It's pretty much a police state, people are being banned left and right. There are probably less than 10 regular posters left.

Never spent much time on that site. I might have an account but I don't remember what it is.

I am. My user name is dangleo61288.

@scorpio_cassadine: what's happening?

I'm from CBR and it's a propaganda machine there; the moderator there has a view, tries to make you seem wrong for your different view, and bans everyone that disagrees with her first warning; it's really just one moderator. I'm on a temp ban until June 17 and I've been threatened with another permanent ban, if she disagrees with what I say; the people there have views similar to hers; it's not representative of Wonder Woman fans, like this website is closer to representing; as long as you're not derogatory to the other posters, you can discuss your beliefs and opinions as you wish here. She banned me because I was talking about Dr. Psycho and she apparently hates that character; seems like ugly men may have put her in her place, since she seems shallow.

The funny thing is, I agree with most of her views and I still got banned for agreeing with her. The Iron Lady is drunk with power and rules with an iron fist. The best way to stick around there is to pretend you're in church sitting next to your grandmother, and be very, very, careful with what you say. Give your point of view and move on, if anyone disagrees with you, ignore it. Then come over here to vent.

Don't tell any jokes either, humor can be mistaken for snarkiness and that will get you banned too.

Have you been perma banned there or is it a temp ban?

I plead the 5th. lol

*Whips lasso around you*

You must speak truth! The lasso compels you!!

@dshipp17 Some of your comments regarding Wonder Woman were a bit obsessive, and borderline outlandish to be honest.

Considering the air-headed nonsense you two fill the WW forum with you most likely deserved the bans.

@farkam said:

My ban just lifted!!! lolz

What, saying the character hasn't demonstrated her ability to love everyone? Saying that she only said she loved everyone? What's obsessive about observing what I saw about the character? Outlandish is a matter of perspective, particularly, your perspective.

Since the Rocarford Teen Titans Cover debacle (which I am quick to point out was a display of comicbook fans at their worst), CBR has cracked down hard on any form of balant negativity.

Who'd have thought something even worse could have come from another bad thing...

QFT in spite of the denial.

@lvenger: T be fair, I am pretty sure CBR knows it had a reputation from it's very aggressive boards (and I can attest that it was an extremely aggravating place to go).

@outside_85: Yeah it did seem an overly hostile forum from what I've briefly seen of the place. And that's just in its comment section on articles let alone its other forums like the battle threads. At least this site, even though not in its prime, still has a fairly nice atmosphere.

To be honest, I've stopped posting on HERE for some of those reasons (save the banning).

weren't you the same user who said bastard children are mistakes. i'm on a temp ban because of calling out that horseshit.

basically this, the ww boards on cbr are the fox news of comic forums. and you think the mod is bad? look up blacksun and see the retarded posts he/she comes up with.

@kidstandout I see nothing wrong with the remarks I made. I don't see what the problem is calling her a bastard in the n-52 since Azzarello had Poseidon himself refer to Diana as a bastard daughter.

@wonderwomanfan8:

it's not the bastard part that got me mad, it's the fact that you went on to say bastard children are mistakes. you do realize what that means right? your essentially saying any kid born out of wedlock are mistakes which based on the many people i know who were born before their parents got married is horseshit. that on top of you swearing and getting no type of ban for it.

@kidstandout Well, there are 'good' mistakes too...Perhaps that wasn't the best choice of word...How about 'blessings'? Huh? Is that any better? Is that doing anything for you? And I don't remember doing any swearing either.

@wonderwomanfan8: blessing is a step up. i just feel like if i had been the one to say bastard, i would be banned for a week. shit, i got a warning for using the word lesbo lol. it's just short for lesbian, i even have friends who are lebians that i call lesbo but that's besides the point. when i get back there i'm just going to avoid gale's prison.... i mean the ww boards and just post here

@kidstandout You don't have to do all that. I admit, I played a role in all of that mess. I made my remarks and then felt like I was getting ganged up on, so I felt that I had to respond to all the criticism.

my bad for that, it's all water under the bridge.

but it's not just the ban or this situation that makes me weary of that board, regardless of the disagreements i've had here at vine, atleast the mods give us free reign to express our sides of the debate without censoring or hazing out the side they don't agree with. i can attest to this behavior being exhibited by gale several times on cbr. that and the blatant trolling on anything sm/ww related by blacksun that gets swept under the rug by gale. several times i've reported it and she basically tells me to suck it up and deal with it. but the minute i do, i get a warning? like wtf?

