It's mostly the people that ruined this site with their non stop negativity and injection of politics into everything. GAF is better off without them
What is this about? Like evilore not owing up to his mistake he's the reason why I GAF died not because of off topic or the community.I lurked this site from it's inception. Waited a year or two to get my account approved to post in 2012. By that point the forums had become infected with the disease of unfair, and unbalanced political opinions led by a select chosen few leading the dog piling against anyone with a dissenting opinion, even if that opinion was argued logically and in good faith.
These select people were responsible for the downfall of this sites reputation over the past few years. Hopefully they stay gone, make a new forum for themselves, or whatever, I don't care.
If GAF can go back to some semblance of fair and balanced moderation, I have no doubt it's reputation can be restored.
Nuking OT for the time being is a good first step. I'm on board for now.
#bringbackDennisI was reading TheBor.e while the site is down and Dennis still wants to be a red mod. Pls hlp him. That boy ain't right.
It's mostly the people that ruined this site with their non stop negativity and injection of politics into everything. GAF is better off without them
I was in the process of writing a statement that entire day to address formally address the allegation, but the community had erupted in a flash that morning. While the moderation team was trying to restore the peace, accusations and threats concerning the screenshot started shifting to them as well by association with me, and I was asked by my team to do something to fix things and get the heat off of all of them at least. I was beyond exhausted by that point, though, stretched too thin in the time since the post had first appeared and seeing unprecedented events unfold on NeoGAF. I was slow and weak. I failed to handle it quickly enough and let the team down. Before I could finish a statement and get it out there, understandably some mods hit their emotional limit, expressed concerns about the community coming after them, and decided to leave. A few people resigned, and many more quickly followed for similar reasons, citing stress and harassment. The site started breaking under load spikes leading up to the first resignations, too, and then flatlined altogether, so issuing a statement at that time on NeoGAF itself became impossible for the time being, and my attention shifted toward the moderation team's future.
I don't know what to Believe anymore.
I just wanna talk about video games
You realize by posting here you'd be giving money via ad revenue to serial sexual assualter?Those communities are the reason I visited gaf, I like the people there very much
Dont worry, everyone. The mod team will expand again just as soon as Amir0x gets out of prison.
Moderation will also see changes. Over the years, moderators changed from simply people who made sure discussion stay civil into personalities. It's because of that, many were targeted for harassment and other things. This shouldn't be happening to them. We've taken action to protect these people by making moderation anonymous. There will be no more red-names that single them out nor will there be a list of who is one.
Oh shit thanks for sharing this site. Fuck you Dollar General Andy Serkis.Yeah fuck this shit, the GAF I knew and loved is dead.
I'm excited for a new start with ResetEra and I hope everyone still here comes along for the ride.
I think this is an issue he has to address. He created a toxic leftist environment instead of the positive one he thought he was making.Evilore,
Your mod team was more than happy to throw you under the bus with no evidence or collaboration from someone else whatsoever just because of a fucking facebook post. They're currently organizing brigades against you on discord according to a couple of people I know. Do you now understand what some of us were talking about in our PMs to you that these people are rabid ideologues?
I'm a progressive that has much in common with their beliefs but not their behavior and or dogmatic identity politics. It's these dogmas that made them think it's OK to treat you like crap even though they have no evidence. Zero.
I really hope you don't make the same mistake again and you choose your mods more carefully next time.
Political and social discourse will not be allowed in the new Off-Topic.
just came back, hold up, no OT?
It took you 3 days to try and write a statement but were too tired to do so? Lol
Going by this thread, it's pretty obvious none of you actually came to this place for gaming and only for all the other BS which Gaf has been hated for. Time to go back to the basics.
You realize by posting here you'd be giving money via ad revenue to serial sexual assualter?
Nearly the entirely of NFL GAF already switched to the other board anyway over the weekend.
Oh and we aren't allowed to talk about the times Evilore tries to have sex women against their will. Don't forget that.According to OP it'll be back after it's been a few weeks with a new focus on non religious, non political stuff.
This whole shutting-down shit almost made me go back to gamespot. Almost.
Political and social discourse will not be allowed in the new Off-Topic. Those types of discussions greatly added to the harsh and unwelcoming atmosphere of Off-Topic, which pushed many users away.
They didn't ruin shit, Bro .Tyler did he killed gaf.
Glad that usagaf won't be able to post trump news and anything else political in their country.
Aw man, I was hoping that I'd have my thread making privileges back after the site died and resurrected after three days like Jesus.
I'm no Lazarus.
Going by this thread, it's pretty obvious none of you actually came to this place for gaming and only for all the other BS which Gaf has been hated for. Time to go back to the basics.
Fucking thank you. I've probably never seen eye to eye with mods on just about any topic ever, but get rid of this shit. Please be consistent and stern here. Any and all political discourse is off limits
I really do want OT Community back though, to be honest. I've helped so many people in the programming thread, and would love to be able to continue that.