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I've noticed the membership total goes up very slowly now. I've assumed they are ban happy because they have so many members so it doesn't matter. It's been a joke that they ban more members then sign up. I wonder if that may actually be true now and the amount of bans is exceeding the new member sign up.
 
I've noticed the membership total goes up very slowly now. I've assumed they are ban happy because they have so many members so it doesn't matter. It's been a joke that they ban more members then sign up. I wonder if that may actually be true now and the amount of bans is exceeding the new member sign up.

Are you looking at the registered members stat on the front page or using the numbers stated on the latest users URL?
 
This is what gets me the most. The attitude at ERA is that if you ain't black you're automatically wrong about everything and should be listening and learning from the black folk. They almost pretend other minorities don't exist but they don't give a fuck. They're the most "oppressed" race.
I think the elevation of black people above other minorities happens here in the UK, too. Black cultures – even the most crude subcultures among them – are feted in way that other non-white cultures aren't. We have the term "BAME" (which stands for Black and Minority Ethnic) to describe non-white groups. I find it strange that the word "Black" has so much prominence.
 
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I think the elevation of black people above other minorities happens here in the UK, too. Black cultures – even the most crude subcultures among them – are feted in way that other non-white cultures aren't. We have the term "BAME" (which stands for Black and Minority Ethnic) to describe non-white groups. I find it strange that the word "Black" has so much prominence.

If you look at kiwifarm's bot, that bot record bans, whenever it be permanent or not. The membership being lost is result of the admins constantly doing very unfair bans, most of them being permanent.

And to add insult to injury, 1. Nobody has enough courage to stand up and complain in a new forum thread about the moderation system being one of the worst (Maybe not the worst, but still) and 2. Verified members register on that forum, failing to realize that the forum itself is very toxic and that NeoGAF would be better to join.

So for example, one of the Skyrim developer joined that forum, failing to realize that it's toxic. Not too much of a hit, but he did complain about the forum a bit. Then it gets bad when one of the Twitch streamers gets on that forum, posts some things and gets a ban. He might have posted in a bit of bad manner, but at most it should be a warning and not a long or permanent ban.

But, the worst injury, and the middle finger is when @Serebii joined that forum. We could have gotten a lot of Pokemon information from him, as he's our trusted Pokemon fan/leaker(?), but no, he disregarded our forum and joined that forum! He even failed to realize the toxicity of that forum, and the steady decreasing of the membership! :mad: At this point I wish he realized it now before it's too late...seeing as he doesn't post very much here anymore.
We have to do our best to bring him back somehow...!!

Sorry again if I seemed a bit angry...It's just mostly me ranting about that forum. I hope I didn't offend or violate the rule, but to put the point short; Normal members joining that forums is not good but not very bad either. But to me, it's a insult when a verified member joins that forum, because to me it feels like he/she could be a valutable asset to us, whenever it be a streamer/fan to boost our popularity or leaker to help us see the game behind/before the release (Remember the ESRB leak for Smash 4)

Thanks, and take care of yourself,

Michele
 
If you look at kiwifarm's bot, that bot record bans, whenever it be permanent or not. The membership being lost is result of the admins constantly doing very unfair bans, most of them being permanent.

And to add insult to injury, 1. Nobody has enough courage to stand up and complain in a new forum thread about the moderation system being one of the worst (Maybe not the worst, but still) and 2. Verified members register on that forum, failing to realize that the forum itself is very toxic and that NeoGAF would be better to join.

So for example, one of the Skyrim developer joined that forum, failing to realize that it's toxic. Not too much of a hit, but he did complain about the forum a bit. Then it gets bad when one of the Twitch streamers gets on that forum, posts some things and gets a ban. He might have posted in a bit of bad manner, but at most it should be a warning and not a long or permanent ban.

But, the worst injury, and the middle finger is when @Serebii joined that forum. We could have gotten a lot of Pokemon information from him, as he's our trusted Pokemon fan/leaker(?), but no, he disregarded our forum and joined that forum! He even failed to realize the toxicity of that forum, and the steady decreasing of the membership! :mad: At this point I wish he realized it now before it's too late...seeing as he doesn't post very much here anymore.
We have to do our best to bring him back somehow...!!

