiculous and the site isn't actually diverse or family-friendly

"It is probably reached the peak of negativity... I think the moderators just stop moderating... when you have a problem a problem is usually like it's like dripping water... if you don't stop the little drip Um over time it'll collapse entire building"

Pinside has reached peak negativity and needs moderation reform

"you guys got it all wrong. You got it all wrong. And I'm an idiot... Talk to me about how stupid I am. Talk to me about how how I've ripped people off."

Dismissive response to criticism about Magic Girl purchase

"I think this user doesn't mind being a dick it's like but why why do people do that and and I'm tempted to do it every once in a while and I used to do it back in my my my housey and days on pinside but it really is the most dickish behavior because the guys asking twenty k for a big bang bar has all these extras with it if you don't like it or think it's too much what what good does you coming into that thread and saying I had one I got rid of it it's not worth it it's not that great"

Kaneda criticizes Pinside users who derail for-sale threads by negatively commenting on games they're not buying

"I'm almost like, don't ever go on to pinside. Don't ever get it's like, don't ever go down that road. They'll get sucked into the line. Yeah, you'll start, you'll no longer have fun and you'll start spending the price of a small car on a pinball machine and it won't even make you happy."

Don't go on Pinside - it will ruin your fun and make you overspend