Wait, so GAF is simultaneously a bunch of nazis… but we also took steps to shut down nazis? Which is it?
Anyone who doesnt believe everything they believe or isn't left leaning gets called a nazi. And I'll be honest there are extreme people on both sides, and there are a lot of trumpers or pro right leaning people who are little too outspoken. There's nothing wrong having a political opinion but you need to keep your emotions in check and not start flinging names, cursing at people who dont see eye to eye or your point of view.
ERA's issue is they want to be this progressive movement forum for everything, and used the userbase from this place who jumped over to do it via GAme discussions. AND THEN they tried to be pro progressive with anything that got reported on in game industry. Which theres nothing wrong with that, but they banned people who would play devils advocate or come in with different perspective.
So then when games like Cyberpunk or Hogwarts would have tons of traffic of people exicited to talk about the game they use that to push agenda's in things like trans movement because a polish developer made a game that showed trans in poor light and had some choice opinions on trans they hated from twitter. And then when it came to JK Rowling they think she's a shit human for literally having reservations on things within tans community since she herself has kids, and is a writer for children's books.
People can have opinions that are shit or just uninformed or sometimes just wrong. But you dont rule threads/OT'S with authoritarian moderation where you literally are making a stance on what you want the discourse to be in a sense. Thats where they jumped the shark way back, and thats why most people have left.
Neogaf never did that, but before the mod exodus there was def a change in the air in moderation that literally was similar to what reset became. I think they knew if they pushed anymore Evillore would have seen the red flag in what was happening behind the scenes in what people really wanted.
Now the truth has come out, that Resetera was literally planned from days of Neogaf, they used the Evil lore scandal to have an exit and literally had everything ready to go before hand. SO this was planned in my opinion. They saw the numbers of neogaf activity wise, saw the attention it got to where neogaf got a literal documentary on gametrailers with Keightly, Jeff gertsman. They used also people like Shinobi and the likes who had tons of friends/contacts in the industry.
And for the longest time resetera was seen as the good guys for developers to come and have discussion without trolls, or hostility. But really it was poitical/agenda driven experiment that used the popularity of video games and news to grow their agenda. They used the implosion scandal to get all the hype attention and it worked.
Now i believe tons of developers have been posting less, or at least high profile developers outside of launching their games. I dont know what the future looks like, but would not bat an eye that we see more people including industry people come back or reach out to evillore and the mod team to see what the landscape looks like.
Getting rid of Political was step in right direction as Neogaf was always about games/developer discussions.