Pinside

"I truly believe that when you spend too much time on Pinside, it turns everybody into an alternate version of themselves which is normally not the better version"

Pinside turns people into worse versions of themselves and negatively affects online behavior

"I saw there's a Pinside thread that sort of aggregates All of the pinball podcasts that are out there And there's one podcast missing And that is Kaneda's Pinball Podcast Is not allowed by the Pinside moderation team to be listed Like I can't even be mentioned"

Kaneda vs Pinside moderation - censorship and exclusion from podcast aggregation

"So I my prediction is I mean we've we've seen this all the time and the initial response whenever anything is shown is always really positive then you give Pinside 24 hours and people will start pulling everything apart I think I think it's going to be a good shot."

Prediction: Initial response to any new pinball machine will be positive, but after 24 hours Pinside users will start picking it apart.

"all Pinside ever does is fight each other, argue with each other, complain about each other, attack each other's companies, pull each other apart, being hypercritical of each other's games... And when we saw it, we saw it."

Pinball community fights constantly but suddenly wants unity against J-Pop

"I just want to say to like KPG to all you guys out there who who slammed me who said that the hype had moved away from Ghostbusters LE that I would never get that amount... I just want to tell you guys wake up come back to reality"

Calls out Pinside users who criticized his Ghostbusters pricing after successful sale

"The more these people bitch, it doesn't do anything. It doesn't hurt our business... Batman 66 announced it sells out immediately. $10,000 for an L.E. and it's sold out immediately."

Pinside community has no real influence on pinball manufacturers' success

"Since stern has dad at a back this pinside moaning and groaning complaining and a few pinside owners complaining don't mean shit to their business"

Pinside complaints don't impact Stern's business

"Pinside people some of them are just joyless. Joyless souls they're joyless adult they're joyless individuals who will find every single reason to complain"

Attacks Pinside users as joyless complainers about Batman 66 artwork

"reading Pinside on a daily basis, it's just starting to get depressing. And I'm going to cover this on a different podcast, but the amount of complaining and whining and moaning and groaning, it's just getting out of hand."

Pinside daily complaints about Stern are getting depressing and out of hand

"80% of Pinside poll votes are fake. People who either don't own the game, don't like Stern or just have an agenda"

Pinside polls are mostly fake

"these people who just want to blanket insult Stern are really just acting like fucking children"

Attacking Pinside users who criticize Stern after Batman announcement

"If you simply mention on Pinside that you just listened to Kaneda's Pinball Podcast, the moderators will delete. If you just listen to the podcast, you can't even say the name or type it out. It is against the rules."

Pinside moderators ban mentioning Kaneda's podcast name

"pinseye is probably the worst place in the world if you're if you're trying to investigate that phenomenon Because it's filled with just nasty spiteful hateful people apparently"

Pinside forums characterized as hostile environment

"I just wish Pinside would get over this whole notion that if you're not in on a game, you can't talk about it. Because that is created in environment now in Pinside that has become isolated"

Pinside threads becoming echo chambers for owners only

"Ted believes that if Pinside just ejected the 20 worst trolls on there, the place would be amazing."

Pinside would be amazing if they just banned the 20 worst trolls

"Yeah, I've been called every name in the book this week. It's been kind of funny to read it all. Just how heated people are."

Kaneda was banned from Pinside after posting about a ramp breaking on The Hobbit

"And if they would just get rid of 15 people, I guarantee that it would be hundreds more that would participate. Because there's so many people now. They just only want to open their mouths because it's a very... It gets to be a very negative atmosphere."

Prediction: If 15 problematic people were removed from Pinside, hundreds more would participate because many stay silent due to the negative atmosphere.

"if you're on Pinside and you're a grown adult and you're a man, and you you can't stomach with someone is saying about pinball or about you on a pinball form, then then you need to put your big boy pants on and come back to Pinside"

Pinside forum drama and user ejections are overblown - grown men should handle disagreements maturely

"I've been preaching for years about how I view the top 100 as being somewhat flawed with how it's currently calculated."

Top 100 rankings are flawed due to legacy voting from inactive users

"it was really, really annoying as an outsider looking in...to hear this sort of like little inner circle of people brag about having seen stuff and then not sharing it. I just have no love for people who behave that way"

Harsh criticism of Pinside members who bragged about having leaked Ghostbusters information but wouldn't share it

"The people who cry the loudest on pinside about price are usually never even in on the game. They can't, they may not be able to afford it or they can't afford it but it's just out of what, you know, out of their sort of limit"

People complaining about prices usually can't afford the games anyway

"honestly because I said that that was a piss poor reveal and it was I got permanently ejected from the thread... I got banned from the thread. I'm no longer allowed to post an alien thread forever."

