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[Liberty4all]

Just wanted to let everyone know I'm off the politics board too, same reasons as Omega Supreme Holopsicon .

The Official Ban page doesn't indicate soft section bans so just wanted to let friends know where I went. I'll probaly still be posting in off topic, the bitcoin thread looks interesting.

Like I said privately to evilore I do get why he is doing what he's got to do -- but it does hurt being a long time member that stood up for him and the site when the hell of 2017 went down. I'd like to think this isn't particularly easy for him either.

For those I did verbal ideological battles with over the years I wish you the best. For those of you who became my friends the vampire Muppet will miss you guys.

 

[Tesseract]

 

[Piku_Ringo]

Just wanted to let everyone know I'm off the politics board too, same reasons as Omega Supreme Holopsicon .

The Official Ban page doesn't indicate soft section bans so just wanted to let friends know where I went. I'll probaly still be posting in off topic, the bitcoin thread looks interesting.

Like I said privately to evilore I do get why he is doing what he's got to do -- but it does hurt being a long time member that stood up for him and the site when the hell of 2017 went down. I'd like to think this isn't particularly easy for him either.

For those I did verbal ideological battles with over the years I wish you the best. For those of you who became my friends the vampire Muppet will miss you guys.

As long as it's not a perm from the site. You will be missed from politics brother. Pouring out a 16oz of Canada dry ginger Ale in your name, homie

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

I'd like to think he got banned for posting wojaks.

 

[Mod of War]

nor will they purchase any of Mod of War 's fancy knitted sweatshirts.

Spoiler: The mental kind

 

[Grand Theft Scratchy]

It's okay to take a break from politics. Play the video games.

 

[ThatGamingDude]

It's okay to take a break from politics. Play the video games.

We're all here at the local arcade to play vidya; just seems like a new community grew within the building

Might be an opportunity to cash in for some

 

[SF Kosmo]

Hopefully when things cool down some of the long time posters can get second chances to come back to politics. I will miss talking shit with you guys in the meantime.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

We're all here at the local arcade to play vidya; just seems like a new community grew within the building

During COVID? How shameless.

 

[ThatGamingDude]

During COVID? How shameless.

The arcade I worked at as a teen and still go to today will be forever my ecchi

 

[Slings and Arrows]

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[Grand Theft Scratchy]

Any chance i can change my name again?

I want to be chad wolf. I'm crying with laughter at the pic i found on the internet. Thank God for those glorious internetz

Changing your username again? I know what Nymphae would say:

 

[nush]

Me checking the GAF ban page each morning.

 

[ThatGamingDude]

In light of everyone putting out memes about the people going out

How about the people coming in?

The Official NeoGAF "Introduce Yourself" Thread

Hey :) I've lurked, now I wanna enjoy me some gaming chatter.

www.neogaf.com

Business growth plans often involve cutting budgetary fat when appropriate; let's appreciate what is forthcoming

 

[John2290]

Me checking the GAF ban page each morning.

Edit: Found it, those numbers are miniscule.

 

[John2290]

Is there any chance I can at least view the politics forum instead of having to log out or at least a time frame on the ban. I was slightly drunk yesterday, being hyperbolic and over the top. It's not like I'm a regular poster there, I just like to get some feel for what's going on in the world without having to spend my time on MSM or Twitter.

 

[Boss Mog]

Just out of curiosity which post got K.S v2.0 banned since it's not indicated?

 

[EviLore]

Just out of curiosity which post got K.S v2.0 banned since it's not indicated?

It wasn’t linked since the post had been deleted.

 

[Boss Mog]

It wasn’t linked since the post had been deleted.

Ah okay.

 

[Stouffers]

Me checking the GAF ban page each morning.

Where is ban page?

 

[Prison Mike]

Where is ban page?

Bottom of page on mobile under bans

 

[John2290]

Where is ban page?

Just type neogaf ban page into google and you'll get links for the most recent and older listings.

 

[TheContact]

Where is ban page?

 

[Tschumi]

Sorry... I'm new... but I lurked and EviLore's post about stopping conspiracy posting etc is the reason I decided I'd make an account... The forum feels like a real... leading forum for the whole spectrum now, it feels like reality has a prime position in the pantheon of subjects we talk about here now...

This place has so many active users, it should be a forum with a wide and healthy range of posters... I think republicans and democrats have really good, subtle things to debate - taxes, big government, foreign policy, green tech, etc - there's plenty of space for politics if you take out the wild stuff that's popped up in the last few years... Anyway, it's not my place, I'll go back to the neo member jacuzzi

 

[Liberty4all]

Is there any chance I can at least view the politics forum instead of having to log out or at least a time frame on the ban. I was slightly drunk yesterday, being hyperbolic and over the top. It's not like I'm a regular poster there, I just like to get some feel for what's going on in the world without having to spend my time on MSM or Twitter.

