sonycowboy
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AstroLad said:
I think this graph is a cry for mods to rate their ban rate to a level commensurate with the forum size. Banning now as often as back in 2004 merely allows 13 times as many trolls to exist.
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I think this graph is a cry for mods to rate their ban rate to a level commensurate with the forum size. Banning now as often as back in 2004 merely allows 13 times as many trolls to exist.
sonycowboy said:
Assuming the standards and behavior are the same, certainly. As much as people bitch about it, it really has been fairly consistent modding and standards that have kept the forum more or less the same afaic. There used to be some crazy characters back in the day though.
Femmeworth
Banned
sonycowboy said:
Jim Gordon: And what about escalation?
Bruce Wayne: Escalation?
Jim Gordon: We get semi-automatic weapons, they get automatics. We get Kevlar body armor, they get armor-piercing rounds.
Dreamcast or PS2?
Replace DreamCast with Xbox 360 and PS2 with PS3. Post in today's forums and we would get an insta-lock, lulz, cats and oversized smilies.
Those were the simpler times.
Replace DreamCast with Xbox 360 and PS2 with PS3. Post in today's forums and we would get an insta-lock, lulz, cats and oversized smilies.
Those were the simpler times.
TekunoRobby
Tag of Excellence
GAF has always had the same amount of garbage except now we have the entire industry paying attention and there's quite a few more people posting these days. Oh and we're NEO.
TemplaerDude
Member
i trolled gaf around 2003. i don't know why i never joined till 2006. probably high school.
Segata Sanshiro
Member
Yeah, GAF posters have gotten way more subtle.No_Style said:
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Kinda the same here. I joined early this year but even then I lurked like a stalker studying his prey in the wild myst of Afrikakakakakakakak.TemplaerDude said:
Sorry
Memphis Reigns
Member
grandjedi6 said:
wt? that isnt a question for a MOD. its a rhetorical question. i was stating a point. whos the newb?
BamYouHaveAids
Member
HUAHAHUHAUAHUAHUA :hippo4dneoxavean said:
TemplaerDude
Member
Memphis Reigns said:
y r u beeing a nublet.
Uh, the reason for the spike in membership is because this site needs members in order to ensure it's survival, via ads and what not. Right before the uptick, this forum was always crashing and practically going the way of the dodo and the admins back then were VERY strict about letting new members in. It was basically a twice a year thing. Now I wouldn't be surprised if each day members are admitted. So the "forum must be interesting," and "places are dying" canards should be dismissed entirely. It's purely related to keeping this forum afloat.
Segata Sanshiro
Member
Going by post count and join date, you.Memphis Reigns said:
GLAD TO BE OF SERVICE FELLOW POSTER
WHOOOOOSH
Hollywood_mIRC said:
dude, you aren't joking. i had just started reading the GAF because i was linked there from another forum simply because of the good videogame news and tidy gametalk. GAF was one of the sites i was visiting around the time of 9/11 and reading that old thread was crazy errie. i thought GAF was so cool back then. i used to read it all day with no input. IT WAS ALMOST LIKE A SOAP OPERA!!!someone linked to the old stuff a few months ago(?) asking about the DC/PS2 days. i read it like....wowww.
and for the longest i could not get into GAF. not even because i was waiting on 'judgement', but i didn't have a "GAF CERTIFIED VALID E-MAIL ADDRESS" and i was too lazy to set up a usable one. eventually the pull was too great and i had to get in. i still waited a good while to be processed though.
FitzOfRage
Member
Someone said it earlier, but one thing I think you've seen over time is that as more gaming forums have gone under over time, more and more people take refuge here. That's at least what happened in my case. Seems like forever ago that I first stumbled upon GA's forums. Don't even remember when I switched from lurking to posting (originally under a different name).
Anyway, here's an oldie but a goodie...
January 2004
Nintendo Announces Dual-Screened Portable Game System; ``Mystery'' Product to Launch Page 1 2 3 4 5
It's always interesting to me seeing how far off (a chorus of people declaring it the Virtual Boy 2) and how spot on some people were, all based on almost nothing. I mean have to give soundwave credit (or at least I assumed unicron was soundwave, though I don't keep up with people's name changes over the years) for really putting himself out there on some pretty specific points, and actually getting them right.
He was expecting an N64 quality system with GBA compatibility for around $150, and despite what Nintendo said at the time, there would be no branching off of the handheld line - the DS would be the GBA's successor. You read all that now, and it's like "no shit", but you read the thread, and people could barely grasp the screen alignment being vertical (one of the few details Nintendo actually revealed), let alone going on to speculate about that other stuff.
Anyway, here's an oldie but a goodie...
January 2004
Nintendo Announces Dual-Screened Portable Game System; ``Mystery'' Product to Launch Page 1 2 3 4 5
It's always interesting to me seeing how far off (a chorus of people declaring it the Virtual Boy 2) and how spot on some people were, all based on almost nothing. I mean have to give soundwave credit (or at least I assumed unicron was soundwave, though I don't keep up with people's name changes over the years) for really putting himself out there on some pretty specific points, and actually getting them right.