Kaneda got permanently banned from Alien thread after calling the reveal 'piss poor'

"Pinside is kind of a sewer. Pinside is not moderated at all anymore. They don't like eject people from threads who are slamming the games... when you try to raise money for kids, that's the thread they delete."

Pinside is poorly moderated - allows toxic behavior but deletes charity content

"pin sight is... It's an interesting thing because it is no doubt the largest collection of pinball fanatics on the internet in one place. Right. But it couldn't be again to be. All of them or half of them."

Pinside represents only a small fraction of the pinball community

"Nobody better go to Pinside and be like, is this real? I saw that. The first fool who posted this on Pinside says, is this real? No, this is fake"

Attacking people who doubted the SEC filing authenticity

"the owners over there still deem me to be a cantankerous figure"

Pinside owners consider Kaneda a cantankerous figure and won't allow membership

"What the PINSIDE Mod should be doing is get off their asses and stop creating this environment that protects these manufacturers who constantly lie to their customers... the PINSIDE moderators are the fanboys. They want to chill too because they are dreams of new PINBALL machines override their common sense"

Pinside moderators protect manufacturers instead of holding them accountable

"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 immediately disregard"

Pinside is an absolute sewer and should be completely avoided

"A bunch of grown men whining and crying about every little detail in a pinball machine. And here's the kicker that they haven't even flipped. These guys wake up, they're clearly bedwaters at an adult age."

Pinside users complaining about logo details are bedwetting losers who nitpick everything

"when Steve Ritchie says Pinside is a cancer... there are definitely cancerous people on Pinside"

Steve Ritchie called Pinside 'a cancer'

"pinside has hurt the pinball world more than its help because pinside has allowed fucking dipshit like Kevin at Skit B to remain on the site and rip everybody off"

Pinside has hurt the pinball community more than it's helped

"I'm reading some of your Pinside comments right now, and I am like, your standards on Pinside are so low that people are saying this is amazing."

Mocking Pinside community for low standards and easy excitement

"it literally blows my mind. When, when I start reading people complain about everything that's starting put into that lower playfield, it really almost depresses me, because it, it, it, it makes me feel like, are you not satisfied with, with, with anything?"

People complaining about the lower playfield are never satisfied

"five years ago I started this podcast for one reason because I was banned by pinside because grown men were afraid of The things I was saying about pinball"

Kaneda was banned from Pinside for speaking his mind about pinball

"You know, everyone's been wishing for internet-connected pinball for a very long time, so Stern does it, and pinside complains about it."

Pinball community complains about innovation they've been asking for

"Pinside is the only place where when you come on there and you're like Hey, I got my Ghostbusters LE. I love it and the next thread is like yeah, I think the game fucking sucks"

Attacking Pinside community for constantly criticizing others' purchases

"you are a stupid motherfucker... you sound fucking stupid and you're not understanding what the concept of this pin is... you fucking hate on Stern you shit on Stern and then you go buy the Stern"

Attacks Pinside community for overreacting to Beatles announcement

"Someone called me a hypocrite... are you okay in the head? Do you understand what the definition of hypocrisy is? How did I know that there were going to be playfield issues on my collector's edition?"

Defends against accusations of hypocrisy regarding Jersey Jack Pinball quality issues

"what are we, the 40 people who are buying one of these games? Are we unethical vultures as someone said on Pinside? Unethical vultures who swooped in and bought games that belong to someone else."

Dutch Pinball buyers aren't unethical vultures

"This is the end of your rotten life you mother fucking dope pressure."

Mocking Pinside users through fake interview with Rick using movie quotes

"That is driven every single manufacturer out there. Pretty much every single major manufacturer is not on Pinside. Why is that? Because Robin and his moderation staff absolutely don't know how to like run their site in a way that's welcoming to the people that actually matter in the hobby."

Major manufacturers have abandoned Pinside due to poor moderation

"I don't mean babies like young little kids sucking their thumbs, I mean grown adult babies who just seem to cry and moan all the time"

Pinside users are grown adult babies who constantly cry and moan