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antipod

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I mostly lurk ResetEra because the amount of (interesting) threads having lots of discusion. Mostly game and (pop)culture related. If I started posting stuff in anything else I'd probably be banned instantly.

Havn't been here for some time, but having browsed it now for a while it seems I might actally come back.
 

Dr. Claus

Vincit qui se vincit
Not true, even this past week there was a huge back-and-forth in the "why women complain about female character designs" thread from a user who genuinely just likes the outfits. That user hasn't been banned. He's been sternly replied to (by myself, even), but he's not banned. He would've been banned if he said something like "I like anime titties and I don't care what women think about it," because obviously he would.

For most issues like this though, "the program" has been firmly established by facts, evidence, and history, and sometimes the moderation team doesn't feel like rehashing all of that for the 1,000th time. So they just ban and move on. Their reasoning is (usually) sound, though. In the recent back-and-forth in the female character design thread, a mod actually wrote a long-ass manifesto calmly explaining exactly why the designs were an issue even though some people like them. Sometimes they'll still do that.

If everyone else is with "the program," it might be worth investigating why that is.

The fact that that you think it is okay to ban someone (or "sternly" talk to someone like they are a problematic kid) because they have an opinion you disagree with is rather concerning. You are literally promoting the policing of thoughts that are not in line with yours. There should be no reason to ban someone for stating that they like anime tits and don't care what women think about it. That is an absolutely valid opinion to have and state.

People are "with the program" because they will be banned otherwise. There have been plenty of people who use data and research to go against the popular opinion and they were falsely called "transphobic", "racist", "sexist", "alt-right" and other buzz words devoid of their original meaning. Resetera.kiwifarms.net doesn't lie, mate.
 
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EviLore

Expansive Ellipses
Staff Member
Note the Ban Justice Project:

Give this thread a read, please:

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/neogaf-ban-review-justice-project-off-topic-edition.1463407/

We've been building bridges.


I'm here to resolve the abuses of power, sabotage, and injustices that led to the formation of that place under egregiously unjust circumstances. Hundreds of bans mainly perpetrated by a handful of folks who ended up informing Reset's policies were slipped in through the cracks of our old platform's deficient logging, accompanying a despicable smear campaign with *no* basis and a DDoS attack to give the incompetent showrunners over there enough time to figure out how to run a forum.

13 months and change doesn't seem to be enough for them to figure out how to do what we're best in class at. On the contrary, they only know how to ban things that scare them and copy whatever announcement we make, only to botch it horribly.

If you're interested in real discussion, come on home. Be civil, mind the rules. If you did something stupid and account suicided during the angry mob last year, send an email to support@ explaining yourself (see ban justice protocols in linked thread above) and we will take all emails under consideration, I hold no grudges. I hold self-respect and dignity, however, so phrase your emails accordingly, please.


We did one of the biggest forum migrations in history, vb3 --> xf 1.5 ---> xf2, with a >100 million post database, in 3 hours. We have fully custom designs we've spend months of internal development and *significant* investment for the sake of the NeoGAF community. What do these jokers have to show for themselves other than community good will they manufactured with a bullshit scandal and a campaign to destroy this place with porn bombs as a means of "virtue signaling" (what would your mom think of that one?), and some off-the-shelf turnkey shit they bolted on haphazardly? They can barely get that shit to work.

We have near 20 years in experience at this.

I weathered this unconscionably horrible shitstorm of hate and baseless accusation for this place. Along with a few loyal hardasses who saw it exactly for what it was and helped keep this place afloat and back on the road forward, we're. STILL. STANDING. Retire, bitch? Not so much. I have responsibilities.

Are these responsible people? Just people?

CKZvdBE.jpg




Come on home.

Unless you posted a noose picture and encouraged my suicide, or porn bombed this place like a pathetic coward.. Then meet me somewhere with a signed waiver, consent form, and EMTs on call. I kid.

NeoGAF is not what the crazy bubble people and activist modders elsewhere would have you believe.

It's just a video game message board on the internet where we encourage talking things out like respectful, mature intellectuals. Along with some healthy trolling to lighten the mood -- generally not getting you banned, but we keep it real and include our own transparent public ban record so you know exactly why if you were. Not "disingenuous with a history of infractions."

Your call.

-Tyler
 
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Lady Bird

Matsuno's Goebbels
I posted in those threads as well and didn't get banned for it. I believe my thoughts were along the lines of "well she would've been banned for that in any other corporate job, but it's bullshit that she's being harassed for it now." Pretty reasonable position, I'd say. The mods must've thought so too.
My ban was because I criticized game's journalism after a moderator edited the first post to dictate that criticizing gaming journalism was not allowed. So I broke the rules very explicitly, as you can see, even if there was nothing fundamentally wrong with my post.

Anyways, as other members have also stated, you only need to be very careful at crafting whatever you write if your opinions do not follow the program. Otherwise, you can go full-on "ALL WHITE MEN ARE TRASH" caps-lock mode, and if the moderators like you, they'll do nothing.
 
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Not true, even this past week there was a huge back-and-forth in the "why women complain about female character designs" thread from a user who genuinely just likes the outfits. That user hasn't been banned. He's been sternly replied to (by myself, even), but he's not banned. He would've been banned if he said something like "I like anime titties and I don't care what women think about it," because obviously he would.

I'll take your word for it seeing as I don't read the place, I'm just going off bans posted here.

