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nush

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It’s honestly sad how many people live through the internet rather than the real world. It’s no surprise that they try to exert so much control over their internet social groups because they have none irl.

That and a lot of people are presenting the instagram version of their life.
 
Uuh oh, the bees are figuring out where the honey comes from:
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They still seem to think that side of GAF exists not knowing all that transferred over in the split.
That's what i find the funniest.....how the fuck could you not realise this.....it's actually worse
 

theekad

Banned
At the end of all this I want to know how many rabble-rousers from GAF and other sites are planting bait over there. I assume it’s a few, but it’d be even funnier if all those insane posts are real.
 

JORMBO

Darkness no more
At the end of all this I want to know how many rabble-rousers from GAF and other sites are planting bait over there. I assume it’s a few, but it’d be even funnier if all those insane posts are real.

I've said this before but I think the site is 50% crazies and the other 50% are trolls trying to trigger the crazies.
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
That's disheartening. Like I said earlier, it's just an internet forums until real feelings are involved.

There's something to be said about how Cerium and his staff are - willing-fully or not - putting in power people who don't have the shoulders, the experience, the mental health balance required to moderate a community. Who can argue someone like Nepenthe or FinalFirestalker are balanced individuals ? They're ticking bombs.

People with mental health issues or low self-esteem should be helped, not empowered like the staff are doing on Resetera. I hope it will never happens, but what if one of those moderators like Delphine, chose to end his life because she can't cope with all the hate and pressure coming his way ?

I feel for some of those people, because they're being used at best and weaponized at worst. Delphine is just a moderator, she's not in charge and yet, she's at the front-line of hate/pressure, while Cerium avoids all the heat of his poor judgement. He's sending his little minions to shield himself. Like other mods, Delphine has to follow Resetera stupid and inconsistent guidelines. The whole banning guidelines that Hecht described this week looks like a fucking quantum formula or a quintic function.

Ban X, but protect Y, unless his post counts is > or < to Z) x context², unless we're speaking A or B prominent members.

She probably doesn't even realize it herself because she's knee-deep into the job (and the cult), but the entire problem is the unhealthy environment Cerium proudly created and the upper-staff maintain. Not the deserved "hate" coming from the community.

Censor them, reeducate wrong-thinkers, build a perfect little world where people eat and shit rainbow. Listen to SweetNicole, keep everything lock tight, eat-up Hecht damage-control without asking questions. Endorse dog-pilling of bigots. Use our homemade terminology for ban reasons, protect upper-staff at all cost and most of all : give us your precious time for free... and don't forget that WE chose YOU to be a moderator of our gaming forum, by monitoring your activity for a long time.

Fuck that shit. If you're a decent and sensitive person, that's the kind of context that is going to break your spirit and make the 5th floor window looks more and more appealing. Hecht can try to sugar-coat all he wants and no amount of staff-support will prevent it from happening one day.
Well said.

The problem is Reeeeee has allowed their video game site to be taken over by every niche group treating it like a safe house.

If Reeeee wants to do that, it's on them. If they want to make it a 50/50 split forum where it's half video games and half interpersonal feelings about sexuality, racism, gender identity and any other political issue that' fine.

But at least moderate the board with people who know what they are doing to moderate.

If that many people are using Reeeeee to sound off on their personal issues, simply appointing a moderator based on the race or sexual preference doesn't mean anything.

That would be like me who likes baseball and hockey giving people tips on how to pitch or power skate just because I watch it on TV.

And if Reeee doesn't want to hire trained pros (who cost money) to help moderate a board with actual trained skills to deal with broken hearted people, then get rid of all the political crap and make the board focus on games where people aren't jumping off a bridge because Shenmue III got grilled in review. You don't need trained people to deal with people talking video games.

It's really up to Reeeee. Carry on with tearful posters and unprepared mods, or change their stance on what to focus on as a forum.

When mods are quitting and even publicly posting what a pain in the ass moderating........ a video game board..... lol....... it goes to show the forum is rotten.
 
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nush

Gold Member
I've said this before but I think the site is 50% crazies and the other 50% are trolls trying to trigger the crazies.

By banning a lot of normal people as trolls (and in fairness reguar old skool trolls) just for saying things that dissage with the groupthink . Ree has created a new mod resistant strain of super trolls like a virus hiding in a cell. Where the cell appears to be an LGBT avatar-ed, SJW that can escape the view of the packs of ban hunters that roam the boards of ree looking for fresh kills.
 

ULTROS!

