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dorkimoe

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Just spent some time over there, what a bunch of insufferable, virtue signalling, spastics. How do you regulars do it?
Not even joking, it really affected my mental state haha. I would wake up, open resetera and ask myself "what are we offended by today?" and then see they were offended by the charlie brown thanksgiving, and that snow was white etc. I had to ignore ANYONE who made a thread about certain topics, to avoid myself going in there. Dont get me wrong, i wasnt going to go in there and start a fight, but for example a police shooting, explaining how hard it is for police and stuff would probably get me banned. Any post I make on that forum I fear a ban. Its worse than walking on egg shells.

I want game news, movie/tv show talk, and new electronic talk. I dont need politics (this statement got me banned) or any social issue shoved in my face
 
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Michele

you.
I'm looking to buy a Resetera account to bypass teh restriction

Nah, I was just kidding. I don't think I own a account there. But that site is definitely toxic and annoying. They even got famous members like Serebii, a certain Skydim(? IDK) development, and even Andre of Gamexplain to join that forum.

What the hell?! Ngh, that site is making me crazy. It's like they are bullying us.
 

MilkyJoe

Member
Not even joking, it really affected my mental state haha. I would wake up, open resetera and ask myself "what are we offended by today?" and then see they were offended by the charlie brown thanksgiving, and that snow was white etc. I had to ignore ANYONE who made a thread about certain topics, to avoid myself going in there. Dont get me wrong, i wasnt going to go in there and start a fight, but for example a police shooting, explaining how hard it is for police and stuff would probably get me banned. Any post I make on that forum I fear a ban. Its worse than walking on egg shells.

I want game news, movie/tv show talk, and new electronic talk. I dont need politics (this statement got me banned) or any social issue shoved in my face

I may have made a slightly deliberate post in there today, with full purpose of it getting dog piled and a list of expected replies. It took seconds, just seconds, to have the virtue signalling fruitcakes on top of me, digging up old posts, quoting long lost quotes on the internet etc, anything to dismiss your opinion. The dedication they put into shooting down free thought is amazing, you have to admire the dedication if anything. Well if you can get past them being complete fruitcakes.
 

Whitecrow

Banned
That's what happens when you care more about visitors than ethics.

Era have demonstrated a million times now that is a way worse community than GAF, but important personalities remain there for the obviously profitable community size.
 
So upfront, I am more politically aligned on a personal level with the way the other site leans on many issues.

But, I respect the open dialogue here a lot. Even if the mods and I agree, it's kind of shit they shut down conversation over there.

Also... the gaming section is turning into corporate apologist central. That's something I can't get behind ever. It's fucked up to me that they want to virtue signal for literally everyone but consumers of the gaming industry. What the fuck...

Really getting to the point of avoiding the other site in favor of this one.

Hope this place remains a forum of open dialogue and sensible moderation.
 
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So upfront, I am more politically aligned on a personal level with the way the other site leans on many issues.

But, I respect the open dialogue here a lot. Even if the mods and I agree, it's kind of shit they shut down conversation over there.

Also... the gaming section is turning into corporate apologist central. That's something I can't get behind ever.

Really getting to the point of avoiding the other site in favor of this one.

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Deleted member 713885

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Anyone trying to 'figure out' ResetEra, I point you to two ways best to describe it..

'Compaction Cycles'

"The more frequently that compaction cycles are occurring, the more rapidly a given Narrativist group is radicalizing. This cycle is also important because it is a major factor in how Narrativist groups build common ground with each other when they are looking for allies. (It also plays a large role in the cross pollination of various strings of Narrativist thought.) To explain this facet of Narrativist behavior I will call forth the metaphor of a snowball. Specifically, a snowball made of that wet slush shit that is right on the border between being frozen and being a puddle.