For most issues like this though, "the program" has been firmly established by facts, evidence, and history, and sometimes the moderation team doesn't feel like rehashing all of that for the 1,000th time. So they just ban and move on. Their reasoning is (usually) sound, though. In the recent back-and-forth in the female character design thread, a mod actually wrote a long-ass manifesto calmly explaining exactly why the designs were an issue even though some people like them. Sometimes they'll still do that.

If everyone else is with "the program," it might be worth investigating why that is.

This though is a good example of what I don't like about era. Everyone is not with the program they're just forced to stay out of the thread because of potential bans or the fact that they'd get insulted and dogpiled if they posted in it. What exactly is achieved from a discussion like that? FWIW that thread reads like pure hysteria to me.
 
It’s kind of funny that resetters came here during the black out.

Just kinda proves that they are mostly followers who can’t function without someone to tell them who they are.
Some are just curious....and others simply like to chat about games..just leave the forced narratives at the door here and your gonna enjoy yourself.
 

NickFire

Member
NeoGAF is not what the crazy bubble people and activist modders elsewhere would have you believe.

It's just a video game message board on the internet where we encourage talking things out like respectful, mature intellectuals. Along with some healthy trolling to lighten the mood -- generally not getting you banned, but we keep it real and include our own transparent public ban record so you know exactly why if you were. Not "disingenuous with a history of infractions."

Your call.

-Tyler

Healthy trolling allowed confirmed! :messenger_sunglasses:

So please, tell us more about them "modders." :messenger_winking_tongue:

Edit: anyone else see the word modders instead of bloggers, and instantly think: "He called the shit poo."
 
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Deleted member 752119

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Not true, even this past week there was a huge back-and-forth in the "why women complain about female character designs" thread from a user who genuinely just likes the outfits. That user hasn't been banned. He's been sternly replied to (by myself, even), but he's not banned. He would've been banned if he said something like "I like anime titties and I don't care what women think about it," because obviously he would.

Nah, those kind of bans still bother me. There's nothing wrong with someone liking video game titties or whatever and not caring that some are bothered by it. As long as they aren't attacking another member in stating that opinion of course. There's always things that are going to be enjoyed by some and found offensive by others and I don't like when sites ban discussion of things along those lines.

Similarly, I thought there were a lot of shitty bans around the CDPR tweet. People saying they didn't think it was intentionally hateful and just some idiot social media person trying to be edgy with a trending meme weren't "dismissing transphobia." They were just saying they didn't think that tweet (or the Gamergate one) from them were deliberately hateful. Just shitty edgelord humor. Same thing about the crap with James Gunn's old edgelord tweets. Or people banned for "false equivalencies" when telling people they shouldn't insult straights or whites and so on when they're just pointing out that it's a double standard as people would (deservedly) be instantly perma banned if they said the same about women or minorities.

You'll find no one outside of alt right shit heels who think blatant sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia etc. should be allowed. And that stuff doesn't fly here on new GAF and leads to bans when reported (though some very thinly veiled stuff sometimes is un-actioned a bit more than I'd like). They just take it too far over there.

They should have just set that site up as specifically a safe space gaming forum for women, minorities and LBTQA+ folk if they were going to be so overbearing with it as it is no doubt nice for those folk to have such a space. It just shouldn't have pulled most of the traffic from the busiest game-focused forum. It sucks that there's not really a nice, high traffic, well moderated, traditional (i.e. not Reddit) forum to discuss games on anymore that's not heavily politicized. Best you can do is go there or here and make an active effort to stay away from those threads and be vigilant in reporting that stuff when it festers into OTs rather than the threads dedicated to those issues.

And/or just cut back a ton on posting which I have and am working on further reducing. Forums just aren't what they once were. Part of it is just how tribal and politicized everything is today and part of it is just me being 40 vs in that teens to late 20s/30ish demographic that makes up the most active posters online. i.e. generation gap.
 
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dorkimoe

Member
Really glad to see the changes around here. Hoping to get my old account and contribute. Glad that more discussions seem to be allowed here now
 

molnizzle

Member
The fact that that you think it is okay to ban someone (or "sternly" talk to someone) because they have an opinion you disagree with is rather concerning. You are literally promoting the policing of thoughts that are not in line with yours. There should be no reason to ban someone for stating that they like anime tits and don't care what women think about it. That is an absolutely valid opinion to have and state.
I'm literally not promoting the policing of thoughts that are not in line with mine. People are free to say whatever they want--but that doesn't make their statements immune to criticism.

Stating you don't care what women think about an issue that negatively effects them on a macro level is indeed a valid opinion to have and state. It would probably get you banned though, because forums don't exist in a vacuum and ResetEra is trying to be welcoming to everyone. Not just dudes. There are more women posting there now than I ever remember seeing on GAF in its heydey.

I'll take your word for it seeing as I don't read the place, I'm just going off bans posted here.

This though is a good example of what I don't like about era. Everyone is not with the program they're just forced to stay out of the thread because of potential bans or the fact that they'd get insulted and dogpiled if they posted in it. What exactly is achieved from a discussion like that? FWIW that thread reads like pure hysteria to me.

Yeah, I wish the forum was up so I could link the reply. It was a really great post from Finale Fireworker.

And I understand that it can be frustrating if you're not yet "with the program" to have everyone dogpile on you, but you should also try and understand the feeling of exhaustion people feel to constantly re-explain the same things to every new poster who's simply "asking questions." The answers are out there already, Era genuinely operates under the assumption that people will seek them out on their own if they actually care.