People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
I wish the people on ResetEra take a step back and look at what other people are saying about them. I've checked various sites and majority say they're crazy SJWs with a side of pedophilia and a dash of terrible moderation. I mean why do they continue creating their own version that they're okay (aside from questioning the moderation)? Old GAF was hated upon, nowadays not so much, just a few people grouping NeoGAF with ResetEra.

Edit: also funny thought - if accusations are evidence (which lead to the truth) according to them, then them being accused (by the majority) as insane SJWs with a side of pedophilia are evidence which lead to the truth. :p
 
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nush

Gold Member
I wish the people on ResetEra take a step back and look at what other people are saying about them. I've checked various sites and majority say they're crazy SJWs with a side of pedophilia and a dash of terrible moderation. I mean why do they continue creating their own version that they're okay (aside from questioning the moderation)? Old GAF was hated upon, nowadays not so much, just a few people grouping NeoGAF with ResetEra.

Most people who check agree that GAF is now normal. Where REE has excelled itself with the crazy.
 

TheContact

Member
I remember neogaf having moderation on par to what exists on resetera...well maybe not as uptight but close to it. was it just the moderators (who are now mostly gone?) or was there a culture about creating an echo chamber?
 

ULTROS!

People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
I remember neogaf having moderation on par to what exists on resetera...well maybe not as uptight but close to it. was it just the moderators (who are now mostly gone?) or was there a culture about creating an echo chamber?

I think it had to do with several moderators fostering communities that turned against each other and encouraging to rise up or something. Basically people were divided by subcultures that were pushing agendas that not all will follow or believe in.
 

JORMBO

Darkness no more
I wish the people on ResetEra take a step back and look at what other people are saying about them. I've checked various sites and majority say they're crazy SJWs with a side of pedophilia and a dash of terrible moderation. I mean why do they continue creating their own version that they're okay (aside from questioning the moderation)? Old GAF was hated upon, nowadays not so much, just a few people grouping NeoGAF with ResetEra.

Edit: also funny thought - if accusations are evidence (which lead to the truth) according to them, then them being accused (by the majority) as insane SJWs with a side of pedophilia are evidence which lead to the truth. :p

They don’t care. They think everyone outside of their forum is alt right and out to get them.
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
They don’t care. They think everyone outside of their forum is alt right and out to get them.
Yup.

In their own little isolated field with barbed wire. Key topics at hand: sexual and gender identity, personal conflict, self esteem, racism, politics..........

............... on a video game board.
 
I wish the people on ResetEra take a step back and look at what other people are saying about them. I've checked various sites and majority say they're crazy SJWs with a side of pedophilia and a dash of terrible moderation. I mean why do they continue creating their own version that they're okay (aside from questioning the moderation)? Old GAF was hated upon, nowadays not so much, just a few people grouping NeoGAF with ResetEra.

It's the illusion of legitimacy that I've talked about before. "Big industry names" posting there combined with a very active community (despite being smaller than it seems) for a forum in the age of Twitter and Reddit allows them to buy into the facade that they're in the right because they aren't alone. Finale Fireworker commenting that "the outside internet is scary" is said without a hint of self-awareness because there's enough people to validate their extremely limited worldview. But it's more than that because a lot of them don't even realize just how much nearly every place outside their bubble absolutely loathes them for both justified and unjustified reasons.

You actually saw what happens when that bubble pops 2 years ago. Gaf refugees were legitimately shocked to see other places wanting nothing to do with them, including progressive outlets like Giant Bomb and Waypoint forums. I'm curious to see what will happen when that scenario repeats itself
 

Jeeves

Member
I remember neogaf having moderation on par to what exists on resetera...well maybe not as uptight but close to it. was it just the moderators (who are now mostly gone?) or was there a culture about creating an echo chamber?
Basically the Resetera culture began on GAF in probably 2015, the runup to the election. At least that's how I remember it. Before that it was very chill.

I've lurked both sites for a long time, and my favorite "era" of GAF was the late 2000s/early 2010s. It was open to diversity of thought like it is now, and it was very active. So active that I felt like I couldn't even keep up enough to participate myself, but it sure was fun to F5.
 
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benjipwns

Banned
Yeah, it was in the years after 2014 or so that it started to build up here. As dumb as he and his post is, I think the one Finale Fireworker post actually encapsulates "what went wrong" in 2016-17 here and continued on over there if it's not intentionally realizing so.

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What he's perceiving is a change in "Twitter" is actually a change in his social circle's focus. Same with how everyone is "angry" and "sad" now instead of funny.

