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Oemenia

Banned
Wouldn't worry about it too much. Reset's eventual collapse is not exactly a far-fetched premise. I have strategies prepared for most scenarios. We have a capable, experienced, hand-picked team that can adapt to rapidly evolving situations. XF2's tools are powerful, versatile, and logically oriented, and we've extended them with add-ons and customizations besides. Any attack vectors previously utilized will not prove fruitful if attempted again. Good fucking luck hurting my feelings or convincing me that NeoGAF should be more like fucking Resetera. :messenger_ghost:

That being said, if overflow or containment becomes a genuine concern, preferably don't hand the keys to another random imbecile. I'd rather maintain PurpleGAF myself as a public service just from a harm reduction standpoint. Christ.
GAF's decline is only getting faster on Alexa and that's with all the alt-right flooding in.

If they sold you out after all you did for them, then they sure as heck ain't coming back.
 

Blam

Member
GAF's decline is only getting faster on Alexa and that's with all the alt-right flooding in.

If they sold you out after all you did for them, then they sure as heck ain't coming back.
Are you seriously using Alexa as a legitimate source for rankings? Lol.
 

Dr. Claus

Vincit qui se vincit
GAF's decline is only getting faster on Alexa and that's with all the alt-right flooding in.

If they sold you out after all you did for them, then they sure as heck ain't coming back.

Please point out this apparent "alt-right" that is only clear to you and the other fools that come here to troll. Also weren't you disproved by EL like five months ago?

Yes, yes you were and you ran like a coward back then.
 
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Acerac

Banned
GAF's decline is only getting faster on Alexa and that's with all the alt-right flooding in.

If they sold you out after all you did for them, then they sure as heck ain't coming back.
Given the way the population of ERA has continued to morph and transform since defecting I don't think anyone wants them back.
 

Oemenia

Banned
Since you're listening (in many forms it seems) the Alexa excuse doesn't hold up because it shows decline and decline that is only rapidly increasing.
 

Skyn3t

Banned
I've read somewhere that GAF was once in the top 300 most visited sites in the US. Far cry from site's current status ;(
 

Dr. Claus

Vincit qui se vincit
Since you're listening (in many forms it seems) the Alexa excuse doesn't hold up because it shows decline and decline that is only rapidly increasing.

You are a troll, nothing more. Actually put forth a decent post with some thought behind it or run back to the echo chamber. You have been disproved time and again without ever countering with information. "But it shows decline, that totes means it is a quality source!" No. No it doesn't.
 
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Shaqazooloo

Member
I've stopped lurking resetera recently (except the Media Creates Thread), it's just gotten way too toxic lately. Even on the gaming side its pretty bad, I don't even want to take a peak at the off-topic discussions. The type of posters over there make me sick tbh. Some of those people need help...
 

Shmunter

Member
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GAF's decline is only getting faster on Alexa and that's with all the alt-right flooding in.

If they sold you out after all you did for them, then they sure as heck ain't coming back.

No idea about the ranking, site seems to me to be getting busier since I singed up. But alt-right? Pffft, did someone say that and you’re just repeating it, like many do?
 

Blam

Member
Isn’t she the Madonna of the whole geek sjw movement? Sacrilege
Yeah she started the whole thing off of a bunch of lies, and was disproven but doesn't matter she's just like Anita doesn't know who or what she's doing but still manages to make money off of the people that hate her.
 

Xisiqomelir

Member
Whereas I have talked to these people and made friends with them for over a year. They aren't what you want them desperately to be. The site has shitty people just like every other online community, but that doesn't mean they speak for everyone. And its foolish for you to pretend that they do.

No one is speaking from a position of ignorance, though. I've personally watched boby roberts and slayven and lime and excelsiorlief etc etc shit up GAF for years. They are not an unknown quantity.
 

Clear

CliffyB's Cock Holster
Alt-Right has to be the most abused term on the internet these days.

Its beyond stupid, leaning right of center on at least some issues doesn't make you a crypto-fascist. Leaning right of the extremists on Resetera is basically everyone but radical Marxists.
 