I'm speaking from experience here, as I went on a similar journey. You can look up my own post history here on GAF to see me shittalking Anita Sarkeesian and such.

Nah, those kind of bans still bother. There's nothing wrong with someone liking video game titties or whatever and not caring that some are bothered by it. As long as they aren't attacking another member in stating that opinion of course. There's always things that are going to be enjoyed by some and found offensive by others and I don't like when sites ban discussion of things along those lines.

These discussions don't exist in a vaccum though, that's the thing. Sexist depictions of women actively harm women, a group that has had it rough enough for... like, ever. Trying to play nice and keep everything "civil" simply maintains the status quo, which isn't something marginalized groups care to maintain. Era is empathetic to those groups.

I really wish I could link that post here, I'm way less articulate than homedude was.

It's just a video game message board on the internet where we encourage talking things out like respectful, mature intellectuals. Along with some healthy trolling to lighten the mood -- generally not getting you banned, but we keep it real and include our own transparent public ban record so you know exactly why if you were. Not "disingenuous with a history of infractions."

I appreciate the effort here, but as I was browsing through the ban list I noticed most of them didn't link to the actual thread? Unless I'm missing something (still figuring out this XF 2.0 thing). I feel like that's super important for transparency.

Also maybe less snark in the ban messages, that's what turned many people off from GAF in the olden days. :messenger_winking:
 
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NickFire

Member
There are more women posting there now than I ever remember seeing on GAF in its heydey.

On the one hand, the heydey was a long enough back that it's certainly possible. On the other hand, both the producers of TLJ and the devs of Battlefield 5 bought into this type of claim without checking the receipts it seems to me. So perhaps some receipts are in order.
 

Takuan

Member
From my understanding GAF regarding politics is more like Joe Rogan . Where he is open to different views unlike era which is like a far left dictatorship, where if you say you agree with anything in the right, or you like someone who support a right wing idea you are deemed a far right KKK nazi.
Sounds like something a NAZI would say!!!

All kidding aside, I was referring to oldGAF (pre-exodus), which was basically what RE is right now. I'm not going to say which is worse, but the feel was very much the same in that you could see a thread topic and predict the course of the thread (i.e. an inevitable graveyard of grey usernames). It wasn't good, and to be honest I'm not sure it would've change if not for showergate and the subsequent exodus.

Alas, here we are. For me, the golden era of GAF was when Drinky and Ignatz Mouse were mods. Never a better time.
 
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dukeoflegs

Member
Haven't been on here in a year. Glad I can still login.
I'm over on era, rarely post but when I do it is usually on the off topic side. Threads change subject too fast for me to really be a part of anything, I think I contributed the most on "Looking for a Job is soul crushing" the most.
 

Dr. Claus

Vincit qui se vincit
I'm literally not promoting the policing of thoughts that are not in line with mine. People are free to say whatever they want--but that doesn't make their statements immune to criticism.

Stating you don't care what women think about an issue that negatively effects them on a macro level is indeed a valid opinion to have and state. It would probably get you banned though, because forums don't exist in a vacuum and ResetEra is trying to be welcoming to everyone. Not just dudes. There are more women posting there now than I ever remember seeing on GAF in its heydey.



Yeah, I wish the forum was up so I could link the reply. It was a really great post from Finale Fireworker.

And I understand that it can be frustrating if you're not yet "with the program" to have everyone dogpile on you, but you should also try and understand the feeling of exhaustion people feel to constantly re-explain the same things to every new poster who's simply "asking questions." The answers are out there already, Era genuinely operates under the assumption that people will seek them out on their own if they actually care.

I'm speaking from experience here, as I went on a similar journey. You can look up my own post history here on GAF to see me shittalking Anita Sarkeesian and such.



These discussions don't exist in a vaccum though, that's the thing. Sexist depictions of women actively harm women, a group that has had it rough enough for... like, ever. Trying to play nice and keep everything "civil" simply maintains the status quo, which isn't something marginalized groups care to maintain. Era is empathetic to those groups.

I really wish I could link that post here, I'm way less articulate than homedude was.



I appreciate the effort here, but as I was browsing through the ban list I noticed most of them didn't link to the actual thread? Unless I'm missing something (still figuring out this XF 2.0 thing). I feel like that's super important for transparency.

Also maybe less snark in the ban messages, that's what turned many people off from GAF in the olden days. :messenger_winking:

First of all, there is a difference between criticism and the requiring of a ban. Secondly, I never stated that it was a male issue. There are plenty of women as well who like anime tits and don't give a damn what others have to say or think. So please do not push that disingenuous strawman. Anyways, I was going to have a nice long reply, but I think that a video would summarize what I have to say in a (less gentle) manner. I suggest you watch it as this is the mindset you are promoting/defending.

 

Redneckerz

Those long posts don't cover that red neck boy
Note the Ban Justice Project:

Give this thread a read, please:

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/neogaf-ban-review-justice-project-off-topic-edition.1463407/

We've been building bridges.


I'm here to resolve the abuses of power, sabotage, and injustices that led to the formation of that place under egregiously unjust circumstances. Hundreds of bans mainly perpetrated by a handful of folks who ended up informing Reset's policies were slipped in through the cracks of our old platform's deficient logging, accompanying a despicable smear campaign with *no* basis and a DDoS attack to give the incompetent showrunners over there enough time to figure out how to run a forum.