An average Narrativist group when not experiencing narrative dysphoria is like our slush ball. A mixture of hard and soft members, since when forming Narrativist groups are like an annoying new guild in WoW. ("LAID BACK FAMILY GUILD THAT RAIDS AND PVP'S RECRUITING ALL LEVELS AND ROLES PST) They will accept anyone willing to pay lip service to the groups ideals. When not under pressure or threatened, Narrativist groups are much more relaxed and make a conscious effort to be welcoming to outsiders (some of whom are then selectively groomed for admittance into the ever-present-in-Narrativist-organizations "inner circle").

All such groups when under pressure (particularly narrative dysphoria) however, start to drive softer members out. Stress rises, tempers flare. Rhetoric becomes harsher, group identity becomes more important, aggressive members start to scrutinize for any perceived flaw in the tribe. Eventually someone (or a group of someones) finds themselves on the wrong side of an internal dispute. It could be that they are genuinely at fault fault, it could not be, doesn't really matter. In the end they were guilty of the sin of not spotting the group think searching for a scapegoat fast enough and as a result they became the scapegoat and are summarily driven out.

With the "softer" members (or water in our slushball) compacted out, the remaining members are more radical overall. While the overall mass, or number of members has decreased, the remaining members are the ones who have proven themselves to be the most competent at falling in line and will prove less likely to disagree with the group think in the future. They have become like the Ice Ball.

Next the Narrativist group will enter a growth phase, and seek to add new "softer" members (or more snow/slush) who will be welcomed in while a semi-secret inner circle not so publicly makes all the real decisions. This addition of new members will continue until the Narrativist group comes under pressure or is subjected to narrative dysphoria, at which point a new compaction cycle will form and another member (or potientially small group of members) will be made into scapegoats for the group's failures and cast out. (In the metaphor of our slushball, this is another round of compacting the water out of our slushball once again and winding up with an even larger core ball of ice.) The remaining members will become more extreme/radicalized, and will then seek to add new members to the group one again.

The metaphor does not end here though, because we need to consider what happens to those outcast members. Most of the time (85% or so if I had to guess) they will go on to join another group. Since they are Authoritarians they will join another group that also follows the Grand Narrative. (While I would like to mention that this is how you get 9-11 truthers that become UFO nuts that become objectivist shitlords and then wind up being 9-11 truthers again over the course of a long enough period of time, I want to stay mostly with the Freep example.) The Freep members that join some other online Conservative community will be quite a bit more shy about rocking the boat. They will be more sensitive and more alert for changes in their new home-tribes groupthink. They will find themselves drawn to the new groups hardliners and will become more hardline themselves. Often, abused becomes abuser, and when this Narrativist group finds itself under pressure, (particularly narrative dysphoria) the formerly outcast member will be among the most vicious attackers of whoever winds up as the new groups scapegoat."


Like a snowball, compacting more and more of true believers, squeezing out the unpure..

I must specify here that just because a Narrativist reaches a 10 on my hypothetical scale it does not mean they will become violent; rather, it means that they feel morally justified and obligated to commit acts of violence. Whether they engage in those acts depends mostly on two factions: 1.) how much social stability is there in the community in which the Narrativist resides, and 2.) how much encouragement the Narrativist is receiving from communicating with other Narrativists who are at a similar level of compaction.

http://prestersperspective.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_16.html?m=1
 
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So upfront, I am more politically aligned on a personal level with the way the other site leans on many issues.

But, I respect the open dialogue here a lot. Even if the mods and I agree, it's kind of shit they shut down conversation over there.

Also... the gaming section is turning into corporate apologist central. That's something I can't get behind ever. It's fucked up to me that they want to virtue signal for literally everyone but consumers of the gaming industry. What the fuck...

Really getting to the point of avoiding the other site in favor of this one.

Hope this place remains a forum of open dialogue and sensible moderation.

Pretty much sums up me but I think I have stated it many times before.
 
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Whitecrow

Banned
JK Rowling predicted it with Pure bloods and Death Eaters.

You can be a fkn weak pussy and be proud of it.
 
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IISANDERII

Member
I once got banned for suggesting that a woman could easily make up something to get somebody else in trouble.

Here, my first few posts in a climate change thread there was a self proclaimed scientist who was trying to deny climate change by fabricating statements and cherry picking data. No moderation happened.

