Notorious GAF members who are no longer here? What happened?

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I guess the posters I miss the most, besides some of the ones mentioned here, are people I've seen around Nintendo related threads - ilikefeet / From The Dust (both accounts perma'd), AceBandage (perma'd), gravijah, Boney, Firestorm, and Up And Away (don't know what happened to the last four).

Why was RedScarlet demodded, anyway?

I believe it has something to do with her giving away moderator information to banned members in a NeoGAF spinoff forum, the 3rd and most recent one (i.e. the Rock Band crowd). EviLore posted about it once.

The site has improved so much since the days of Drinky Crow and his ilk and the not de-nutted mod version of Amir0x.

Institutionalized trolling and deception are never good for a community and I'm personally super pleased with the way that Neogaf has matured into the place we now know and love.

What I think is interesting about your point and the NeoGAF spinoffs over the years is... well, each spinoff essentially captured the state of NeoGAF at the time. The earliest spinoff is very loosely moderated and IMO fairly close to 4chan in many ways. Later spinoffs gravitated away from that and are more like NeoGAF as it is today. None of them are anything like the real thing, though.

I see him (Sp0rsk) post once in a while.

He had is name changed to sprsk a while back. I'm not sure, but I think he works for 8-4 (the translation team). He's generally seen in the 8-4 podcast threads.
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I'm aware that splinter forums are a thing that happens, but that is not in itself reasonable justification for their existence. I clearly operate differently than many of these posters on splinter forums do at some fundamental level, as my instinctive response to being banned would be to just do something else with my life.

Easy to say when you're sitting there with a red name.
 

Facism

Member
Doombringer had me laughing with all his "sparks" bullshit.

Wollan started the outline gangbang meme?

Boris, proper PC master race guy.
 

Dennis

Banned
The real question is why Drinky Crow got banned

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UberTag

Member
I still miss The Frankman. Got himself banned 4 months ago.
I'm probably the only one. He made for a fine fantasy football rival.
 

Dennis

Banned
Free NintendosBooger!

That guy was hilarious.

Then there was the guy who kept talking about preppies. He didn't last long.
 

TAJ

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
That and it was during the "New news. New thread"/No mega threads transition period. Can't remember if it was Costanza or not, but someone had a fit and spammed the front page with every tiny bit of new Rock Band news within a 10 minute space in an attempt to show how dumb they thought the policy was.

That was Space Cadet.
He was indirectly responsible for basically every Rock Band-related ban.
 
I always enjoyed Drinky's rants on the gaming side. Thought he was perm'd, but apparently not. Unless that EBT thread finally did him in.

While not so notorious, I sometimes miss Segata's comments on things. He seemed fair and had a generally good attitude. I can't even remember the thread that pushed him overboard, but his farewell post was accurate.
 

Doc Holliday

SPOILER: Columbus finds America
I remember the day I realized i worked with MAF in real life. i felt like I knew a celebrity.

I remember Opa-Opa and the original Futami lol
 

hipbabboom

Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
I heard Timedog drowned while bobbing for lead apples on a dare. A robot posts using his account from time to time.
 

Ridley327

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I always enjoyed Drinky's rants on the gaming side. Thought he was perm'd, but apparently not. Unless that EBT thread finally did him in.

While not so notorious, I sometimes miss Segata's comments on things. He seemed fair and had a generally good attitude. I can't even remember the thread that pushed him overboard, but his farewell post was accurate.

Drinky is still around, but mainly as a hype man for the Cruncheons podcast that he helps with.
 
You can ban Combine's physical form but you cannot kill his spirit. His essence surrounds the Dating-Age. It yearns to return to its master. It wants to be found.

And as the dawn approaches the nine mÔds ride from Minas Databasias. They were men now, but now they serve the GAF, roaming as slaves forever to linger.. moderating.
 

Jak140

Member
I miss Manos, but he got booted for a reason. Man, watching him go to town on the Occupy threads was somethin' else.

Manos couldn't hold a logically consistent argument with a bucket. With his constant hypocrisy and goal post moving, it's not hard to see why he got banned.
 
I'm aware that splinter forums are a thing that happens, but that is not in itself reasonable justification for their existence. I clearly operate differently than many of these posters on splinter forums do at some fundamental level, as my instinctive response to being banned would be to just do something else with my life.

As someone who has 10,000 posts on a splinter forum that has devolved into total shit, I'm starting to feel this way as well. It just took me a long time :p
 

Darkmakaimura

Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
There's MetalAlien who was permabanned.

He was a personal friend of mine. We used to hang out every now and then. After his permaban, he disappeared. His phone number changed and I couldn't find any way of contacting him and I can't remember where he lived. I don't know if he still lives in this city or not and I'm a bit concerned because he seems to have wiped out his Alien: Interactive Game website and most if not all traces of his Internet presence. When I last went to his Alien website, all it said was "I'm done" or something to that effect, which is why I'm concerned. However, he never really seemed depressed or anything when I knew him.
 

Fusebox

Banned
There's MetalAlien who was permabanned.

He was a personal friend of mine. We used to hang out every now and then. After his permaban, he disappeared. His phone number changed and I couldn't find any way of contacting him and I can't remember where he lived. I don't know if he still lives in this city or not and I'm a bit concerned because he seems to have wiped out his Alien: Interactive Game website and most if not all traces of his Internet presence. When I last went to his Alien website, all it said was "I'm done" or something to that effect, which is why I'm concerned. However, he never really seemed depressed or anything when I knew him.

Was he the guy with the .50 cal?
 

FelixOrion

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Why was RedScarlet demodded, anyway?

I believe it has something to do with her giving away moderator information to banned members in a NeoGAF spinoff forum, the 3rd and most recent one (i.e. the Rock Band crowd). EviLore posted about it once.

Yep, RedScarlet gave information about a user to Costanza.

Here's EviLore's post on why RedScarlet got demodded (as well as why Dragona lasted so long and go demodded too).
 

Crayons

Banned
I'm just saying, I really wouldn't be surprised if some of the people mentioned here that were banned still post here, if you catch my drift.
 

Parallax

best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
Free NintendosBooger!

That guy was hilarious.

Then there was the guy who kept talking about preppies. He didn't last long.

booger was a sad sack. so much hate directed at his "lessers". his tag was fitting
 

Ikael

Member
I miss Mr. Angry Face (aka M.A.F), Crushed and A box full of rocks :(

Drinky Crow is still alive and Kicking, me thinks, only that he is not that active nowadays.
 
That would be Wasting Your Life. The reason it wound up not taking off was because there was a power struggle between some of the bigger posters from the Rock Band thread and some other GAF ex-pats that wound up causing a lot of issues and drove away a good chunk of the posters. I think it's still around, but like you said, it may as well be dead.
Ah yeah that's the name of it.
it's not dead

Woah... Link?
Just Google the name Ridley posted. I just did and it basically is dead minus a few posts a day if that.
 

FelixOrion

Poet Centuriate
I remember that guy who would use E-Mail tags to leave creepy messages in all his posts that would normally be unseen. Mods caught wind of it and tagged him, but he kept doing it and they implemented scripts change his posts, post titles, and edit summaries in all his posts to "We warned you." or something like that for a while. Shit was both hilarious and creepy at the same time.
 
Dragona banned me at least 4 times when I used to post on gaming side. Of out those bans, only one time was my fault and the others were for reasons that escape me till this day lol.

Sometimes you had close to half a page of members greyed out with "banned".

Good times lol.
 
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