13 months and change doesn't seem to be enough for them to figure out how to do what we're best in class at. On the contrary, they only know how to ban things that scare them and copy whatever announcement we make, only to botch it horribly.

If you're interested in real discussion, come on home. Be civil, mind the rules. If you did something stupid and account suicided during the angry mob last year, send an email to support@ explaining yourself (see ban justice protocols in linked thread above) and we will take all emails under consideration, I hold no grudges. I hold self-respect and dignity, however, so phrase your emails accordingly, please.


We did one of the biggest forum migrations in history, vb3 --> xf 1.5 ---> xf2, with a >100 million post database, in 3 hours. We have fully custom designs we've spend months of internal development and *significant* investment for the sake of the NeoGAF community. What do these jokers have to show for themselves other than community good will they manufactured with a bullshit scandal and a campaign to destroy this place with porn bombs as a means of "virtue signaling" (what would your mom think of that one?), and some off-the-shelf turnkey shit they bolted on haphazardly? They can barely get that shit to work.

We have near 20 years in experience at this.

I weathered this unconscionably horrible shitstorm of hate and baseless accusation for this place. Along with a few loyal hardasses who saw it exactly for what it was and helped keep this place afloat and back on the road forward, we're. STILL. STANDING. Retire, bitch? Not so much. I have responsibilities.

Are these responsible people? Just people?

CKZvdBE.jpg




Come on home.

Unless you posted a noose picture and encouraged my suicide, or porn bombed this place like a pathetic coward.. Then meet me somewhere with a signed waiver, consent form, and EMTs on call. I kid.

NeoGAF is not what the crazy bubble people and activist modders elsewhere would have you believe.

It's just a video game message board on the internet where we encourage talking things out like respectful, mature intellectuals. Along with some healthy trolling to lighten the mood -- generally not getting you banned, but we keep it real and include our own transparent public ban record so you know exactly why if you were. Not "disingenuous with a history of infractions."

Your call.

-Tyler
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Deleted member 752119

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Stating you don't care what women think about an issue that negatively effects them on a macro level is indeed a valid opinion to have and state. It would probably get you banned though, because forums don't exist in a vacuum and ResetEra is trying to be welcoming to everyone. Not just dudes. There are more women posting there now than I ever remember seeing on GAF in its heydey.



These discussions don't exist in a vaccum though, that's the thing. Sexist depictions of women actively harm women, a group that has had it rough enough for... like, ever. Trying to play nice and keep everything "civil" simply maintains the status quo, which isn't something marginalized groups care to maintain. Era is empathetic to those groups.

I really wish I could link that post here, I'm way less articulate than homedude was.
:messenger_winking:

The issue with the bolded is it's clearly not trying to be welcoming to everyone. It's safe space for women, minorities and their "allies."

Again, I don't have issue with such a site existing and I'd consider myself an "ally." I just don't give a shit about discussing those issues on a gaming forum, or online in general. That shit's a waste of time and I spent too much energy being an "SJW" in my 20s on other forums (like the Vs. forum on Cheapassgamer.com back in the day). So it just sucks that GAF went down that route and that the split just led to the most of the great gaming forum content going to a new site that's even more extreme on those issues. I miss pre-Gamergate GAF when the only regular annoyance was console warrior nonsense.

There's just no good place to discuss games online anymore. It's either highly politicized forums like these two, unmoderated/undermoderated ones full of hate and/or fanboy nonsense or Reddit with it's format that limits discussion and is full of memes and other shit fishing for upvotes. It makes me enjoy the hobby less as playing games and shooting the shit online about them with little drama (fanboys aside) was staple of the hobby for me from the N64 era (got first computer and dial up connect, started gaming seriously with NES). It's not as much fun as a solitary hobby and none of my local friends are gamers.

I appreciate the effort here, but as I was browsing through the ban list I noticed most of them didn't link to the actual thread? Unless I'm missing something (still figuring out this XF 2.0 thing). I feel like that's super important for transparency.

Also maybe less snark in the ban messages, that's what turned many people off from GAF in the olden days. :messenger_winking:

That I do agree with. That ban history page was better early on about linking to the post that led to the ban and having less snarky messages. Now it's less transparent and the messages make the site seem less professional. A lot of banned users have private profiles to so you can even look through their post history. Though I suppose that's probably not able to change with the European privacy laws (at least for European members).
 
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molnizzle

Member
First of all, there is a difference between criticism and the requiring of a ban. Secondly, I never stated that it was a male issue. There are plenty of women as well who like anime tits and don't give a damn what others have to say or think. So please do not push that disingenuous strawman. Anyways, I was going to have a nice long reply, but I think that a video would summarize what I have to say in a (less gentle) manner. I suggest you watch it as this is the mindset you are promoting/defending.


Yeah I made it about 3 seconds into that, the voice is just too grating.

The issue with the bolded is it's clearly not trying to be welcoming to everyone. It's safe space for women, minorities and their "allies."

Again, I don't have issue with such a site existing and I'd consider myself an "ally." I just don't give a shit about discussing those issues on a gaming forum, or online in general. That shit's a waste of time and I spent too much energy being an "SJW" in my 20s on other forums (like the Vs. forum on Cheapassgamer.com back in the day). So it just sucks that GAF went down that route and that the split just led to the most of the great gaming forum content going to a new site that's even more extreme on those issues. I miss pre-Gamergate GAF when the only regular annoyance was console warrior nonsense.