Pick your poison :messenger_unamused:
 
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DarkestHour

Banned
ResetERA is awful. I've never before visited a site so hate filled and quick to ban others that don't join in on the group think.
 
He mentioned the word "nigga" in a context. He didn't call anyone like this.

So your only issue is that you saw the word "nigga" written down without a censor? Because he didn't refer to it as the "N-word" or something? Or you just don't care about context?

You sound like the typical oversensitive type who looks for something to be offended by.

Just type the N-word into the search bar and you get all kinds of receipts. I'm not gonna dig up dirt and post them though.


Just report and the mods will likely discourage the behavior.
 
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Uhtred

Member
Honestly, yes. I had to place 30 or so people on my ignore list, for it to be tolerable. As many others have said the things people get away with wishing for others death and things like that is weird top me.
 

Dr. Claus

Vincit qui se vincit
So upfront, I am more politically aligned on a personal level with the way the other site leans on many issues.

But, I respect the open dialogue here a lot. Even if the mods and I agree, it's kind of shit they shut down conversation over there.

Also... the gaming section is turning into corporate apologist central. That's something I can't get behind ever. It's fucked up to me that they want to virtue signal for literally everyone but consumers of the gaming industry. What the fuck...

Really getting to the point of avoiding the other site in favor of this one.

Hope this place remains a forum of open dialogue and sensible moderation.

For the general political view points, I am the same. NeoGaf is very much still a left-leaning site, but we allow folks that are more centrist and right leaning (as well as a few extremists on either side that are usually dealt with by mods) speak freely. Please join in the convos and give a civil viewpoint backed up with evidence/data.
 

Ennosuke

Member
Recently era became a joke. There have been too many threads about non-sense and instead the real gaming discussions totally get lost in between this non-sense. I mean there is like at least one thread per day, where someone is offended by something where you ask yourself, is there nothing more important/fun in your life. Example: Not enough black human beings in Smash Bros.
 
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Deleted member 713885

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I removed it ya party poopers lol
 
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TrainedRage

Banned
I remember calling Era out on the hypocrisy of when Jim Carrey was making those political caricatures of Sarah Sanders and such. I pointed out it was pretty gross of him to make fun of a woman's looks just because she is a religious conservative.

Got permanent ban for being a disingenuous troll. And having fake outrage. I can honestly guarantee I hold the record of most bans without getting a permanent... Until I got that perma.
 
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Deleted member 713885

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I remember calling Era out on the hypocrisy of when Jim Carrey was making those political caricatures of Sarah Sanders and such. I pointed out it was pretty gross of him to make fun of a woman's looks just because she is a religious conservative.

Got permanent ban for being a disingenuous troll. And having fake outrage. I can honestly guarantee I hold the record of most bans without getting a permanent... Until I got that perma.

I got up to about 5 or 6 when it first launched. Did the same thing.

I broke chracter tho when they tried to convince a guy as long as he could use his hands and mouth sexually with his GF he didnt need to get an erection.
I told him that if his GF was ok with just hands and tongue in her mid-20's she might as well be a lesbian. Told him straight girls might like hands/mouth shit but shes gonna wanna D asap. Told him its gonna get old real fast and shes gonna dump him the minute she finds some one who can give her pipe.
Told him he needed to get his T checked and perhaps use a pill to regain confidence.

Banned for misogyny.

Thinking about making a new fake persona account, but, I'm lazy lol
 
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Dunki

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So upfront, I am more politically aligned on a personal level with the way the other site leans on many issues.

But, I respect the open dialogue here a lot. Even if the mods and I agree, it's kind of shit they shut down conversation over there.

Also... the gaming section is turning into corporate apologist central. That's something I can't get behind ever. It's fucked up to me that they want to virtue signal for literally everyone but consumers of the gaming industry. What the fuck...

Really getting to the point of avoiding the other site in favor of this one.

Hope this place remains a forum of open dialogue and sensible moderation.

I think that many issues can not be categorize. I am for example all for gay rights, I want equality for every race and gender etc but in terms of migration (Germany) or Islam I am highly conservative. You really do not get put into either the left or right corner but every discussion is different. At least in my opinion.

