Gordon Shumway
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lol..ya done fucked up, OP!
Can we ban the word "waifu" from NeoGAF?
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Stone Ocean
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Let's ban every word and communicate solely with GIFs and reaction images
That particular mod speaks the truth, this is one meme that just goes over my head.
A Human Becoming
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I think I can live with that.
It's kind of what people agree too when signing up (to follow the rules and behave). I've seen forums that try to over moderate and it's a disaster. GAF's approach is the best. Allow the community to take personal responsibility and self moderate, only step in when you have to.
So I agree 100% with what you are saying. It not only makes the most sense, but it's also the most realistic way to handle things. Which is why I don't agree with OP. But I would say, if the Waifu thread derails are that big of a problem and common, I think giving bans for people derailing subjects with objectification discussions is more than reasonable.
As it is, you take away Best Girl from AnimeGAF and they'll likely collapse in on themselves.
Then again, telling AnimeGAF to cut it the fuck out with the "Lewd" stuff hasn't killed the beast, so who knows.
Maintenance
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GIFs are banned too, didn't you get the memo? Let's get back to ASCII
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_/¯The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Real talk though: I don't think it needs a ban, I think that various communities just need to be better about responding to criticism, especially if its backed up by the general sentiment of the moderation team.
I'm of two minds about some of the more...skeevy content specific threads on GAF for media that I don't even watch or play. On the one hand, well, its in its own thread, I can ignore it. On the other hand, it still does kind of bug me
Meh
I'm of two minds about some of the more...skeevy content specific threads on GAF for media that I don't even watch or play. On the one hand, well, its in its own thread, I can ignore it. On the other hand, it still does kind of bug me
Meh
BassForever
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Banning these things just means new potentially more annoying things will take their place
terrisus
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You drive a hard bargain.
But, the sacrifice is worth it to be rid of
Banderas and PopGAF >.>
That's one of many reasons I love Opera's option to disable animated images.
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Whoa whoa way too excessive, morse code is a far better option. .----. .... ---
antisoulless
Banned
If somebody is in love with their cartoon pal what should we say?
lazybones18
Banned
Grampa pls
I too think we should use force to make people aware
ThatGuyAgain
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Pls no
pablotrejo
Banned
yeah, you're right, but that wasn't the case at all.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
If the cutting out lewd had managed to kill animegaf that would be an extremely sad state of affairs.
I knew NeoGAF would end with the great Waifu Wars.
On a more serious note, I sympathize with the annoyance at threads at times being derailed because of the way some people express excitement. The problem runs far deeper than words though. So banning any superficial thing is not going to really solve it. We do not encourage threads where people want to just talk about a game being derailed into "list my favorite virtual girlfriends" by a few users, but sometimes it happens anyway. In the same way, we don't encourage news threads or movie threads turning into "Omg these women are so hot I cannot control myself from posting about what I want to do to them!" threads. It's generally embarrassing, but it becomes increasingly harder to moderate consistently due to the volume of the forum. Just because you might see it happen in a thread, does not mean we condone it.
tl;dr - We're not going to ban waifus, but we would appreciate it if people kept their waifu battles to themselves, unless they're playing Dengeki Fighting Climax, then I guess waifu ranking actually matters.
tl;dr - We're not going to ban waifus, but we would appreciate it if people kept their waifu battles to themselves, unless they're playing Dengeki Fighting Climax, then I guess waifu ranking actually matters.
A Human Becoming
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What did you call me? -... .- -.- .-
Stone Ocean
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A bit?You have to admit that this has been a bit overplayed here...
The second that shitty last of us gif was made was the second the whole thing had reached overkilled overkill
That's why you leave it up to certain scenarios when it becomes a problem. It's not reasonable to police everyone and ban every single time someone derails. But if threads have a consistent issue of subjects being derailed with female objectification, I don't see how telling people to knock that off suddenly changes the culture of this place.
But I agree, you can't follow every person and ban any time someone does this. Just saying if a thread gets out of hand with it, I have no issue with it being moderated. Much better solition then banning words and trying to pre-capture bad behavior before it happens. Which is what I think OP is suggesting with word bans.
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Done. Ban ayy lmao at the same time, and use of the word 'lewd'. Also ban all of PopGAF, and their associates.
The Technomancer
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On a more serious note, I sympathize with the annoyance at threads at times being derailed because of the way some people express excitement. The problem runs far deeper than words though. So banning any superficial thing is not going to really solve it. We do not encourage threads where people want to just talk about a game being derailed into "list my favorite virtual girlfriends" by a few users, but sometimes it happens anyway. In the same way, we don't encourage news threads or movie threads turning into "Omg these women are so hot I cannot control myself from posting about what I want to do to them!" threads. It's generally embarrassing, but it becomes increasingly harder to moderate consistently due to the volume of the forum. Just because you might see it happen in a thread, does not mean we condone it.
tl;dr - We're not going to ban waifus, but we would appreciate it if people kept their waifu battles to themselves, unless they're playing Dengeki Fighting Climax, then I guess waifu ranking actually matters.
Moderation has gotten a lot better about these in the last year or so though. Like, I'd say it was straight up becoming a problem last year but this past year has seen some very active moderation comments and thread lockings that I've appreciated
Victim blaming has gotten out of control. For sure.
tl;dr - We're not going to ban waifus, but we would appreciate it if people kept their waifu battles to themselves, unless they're playing Dengeki Fighting Climax, then I guess waifu ranking actually matters.
Kirino is top tier in that game, so fuck that. Ban waifus.
On a more serious note, I sympathize with the annoyance at threads at times being derailed because of the way some people express excitement. The problem runs far deeper than words though. So banning any superficial thing is not going to really solve it. We do not encourage threads where people want to just talk about a game being derailed into "list my favorite virtual girlfriends" by a few users, but sometimes it happens anyway. In the same way, we don't encourage news threads or movie threads turning into "Omg these women are so hot I cannot control myself from posting about what I want to do to them!" threads. It's generally embarrassing, but it becomes increasingly harder to moderate consistently due to the volume of the forum. Just because you might see it happen in a thread, does not mean we condone it.
tl;dr - We're not going to ban waifus, but we would appreciate it if people kept their waifu battles to themselves, unless they're playing Dengeki Fighting Climax, then I guess waifu ranking actually matters.
AMEN! LONG LIVE WAIFUS!!!! so happy
terrisus
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.gif images posted by anyone who posts in the PopGAF thread >.>
A Huge Battleship
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Posys? What's that? ;p
A Human Becoming
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True. "My favorite character is better than your favorite character" arguments have always been persistent.
chaobreaker
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😂😂😂
Yah, also, like you said, mods can't be everywhere all the time. Just gonna have to read through the din as best you can.
Pancakes
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tl;dr - We're not going to ban waifus, but we would appreciate it if people kept their waifu battles to themselves, unless they're playing Dengeki Fighting Climax, then I guess waifu ranking actually matters.
But I already had my banderas and popgaf gifs doused in oil and ready to be thrown into a communal bonfire!
This is insulting
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