So I am going to stick around a bit if allowed and watch how things turn out.
It is a little funny to me that this place became so super unaccepting of views outside of what seemed to be a very narrow window, and allegations towards the person who owns the site are the cause of this implosion.
I do believe in hearing everyone out, and civil discourse. And one of the main problems I have had with this forum is the the lack of civil discourse.
If you defend police officers, you get dog piled and shit posted into oblivion. If you defend micro transactions as a neccasary evil, you get dogpiled and shit posted in to keeping quiet.
It became ok to say police officers are cunts, conservative females are cunts, and so on. Complex issues, that at least deserved a civil discussion.
On a less personal level the video game side. Triple A developers once posted here. You had the opportunity to discuss video games with their creators. Tons of Indie to mid tier developers as well. That was pretty cool as a gamer to see and interact with.
Yes a few faces remained, but most left. And even the journalists from our favorite websites. The Jeff Greens and such. The entire 1up crew for the most part were participating. Not to mention journalists from just about everywhere.
But segments of the community were always in attack mode. And shit posting was often allowed in these circumstances. I was not above it either, but my shit posts were typically more then a sentence long, and typically had some sort of point of view backed by at least a bit of commentary.
So yeah the last three years have been bad IMO, and neogaf was no longer a place I really wanted to be a part of as far as discussing just about anything. But it was still great for having tons of insiders, and particular members really being passionate about certain topics. It has always been great to just read through the gaming side topics on the front page and get a snapshot of all the video game news of the day.
I know that certain minorities or individuals with very specific interests found a home here, and supporters and friends who helped them through the dark moments and made the good times shine brighter.
This place has done a lot of good for some people, but also toxic to others.
I have no clue whether the accusations towards the owner are true or not. But I will not condemn nor support the people who run this place. I just wanted to put out my recent problems with neogaf, and the positives of it as well. I will reserve judgement at least for tonight.