Just type the N-word into the search bar and you get all kinds of receipts. I'm not gonna dig up dirt and post them though.


Just report and the mods will likely discourage the behavior.
I have never seen this used as a slur against someone. If I would have seen this I would have reported this person. So I do not know what you saw...
 

Dr. Claus

Vincit qui se vincit
/r/Gaming and /r/Games.

I disagree with /r/Games. They are very much pro-gaming "journalism" to a fault and openly praise much of the same ignorant talking points that is thrown around like gospel on far-left forums.
 
Im visiting gaf back a bit since atm reset2.0 is really slow and error prone on my phone; I gotta say the moderation here seems way better albeit a tiny bit too lenient, just a bit tho. Unfortunately I dont plan on coming back as long as the big contributors and overall activity is on reset.
 
For the general political view points, I am the same. NeoGaf is very much still a left-leaning site, but we allow folks that are more centrist and right leaning (as well as a few extremists on either side that are usually dealt with by mods) speak freely. Please join in the convos and give a civil viewpoint backed up with evidence/data.

Agreed and as it should be. People want to make a point and have evidence to back it up, go for it. Besides if a conversation is allowed to happen in a civil manner, agreements could possibly be made and advancements can be made on one or both sides. I just get rubbed the wrong way when there exists blanket moderation from up high.


I think that many issues can not be categorize. I am for example all for gay rights, I want equality for every race and gender etc but in terms of migration (Germany) or Islam I am highly conservative. You really do not get put into either the left or right corner but every discussion is different. At least in my opinion.

I know what you mean. Sweeping and different platform of ideas under the same political banner never made much sense to me. Many people have issues that are near and dear to them and that doesn't automatically mean they support other issues that exist as adjacent platform for specific politcal movements.
 

LordRaptor

Member
So upfront, I am more politically aligned on a personal level with the way the other site leans on many issues.

But, I respect the open dialogue here a lot. Even if the mods and I agree, it's kind of shit they shut down conversation over there.

Also... the gaming section is turning into corporate apologist central. That's something I can't get behind ever. It's fucked up to me that they want to virtue signal for literally everyone but consumers of the gaming industry. What the fuck...

Really getting to the point of avoiding the other site in favor of this one.

Hope this place remains a forum of open dialogue and sensible moderation.

I consider myself left wing, and I support things like the UN Declaration of Human Rights, which means I believe in certain essential freedoms that everyone should have, like the right to free speech, the right to peaceful protest, freedom of religion, beliefs and thoughts, the right to defend yourself from accusations, that all people are equal, etc.

But I really can't reconcile those beliefs with some of the beliefs espoused as "objectively true" when things like the concept of freedom of speech are routinely mocked "Muh freeze peach", violence as a first resort instead of dialogue, racism or sexism aren't really racism or sexism because "power + privilege", jump on someone whos accused of something immediately without waiting for the facts or their defence, etc.
Like... I don;t know what a lot of those people are, but they're not what I consider left wing.
 
Im visiting gaf back a bit since atm reset2.0 is really slow and error prone on my phone; I gotta say the moderation here seems way better albeit a tiny bit too lenient, just a bit tho. Unfortunately I dont plan on coming back as long as the big contributors and overall activity is on reset.
That's how it should be, there shouldn't be thought polices.

Moderators should be here to: get rid of spam/ads, ban overly aggressive and hostile users that personally attack others, make sure things are running smoothly and in the right places.

There is no fucking reason you should be banned for an opinion no matter how WRONG it may sound. That's the point of a discussion board, to discuss these things. If it is too distracting and out of control, you can block those threads or move them to a new location, but banning a person because their opinion is different is so fucking insane.

All reset-era is becoming is a forum where someone posts a shocking thread and everyone has to out-shock each other and wait for anyone that comes by with even a slightly different opinion and then they all dog-pile that person.
 