There's just no good place to discuss games online anymore. It's either highly politicized forums like these two, unmoderated/undermoderated ones full of hate, fanboy nonsense or Reddit with it's format that limits discussion and is full of memes and other shit fishing for upvotes. It makes me enjoy the hobby less as playing games and shooting the shit online about them with little drama (fanboys aside) was staple of the hobby for me from the N64 era (got first computer and dial up connect, started gaming seriously with NES). It's not as much fun as a solitary hobby and none of my local friends are gamers.
You're not wrong, but that kinda ties into my initial reply here about "not being a piece of shit." If you're not an ally to groups that have been marginalized and abused for eons, what does that say about you as a person? I don't mind cutting people like that loose from my gaming discussions. Because again, at the end of the day, all of this is happening in the real world. Political issues don't disappear when you talk about videogames on a forum. I get that people like the "escape" (and I understand it, to a degree), but everything is political even if we try to ignore it. These days, ignoring it is somewhat irresponsible. It's too bad, but that's reality.
 
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Purkake4

Banned
Note the Ban Justice Project:

Give this thread a read, please:

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/neogaf-ban-review-justice-project-off-topic-edition.1463407/

We've been building bridges.


I'm here to resolve the abuses of power, sabotage, and injustices that led to the formation of that place under egregiously unjust circumstances. Hundreds of bans mainly perpetrated by a handful of folks who ended up informing Reset's policies were slipped in through the cracks of our old platform's deficient logging, accompanying a despicable smear campaign with *no* basis and a DDoS attack to give the incompetent showrunners over there enough time to figure out how to run a forum.

13 months and change doesn't seem to be enough for them to figure out how to do what we're best in class at. On the contrary, they only know how to ban things that scare them and copy whatever announcement we make, only to botch it horribly.

If you're interested in real discussion, come on home. Be civil, mind the rules. If you did something stupid and account suicided during the angry mob last year, send an email to support@ explaining yourself (see ban justice protocols in linked thread above) and we will take all emails under consideration, I hold no grudges. I hold self-respect and dignity, however, so phrase your emails accordingly, please.


We did one of the biggest forum migrations in history, vb3 --> xf 1.5 ---> xf2, with a >100 million post database, in 3 hours. We have fully custom designs we've spend months of internal development and *significant* investment for the sake of the NeoGAF community. What do these jokers have to show for themselves other than community good will they manufactured with a bullshit scandal and a campaign to destroy this place with porn bombs as a means of "virtue signaling" (what would your mom think of that one?), and some off-the-shelf turnkey shit they bolted on haphazardly? They can barely get that shit to work.

We have near 20 years in experience at this.

I weathered this unconscionably horrible shitstorm of hate and baseless accusation for this place. Along with a few loyal hardasses who saw it exactly for what it was and helped keep this place afloat and back on the road forward, we're. STILL. STANDING. Retire, bitch? Not so much. I have responsibilities.

Are these responsible people? Just people?

Come on home.

Unless you posted a noose picture and encouraged my suicide, or porn bombed this place like a pathetic coward.. Then meet me somewhere with a signed waiver, consent form, and EMTs on call. I kid.

NeoGAF is not what the crazy bubble people and activist modders elsewhere would have you believe.

It's just a video game message board on the internet where we encourage talking things out like respectful, mature intellectuals. Along with some healthy trolling to lighten the mood -- generally not getting you banned, but we keep it real and include our own transparent public ban record so you know exactly why if you were. Not "disingenuous with a history of infractions."

Your call.

-Tyler
Hey, I almost forgot, please ban my account.
 

STI

Member
I find it pretty easy to not get banned, all you gotta do is not be a piece of shit.

Not to say I haven't been banned before. But when I was, I knew it was coming. lol
no

you get banned for having an opinion. resetera is a landfill
 

Dr. Claus

Vincit qui se vincit
Yeah I made it about 3 seconds into that, the voice is just too grating.

Sure, let's go with that excuse :p

A lot of banned users have private profiles to so you can even look through their post history. Though I suppose that's probably not able to change with the European privacy laws (at least for European members).

The mods already made a mention on those issues. It is something to do with the plugins and the site itself. They are trying to fix it.
 
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Note the Ban Justice Project:

Give this thread a read, please:

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/neogaf-ban-review-justice-project-off-topic-edition.1463407/

We've been building bridges.


I'm here to resolve the abuses of power, sabotage, and injustices that led to the formation of that place under egregiously unjust circumstances. Hundreds of bans mainly perpetrated by a handful of folks who ended up informing Reset's policies were slipped in through the cracks of our old platform's deficient logging, accompanying a despicable smear campaign with *no* basis and a DDoS attack to give the incompetent showrunners over there enough time to figure out how to run a forum.

13 months and change doesn't seem to be enough for them to figure out how to do what we're best in class at. On the contrary, they only know how to ban things that scare them and copy whatever announcement we make, only to botch it horribly.

If you're interested in real discussion, come on home. Be civil, mind the rules. If you did something stupid and account suicided during the angry mob last year, send an email to support@ explaining yourself (see ban justice protocols in linked thread above) and we will take all emails under consideration, I hold no grudges. I hold self-respect and dignity, however, so phrase your emails accordingly, please.


