A lot of posts make a lot of suggestive notions and not all those are done with the best of intentions, with subtle jabs or straight-on insults. I think that's disappointing and, to bring out a popular rhetoric, ''Not a good look''.
If an bystander would simply look at the responses given, it kinda proves a point. Heck, if you just want to jump to conclusions as that bystander, than OP's short summary wouldn't be completely over the top.
Most account suicides are clearly done with an intent to piss people off. This one didn't do any of that, and its only fault, if you can call it that, is not doing this in a less public manner. Assuming good faith tells me he may not have known of this.
The thing with valid criticism is that on an average GAF day its not so much criticism as it is being lacking into presenting it in a constructive and uplifting manner.
That's the thing with this OP. Its wrong in the sense that its completely unnuanced, and its right because there is some merit to it.
Disclaimer: Not the voice of reason nor pretending to be. Just my 2 cents on this topic.
Enjoy the flipside, user.
Presenting an actual view.Speaking of dumpster fires...
Presenting an actual view.
They conveyed an opinion and nothing more and have nothing to do with my mood. There is no reason to go after me that way on this thread making such assumptions.Your words conveyed nothing other than your pissy mood about the forum lately. It's a big internet. Go find your happiness.
A lot of posts make a lot of suggestive notions and not all those are done with the best of intentions, with subtle jabs or straight-on insults. I think that's disappointing and, to bring out a popular rhetoric, ''Not a good look''.
If an bystander would simply look at the responses given, it kinda proves a point. Heck, if you just want to jump to conclusions as that bystander, than OP's short summary wouldn't be completely over the top.
Most account suicides are clearly done with an intent to piss people off. This one didn't do any of that, and its only fault, if you can call it that, is not doing this in a less public manner. Assuming good faith tells me he may not have known of this.
The thing with valid criticism is that on an average GAF day its not so much criticism as it is being lacking into presenting it in a constructive and uplifting manner.
That's the thing with this OP. Its wrong in the sense that its completely unnuanced, and its right because there is some merit to it.
Disclaimer: Not the voice of reason nor pretending to be. Just my 2 cents on this topic.
Enjoy the flipside, user.
A general remark is just that, general. I think that, remembering the one user from a while ago who did a similar account suicide like this (But more polite), its worth asking what ticks them off. Every so often you see requested in the ban list, but we don't know the thought process behind it. I am not talking about those users who clearly have all the intention to polarize as much as they can through a few posts before they get axed. But these halfway-in-the-middle users are worth reflecting over. What drives them?Hmmm, what's your point with this, really? This "concern" and conveniently not pointing out who you are talking about? If you're doubting someone's intentions, then the best thing to do would be to clear things up. Otherwise you're just inferring what the other person's intending.
The overarching point is this: Criticism could be given less destructive and more constructive, in general.In context your response here seems weird. He's referring to the OP, then you talk about something that at least implies to be unrelated that concerns lack of constructive and uplifting criticism. Is this referring to GAF as a whole? Are you using this thread, a not very constructive thread at all, as example? Very confusion, honestly.
A general remark is just that, general. I think that, remembering the one user from a while ago who did a similar account suicide like this (But more polite), its worth asking what ticks them off. Every so often you see requested in the ban list, but we don't know the thought process behind it. I am not talking about those users who clearly have all the intention to polarize as much as they can through a few posts before they get axed. But these halfway-in-the-middle users are worth reflecting over. What drives them?
A few posts grab to the NPC narrative, but i do not believe that this is absolute. That polite account suicide made me think of this initially, but i gave it not much thought. Now with this user doing something similar (but less polite) it brought it back up again.
Disregarding obvious cases, what ticks these users, (and those users who simply request a ban) to leave GAF? Like i said i don't believe that they aer all NPC's but simply unwilling to share what drives them away from the site. That by itself can be valueable feedback that now gets missed, and that's (basically) the point i am making here.
I am not talking about that solely. My example is this one. This thread reminded me of it.Quite the vivid imagination, Red.
My parents realized that having a dumpster fire was preferable to having me.
Thank you.
A general remark is just that, general. I think that, remembering the one user from a while ago who did a similar account suicide like this (But more polite), its worth asking what ticks them off. Every so often you see requested in the ban list, but we don't know the thought process behind it. I am not talking about those users who clearly have all the intention to polarize as much as they can through a few posts before they get axed. But these halfway-in-the-middle users are worth reflecting over. What drives them?
A few posts grab to the NPC narrative, but i do not believe that this is absolute. That polite account suicide made me think of this initially, but i gave it not much thought. Now with this user doing something similar (but less polite) it brought it back up again.
Disregarding obvious cases, what ticks these users, (and those users who simply request a ban) to leave GAF? Like i said i don't believe that they aer all NPC's but simply unwilling to share what drives them away from the site. That by itself can be valueable feedback that now gets missed, and that's (basically) the point i am making here.
I understand his appeal to valid criticism, but its on a shoddy scale. The overarching point is this: Criticism could be given less destructive and more constructive. OP does neither, but the setback to OP is also not constructive. That by itself does not help, even if such a response is tempting to make.