Blam

Member
I am trans, and I found that place disgusting
As we should because it ain't a place for Trans people as far as I'm concerned.
Decided to check GAF again because ResetEra looks like trash now only to find out this site looks different now too. lol

This one here looks better though.
There is a thread for suggestions, and feed back for the themes, you can also have the original GAF themes back if you don't like 2.0.

There's a *giant* gross banner across the bottom of "new" ERA, even when you're scrubbing almost everything with adblockers, asking for money for adblocking.

Was that the secret plan of concocting a reason to migrate the NeoGAF population all along? Monitization?

I when I was a part of the team pushed it fucking hard to make sure that wasn't the case and even went far enough to mock up a donation bar for the server, and milestones for fundraising and to keep it all transparent on where the money is going and what it was being applied to.

I had suggested to keep it to the server bill only and a additional donation link to help build more things for the site/maintenance, but to be quite honest yes it was entirely monetary. They wanted to get as many large "GAF-Celebs" on ERA to move everyone over. They got Shinobi, and Zhuge and that brought a bunch of people over, but they really wanted Wario64 on their site, and frankly I'm stupid happy he refused to join it and exclusively post his deals there alone.

All they give a shit about is numbers, and how much money they can make now. I mean for fuck sakes their yearly membership is more then giantbombs by $10 and they cannot keep their site up properly. since they've not upgraded since the original purchase of the servers. The only reason they seem to survive and exist. Is because they pay others to do their work. They are really inexperienced. They bought their new theme because they kicked every designer off the team. Only people left are "Celeb-Admins", and people who do a little server maintenance. I mean Giantbomb runs everything off of that subscription, and their site is running just fine, they stream, they do the whole shebang but ERA can barely stay up.

Why do you think Cerium founded an LLC the day of the name was solidified. He found a perfect opportunity to make money with no work at all. He's cheaping out just like Sony cheaped out on the PS Classic.


I went over in the mass exodus because the communities I was following here all immediately jumped ship to Era - the irony being that they've all pretty much died off by now, or I've stopped following at this point.

Although it's a very active/fast moving forum so much of it is just noise. The World Cup threads were absolutely hilarious for this kind of light and shite post content.

Yikes.

Like Evilore said a while back about how he wanted GAF to continue one he just didn't want people padding their post count with the usual. (wow, okay, lmao)

Which ERA is full of.

I'm looking to buy a Resetera account to bypass teh restriction

Nah, I was just kidding. I don't think I own a account there. But that site is definitely toxic and annoying. They even got famous members like Serebii, a certain Skydim(? IDK) development, and even Andre of Gamexplain to join that forum.

What the hell?! Ngh, that site is making me crazy. It's like they are bullying us.
Im visiting gaf back a bit since atm reset2.0 is really slow and error prone on my phone; I gotta say the moderation here seems way better albeit a tiny bit too lenient, just a bit tho. Unfortunately I dont plan on coming back as long as the big contributors and overall activity is on reset.


Yeah that's their draw, that's all they get those users on their site to do. Draw more people in.

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/off-...ep-it-in-here.1462647/page-127#post-253599352

I do suggest all of you users to check out a little more about how the site was started, and really just how poorly it's being managed and was managed.

( Redneckerz Redneckerz you've infected me with these long ass posts.)
 
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JordanN

Banned
That's how it should be, there shouldn't be thought polices.

Moderators should be here to: get rid of spam/ads, ban overly aggressive and hostile users that personally attack others, make sure things are running smoothly and in the right places.

There is no fucking reason you should be banned for an opinion no matter how WRONG it may sound. That's the point of a discussion board, to discuss these things. If it is too distracting and out of control, you can block those threads or move them to a new location, but banning a person because their opinion is different is so fucking insane.

All reset-era is becoming is a forum where someone posts a shocking thread and everyone has to out-shock each other and wait for anyone that comes by with even a slightly different opinion and then they all dog-pile that person.
I so agree with this.

I've posted this many times before, where old GAF went wrong is when Moderators revealed their hidden biases and engaged in corruption. It went from moderating a video game board to stealthly pushing agendas.