@kidstandout Between these two boards, I actually thought that their Wonder Woman forum actually had more mature discussion going on, whil this one while is good, but tends to have more seemingly redundant topics.

@wonderwomanfan8:

i never said it was a hell hole, the difference is here you don't have to worry about whether or not your views line up with the mod. and the redudant topics are kinda plaging both sites imo ex the ww origin threads on cbr, which ironically is at vine as well

I was banned from CBR reason being that I wrote Charles Soule is talentless. I went downstairs to go grab a snack and just like that, when I got back to my computer, I was banned for life for "insulting creators" #thuglife

You're wrong of course, but you're entitled to your opinion. If you think Soule is "talentless" you should be allowed to say so. CBR's gestapo like rules will be its downfall. You can't have a thriving discussion forum with people afraid to speak their minds and you can't have a respectable online community with only a small handful of participants.

Very true. People there will soon realize that the comments are being regulated to reflect the views of the moderator for the Wonder Woman forum.

@scorpio_cassadine: I read some She-Hulk comics just to make sure he's talentless and surprisingly, unlike SM/WW, the book is okay but I think that's partly because She-Hulk is a lawyer, he's a lawyer so he knows a bunch about lawyering and he obviously likes to show off his knowledge being the self-adulatory braggart that he is. Anyway you know how devout christians are often the worst of sinners, likewise the hatebusters are the most vicious haters on the internet. Their oppressively strict rules and policies will be CBR's undoing, plus comicvine's got a better layout anyway.

LOL, I wouldn´t last two minutes.

Heh, you'll go "Hello." and you'll be banned :)

Yeah, her effing watering can might as well be a guillotine.

Screw CBR

I was banned 3 times, had several of my posts deleted and one thread locked.

I am a Christian and sometimes incorporate my beliefs into my post or at least did.

The moderator there is in my humble opinion extremely politicaly correct so if your post offends anybody your more or less in deep water.

Before this moderator I was posting occasionally for several years and never got banned.

Also there are several posters there that tried to get me banned permanatly so they would post things to get me to respond knowing I would get banned if I retorted.

I wasn't a CBR member, but I had acquaintances at the cafe that were. and they just HATED the staff at CBR after Aegisbearer left his position as mod.

The staff at CBR are egotistical criminals. They deceive you left & right. the Moderators used to be regular posters, but they were always a part of the staff. They have their bias agendas, and let that affect their judgement on people. And when anyone stands up to them to call them out on their Nazi-ism, they ban the posters.

All this and more is why Gail Simone left CBR. They are just CORRUPT. They fill their own egos with pride because "celebrities" in comics visit their site. They think they're so special, but when they keep up this BS, even the "celebs" will reject them. No more sponsorship, no more endorsements, no more asking for their reviews, etc.

So its its good. From the way everyone is talking you guys are making it sound like MSNBC bad. =)

@outside_85: cover debacle?

It doesn't really look that bad over there. If anything it looks like that site has a bit more diverse opinions on it.

CBR had a contributor who wrote an article about the Rocafort-drawn cover for Teen Titan's #1 where she pretty much ripped it a new one, with the main source of her complaints being the boobsize of Cassandra Sandsmark. For one reason or another, this generated an immense amount of negative feedback towards her which included various threats against her person. It even went so far that people looked her up, finding her address and so on.

After half a week or so CBR had their very own Flashpoint and deleted every single account and forum posts from their boards before restructuring and re-releasing them all with a new set of rules to follow, more hardline than ever before. Meaning that even past permanently banned people could get back in, but has already resulted in numerous banned users. (the Fintch's thread alone generated 5 bans and several warnings during a single night).

@outside_85: that's weird considering that I'm still ip banned

@bsaa: Odd, I'm not. But I haven't posted anything since I tried creating an account, mostly because I don't feel I need it.