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"He's sleeping"

 

[MarkMe2525]

You won't get banned because Neo is nothing like what you're talking about. All those crazy fuck mods went to ResetERA.

Check the ban list

 

[Facism]

Just remember Roylan stepped down as a mod because they found an old post of his saying something "Acephobic" and he was the sacrifice. He's since snuck back in as a mod to a community that roasted him and threw him under the bus a couple of years later. Zero integrity. Cry harder.

user xando caught a perm ban for racism months ago, and the mods quietly lifted it recently whilst deleting the offending post for him. Mods are rotten af there.

 

[hemo memo]

Enjoy Muthafukka!



Yes, for those of you just joining us this is the Resetera mod Nepenthe.

What's the deal with the mask?

 

[Maiden Voyage]

If Era forbade this, there would be no discussion on the site.

uralreadyded.jpg

 

[BbMajor7th]

You know what I miss Mods like Bish, I think the older mods were the ones with the better, more level headed tenure's. These new young mods dont have life experience, and I think honestly once they get career oriented and start having a family or relationship some of that weird bitterness towards the world will fall off a bit. Unless they are fucking lazy and think bitching banning people is progress for their plight?

But usually with age and just life, things start to come into perspective for a lot of young people. I know a couple friends who acted like Neph, but then had a kid. They are 180 totally different person now.

Moderation on Resetera has become something else; they're not there to 'moderate' discussion and keep it from getting out of hand. Under the rubric of creating a 'safe space' for all, they've appointed themselves arbiters of moral decency and truth. Era's admin mindset has become one of assuming they know the absolute truth on most issues and are above the usual rabble in their moral perspicacity. They're not - nobody possibly could be - but in their digital tin-pot dictatorship, it seemed to suit them.

Predictably enough, the heavy-handed pettiness of that approach has come back to haunt them - with the captain jumping ship, they now find themselves rudderless with little support coming from the community.

 

[ReBurn]

It's sad that so many of them can't see that they were never anything more than product. They actually believed they owned the forum.

 

[jufonuk]

You really don't he was one of the mods actively destabilizing GAF to cause the exodus. I've seen the receipts. Also started the celebrity worshiped mod cult, which Ree has taken and run with.

Next you will want Dragona back.

 

[nani17]

Can we vote this as thread of the year or is it wrong to do so??

 

[nush]

See if they hadn't banned their "Incident Manager" this would have been handled so much better.

 

[L. Kosugi]

Cerium is an evil villain out of a james bond movie. First he became wealthy at the age of 15 writing a dystopian novel. Then he stole neogaf users to get even more wealthy while resetera users thought they were supporting a communist cooperative or something. And finally he sells the website to a bunch of random white people who own other websites with "problematic" opinions, all while saying that nothing will change, as if he has any control on what the new owners will do. LOL. He should write another novel about this.

 

[Bboy AJ]

Show us the GAF financials.

 

[Fake]

Resetera integration with The Last of Us 2 multiplayer is all I'm thinking of now.

So, moba and golf.

 

[ManaByte]

See if they hadn't banned their "Incident Manager" this would have been handled so much better.

 

[ManaByte]

Predictably enough, the heavy-handed pettiness of that approach has come back to haunt them - with the captain jumping ship, they now find themselves rudderless with little support coming from the community.

 

[XXL]

ERA mods getting ready to moderate the thread "Our gaming hardware is linked to slave labour, concentration camps and genocide. Here's what to do about it."

 

[Jeff Spicoli]

Cerium is an evil villain out of a james bond movie. First he became wealthy at the age of 15 writing a dystopian novel. Then he stole neogaf users to get even more wealthy while resetera users thought they were supporting a communist cooperative or something. And finally he sells the website to a bunch of random white people who own other websites with "problematic" opinions, all while saying that nothing will change, as if he has any control on what the new owners will do. LOL. He should write another novel about this.

I am not smart but if i was him i would have doing the same thing.
For him It was good business.
For the problematic people that infest that forum Is the only Place when they have some power in their lives.

 

[Winter John]

Everytime I looked at that place all I saw was user banned messages. Usually I couldn't even figure what they'd posted that was bad enough to get them banned. Anyways if I was Evilore I'd be grinning like a fox outside a henhouse right now.

 

[Punished Miku]

Show us the GAF financials.

Moderation Cost Expenditure Report 2021:

1. Console Wars - $3,679,010.02
2. PEE is coming this December - $1,009,099.00
3. Microsoft is buying ______ on Wednesday - $10.01
4. Jim Ryan is ________ - $8,999,712.55

 

[Boss Mog]

YES biologically confirmed.

As in no Y chromosome whatsoever?

 

[Ogbert]

Can someone give me the TLDR breakdown.