I'd like this too. It's a pain in the ass having to log out and back in.

 

[ThatGamingDude]

I'd like this too. It's a pain in the ass having to log out and back in.

TBH, if you're enough to get locked out of that board, you're enough to be locked from viewing it

The next step is taking your political banter to other boards, even if vagueposting it

Give it some time of "Good behavior," and send the mods a support email/PM

 

[Saber]

Me checking the GAF ban page each morning.

More like that first scene of Saving Private Ryan

 

[nush]

 

[kretos]

Solomeena

Post

Jan 12, 2021

Permanent

This extreme rhetoric and personal attacks aren't acceptable. (Upgraded to permanent after support email)

please post screenshot

 

[nush]

Solomeena

Post

Jan 12, 2021

Permanent

This extreme rhetoric and personal attacks aren't acceptable. (Upgraded to permanent after support email)

please post screenshot

Happy Easter...

 

[EviLore]

Maybe don't foam at the mouth with unhinged attacks and extremist rhetoric. Or if you do, understand the obvious consequences for taking that road and don't claim you're being oppressed when you contact support. Just a thought.

 

[Piku_Ringo]

Damn another one bit the dust.

 

[Rentahamster]

Jesus Christ how hard is it to not sperg out. I mean really now.

 

[Schrödinger's cat]

I'd like this too. It's a pain in the ass having to log out and back in.

I would suggest you open a private browsing / incognito mode window or tab in your browser and visit the site that way.

 

[The Lunch Legend]

Me checking the GAF ban page each morning.

 

[Geki-D]

It's a shame it took a violent coup attempt and GAF no doubt being afraid of ending up on an FBI list of terrorist-supporting sites for things to change around here rather than common decency. The fact that there was a ton of alt-right, white nationalist crazy shit being posted on here was brought up at several points ages ago in this very thread but was always shrugged off. Well hey, we got there in the end.

Glad to see the guy celebrating the Christchurch shooter was banned recently, as was Mr. 'White replacement' (again, shame they weren't banned for, you know, celebrating a mass shooting and being a Nazi when they first did it).

Still a few more common nutters about but I'm sure they'll be unable to control themselves very soon or will request bans because their grip on the echo chamber is slipping.

 

[Papa]

It's a shame it took a violent coup attempt and GAF no doubt being afraid of ending up on an FBI list of terrorist-supporting sites for things to change around here rather than common decency. The fact that there was a ton of alt-right, white nationalist crazy shit being posted on here was brought up at several points ages ago in this very thread but was always shrugged off. Well hey, we got there in the end.

Glad to see the guy celebrating the Christchurch shooter was banned recently, as was Mr. 'White replacement' (again, shame they weren't banned for, you know, celebrating a mass shooting and being a Nazi when they first did it).

Still a few more common nutters about but I'm sure they'll be unable to control themselves very soon or will request bans because their grip on the echo chamber is slipping.

Please show receipts for the supposed "ton of white nationalist crazy shit".

"Alt-right" is a nebulous term so you don't need to provide receipts for that, but I will say that you're talking out of your ass in painting with such a broad brush.

 

[Geki-D]

Please show receipts for the supposed "ton of white nationalist crazy shit".

I would rather just point towards some of the long time users getting banned now for white nationalist shit. This stuff doesn't exist in a vacuum, it was always there, just tolerated (when it never should have been).

One recent example that comes to mind was when Nobody_Important made a thread about the Proud Boys breaking up because some of them wanted to be even more openly racist, the thread quickly devolved into a defence of the "Proud Goys". And whilst some people were banned for being way too obvious with their racism, a good number who were on board the "Great Replacement" train weren't and still aren't.

And yes, the Great Replacement is an openly white nationalist theory:

Great Replacement conspiracy theory - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Shit like this cropped up all the time. It has no place a forum that isn't Stormfront, let alone on a gaming forum and I'm glad things are changing.

 

[Papa]

I would rather just point towards some of the long time users getting banned now for white nationalist shit. This stuff doesn't exist in a vacuum, it was always there, just tolerated (when it never should have been).

One recent example that comes to mind was when Nobody_Important made a thread about the Proud Boys breaking up because some of them wanted to be even more openly racist, the thread quickly devolved into a defence of the "Proud Goys". And whilst some people were banned for being way too obvious with their racism, a good number who were on board the "Great Replacement" train weren't and still aren't.

And yes, the Great Replacement is an openly white nationalist theory:

Great Replacement conspiracy theory - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Shit like this cropped up all the time. It has no place a forum that isn't Stormfront, let alone on a gaming forum and I'm glad things are changing.

Highlight specific posts within context, not just your personal interpretation. White nationalist views have always been met with a swift perm here. I posit that you are leveraging a crisis to push an agenda and paint GAF as something that it is not and has never been.

 

[Papa]

Geki-D are you going to justify why you’re spreading unfounded conspiracy theories about GAF harbouring white nationalists up until very recently?