Can it be a possibility, hypothetically speaking, users may not speak up for a variety of reasons?It might be worth asking "what" ticks them off, as some have wondered about in this thread, but there is no communication and we've had a thread where we've discussed this type of behavior before in the aftermath of the exodus. We've been very adamant about not lambasting the general members who for various reasons left. However, there won't ever be a constructive discussion of these things without having those you refer to actually participate. And they don't and they won't.
Precisely that. This one is less polite, but its far from turning into a Vulgar Troll and post impse.While the NPC meme is overused and can easily lose its humorous point (which I've noticed), I can understand the sentiments behind it. Because there are a lot of people who've left, there are perhaps many who've politely sent a message to ban their account, there are some who've just made a thread "Ban me please", without snide remarks. So this isn't what I'd call a polite one, unless you're talking about in perspective of the worst. But the account suicide itself is pretty pointless. Nothing changed between before they did it and after they did it, other than "Banned" and not being able to use the functions of GAF, which they already didn't. The likelihood is that it's a statement of some sort. What that statement is can certainly be different. But we can't know as long as they do what they do.
It speaks for GAF that at the very least the option of transparency is there. ERA does not even allow for that in the first place.In the end, a lot of this is caused by the bad blood between Era and Gaf, but on Era Gaf-users get banned and here they try to get banned. A lot of the times you'll have Gaf users that feel a sense of betrayal from its former members. That's an emotional display and perhaps not constructive, but just like there are threads where dialogue and being constructive is the focus, you also have those where jokes and emotions are the focus. Where heuristics take hold.
Yeah i rather have to go off the deep end i suppose and have it an actual thread, so i agree with your conclusion. Its something i observed and wanted to relay upon, and without the percieved pissy mood.I think this thread is a bad example for you to bring this up in, because there is merits in talking about destructive criticism and debates, especially in Politics. But this doesn't at all feel like a valid example for it.
Thanks for clarifying, but I think you'd do better by making a topic about what you're actually talking about. It's an interesting thing to discuss and we've done it before in the off-site community thread or whatever it was, but obviously doesn't really fit in here in this context.
Not this poster no, but the Bye Bye GAF one and the folks on the banlist who simply request a ban, that kind of feedback is now missed.The second link doesn't work. However, the OP hasn't posted over a year plus at this juncture. What exactly do you see being the gain to asking them why they want to be banned? They already expressed it in their post. I don't imagine they're likely to proffer any astounding insights dude.
CaN a MoDeRaToR bAn Me PlEAsE?
I would die of laughter if EviLore banned you for 15 minutes, pretending to take it literally. Then again, that would probably screw up your GAF Gold subscription.
Imagine if your most liked post on GAF ever was the last one where you say “fuck you GAF”
You could not be further away from it.Redneckers it feels like you want Gaf to at least part-way become Resetera and you're not the only user conveying that message on this board.
Also that's not going to happen so give up.
Then he can fuck off and stay there. Not like we’re losing anybody special or making this forum active. He’s either their lap dog there or he’s going to be banned over a stupid reason then join Gamefaqs because he got nowhere else to go.The OP's last message before this one was Oct 2017. He bailed to Resetera 18 months ago.
Redneckers it feels like you want Gaf to at least part-way become Resetera and you're not the only user conveying that message on this board.
Also that's not going to happen so give up.
Both a Thoughtful like and a Like like, this post. But can only pick one. Spot on.I think you're misunderstanding him there. While his general wording and the relevance in his writings have been confusing in this topic, he still very much is a middle of the road person who is very curious about how people tick and the social dynamics in groups. Redneckerz has written extensively about Resetera in an antropological documentary-style fashion, from what I remember.
He just wants a diverse and less heated debate environment, with likely less jumping on someone aggressively and more discussing and trying to find out the various viewpoints and how they vary.
My educated guess, at least.
Redneckers it feels like you want Gaf to at least part-way become Resetera and you're not the only user conveying that message on this board.
Also that's not going to happen so give up.
The safe space and basically the policy that The Names and the Little Helpers try to build remind me of The Bridge of Death:
The Names in particular remind me of The Knights who say Ni:
(Actually, they are The Knights who say REEEE)
That was one side of the coin. Most of what ticks ERA has been commented now, mostly by others.To further point out Redneckerz's dedication to his craft, this is from the Off-Site Community thread:
He crafts a narrative like none other. He could make a book about his observations of the native Reseteran tribe.
That was one side of the coin. Most of what ticks ERA has been commented now, mostly by others.
I notice these ban requests almost always come in 2s and 3s. With last posts almost always being from 2017. Almost like they are coordinated.
Curious.
They conveyed an opinion and nothing more and have nothing to do with my mood. There is no reason to go after me that way on this thread making such assumptions.
I would have just nuked the thread and left him unbanned. lol.
Why give him what he wanted?
This, the person just wanted to go put with a bang and actually wanted to tell us to put out his dumpster fire. Out with the old and in with the new sir.Why do you have to create threads like this when you want out?
You're either an attention whore who needs to announce their departure to anyone that will listen or someone that needs to be banned because they lack the self control to not visit a website that they don't even like in the first place.
Don't ban this bitch. Keep him around so that we can ridicule his attention whore behaviour when he inevitably can't control himself and posts again in the future.
Lovin the brain emoji so farlol @ the overthinking in this thread
Probably couldn't figure how to do it lmaoOP never even got an avatar
Shameful