Thankfully that is behind us now. And thankfully you came back and are now a Volunteer!
Hopefully there isn't any truth to the fear. It would be extremely petty if either Community was punishing their members for posting at another site.
I'm glad your porky digits will no longer stop you from posting on mobile. Phones have gotten bigger and mobile versions of sites have come a long way haven't they.
It certainly was crazy with the moderation pre Oct. 2017. I am not a big "forgive and forget" person... but I am a big forgive person. I think its important to remember what was so we don't fall back into it.
I think the community is working on that. We need to have more respect for each other even when completely disagree. Give us time to get this right. I truly believe that we will have many leaders step up and lead by example. I sincerely hope we can show you this.
And remember, this isn't even NeoGAF's final form!
Completely understand. It felt like a head ache coming here months before Oct. 2017. At least for me. I went back to lurking. Walked back in here after Oct. 2017 like I just came out the Fallout Vault lol.
I just never could bring myself to leave this place behind. This place really has done so much for so many people over the years. I truly believe it is worth investing in as a community and is a second family for me. I don't have much family. My Mother is died, my Father is a shithead, only 1 grand parent left. NeoGAF is my favorite thing in my daily life behind my family and Baseball lol.
What goes on at any other site is meaningless to me imo. We have to give Gaffers a reason to come here. And I believe that continuing to build this awesome community, the incredible staff, the well designed and working site will be what brings people here and keeps them here. And it is my belief that there are tons of people who want to contribute, but aren't willing to skip the first rock.
That's the purpose of the Volunteers program. I hope it's successful because 1) I care about his community 2) I want to be able to disband it and retire from it lol. It's been a lot of work, but very fulfilling.
As
greyshark
and
dorkimoe
said, use the unjust ban thread and get it back.
It's unfortunate how it happened and I do agree it resulted in the fresh start NeoGAF needed.
I will say however that while we can see some "good" coming from it, its been Evilore that has had to go through all the drama. I imagine it's incredibly hurtful to go through what he did. Many of the people that trashed him and still trash him regularly were people he called friends. Its crazy to think so many people who swear they are compassionate and all about feelings can have zero for someone that gave them so much.
It's incredibly easy to make a website and run a community where you are the protected group. Where your group is the most oppressed on the planet and also protected group in the community you build. Like me running a forum for only Washington Nationals fans as a fan myself. That's incredibly self serving.
But when you have a community where you allow oppressed groups protection and a place to call home, while allowing your group to be public enemy #1... thats pretty selfless.
The irony of the whole thing is the people who consider him the enemy has done less for the oppressed groups they are part of or trying to help compared to him.
And that was a huge problem with NeoGAF and the internet overall imo. We have forgot that everyone is... a person. I know people come back here wanting to know what he said, its already posted here but asking him to continue to repeat everything can wear a person done. We need to remember that everyone is a human being and treat them as such.
This of curse is all my opinion and thought and only represents myself.
We are glad you are here.