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There's nothing wrong with mods having their own political opinions. But when they let their own beliefs start influencing how they moderate, then we have a problem.

Resetera has shown they rather double down on such insidious behavior, as I've posted two examples of their moderators expressing blatant racist views but no action has been taken against them.
 
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I just popped in for first time on GAF since Reset has been working on new design. I hated how the split happened between GAF and Reset, and especially hated all the childish account suicides. ResetEra isn't a place I'm proud to reference like I was GAF back in the day, but unfortunately, GAF isn't that anymore either. I don't think there will ever be a place quite like GAF again.

I went over in the mass exodus because the communities I was following here all immediately jumped ship to Era - the irony being that they've all pretty much died off by now, or I've stopped following at this point.
Same. Went for League of Legends and Writing community. Writing one is still strong. League died. And quickly.
 
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Boy era and gaf look really similar except this place isn't broken and filled with more amateur design decisions. Why does everyone hate having refresh/forum nav buttons all of the sudden?
 
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Deleted member 77995

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I know what you mean. Sweeping and different platform of ideas under the same political banner never made much sense to me. Many people have issues that are near and dear to them and that doesn't automatically mean they support other issues that exist as adjacent platform for specific politcal movements.
It's particularly problematic in the US under a binary political system. Ousting yourself as a liberal or conservative means people engage you with preconceived hostility. Of course when you turn out to not be someone who hates white people or a white supremacist people backpedal and hit you with a No True Scotsman fallacy as a way of sidestepping back towards the low-hanging fruit.

When you form your view on what dumb stuff people are saying on the internet rather than what policies are being enacted and what are the elected officials saying you've opened up Pandora's box for irrational justifications. If you come to the conclusion that white liberals are race traitors or that conservatives hate minorities because of what's been posted on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, internet forms, etc then you've laid out the groundwork for someone on the opposing side to come to an equally ludicrous position that can be illegitimately held by your own logical pathway.

This place's obsession with Era is also problematic because sifting through any echo chamber means you're gonna read a lot of hot takes, demonization of the opposition, poorly reframed arguments and plainly put, dumb bandwagoners. It's much too easy to go after the low hanging fruit and strawman, rather than the best versions of a particular argument.
 
I just popped in for first time on GAF since Reset has been working on new design. I hated how the split happened between GAF and Reset, and especially hated all the childish account suicides. ResetEra isn't a place I'm proud to reference like I was GAF back in the day, but unfortunately, GAF isn't that anymore either. I don't think there will ever be a place quite like GAF again.

Same. Went for League of Legends and Writing community. Writing one is still strong. League died. And quickly.
Oh ye of little faith. Stick around and help make Gaf what you want it to be.
 

Dark Star

Member
i post on both era and gaf.
i think they're both great forums with great members.

however, the recent redesign of era has left the site in shambles : many posters cannot post, keep getting warning errors, and the dark mode doesn't even work lol. It's been like this for a couple days and i'm just waiting for them to fix those issues before i go back.
 
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El_Belmondo

Member
Oh ye of little faith. Stick around and help make Gaf what you want it to be.

Well... in the end it is what it is. Does NeoGAF lacks something that we can afford to do? Then we just do it. It's that simple.

I'm just going to post Nintendo news and be a left-leaning voice here and there. Maybe that can amout to something.
 
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zou

Member
Hopefully the disastrous "redesign" will drive some activity to GAF, what a giant cluster fuck.
 

Dr. Claus

Vincit qui se vincit
Well... in the end it is what it is. Does NeoGAF lacks something that we can afford to do? Then we just do it. It's that simple.

I'm just going to post Nintendo news and be a left-leaning voice here and there. Maybe that can amout to something.

You will fit right in with the 90% of members who are left leaning then!
 

Michele

you.
Hopefully the disastrous "redesign" will drive some activity to GAF, what a giant cluster fuck.

Disastrous redesign? Is this Resetera redesign an disaster? I haven't seen the comments... but before it went down, the users seemed to say they like the new update...

edit: Oh my god, the site looks like an disaster! Hopefull peoples will realize that Resetera is not a site.
 
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