Ribi

Member
Since you're listening (in many forms it seems) the Alexa excuse doesn't hold up because it shows decline and decline that is only rapidly increasing.
It seems you're being resetera'd aka called out and mob mentalitied here. I'm laughing
 

Dr. Claus

Vincit qui se vincit
Alt-Right has to be the most abused term on the internet these days.

Its beyond stupid, leaning right of center on at least some issues doesn't make you a crypto-fascist. Leaning right of the extremists on Resetera is basically everyone but radical Marxists.

Nah, it isn't even that. If you are even slightly right of them (still firmly planted on the left), that qualifies you as alt-right to them.
 
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hariseldon

Unconfirmed Member
Nah, it isn't even that. If you are even slightly right of them (still firmly planted on the left), that qualifies you as alt-right to them.

Can confirm, I'm a pretty full-on leftie economically and I've had RPS forums and that cunt Walker (which are fundamentally the same thing as Resetera) call me alt-right. The funny thing is on the iRacing forums (American, primarily right-leaning) I've been called a communist.
 
Wouldn't worry about it too much. Reset's eventual collapse is not exactly a far-fetched premise. I have strategies prepared for most scenarios. We have a capable, experienced, hand-picked team that can adapt to rapidly evolving situations. XF2's tools are powerful, versatile, and logically oriented, and we've extended them with add-ons and customizations besides. Any attack vectors previously utilized will not prove fruitful if attempted again. Good fucking luck hurting my feelings or convincing me that NeoGAF should be more like fucking Resetera.:messenger_ghost:

That being said, if overflow or containment becomes a genuine concern, preferably don't hand the keys to another random imbecile. I'd rather maintain PurpleGAF myself as a public service just from a harm reduction standpoint. Christ.


Yeah, remember what your last batch of hand-picked people evolved into. If you give all control to these people - history will repeat and gaf will not recover again.
 

Shmunter

Member
Can confirm, I'm a pretty full-on leftie economically and I've had RPS forums and that cunt Walker (which are fundamentally the same thing as Resetera) call me alt-right. The funny thing is on the iRacing forums (American, primarily right-leaning) I've been called a communist.

Its sad as it highlights the massive divide that is present. There is no room for nuance, you’re with us or against us. There’s never been a more appropriate proverb than; the truth is salways somewhere in the middle
 
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Shaqazooloo

Member
Resetera really had me confused on the alt-right stuff. They pretty much call everything alt-right and from what I understand, the alt-right are the actual racists, so it was confusing seeing these people that resetera had deemed alt-right not saying anything particularly racist.

I also saw them say NeoGaf had become an alt-right hangout about 4 months back, I proceed to take a look and see whats going on and find people expressing reasonable and not racist opinions. Hell, what I saw when I came here was way more pleasant than resetera at that time too lol.

Didn't take long for me to realize that alt-right to them means things they don't like which also means it's evil. I'm not a fan of people calling something racist when its not, it undermines actual racism imo.
 

cormack12

Gold Member
Looks like excelsiolef is getting help finally:

....became almost entirely immersed in an online world of "echo chambers" where he felt the pull of extremism and cybercrime.

Now, just 14 months after stepping outside for the first time in years, ......

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-46029562

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Redneckerz

Those long posts don't cover that red neck boy
Resetera moron quits a video game over a dance.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fo...asure-straight-up.79832/page-15#post-14775311
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Good riddance. Lets hope more of these freaks abandon video games forever.

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Always something new to rage about. That lot will have heart attacks early
Why are you taking Ali seriously or giving it attention.

If there is one user on ERA who is being an resident Troll Expert its Ali. Really dumbfounded at this one, as i figured this was more known.

I don't usually post in this thread , but i have to say. Anyone that confronts her directly on Era ends up with a ban almost 70% of the time. I think she moonlights as a mod and user. There's no other reason to why she can operate with total impunity
Excel probably scores even higher. You can check in the Banbot graphs how many reply-actions Excel gets. Reply-actions are staff interactions based on someone quoting or responding to someone else. So, if you respond to Excel, the chances of you getting checked by a staff member increase exponentially.