 

[nush]

One recent example that comes to mind was when Nobody_Important made a thread about the Proud Boys breaking up because some of them wanted to be even more openly racist, the thread quickly devolved into a defence of the "Proud Goys". And whilst some people were banned for being way too obvious with their racism, a good number who were on board the "Great Replacement" train weren't and still aren't.

That's a locked thread with a lot of bans. Are you being proactive with the report button to highlight questionable content? Do you expect people to be insta permed for the slightest whiff of wrongthink?

 

[Papa]

I could go through the ban list and find hundreds of people banned for racist remarks. To misrepresent jokes out of context - jokes that were made at the expense of the faction that split from the Proud Boys - in order to paint GAF as something it’s not is utterly slanderous. The kind of person who would lie, misrepresent, and distort context for cheap political points is the same kind of person who caused GAF to split in the first place.

 

[FunkMiller]

Geki-D are you going to justify why you’re spreading unfounded conspiracy theories about GAF harbouring white nationalists up until very recently?

Not going to comment on whether they’re white nationalists or not, but I’ve seen at least a couple of people recently banned for saying that America was a country made for white people by white people. Pretty stomach churning stuff.

The new regs to stop conspiracy theory stuff have forced some very unpleasant opinions out of people who might have kept them hidden otherwise.

Lancing a boil springs to mind....

 

[Papa]

Not going to comment on whether they’re white nationalists or not, but I’ve seen at least a couple of people recently banned for saying that America was a country made for white people by white people. Pretty stomach churning stuff.

The new regs to stop conspiracy theory stuff have forced some very unpleasant opinions out of people who might have kept them hidden otherwise.

Lancing a boil springs to mind....

Exactly. They were banned and always have been whenever they’ve said racist things. What you’re saying seems to be something like “well they always wanted to say it but the new regs are doing a good job because they’re forcing it out of them”. This is veering towards advocating for precog thoughtcrime. No, that’s not what we do in the West. We don’t exile people on hunches and suspicion. We do it when they say it openly and explicitly and that’s what GAF moderation has always done. The coward you’re sticking up for is misrepresenting and distorting context in an attempt to rewrite history and score political points. He’s now refusing to stand behind what he said and is resorting to cowardly reactions.

 

[FunkMiller]

Exactly. They were banned and always have been whenever they’ve said racist things. What you’re saying seems to be something like “well they always wanted to say it but the new regs are doing a good job because they’re forcing it out of them”. This is veering towards advocating for precog thoughtcrime. No, that’s not what we do in the West. We don’t exile people on hunches and suspicion. We do it when they say it openly and explicitly and that’s what GAF moderation has always done. The coward you’re sticking up for is misrepresenting and distorting context in an attempt to rewrite history and score political points. He’s now refusing to stand behind what he said and is resorting to cowardly reactions.

I’m not defending or chastising anyone for their opinions. I’m just stating what I’ve seen. And I’m fucking delighted that people like that are being banned. I was frankly shocked that nazi pieces of shit (and I definitely use that term seriously and properly for once) like that were hiding on the site. Fervently hoping that if there are any more they just leave without having to be banned.

I do agree with you that types like that are / were very much in the minority on here. Otherwise I would have left a long time ago.

 

[Papa]

I’m not defending or chastising anyone for their opinions. I’m just stating what I’ve seen. And I’m fucking delighted that people like that are being banned. I was frankly shocked that nazi pieces of shit (and I definitely use that term seriously and properly for once) like that were hiding on the site. Fervently hoping that if there are any more they just leave without having to be banned.

I do agree with you that types like that are / were very much in the minority on here. Otherwise I would have left a long time ago.

I think you would love Twitter

 

[FunkMiller]

I think you would love Twitter

No idea what means chief, but have a good day

 

[Yoshi]

Glad to see the guy celebrating the Christchurch shooter was banned recently, as was Mr. 'White replacement' (again, shame they weren't banned for, you know, celebrating a mass shooting and being a Nazi when they first did it).

Mr White Replacement was only temp banned and is back again.

 

[The Lunch Legend]

 

[Stiflers Mom]

It's a shame it took a violent coup attempt and GAF no doubt being afraid of ending up on an FBI list of terrorist-supporting sites for things to change around here rather than common decency. The fact that there was a ton of alt-right, white nationalist crazy shit being posted on here was brought up at several points ages ago in this very thread but was always shrugged off. Well hey, we got there in the end.

I saw a lot of Trump loving (which I turned very sour on after the 2020 election and especially after the Capitol thing happening), and people being opposed to woke bullshit.
But in no way I saw "white nationalists" posting there. And if, they got weeded out pretty quickly, imo.

And please get out with that "alt right"-bullshit for everything that's not modern weirdo leftist and just good old plain conservativism.

I always liked the diversity of views in the politics forum and that people can talk freely. Within certain boundaries dictated by decency.