He was expecting an N64 quality system with GBA compatibility for around $150, and despite what Nintendo said at the time, there would be no branching off of the handheld line - the DS would be the GBA's successor. You read all that now, and it's like "no shit", but you read the thread, and people could barely grasp the screen alignment being vertical (one of the few details Nintendo actually revealed), let alone going on to speculate about that other stuff.
TemplaerDude
Member
FitzOfRage said:
:lol
Incognito said:
Nah, your explanation is totally wrong. The reason GAF was always crashing and pretty stagnant in traffic was because it was being hosted on horribly anemic hardware on a closed system provided by gamesquad (1.4ghz pentium 4 and 512mb ram I think it was), saddled with shitty ads that were loading everyone up with spyware and popups. I had to use a custom hosts file on my PC that blocked out that garbage to even moderate the site without going insane from the spyware.
As for "going the way of the dodo," I have no idea why people are ignoring that there are NO DATA POINTS in that big downward line. That's not a downward trend, that's pre-crash data and post-crash data in sequence. Still, the site was not gaining popularity significantly from what I remember, because of the gamesquad probs.
The frequency of user admissions has zero relationship with keeping the forum afloat in the way you suggest. Admissions are still strictly controlled in order to prevent GAF from becoming a shithole, and there's currently a pretty long waiting period to get in most of the time. You do understand that a whole lot more guests view GAF than members? And that being a member doesn't magically increase ad revenue (in fact, guests are served an additional ad)? Yeah.
Looked through the Goodcow archive, and found the earliest post he has of mine was from 9/27/2000. I posted a lot more back then (3000 posts in a year? damn). It says I registered in June 1999 as "Duane" but I know I registered with a couple of different usernames before that. Maybe my memory is bad, but I remember the forum always having some sort of server/database problem all the way until NeoGAF. I think that's got a lot to do with the somewhat exclusive membership we had here in the past. And to be honest with you, this place was already unbearable at times back then. The stupidity has literally multiplied over the years. 
Anyway, here's the earliest post I can remember. I thought my posting style changed a lot more than this:
Ah...the ill-conceived, ill-fated spinned.com. Sorry guys, I was the worst tech writer since...since...Panajev. Actually, he did fine. I was just lazy.
And for the haters, note that I've been using PEACE. on here since at least '99, and god knows I've been using it on usenet since like '94. I will never change.
Anyway, here's the earliest post I can remember. I thought my posting style changed a lot more than this:
Ah...the ill-conceived, ill-fated spinned.com. Sorry guys, I was the worst tech writer since...since...Panajev.
Actually, he did fine. I was just lazy.And for the haters, note that I've been using PEACE. on here since at least '99, and god knows I've been using it on usenet since like '94. I will never change.
You're telling me that increasing membership had nothing to do with the future viability of this site? Come on, now. I remember when this forum was DONE with and had to solicit donations from its members just to come back up. Now, mind you, I don't have any problem with the uptick in membership; I rather like it. But I think it's disingenuous to say that simply because of new hardware you're able to deal with the added bandwith pressure, etc. This forum is kept alive by its ads and the members who view them. And, yea, I realize the guest s outnumber the actual members -- but, then, it's always been that way.
EviLore said:
Well they aren't working well at all. Because this place has been teetering on "shithole" for a long time. And it's not even the increase in the number of members thats the problem. Its the ridiculous amount of spam that people can get away with. And often times moderators encourage it.
If a really avid gamer who could add something to the conversations would discover GAF, he'd think everyone was a bunch of morons with the amount of cat pictures that get posted here. Find a thread you have no interest in? Why ignore it when you can get lots of laughs by derailing it with cat pictures. You'll be popular with everyone -- especially the moderators!
FitzOfRage
Member
EviLore said:You're absolutely right. I have decided to call the new permabanning trolls strategy the "Neoxavean Doctrine," and guess what: you're the first inductee into an exclusive fan club created in its honor!
Btw...
Have to say I'm not a fan of the cats, and generally don't "get it", but something about that 1 just made me crack up :lol
I guess there's a cat out there for everyone...
"God's Beard!"
Member
FitzOfRage said:
Welcome to the club.
How the hell can Segata Sanshiro have 23 posts a day? It's... incredible.
"God's Beard!"
Member
HOLY FUCK YES!!!! MY 17th Colossus code made it to GAF!!! Whoooo!!!
Haha, 2 years later and it still feels good.
EDIT: Demi... free him.
Haha, 2 years later and it still feels good.
EDIT: Demi... free him.
FitzOfRage
Member
It would be impossible to quantifiy, but I really wonder how much time and energy this place diverts from other obligations (work, school, sleep, whatever) on a regular basis. Like how many companies are paying a GAF tax...
Essentially, our detraction from society is what?
Essentially, our detraction from society is what?
Suburban Cowboy
Member
spike = each new member sent pictures of olimarios gf
Square2005
Banned
Maybe one of the photoshopped cats should replace the current NeoGaf logo.
Square2005
Banned
Hey I'm just kidding! Sheesh.Lindsay said:
I like the cats - don't get me wrong! I just bought a kitten b/c of the cute pics!
It makes the GAF unique and more entertaining. It's a signature of this forum.
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