We did one of the biggest forum migrations in history, vb3 --> xf 1.5 ---> xf2, with a >100 million post database, in 3 hours. We have fully custom designs we've spend months of internal development and *significant* investment for the sake of the NeoGAF community. What do these jokers have to show for themselves other than community good will they manufactured with a bullshit scandal and a campaign to destroy this place with porn bombs as a means of "virtue signaling" (what would your mom think of that one?), and some off-the-shelf turnkey shit they bolted on haphazardly? They can barely get that shit to work.

We have near 20 years in experience at this.

I weathered this unconscionably horrible shitstorm of hate and baseless accusation for this place. Along with a few loyal hardasses who saw it exactly for what it was and helped keep this place afloat and back on the road forward, we're. STILL. STANDING. Retire, bitch? Not so much. I have responsibilities.

Are these responsible people? Just people?

CKZvdBE.jpg




Come on home.

Unless you posted a noose picture and encouraged my suicide, or porn bombed this place like a pathetic coward.. Then meet me somewhere with a signed waiver, consent form, and EMTs on call. I kid.

NeoGAF is not what the crazy bubble people and activist modders elsewhere would have you believe.

It's just a video game message board on the internet where we encourage talking things out like respectful, mature intellectuals. Along with some healthy trolling to lighten the mood -- generally not getting you banned, but we keep it real and include our own transparent public ban record so you know exactly why if you were. Not "disingenuous with a history of infractions."

Your call.

-Tyler

Fucking amazing post. One of the best I've seen EviLore ever write and I've been using GAF since 2006. He always had a way with words.

It's positive and powerful words like this that make me want to perma-return to NeoGAF. Lapsed Gaffer here. Migrated to Era in the split. I've been checking out GAF all last night and today and rather miraculously it has recovered, substantially, and seems to have good people running the show and now, I believe, has a bright future. The health of this place is vastly better than even just a few months back. I check out this place now and again over the last year or so to get a feel of how it's going and the state it's in now is healthier and better than I've seen it since the drama crash happened and in all the cascade of time that followed. NeoGAF seems to be back on form and primed to recover to a position that could potentially be better than it has ever been. Chilled out. Relaxed. Freedom to post. Awesome new mods. Slick new design. Reliable. Gaming side speeding up and recovering. This place is the best I've seen it in 13 months. I think the presumption that GAF would collapse was incredibly short sighted because EviLore stood strong, weathered the storm, did everything in his power to get this place back on track with impressive proficiency and now NeoGAF is shaping up to better than it ever was. Kudos. Seriously. Kicking myself somewhat that I didn't apply to be a mod now.

Still sussing it out to a certain extent. But from what I've seen? I want to come back and start primarily using NeoGAF again.
 

NH Apache

Banned
Note the Ban Justice Project:

Give this thread a read, please:

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/neogaf-ban-review-justice-project-off-topic-edition.1463407/

We've been building bridges.


I'm here to resolve the abuses of power, sabotage, and injustices that led to the formation of that place under egregiously unjust circumstances. Hundreds of bans mainly perpetrated by a handful of folks who ended up informing Reset's policies were slipped in through the cracks of our old platform's deficient logging, accompanying a despicable smear campaign with *no* basis and a DDoS attack to give the incompetent showrunners over there enough time to figure out how to run a forum.

13 months and change doesn't seem to be enough for them to figure out how to do what we're best in class at. On the contrary, they only know how to ban things that scare them and copy whatever announcement we make, only to botch it horribly.

If you're interested in real discussion, come on home. Be civil, mind the rules. If you did something stupid and account suicided during the angry mob last year, send an email to support@ explaining yourself (see ban justice protocols in linked thread above) and we will take all emails under consideration, I hold no grudges. I hold self-respect and dignity, however, so phrase your emails accordingly, please.


We did one of the biggest forum migrations in history, vb3 --> xf 1.5 ---> xf2, with a >100 million post database, in 3 hours. We have fully custom designs we've spend months of internal development and *significant* investment for the sake of the NeoGAF community. What do these jokers have to show for themselves other than community good will they manufactured with a bullshit scandal and a campaign to destroy this place with porn bombs as a means of "virtue signaling" (what would your mom think of that one?), and some off-the-shelf turnkey shit they bolted on haphazardly? They can barely get that shit to work.

We have near 20 years in experience at this.

I weathered this unconscionably horrible shitstorm of hate and baseless accusation for this place. Along with a few loyal hardasses who saw it exactly for what it was and helped keep this place afloat and back on the road forward, we're. STILL. STANDING. Retire, bitch? Not so much. I have responsibilities.

Are these responsible people? Just people?

CKZvdBE.jpg




Come on home.

Unless you posted a noose picture and encouraged my suicide, or porn bombed this place like a pathetic coward.. Then meet me somewhere with a signed waiver, consent form, and EMTs on call. I kid.

NeoGAF is not what the crazy bubble people and activist modders elsewhere would have you believe.

It's just a video game message board on the internet where we encourage talking things out like respectful, mature intellectuals. Along with some healthy trolling to lighten the mood -- generally not getting you banned, but we keep it real and include our own transparent public ban record so you know exactly why if you were. Not "disingenuous with a history of infractions."

Your call.

-Tyler


I held onto my account in some hope that this site would have changed back to some semblance of its former self. I see that's never going to happen under you; nothing has changed.