Sorry again if I seemed a bit angry...It's just mostly me ranting about that forum. I hope I didn't offend or violate the rule, but to put the point short; Normal members joining that forums is not good but not very bad either. But to me, it's a insult when a verified member joins that forum, because to me it feels like he/she could be a valutable asset to us, whenever it be a streamer/fan to boost our popularity or leaker to help us see the game behind/before the release (Remember the ESRB leak for Smash 4)

Thanks, and take care of yourself,

Michele

That is highly disappointing that Serebii joined them. Didn't even know that happened. Hopefully they will realize how much of a shite site that place is.
 
Baited and gottem.

That site is such a joke with The Names and their loser Helpers.

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The number at the bottom of the main page.

Don't use it, it's slow as hell and always seems stuck. Just click on the latest member and see the member number.

That is highly disappointing that Serebii joined them. Didn't even know that happened. Hopefully they will realize how much of a shite site that place is.

It doesn't have to be harder than to understand that some people like ERA because of the community threads, game news and game OTs. I sure as hell do.
 
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I've noticed the membership total goes up very slowly now. I've assumed they are ban happy because they have so many members so it doesn't matter. It's been a joke that they ban more members then sign up. I wonder if that may actually be true now and the amount of bans is exceeding the new member sign up.

I don't know about forum software if has special mechanisms to count members or not but on database level I'm pretty sure that no account is ever removed due to ban - the posts made before baning need to be preserved and removing account would cause tons of problems with tables constraints so instead it's much more likely that banned account is just switched into status where it can't post or observe any posts when logged (and then you don't any special mechanism to someone from registering from same e-mail address again).
 
and then you don't any special mechanism to someone from registering from same e-mail address again
I'd suppose there should be an option to remove the e-mail address. Afterall, they are accessible in the EU and therefore, they should remove personal information, such as e-mail addresses, when prompted to by the address' owner.
 
I don't know about forum software if has special mechanisms to count members or not but on database level I'm pretty sure that no account is ever removed due to ban - the posts made before baning need to be preserved and removing account would cause tons of problems with tables constraints so instead it's much more likely that banned account is just switched into status where it can't post or observe any posts when logged (and then you don't any special mechanism to someone from registering from same e-mail address again).

99.9% chance this is true and that a banned account isnt removed from the member count. I believe you have to request an account delete for that to happen.

Cool story tho. They made a "We hit 40k member count!" Post a few days ago. And they lied and told the users banned accounts are removed so that 40k number was correct. It isnt.

They have an awful history not be truthful to their members.
 
And to add insult to injury, 1. Nobody has enough courage to stand up and complain in a new forum thread about the moderation system being one of the worst (Maybe not the worst, but still) and 2. Verified members register on that forum, failing to realize that the forum itself is very toxic and that NeoGAF would be better to join.
People have stood up but all those threads get locked with a ''Please consult us via PM. We do this to avoid derailment of threads.'' I mean, the whole idea of the feedback thread was to provide that, Feedback, and then it got locked because said feedback actually raised some proper (woke) points instead of seagulls moping in agreement with The Names. Honesty is a bitch, so locking the thread.

The only thing The Names are transparent in is how incredibly out-of-touch they are with reality. Their own self-created reality, even. New verafied members register because they dont see those threads, nor are they active enough to care about the core issues. Those that do care value their account more than properly debating the modus operandi. On a place where The Names clearly don't have the community's best interest as top priority, how much is your account even worth, really?

Baited and gottem.

