but with the merging of both threads aren't going to see that anyway? I just feel the merging both threads won't help any of it and if nothing else one will get overshadowed by the other. Hispanigaf thread was around for months and barely broke 20 pages Negro-Gaf was around for a few days and exploded.EviLore said:
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Yeah thats what I'm saying. NegroGAF was essentially a coming out party, it was gonna die down just any other large thread. No way it was going to keep that pace. Also, neither would've been burned to begin with it if weren't for the troll threads.Zeke said:
lol w/e... gay gaf wins again
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Hmm, well everyone when someone makes a thread on a different world I won't be far.
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I think Gay-GAF has a very important place here for all the gay nerds out there. That sound kind of funny, and it kind of is, but honestly, in some places, be it rural Australia or somewhere in Eastern Europe or somewhere in, I don't know, mountainside Canada, there are gay people who honestly feel like they don't have a community of people who share similar interests as them, who also happen to be gay.EviLore said:
I know personally it helped my coming out, and the thread itself has anecdotally made so many other people feel better about themselves.
Not to make this an us versus them thing, but I'm not entirely sure Negro-GAF or any other skin colour GAF necessarily serve the same purpose. There are still a lot of misconceptions about what it means, on a person-identity level, to be gay, and I feel like Gay-GAF has helped with that for many people.
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I still don't understand the problem. So what if people want to use a particular thread as a 'chatroom' of sorts? Who gives a shit? People get together, and talk and be friends - why do we have to necessarily be spread across the whole forum? I actually post in other topics, I don't think anyone is exclusive to any [OT] type thread.
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I think there's a difference between an effective support network and a thread purely to share pics. But yeah, Rez is right, GayGAF has an important purpose (which, yes, it often strays from) which perhaps isn't the same in these other mega-threads. These not infrequent suicides amongst young gay people should be enough evidence of that.
Because I was upset at the fact that GayGAF got to come through essentially the same situation with their thread intact. Maybe I'm being a little too cynical right now, but either way it sucks. I won't keep harping on it though.EviLore said:
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:lol you guys just now noticed my tag? I got it I guess because I was in favor of grilled chicken over fried chicken cause I said I needed to keep my cholesterol levels down or atleast that's where I think it came from.
I was even contemplating getting a Hattie McDaniel (who played "Mammy") avatar from Gone With The Wind but nah.
I was even contemplating getting a Hattie McDaniel (who played "Mammy") avatar from Gone With The Wind but nah.
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all of these threads had their value. I blame the TC of the bitter White-GAF thread. today would not have ended like this were it not for that lulz/troll thread and it's offspring.i_am_ben said:
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Isn't that more or less what a Megathread is? A consolidation of multiple similar conversation topics into a main topic, in that case regarding a video game. Yes I see the disparity between a game and a race/culture topic, but they both behave the same way regarding them being insular.EviLore said:
I see your point about megathreads about a particular race/culture becoming insular, but relegating them to simple "chat rooms" seems unfair to me as gaming megathreads are basically chat-rooms about said game. Nothing stops anyone from outside of said culture/race from posting in the thread with a question. People from outside HaloGAf post in that thread asking about Halo without any problems.
And sure I'd never find myself a reason to post in the AusGAF thread because I'm not Australian nor do I live there, so you're right about that not being accessible. But if for some reason something came up in my life or I needed to know something about Australia and/or the people from there, I'd be sure to ask in that thread.
TL;DR I'm nervous replying to Eviliore and my point is that megathreads for races/cultures should be approached with a more open mind. They would help GAF from being overrun by threads regarding topics touched on in the past race/culture threads and can be just as insular as current gaming/aus/sports/poli megathreads.
yea this is what confuses me Gaffers aren't just in one thread all the time except for a small number of posters. I just don't see the difference between having hispanigaf and negro-gaf threads and having Dexter watch threads or sport-gaf. Sure certain threads will have their major posters but what thread doesn't? I think the bigger separation here is between gaming side and OT as a whole. I think OT has posters that post in tons of different threads and they do a great job of it.Koomaster said:
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Same here bro. NegroGAF was ridiculous.DY_nasty said:
Found out there were other Haitians in GAF.
Found out there are sistas on GAF.
I so miss that thread...
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I had a serious use for Negro-Age too. I'm a mulatto and I have been through a lot of self-discovery, image issues, etc and having a thread like that would have been nice. Especially now that I'm in an interracial relationship with a girl that doesn't know anything about black culture. Also it's not exactly the norm (or looked highly upon) in the black community to be a nerd. You can feel real ostracized sometimes and even more so coming to GAF where the default assumption is everyone is a white mid-twenties gamer.
Yeah, it's not the same as keeping people from suicide, but Negro-Age had a legit use aside from being fun as hell. Oh well, back to NBA-Age.
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