Fucking ban me.
 

dolabla

Member
I 100% went to era when the split happened, because i mostly need my fast video game news. I almost never talk about politics or off topic things, except when it's about drugs. So era is a nice place, going by what i need from it. Even then, it's often hard to ignore how it feels like a strange time bomb, waiting to explode and unleashing the next incredibly hateful witch hunt, where it's all about getting crazy instant revenge, before even proven guilty or knowing what's really going on. I'm all for calling out undeniable bullshit, crimes etc. but sometimes I was really shocked about how some things are handled over there :(

Just going by the few threads I clicked on here, while era was down yesterday, it feels much more calm and relaxed here. I could see myself using both sites from now on.

This place is way more chill/fun now. You don't have to walk on egg shells to post on here like Reset. The mods here are fantastic at their jobs and let discourse flow.

It's basically like a place now where we just sit around, have a beer and chat it up. Many of us don't care what "side" you are on. There are no ridiculous purity tests or one opinion fits all (which is then enforced by the mods). We just want to have some fun/joke around and chat it up. You won't get banned for having a sense of humor.
 

NickFire

Member
I held onto my account in some hope that this site would have changed back to some semblance of its former self. I see that's never going to happen under you; nothing has changed.

Fucking ban me.

I hope he doesn't and that you keep squirming on the floor while pounding your fists and kicking your feet and screaming why doesn't he listen to me.
 

Dr. Claus

Vincit qui se vincit
I mean I'd read your reply if you wanted to post it. That shit was just intolerable though. And I even broke my rule of lending a click to a clearly alt-right/garbage human YouTube video! You can't say I didn't try.

Hm? You have evidence to show that he is alt-right, or are you making a baseless accusation? Is he garbage for his actions or for having an opinion that differs from yours? You stated you didn't watch the video so how would you know? Honestly, you are just further proving the point of the video and are a perfect caricature of RE.
 

dolabla

Member
I held onto my account in some hope that this site would have changed back to some semblance of its former self. I see that's never going to happen under you; nothing has changed.

Fucking ban me.

Yeah, let's go back to a authoritarian echo chamber where mods are out of control. Sounds like a fantastic idea.
 
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Xenon

Member
I find it pretty easy to not get banned, all you gotta do is not be a piece of shit.

Not to say I haven't been banned before. But when I was, I knew it was coming. lol

Yeah OK... As long as you don't question their political views I would agree.
 

JokerMM

Gay porn is where it's at.
i'd rather cut both my balls off than go back to Resetera tbh

fuck that POS echo chamber
 

molnizzle

Member
Hm? You have evidence to show that he is alt-right, or are you making a baseless accusation? Is he garbage for his actions or for having an opinion that differs from yours? You stated you didn't watch the video so how would you know? Honestly, you are just further proving the point of the video and are a perfect caricature of RE.
It's a video clearly about to chastise "triggers and safe spaces," which is right out the alt-right playbook. I've yet to see such content that didn't veer into that realm, so yes, that was my perfectly rational assumption upon seeing the thumbnail.

I clicked it though out of respect for you, and would've watched it if not for the unbelievably annoying voice modulation.
 

JordanN

Banned
I held onto my account in some hope that this site would have changed back to some semblance of its former self. I see that's never going to happen under you; nothing has changed.

Fucking ban me.
Don't worry, Papa Cerium will get the forum running.... in 12 weeks.

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Deleted member 752119

Unconfirmed Member
You're not wrong, but that kinda ties into my initial reply here about "not being a piece of shit." If you're not an ally to groups that have been marginalized and abused for eons, what does that say about you as a person? I don't mind cutting people like that loose from my gaming discussions. Because again, at the end of the day, all of this is happening in the real world. Political issues don't disappear when you talk about videogames on a forum. I get that people like the "escape" (and I understand it, to a degree), but everything is political even if we try to ignore it. These days, ignoring it is somewhat irresponsible. It's too bad, but that's reality.

I don't think there is any place for hate. Plenty of space for people who just don't care (or at least don't care to discuss these issues on gaming forums). But I can see to some extent why some are ok cutting out people who go into threads to say they don't care. If you don't care, don't post.

But sometimes that's a relevant thing to post for things like that CDPR tweet. It's gaming related for people to say that they just view it as some dipshit social media rep trying to be an edgelord and make bad humor with trending hashtags or gamergate references and that they'll still buy the game. That's not "downplaying transphobia," but rather just saying they didn't view it that way and will still by the game. That's just as valid an opinion as those who were bothered by it and plan to skip their games going forward. People have different standards for what they find offensive. Now if someone said "I don't care, they can tweet all the transphobic stuff they want and I'll still be there day one," I can see why they should be shown the door at a site focused on building a community that's welcoming marginalized populations.

Also, one can ignore politics with something banal like gaming and discussing games and still be involved in the real world where actions make a difference. Being a keyboard warrior on a game forum, especially one that's heavily skewed to one side, is going to have no impact vs. things like voting, helping getting out the vote, volunteering, donating, writing/calling your reps and so on.

But in any case, I'm 40 and focused on enjoying my life to the fullest as life is damn short. I stay informed, vote (and always left) and donate. But that's the extent of it for me and I wish I could go back to my 20s and not waste so much time and energy having been a keyboard warrior online then. I can't recall changing a single person's mind on anything, much less seeing any of the people on the other side move left in their overall worldview. Maybe if it's a site with more teens/early 20 somethings, but that generation is mostly on social media and Reddit and not traditional forums and people's general world view is often pretty set by the mid 20s and beyond. Much less the ones who post a lot about political stuff online as those tend to be extremists rather than moderates.
 