So, the website has been sold and the owner made some money.

Why are the mods bent out of shape? Are the resident communists aghast?

 

[Swift_Star]

If Era forbade this, there would be no discussion on the site.

uralreadyded.jpg

Why are Americans so obsesses and paranoid with their data? It's not like you can really do something about it in this day and age.

 

[Kerotan]

Cerium is an evil villain out of a james bond movie. First he became wealthy at the age of 15 writing a dystopian novel. Then he stole neogaf users to get even more wealthy while resetera users thought they were supporting a communist cooperative or something. And finally he sells the website to a bunch of random white people who own other websites with "problematic" opinions, all while saying that nothing will change, as if he has any control on what the new owners will do. LOL. He should write another novel about this.

You can see why he's called the former from control. He was telling them all along!

 

[TVexperto]

cant wait to see the hogwarts game ads plastered all around resetera and watch kiyuuus meltdown

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Page 68 had some real bangers.

Weasel boy is back with another stellar contribution

Watchout cerium, they are coming for you.

Finally an apt comparison--Era is exactly like a prison.

 

[TVexperto]

Can someone give me the TLDR breakdown.

So, the website has been sold and the owner made some money.

Why are the mods bent out of shape? Are the resident communists aghast?

users and mods are freaking out because they thought by paying for era clear they are supporting the server cost ..

also they all thought era is anti capitalism from the ground up

 

[FUBARx89]

See if they hadn't banned their "Incident Manager" this would have been handled so much better.

You bastard. I just snorted like a right tosser.

 

[jufonuk]

TLDR.

Cerium after leaving that post about the site being sold and thayHe needs to take time off and logging out his account

Ree mods

Cerium

everyone on GAF realising what happened

Ree users to new mods

ERA Mods to users

Evilore right now

 

[funking giblet]

Can someone give me the TLDR breakdown.

So, the website has been sold and the owner made some money.

Why are the mods bent out of shape? Are the resident communists aghast?

Site was sold off, Tech staff left to fend for themselves, prob weren't told, or given very little lead time.
Mods told they will remain as volunteers, probably the first time they found out and told nothing would change. They mostly seem happy about this... not seeing the sword of Damocles overhead.
Some users are fine with it, but the other shoe is dropping for a lot of the users.

I myself couldn't help but laugh...

 

[Velcro Fly]

Oh my god lol

I don't visit here every day so I missed this yesterday

But lmao

Everything they have ever said about that place is 100% true. Good god I am glad my info is scrubbed from that place.

 

[ManaByte]

Page 68 had some real bangers.

Weasel boy is back with another stellar contribution

Watchout cerium, they are coming for you.

Finally an apt comparison--Era is exactly like a prison.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

What are the odds that Bjorn backs out of the deal after seeing the members at Era plummet? Then Cerium can back peddle and say he canceled the deal based on the other forums in the MobaFire family.

 

[ManaByte]

What are the odds that Bjorn backs out of the deal after seeing the members at Era plummet? Then Cerium can back peddle and say he canceled the deal based on the other forums in the MobaFire family.

 

[RoboFu]

What are the odds that Bjorn backs out of the deal after seeing the members at Era plummet? Then Cerium can back peddle and say he canceled the deal based on the other forums in the MobaFire family.

Odds are if it was made public the transaction already happened.

 

[nush]

What are the odds that Bjorn backs out of the deal after seeing the members at Era plummet? Then Cerium can back peddle and say he canceled the deal based on the other forums in the MobaFire family.

he's not yet accepted my Linkedin contact request, but fair enough because of timezones.

 

[ManaByte]

Odds are if it was made public the transaction already happened.

Yup. Cerium has his money and has already left the airport for his own private island while Era burns to the ground.

 

[Papacheeks]

Moderation on Resetera has become something else; they're not there to 'moderate' discussion and keep it from getting out of hand. Under the rubric of creating a 'safe space' for all, they've appointed themselves arbiters of moral decency and truth. Era's admin mindset has become one of assuming they know the absolute truth on most issues and are above the usual rabble in their moral perspicacity. They're not - nobody possibly could be - but in their digital tin-pot dictatorship, it seemed to suit them.

Predictably enough, the heavy-handed pettiness of that approach has come back to haunt them - with the captain jumping ship, they now find themselves rudderless with little support coming from the community.

To me the community should let it burn so someone can build something totally free of all the weird bullshit. Which kind of what Neogaf became after all the shit went down. It's better than its ever been. Now if you derail a thread or drive by you get posting privleges revoked instead of banned from the site like reset does it. If you start bringing in console war BS they get remove you from just the one thread and let you know why they did what they did.