GAF's decline is only getting faster on Alexa and that's with all the alt-right flooding in.

If they sold you out after all you did for them, then they sure as heck ain't coming back.
Atleast GAF declines with grace and on a good note, shall we say. Atleast this place attempts to improve, no?

Even a mere attempt is still more effort to positivity than what you get out of most of the Little Helpers at ERA and their constant negativity. I can imagine being a regular Joe there and feeling locked into all this negativity.

I don’t think people on here or Era realise how actually similar these two sites are.
If you are referring to the Politics forum, then i don't think you should take GAF as a whole. Just like how i personally try not to judge ERA as a whole for their wrongdoings.

But would you go on the record of elaborating on this some more?
 
If you are referring to the Politics forum, then i don't think you should take GAF as a whole. Just like how i personally try not to judge ERA as a whole for their wrongdoings.

But would you go on the record of elaborating on this some more?

I’m referring more to the general attitude towards one another. This thread is a great example of it.

“People on reee are loonies, we’re much better people than they are” says guy who spends his free time in a thread dedicated to bitching about people on the other site. Like 2 posts up there’s someone taking a BBC article and using it to make a joke about a completely unrelated poster on the other site, someone else earlier was making jokes about trans people, someone else was calling for the execution of all journalists.

It’s madness, it’s like people on here and era are so quick to shut down anyone who claims their chosen site is a hive mind and that the other site is full of people who are crazy and dangerous. without realising that both sites are just a collection of people, most of whom are relatively normal and don’t get involved in any of the drama or extremism.

Like, the posters in this thread spending their time bitching and mocking posters on the other site don’t seem to get that they’re really just as bad as the people they’re mocking, just two sides of the same coin. And it happens on era too, it’s not just a GAF thing, but at least Era doesn’t have a thread dedicated to insulting people from here. The fact that this thread not only exists, but is one of the longest and most active threads, is really sad.

Both sites evidently have garbage people on them, and those garbage people making sweeping generalisations about the other site without realising the irony in what they’re doing.
 
Calling people you know nothing about "garbage people" is the epitome a sweeping generalisation, and then complaining about them making sweeping generalisations. Well the irony is pretty thick.

That’s not a “sweeping generalisation”. I said that most people on both sites were normal, grounded and not involved in the drama. Saying that it’s a minority of people who are like that is quite literally the opposite of a sweeping statement.
 

Acerac

Banned
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Do you disagree that there are garbage people on both sites?
I too would be curious about the amount of sanitation workers per site.

There are terrible people in pretty much every group. Pointing it out is a great way to shit on any sufficiently sized community, but the problems that these people cause seem to wax and wane based on their influence.

There are some members with rather... troubling opinions who have a rather large amount of influence over the opinions of others on the site.
 
You keep pushing this as fact when it is not even close to being a fact. You are here just pushing your agenda from ResetEra.

How do I “keep” pushing it? By saying there are shitty people on Era too? You’re being very defensive, there’s no motive behind my posts other than what’s in them.

It is a fact that there are similar attitudes across both sites in terms of what they think and how they talk about each other.
 
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Solomeena

Banned
How do I “keep” pushing it? By saying there are shitty people on Era too? You’re being very defensive, there’s no motive behind my posts other than what’s in them.

It is a fact that there are similar attitudes across both sites in terms of what they think and how they talk about each other.

I'm not being defensive at all. Is this the new TOXIC meme that liberals are pushing? While there may be some overlap between the forums in some regards, GAF is nothing like Era in their current forms. Show me a thread on this message board like the one over on Era talking about killing Tucker Carlson post after post after post. We had one dude who said something gross about a reporter here and he was warned by a mod here to knock it off. Meanwhile on Era there was a whole multi page thread dedicated to Fox News Tucker Carlson and killing him and his family, i dare you to give me a thread here on this forum that compares to Era talking about murdering a reporter and his family.