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deathsaber

Member
I post at both places. Probably at Era more often, probably, but not based on any kind of bias/preference, just the simple fact that things seem more active there (pure quanitity of threads and posts). But I'd love to see this place grow as well.

Never been banned at either (though got a "warning" at Era once for participating in the thread on "problematic female character designs".

I kind of take a more "centrist" stance on the subject- basically a lot of these characters a are made to appeal to the male audience and why should they be denied what they want- if you enjoy games with that kind of art- buy those games. Don't like them- don't buy the games, etc., and if enough don't buy them, the devs won't make them that way anymore, and adhere to market desires. Hey, agree with me on the subject, or don't. I can take it.

But my mistake for thinking they were promoting discussion on a subject when the stance made by the zeitgeist was clearly- "these provocative females designs are bad and obscene and lets talk about how wrong they are for EVERYONE." And any dissenting opinion was pretty much warning/ban fodder. And I'll admit, this happens a lot over there where certain subject matter is concerned.

Anyway, I really don't look to make waves, I bowed out of the thread, and expressed no more opinion on the matter, since doing so was clearly asking for trouble. I really just want to talk about games and not get too crazy about stuff.
 

Kagey K

Banned
Yeah OK... As long as you don't question their political views I would agree.
That’s just called getting with “the program” apparently. Just don’t deviate from said program and be ready to shift opinions when the “programmer” tells you the program has changed.
 
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Redneckerz

Those long posts don't cover that red neck boy
I held onto my account in some hope that this site would have changed back to some semblance of its former self. I see that's never going to happen under you; nothing has changed.

Fucking ban me.
If the lot of the folks that all stopped posting at Oct 25, 2017 are only coming back to make commentaries like these without participating in interaction, then what's the point of posting then?

Nothing has changed? You should have looked better. Heck, you should have just actually looked to see it.

I can only make assumptions to what former self you refer to. Either way, if you just want a ban, you don't have to publically making it known: A simple PM or e-mail would be suffice.

Mind you, to each and every single one of the dissenters i have offered an olive branch and a option to a proper conversation regarding this place. And so far, all i hear is an accusation but nothing indepth.
 
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Dr. Claus

Vincit qui se vincit
It's a video clearly about to chastise "triggers and safe spaces," which is right out the alt-right playbook. I've yet to see such content that didn't veer into that realm, so yes, that was my perfectly rational assumption upon seeing the thumbnail.

I clicked it though out of respect for you, and would've watched it if not for the unbelievably annoying voice modulation.

So you have zero evidence and are making a baseless accusation. Funny you would call him a garbage person as I would think someone who makes baseless accusations of racism/sexism/transphobia/alt-right are much worse. But that may just be me. Peace :messenger_peace:
 

MilkyJoe

Member
Let's be honest If you are on Resetera you are on the REAL NEOGAF.

Resetera took the heart and soul of GAF in the divorce. I'm not quite sure what I'm looking at here but it sure ain't GAF.

Now perhaps to some of you that's a good thing.

Well Era is full of hive minded maniacs, where free thought and opinion results in dog piling and a temp ban. Shower of bastards really.
 

Quonny

Member
Why quote him/her? Either they don't care, so you're quoting someone who literally won't log back in, or they're just trying to troll you, and you're feeding into it.
 
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Deleted member 752119

Unconfirmed Member
The mods already made a mention on those issues. It is something to do with the plugins and the site itself. They are trying to fix it.

Good to know. Then we should be able to see the history for all but the Europeans who request their accounts deleted due to GDPR. Which few people bother with.
 

molnizzle

Member
I don't think there is any place for hate. Plenty of space for people who just don't care (or at least don't care to discuss these issues on gaming forums). But I can see to some extent why some are ok cutting out people who go into thread to say they don't care.

But sometimes that's relevant for things like that CDPR tweet. It's gaming related for people to say that they just view it as some dipshit social media rep trying to be an edgelord and make bad humor with trending hashtags or gamergate references and that they'll still by the game. That's not "downplaying transphobia," but rather just saying they didn't view it that way and will still by the game. That's just as valid an opinion as those who were bothered by it and plan to skip their games going forward. People have different standards for what they find offensive. Now if someone said "I don't care, they can tweet all the transphobic stuff they want and I'll still be there day one," I can see why they should be shown the door at a site focused on building a community that's welcoming marginalized populations.
I think the issue with the CDPR tweet in particular was that it wasn't the first time it happened. The first time many did give them the benefit of the doubt. The second time as well, though more people were starting to be suspicious. The most recent tweet was the "third strike" for many though, which is totally understandable to me. Especially if you're a trans person.

IAlso, one can ignore politics with something banal like gaming and discussing games and still be involved in the real world where actions make a difference. Being a keyboard warrior on a game forum, especially one that's heavily skewed to one side, is going to have no impact vs. things like voting, helping getting out the vote, volunteering, donating, writing/calling your reps and so on.
Doesn't have to be one or the other! I voted for George W. Bush in 2004, right before I joined the U.S. Army. I was as conservative as they came. My views gradually shifted as I read more and more evidence proving my views incorrect (right here on GAF, of all places). Even if the poster being replied to never backs down, that doesn't mean the reply will have no effect on the potentially thousands of different individuals who will see it. All of it matters to a varying degree.
 
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