Whenever you have threads about "where do you get your news/where else do you visit/etc." it's always like "I followed Party Approved Twitter accounts, watch Party Approved YouTube channels, read only appropriate Party Approved documents, etc." Look at how often the same 30 minute video of some dumbass ranting is posted in reply to subjects.

In the community threads/hangouts people all follow and post the same Twitter accounts. Now, there is some validity to this as obviously same interests and all, but if you look at the "type" or "inner community" it's near lockstep. Whether it's PoliGAF/ERA all following the same safe Democratic Party line media types, or the Star Wars obsessives all following and discussing the same small sect of other Star Wars obsessives, etc. Even in gaming the view is narrow to a select few sites/channels, like when they talk about game journalists they know Scherier and Klepek and... um... someone Austin Walker retweeted once definitely and then the Nintendo cultists of course.

"All the same faces, all the same accounts" as FF says. But as has been indicated here that becomes more than just say Twitter, it becomes beyond literal. Where do they go outside of those places to get topics to discuss, ResetERA.com. And that's it, it's the only discussion place they attend to. Lots of people used to admit they treated NeoGAF.com the same way. One stop shop for all your discussion needs. But you don't even have to read the threads, you can read the titles and look as FF puts it at the "same faces, same accounts" (or avatars) and instantly know how the "discussion" is going without reading a word.

I've never been able to stand that kind of restrictiveness, one reason I did come to post so much outside games on NeoGAF.com was because I ran so perpendicular to everyone here on lots of things. For a long time, everyone just realized I'm a philosophical anarchist/libertarian with very clear moral codes who actually doesn't take this shit too seriously and likes to make fun of all types. Then during the rise of what became the ResetERA.com prominent members I was now a "troll" because surely nobody could believe the things I say. It was "trolling" and "derailing threads" to, for example, respond to people demanding people be imprisoned for speech with an absolutist free speech view based on opposition to central state control of information. As I noted I got the impression from the staff themselves that I was not welcome on ResetERA.com so I never even tried to sign up despite their claims.

I didn't particularly mean to wander into that digression about myself and my experiences, no matter how valid they are (thanks Kyuuji) but the main point is that the reason I was active here is because it was different and actually diverse. It's the same reason I read comments on articles and go all over the internet reading weird forums, wikis and so on and so on. "Why would you want to construct and experience only a truly safe space?" is my general disposition.

ResetERA.com's members existing in a bubble isn't really all that much of a problem, we all can get into these from time to time and accidentally keep reinforcing it for quite a while. The problem is that their end goal is seemingly to construct that bubble, only without knowing what that bubble is supposed to look like. Not in a year. Hell, not in six months. Accusations of acephobia triggered the latest triggers before they even had the "smoking gun" post. Royalan has long been a legitimate social justice warrior, as in he truly believes that viewpoint and I'm not meaning it as an insult. And he's the one who had to resign over a post "on the Old Site" that basically said that black gays probably have had a rougher time historically than any asexual ever. He's been so BTFO he deleted his avatar on ResetERA.com.

Anyway, like, subscribe and make sure to donate to my Patreon so I can continue creating long incoherent ramblings on ResetERA.com, an inviting bonfire at the crossroads of the gaming industry that has been able to cultivate a highly active and passionate community while keeping most trolls and bad actors off of the site.
 

Tesseract

Banned
sensory bombardment is good, the literature on this is undeniable

never understood the safe space thing, lords i've tried to wrap my head around the kind of mind that breaks into a million pieces from trauma, i think you either have the right stuff or you don't and some people are just unstable messes that cannot be saved and fold into their corners to play silly throne games with various cliques and clans that inevitably corrupt and decay / time

the mind fractures some more until you end up with clownverse pathologies 2019 - edition

putting that aside, we're all dying a slow death as our meat body and brain fails a little more every day
 
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benjipwns

Banned
Like mentioned above by somebody, forums should be fun, that should be a large part of why you come to them after maybe seeking information. Doesn't mean you can't get into a serious topic or a serious discussion or even an extended one.

They've almost inverted their pleasure system. It's about going on ResetERA.com to see stuff that sucks, whether it's Trump tweets, racist incidents, media they don't like/people not liking media they like, other people's mental issues, or just bad posts. They don't actually wind up talking about serious topics or having serious discussion because it becomes a Sensitive Thread™ and STAFF POST which instantly indicates "WARNING" to even posters who would agree with the dominant viewpoint. They actually quietly joke about STAFF POSTS over there now.

Then they step away for a while, feel better and for some reason, some of them come back all "the forum is to blame! It needs more warnings and moderators!"
 