I know that you know this thread well G Gravy Boat since you post on Era but here is the exact thread so you can't deny my claims and for everyone else to see how evil and insane this forum is : https://www.resetera.com/threads/th...me-targeted-by-anti-fascist-protesters.79627/
 
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NickFire

Member
I'm not being defensive at all. Is this the new TOXIC meme that liberals are pushing? While there may be some overlap between the forums in some regards, GAF is nothing like Era in their current forms. Show me a thread on this message board like the one over on Era talking about killing Tucker Carlson post after post after post. We had one dude who said something gross about a reporter here and he was warned by a mod here to knock it off. Meanwhile on Era there was a whole multi page thread dedicated to Fox News Tucker Carlson and killing him and his family, i dare you to give me a thread here on this forum that compares to Era talking about murdering a reporter and his family.

I know that you know this thread well G Gravy Boat since you post on Era but here is the exact thread so you can't deny my claims and for everyone else to see how evil and insane this forum is : https://www.resetera.com/threads/th...me-targeted-by-anti-fascist-protesters.79627/
24 pages before they shut it down and threaten to moderate the worst of them. But how long would a thread calling out their mods last for? And will anyone get banned for as long as you would for saying Kotaku sucks?
 

Ogbert

Member
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Do you disagree that there are garbage people on both sites?

Yes.

Era is in a whole different universe of crazy. There are some legitimately revolting, malicious and mean spirited characters over there, protected by an equally unpleasant gaggle of disturbed moderators.
 
Other prime examples where GAF is nowhere close to being similar to ERA are the forums' reactions to Jessica Price's firing from ArenaNet and the joke tweets from the CDPR/GOG community manager. On GAF, the majority of users agreed that Price was being a total ass and deserved getting fired. Those who disagreed with that weren't mobbed nor were they banned on the basis of the position they held. In contrast, the mod team locked three threads that covered that same incident because they were "disappointed" in how the conversation went in those threads. When the fourth and final thread was posted, the mod team made sure that the users read the "correct sources" (e.g. Kotaku, RockPaperShotgun, Polygon) by posting links to their articles in the OP.

I think we all already know what went down between the CDPR community manager and ERA. But to make it short, ERA resorted to doxxing and harassing the person whereas GAF did not. All in all, the overall behaviors between the two forums are night and day. Yes, there are users who say reprehensible things in both forums, but in one particular forum, it's the encouragement of certain types of behavior that differentiates it.
 
Yes.

Era is in a whole different universe of crazy. There are some legitimately revolting, malicious and mean spirited characters over there, protected by an equally unpleasant gaggle of disturbed moderators.

See, they would say the same about you. You’d obviously say they’re wrong, but so would they. It all just feels like a silly turf war when really the sites are very similar. 90% of the time it’s just normal people talking about the same subjects and events across both sites. Both sites look at what they believe to be the negatives of each site and then tar everyone with the same brush. You’re doing it in this very post with the “Era is a whole different universe of crazy” stuff. It’s the same as them calling this place NeoNaziGaf.
 

Fox Mulder

Member
No idea about the ranking, site seems to me to be getting busier since I singed up. But alt-right? Pffft, did someone say that and you’re just repeating it, like many do?

Havent you heard? If you don't want Tucker Carlson and his family burned alive in his house you are a nazi.
 
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Ogbert

Member
See, they would say the same about you

Perhaps.

I suppose the difference is they would get to say it over here.

Whereas I would just get banned over there.

And I don't think *everyone* there is awful. Not at all. The gaming side is perfectly fine. It's just the same 30 or 40 people that pile into any off topic, say 'yikes', accuse people of 'both siding' or being a 'literal Nazi' (as opposed to what chaps, a figurative one?) and then get the poor soul banned. Their new thing is to be suspicious of anyone that doesn't have thousands of posts to their names, displaying their technicolor lack of awareness that:

a) lots of people have jobs and do not have the time to argue about pointless shit on the internet; and
b) they might be afraid to voice their opinion lest the sword of justice themed Damocles descends upon them.
 
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Solomeena

Banned
See, they would say the same about you. You’d obviously say they’re wrong, but so would they. It all just feels like a silly turf war when really the sites are very similar. 90% of the time it’s just normal people talking about the same subjects and events across both sites. Both sites look at what they believe to be the negatives of each site and then tar everyone with the same brush. You’re doing it in this very post with the “Era is a whole different universe of crazy” stuff. It’s the same as them calling this place NeoNaziGaf.