I noticed that when it happened to me, im not perfect and Im glad people like Dgrayson, Billofrights seem level headed and know how to moderate.
I feel most mods not all, are moderating in bad faith in something that alienates communities. ANd the fact no one over there and even people that are pro movement of what ever it be dont see that you cant have a community run like that, and its not natural to ban/cancel things that go against a mindset. Thats not being open, and brings things to light in how currently the social landscape has become.
Like how is what is happening at reset not a trend or red flag for how discourse has gone for LGBTQ? Whats been happening over there with everyone leaving is proof that canceling people, yelling at them, chasing them off and chasing them through means of finding posts from years ago is not the way for progress?

Most people over there are seriously either super young, or socially inept and dont spend time with relatives, longtime friends or contribute to their local community like local government(city council ect). They think being anonymous ona forum, twitter or whatever the platform may be, and moderating people out of the community that dont have the same mindset creates a great community or environment.
Yet anyone who has seen this coming, from the beginning or talk with common sense in the reality of real life experience is shunned, cancelled or run off.

Well hope this is the eye opener the site, and the gaming community needed to see how it was poised to fail from the get go. Hopefully this has a ripple effect throughout social media especially in games where Developers are forced to say specific things as to not get into hot water. Hopefully companies see this and stop catering to people who yell loud.

I have hope that positive idea's and conversations are being had and people who have been part of the hive mind, have a epiphany.

 

[nush]

Can someone give me the TLDR breakdown.

So, the website has been sold and the owner made some money.

Why are the mods bent out of shape? Are the resident communists aghast?

It was a grift from the start.
4 years almost to the day the forum opened it was legally able to be sold off and was.
cope, lols.

to be continued....

 

[ManaByte]

It was a grift from the start.
4 years almost to the day the forum opened it was legally able to be sold off and was.
cope, lols.

to be continued....

I wouldn't be shocked if Cerium only paid for 4 years of domain ownership and hosting and had this as the deadline to find someone else to deal with it.

 

[nush]

Yup. Cerium has his money and has already left the airport for his own private island while Era burns to the ground.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Discussion is finally back on-track and going over why the other forums & Bjorn are sus.

This post gets a gold star.

 

[TVexperto]

By the way: I found out after a GDPR request to delete the data (right to erasure) they still have your data because they ban your alts via IP and geolocation adress.
This is illegal in Europe (they after all sold the company to a european company).

I recommend everyone who had / has alt accounts on era to file a complaint with the europan commission.

 

[Gumbie]

Enjoy Muthafukka!



Yes, for those of you just joining us this is the Resetera mod Nepenthe.

Had to immediately go delete my youtube watch history after that. God only knows what youtube's algorithm had in store for me.

 

[KAL2006]

Damn that's some slick business's move right there, steal the community from NeoGAF, make the crazy lefties happy and engage and sell for profit. I should have joined the cause and joined that admin team and pretended I care about these leftie loonies.

 

[Nickolaidas]

Considering how accommodating companies and social media have been to our REEEEE cousins, anyone thought of the possibility the ResetERAnians will impose THEIR principles on the other MOBA sites, and not the other way around, by dragging the owners' names on twitter and cancelling anyone they dislike?

And before you tell me that they're a small minority, I wish to humbly remind that they're a minority on twitter as well. And yet all corporations bow to them out of fear of cancellation and running the companies' names through the social mud.

 

[Coolwhhip]

Discussion is finally back on-track and going over why the other forums & Bjorn are sus.

This post gets a gold star.

Hilarious how disconnected from reality these retards are. They believe everything outside of their little shitty video game forum is racist, xphobic or whatever buzz words they use. Absolute braindead clowns.

 

[ManaByte]

Discussion is finally back on-track and going over why the other forums & Bjorn are sus.

Companies who pay $4.5M for websites don't write contracts to coddle mental patients.

 

[Fbh]

Lol reading up on this thread this morning has been fun.

So not only did it get sold, but the new owners are a bunch of wealthy white people that run sketchy gambling sites on the side ?

 

[Mabdia]

It's fun and interesting because they framed themselves differently

They banged on and on about progressiveness

They banned a fuck tonne of people for petty reasons

They heavily restrict conversations about companies they don't like, and wave disclaimers about others slagging them off despite otherwise claiming to be super left leaning tolerant open minded people

And then...the guy running the show bails with a shittonne of cash based on the sale of this image, and they collectively are falling apart very quickly as a result

Morals and ideals held together with sticky tape

indeed. That's really fun. But people should expect it. I mean, every communist and socialist are that in speech but when we talk about money they all are capitalists.

The smart ones uses the dumb as a tool to achieve theirs goals.

Apparently the progressive guys never managed to read George Orwell or Huxley.

 

[cormack12]

Mod christmas party for era, moba, dota gonna be pure fire.