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sensory bombardment is good, the literature on this is undeniable

never understood the safe space thing, lords i've tried to wrap my head around the kind of mind that breaks into a million pieces from trauma, i think you either have the right stuff or you don't and some people are just unstable messes that cannot be saved and fold into their corners to play silly throne games with various cliques and clans that inevitably corrupt and decay / time

the mind fractures some more until you end up with clownverse pathologies 2019 - edition

putting that aside, we're all dying a slow death as our meat body and brain fails a little more every day

Yeah, sensory bombardment is kinda like building up a strong psychological immune system, if you aren't exposed to people, things or comments that could potentially upset you or whom you disagree with, then you aren't going to be able to function properly in normal society where folks don't tread lightly at all. Working in an environment where younger adults are the main clientele I come across people in their early 20's who take things like simple disagreements as personal attacks on their well-being, and the cushioned echo-chamber that is ERA and their anus-clenchingly authoritarian staff is like seeing a digital manifestation of that. Difference being that without a physical presence online, it's so much fucking easier to silence and ignore anyone who even remotely disagrees with you or might have an edgy/spicy sense of humour, it's tragic.

And when you're so isolated that you don't have a tolerance for anything, are never challenged mentally and your brain is starved of conflict? That's when they eat their own. The KetKat/Staff incident being a perfect example of that.
 
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Tesseract

Banned
Like mentioned above by somebody, forums should be fun, that should be a large part of why you come to them after maybe seeking information. Doesn't mean you can't get into a serious topic or a serious discussion or even an extended one.

They've almost inverted their pleasure system. It's about going on ResetERA.com to see stuff that sucks, whether it's Trump tweets, racist incidents, media they don't like/people not liking media they like, other people's mental issues, or just bad posts. They don't actually wind up talking about serious topics or having serious discussion because it becomes a Sensitive Thread™ and STAFF POST which instantly indicates "WARNING" to even posters who would agree with the dominant viewpoint. They actually quietly joke about STAFF POSTS over there now.

Then they step away for a while, feel better and for some reason, some of them come back all "the forum is to blame! It needs more warnings and moderators!"

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I'm now convinced more than ever that this is a perfectly crafted Era troll account. You flew too close to the sun during TransEragate to get back some attention.


If that name is legit and that actually is the librarian's, or hell, anybodies full name? Mega fucking yikes dog! That's a doxxing incident right there just waiting to happen! Wouldn't be the first time they've done that, lest we forget the GoG social media rep incident.
 
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Dr. Claus

Vincit qui se vincit
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I'm now convinced more than ever that this is a perfectly crafted Era troll account. You flew too close to the sun during TransEragate to get back some attention.

None of it happened. The sad piece of shit there is just saying what they heard so commonly through TV shows and what they think the real world is like.

None of these people have stepped foot outside of their girlfriend's husband's basement in years.
 

benjipwns

Banned
If that name is legit and that actually is the librarian's, or hell, anybodies full name? Mega fucking yikes dog! That's a doxxing incident right there just waiting to happen! Wouldn't be the first time they've done that, lest we forget the GoG social media rep incident.
When the New York State inmate lookup completes its regularly scheduled maintenance I can tell you where Robert Christopher Asch is currently residing.

edit: actually might be in Fed prison

yep,
Name: ROBERT CHRISTOP ASCH
Register Number: 68440-054
Age: 67
Race: White
Sex: Male
Release Date: 05/10/2026
Located At: FCI Danbury
 
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BadBurger

Many “Whelps”! Handle It!
Is shy perma banned yet? I don't really have a problem with him/her but whoever they are they keep shitposting in so many threads.
 

Handel

Member
Is shy perma banned yet? I don't really have a problem with him/her but whoever they are they keep shitposting in so many threads.
Shy is one of their attack dogs. They'll get punished now and then when they get too vicious or for biting the hand that feeds, but they'll never get put down.
 

pulga

Banned
Basically the Resetera culture began on GAF in probably 2015, the runup to the election. At least that's how I remember it. Before that it was very chill.

I've lurked both sites for a long time, and my favorite "era" of GAF was the late 2000s/early 2010s. It was open to diversity of thought like it is now, and it was very active. So active that I felt like I couldn't even keep up enough to participate myself, but it sure was fun to F5.

For me GAF crossed the Rubicon once they banned "FHUTA". It all started to go downhill from there.

EviLore EviLore what the fuck was up with that one mate seriously
 

nush

Gold Member
For me GAF crossed the Rubicon once they banned "FHUTA". It all started to go downhill from there.

EviLore EviLore what the fuck was up with that one mate seriously

Previous ban discussion goes here;

 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
A quick n dirty FHUTA evolution timeline

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