There is no point in replying to you. You just offer up the same bs reply every time. You are here to minimize the extremism of Era. If you are genuine about how we are no different then Era start offering up some proof like i did starting with a direct comparison to the Tucker Carlson tread on Era, show me something here on this forum that rivals that animalistic thread.
 
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JordanN

Banned
See, they would say the same about you. You’d obviously say they’re wrong, but so would they. It all just feels like a silly turf war when really the sites are very similar. 90% of the time it’s just normal people talking about the same subjects and events across both sites. Both sites look at what they believe to be the negatives of each site and then tar everyone with the same brush. You’re doing it in this very post with the “Era is a whole different universe of crazy” stuff. It’s the same as them calling this place NeoNaziGaf.
What evidence do they have? Just because they "REEEEEEEEEEEEEE" doesn't change the fact they're a site full of racists.


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Skyn3t

Banned
The gaming side is perfectly fine? What about that thread about racism towards Native Americans in Smash Ultimate and many more similar themed bullshit?
 

EviLore

Expansive Ellipses
Staff Member
GAF's decline is only getting faster on Alexa and that's with all the alt-right flooding in.

If they sold you out after all you did for them, then they sure as heck ain't coming back.

Alt-right flooding in where? Neo-Nazis aren't allowed here. By all means, link us up or use the report function. You may also want to let these alt-right masses flooding in that they're on a liberal jew boy's personal website. Hi. :lollipop_raising_hand: Oh hey look there's the gun my grandfather fought the Nazis with in the War. Oh hey look, my Israeli passport. Why am I in this photograph meeting President Obama?! WHAT'S THIS "HONORARY DNC SUPERDELEGATE" CREDENTIAL ON THE COUNTER?! WHAT WOULD HERR FUHRER THINK?! :lollipop_astonished::lollipop_fearful::lollipop_thescream::lollipop_flores: Please. Step out of your reality distortion field, stop letting yourself be spoonfed a bullshit narrative by dysfunctional screaming internet kids. Take PoliSci 101, calibrate your political compass, and get back to us.

Alexa scores are based on people using Alexa toolbars, i.e. no one except website owners trying to boost their own Alexa score (if you're time traveling to 20 years ago or some shit). It's easily manipulated and unreliable, but can be "fun." You can't just magically derive traffic statistics for a website, though. It needs to be your website, or via access provided directly from the website owner. Hi. :lollipop_raising_hand:

From September 2017 (pre-drama) vs October 2018, google analytics show we've gone from 1.8 million unique visitors monthly to... :lollipop_pouting::lollipop_frowning_mouth::lollipop_crying: :lollipop_sad_relieved: GASP...OH GOD... 1.5 million unique visitors monthly. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-----wait, wait, hold on, you told me dead website that everyone left a long time ago. Pls advise.

Just teasing you a little. GAF is not declining faster than ever, silly pants. Post activity and engagement have skyrocketed lately, signal:noise ratios are better than they've been in a very long time, and people are conducting themselves far more like respectable adults than the clusterfuck we had circa 2016-2017.

People made their choices. There was a big mess to sort out, though, and lots of misunderstandings along the way, may of which have since been resolved. We have a vibrant, legitimately diverse community emerging here.
 

ILLtown

Member
I don't see how anyone can claim that this site and ResetEra are similar.

Find me one thread that's the equivalent of that Tucker Carlson thread. Compare the ban logs of this site to Era's.

I've called people on Era leftist extremists, because that's what they are. Some of them are advocating for Tucker Carlson to be doxed and attacked. Some would celebrate his murder if it occurred. Now, just because they say that this site is "NaziGAF" or whatever doesn't make it so. You have to provide the evidence and there just isn't any. If this site was riddled with Nazis and alt-righters, I wouldn't be here myself.

The idea that this site leans right to the extent that Era leans left, including in the moderating teams, is baseless.
 
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