That site is such a joke with The Names and their loser Helpers.
Imagine being banned yourself for 5 minutes and your life is passing by because you weren't able to post for those 5 minutes. Thankfully a lesson was learned (lol) and an epiphany was envoked: ERA was the first thing one thought about.
The Tales of Reseteria will continue later.
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Also, The Bore really loved my post. No, really! Even a global mod! Thanks for the lurk and not reading/getting the half-sarcastic nature of these posts! ^^
 
I'd suppose there should be an option to remove the e-mail address. Afterall, they are accessible in the EU and therefore, they should remove personal information, such as e-mail addresses, when prompted to by the address' owner.
Also, if you get banned and want to delete some info from your profile you can't since you can't access it. Realized this the first time they banned me and deleted everything when I got the account back.
 
Also, if you get banned and want to delete some info from your profile you can't since you can't access it. Realized this the first time they banned me and deleted everything when I got the account back.
Yes, you cannot do it yourself, but they would be obliged under EU law to do that. I do not know for sure if it applies since they have no company presence here though.
 
Also, if you get banned and want to delete some info from your profile you can't since you can't access it. Realized this the first time they banned me and deleted everything when I got the account back.

Now this scares us a bit. I'm really worried about the verified members. Resetera is about to implode and it might be too late, anyways..
 
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Resetera going after Harada-san. Lucikly, there are some good Era users who are fighting back, but who knows how long they'll last.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/another-developer-attacks-fan-providing-criticism-on-twitter.60156/
i don't get how these people can be so dense. The people saying if harada was a woman people would be flipping out and so we have this double standard have got to have brains the size of pebbles or something. People didn't bash Price because she was a woman, and they didn't bash her because she was rude on Twitter. They bashed her because she attacked someone on the basis of their gender.

If Harada had said "now get back in the kitchen and make dinner" there may have been cause for some outrage. If he had said "i bet you're a woman", there may have been cause for some outrage. But no, he was just a little snide and did not attack any particular biological trait of the poster.

This really isn't so hard to understand
 
Speaking of the bore http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45644.0 :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Kara is good people though, gave me the Ravenor omnibus for free and even paid the shipping. As expected the book was in immaculate condition.

edit: I'm actually kinda surprised Blossom didn't get a HD remaster. I was over at my dads place and he was watching Columbo and I'm thinking "how the fuck did Columbo get such a high quality HD remaster??"
 
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Speaking of the bore http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45644.0 :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Kara is good people though, gave me the Ravenor omnibus for free and even paid the shipping. As expected the book was in immaculate condition.

edit: I'm actually kinda surprised Blossom didn't get a HD remaster. I was over at my dads place and he was watching Columbo and I'm thinking "how the fuck did Columbo get such a high quality HD remaster??"
Because Columbo is fantastic xD
 
^Ya I checked imdb earlier and I had no idea Columbo was on for over thirty years. I mean I remember it being kinda popular in the 90s but I never knew it was that popular.
 
Also, if you get banned and want to delete some info from your profile you can't since you can't access it. Realized this the first time they banned me and deleted everything when I got the account back.
You could try to send an e-mail. But that's about it.

I sent an e-mail when I was banned, reporting a bug and their response boiled down to "lol, you're banned".

Would be an interesting case though if they deny a delete request after being perm-banned.
 
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You could try to send an e-mail. But that's about it.

I sent an e-mail when I was banned, reporting a bug and their response boiled down to "lol, you're banned".

Would be an interesting case though if they deny a delete request after being perm-banned.
That'd be a breach of the GDPR and could be fined for 20 million euros.
 
You could try to send an e-mail. But that's about it.

I sent an e-mail when I was banned, reporting a bug and their response boiled down to "lol, you're banned".

Would be an interesting case though if they deny a delete request after being perm-banned.
That's a pretty strange answer if it was not a perm, because they expect to have you as a continued user after a short period of time.
 
That'd be a breach of the GDPR and could be fined for 20 million euros.
Nah it is max 4% of their yearly worldwide revenue. But yes not deleting it would be against the GDPR. the LA Times does restrict EU Users rom visiting the site since they do not want to get into trouble XD
 
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Nah it is max 4% of their yearly worldwide revenue. But yes not deleting it would be against the GDPR. the LA Times does restrict EU Users rom visiting the site since they do not want to get into trouble XD
Hmm, though it was either 20 million or 2% of their yearly revenue, whichever was biggest.
 
