Why does everyone care so fucking much about what NeoGAF in particular thinks?
This is in the top 10 largest general forums period if you don't count subreddits as individual forums.
By default this is the largest or second largest (depending on how you do the count) gaming messageboard and the barbarians aren't happy about what is endorsed here.
All I will say is that there do exist small time gaming forums that while not as strict as GAF are still more closely aligned socially than the 4chans and R/gamings of this world.