Hmm, though it was either 20 million or 2% of their yearly revenue, whichever was biggest.
There are two level

Lower Level up to 10 Million and 2 %

Upper Level up to 20 Million or 4%

And if we are talking about a message board they ill be fined with the 2% max is my guess. I would be insane if you small companies etc have to pay these huge amounts of money.
 
Yeah, that does not look like a deletion. Just a changed username and custom title.
If you want to be an asshole you can now actually sue them and try to close their site. As far as I know if they a guilty they have to close it to Europeans until they solved the issue.
 
When I requested my account be closed they just put a tag of "user requested ban" under my name. The screen name is still there. They did say I could email them if I ever wanted to come back though.
 
That's fucking hilarious, cause you can just go to whatever thread/post and look at a quote.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/resetera-april-2018-newsletter.39983/page-4

There's a small back and forth on this on era actually from "Deleted Member 123" which appears to be a proper deleted account, and not like Deleted Member 643:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nh...asses-without-an-ounce-of-sense.26494/page-53
It is a bit different in that the user site is inaccessible though.
 
Part 2 of the new episode of :
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Part 1:
Here.

In this installment, we take an analysis at ERA's very own feedback thread. The lead admin of the site is looking for feedback. Little does he know that his little request would go on to paint a really pretty picture of the policy of The Names and their Little Helpers, outlined by The Names itself! All one has to do is pay close attention to what they are typing, because there is a catch to be found here. (Also because i need help lol)

Ofcourse, in typical ERA fashion, their idea of a weekend is different from what most other people consider a weekend as the thread is locked. But don't worry, A floating head still can remember how long a weekend lasts. :)

Disclaimer: Whilst semi-humorous in nature, this post also will try to summarize and detail what the real policy constitutes on ERA, a translation of some sort. It is to serve as a go-to post to highlight the policy that is at place. However, it is not all encompassing, but because The Names have being surprisingly transparent in their sayings in this particular thread, it makes good source material. Ever found it weird why The Names act like they act? Ever doubted their policies? Here it will be outlined, once and for all.

And off we go with the second and final part!

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Actually, we wont. As it turns out, having recieved so much feedback and with so much criticism given to a The Names admin, the best thing one can do in light of Transparency... is just to delete the entire thread from existence.

Now, if i could i could scavenge all the posts i would want to analyze.. but that would be way too time consuming and also way too much of my own mental health at stake lol (Unless there will be a one click retrieval by Crunklord) then it wont happen. EDIT: Well then... XD

Edit DeepEnigma DeepEnigma damn you dawg. ;)
 
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So transparent that the transparency value overflowed and rolled back to 0

If I cared enough about community I'd be keeping an eye on all of the accounts who responded in a negative manner towards the mod rage post. They might just get miraculously banned permanently at some point in the not too distant future.

I'm sure the names have a little list. Perhaps they might give it to the little helpers so they might assist them.

Shout out to Redneckerz Redneckerz for the naming convention :)
 
I reckon in their minds they expected pages upon pages of proper cheers and the occasional QoL comment. But people having geniune feedback and an admin replying in that kind of fashion that proves why ERA is having the negative intonation that it has (Aside from the banbot proving them wrong on a daily basis)? Too much feedback to action with it, especially when the admin lead actually intended to ''ban anyone in this thread'' before it was edited within the minute.

Guess deleting it was much easier to save face rather than to host responsibility. Its actions like these that make what The Names claim they stand for look more and more like a parody. And massive hypocrites, ofcourse. A classic case of dishing out but not able to recieve back.
 
I post a bit over there but try to stay out of political threads. It feels like 2016 GAF on steroids. A particular pet peeve of mine is labeling people in order to discredit them or shut down discourse. It's harmful because it waters down the meaning of words, and because you can't have a functioning political system in an environment that doesn't allow for discussion. Furthermore, being so hard line pushes away people who have largely the same values as you. This is not unique to that particular forum though. Even more concerning I'd say is the justification of political violence by some people. There are few things more dangerous.
 
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