[NEXT LEVEL lames™] ResetEra sold to M.O.B.A. Network for USD$4.55 million

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I wonder what MOBA Network CEO Björn Mannerqvist thinks about Resetera's topic of choice, 'use of racial epitaphs by white people against black people'? Where oh where would he fall on this pressing issue? Where's middling detective boy-at-large, Jason Schrier when you need him?
 
Wait wait wait. I thought the moderation there "just wanted people to be decent to each other."

Seems like the mods are going to very great lengths to justify why it's okay for them to be shitty to people.
 
I wonder what MOBA Network CEO Björn Mannerqvist thinks about Resetera's topic of choice, 'use of racial epitaphs by white people against black people'? Where oh where would he fall on this pressing issue? Where's middling detective boy-at-large, Jason Schrier when you need him?

After your presentation I'm pretty sure they don't give a fuck, as long as they can shove ads down peoples throats, they're good.
 
Wait wait wait. I thought the moderation there "just wanted people to be decent to each other."

Seems like the mods are going to very great lengths to justify why it's okay for them to be shitty to people.
Exactly. It seems power went through their heads. Moderation should be a position of trust. We trust you to lead by example. How can you condemn your community when you yourself have been as much of an asshole to them.
 
Wait wait wait. I thought the moderation there "just wanted people to be decent to each other."

Seems like the mods are going to very great lengths to justify why it's okay for them to be shitty to people.

if you were a normal person posting there you would have noticed that a long time ago, most of them are garbage human beings.
 
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No one is owed an account here. Ergo, you should treat it like a precious commodity instead of a God given right.

A precious commodity? You mean like water, food and shelter? Get over yourself Nepenthetic. Seriously Get. A. Grip.
 
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Exactly. It seems power went through their heads. Moderation should be a position of trust. We trust you to lead by example. How can you condemn your community when you yourself have been as much of an asshole to them.
Stock board moderation is usually an invisible person or an algorithm that automates posts getting deleted or adjusted. Post on Yahoo Finance some cuss words and it doesnt even get posted when you press Post.

As for boards I'd check out that have people who scour the posts, look into reported posts and have their own profile, typically every board I've been on the mods dont show their face that often. I've been on gaming sites, EA's hockey site doesn't have mods posting every 2 minutes. GAF's mods and Evilore dont seem to post that often either. And when they do it's usually pretty brief messages.

Resetera, holy shit. It's like every mod there writes novels, and loves getting into face to face bickering matches to show the board who's in charge. And then you got ex-mods who chime in always backing up the current mod's big posts with their big posts.

It's a site where the police have no problem waving their billy sticks into the air and having tug of war matches with the masses.
 
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So you got users defending Cracker, and defending mods using it claiming it's not a racist term.

Awesome. Let the fighting continue. This guy's post may or may not be what mods actually believe. But when you got apologists trying to speak for mods solidifying their view on white guy terms, it makes it funnier.

Let's see if mods come out of their hole and agree with 4cute as an ally, or disagree with him as an accuser.

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Whew, there's a lot of "downplaying and excusing racism and bigotry" going on. Wonder when the mods are going get on that!
 
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Been trying to get caught up on things since yesterday. This thread grew by several pages. The Era thread grew by several pages. Other sites where I've been trying to keep tabs on this hilarity have also grown by several pages. It's a lot!

I see some mods, K Jack in particular, really doubling (tripling? quadrupling? quintupling?) down on their stupidity. Good on breakfuss for their responses there. I'm legit surprised that they aren't banned yet for also not putting up with that bullshit.

I wonder what tonight will bring to try to distract from the elephants in the room. More tags?

Is there any way to see user numbers on era? Like in member count?
Home page, bottom right corner.

But like any website, you'll have spam bots, alts, and banned users all part of the count. Even a banned profile with 1 spam post can technically count as a member I think. But I don't know. Maybe the site is transparent enough to show only active users.
I'm not really familiar with the admin stuff of XF forum software, but I know that vBulletin will just keep the counter going up with every new registration unless you intentionally rebulid forum statistics. This means that even deleted/purged users also inflate that number constantly. Of course, maybe they do update those counters, but I'm not going to hold my breath. It's not something that site owners (including myself) often do unless absolutely necessary.
 
my god, it's starting to hit home now. christmas really has come early this year <3

lol it is crystal clear: these dudes are all business. there is zero chance they are going to be concerned with reeeee's radical internet activism because there is no profit in such cookery. mods wont be able to stop the influx of trolls they are about to receive, and they wont be able to handle the stress of banning ever other user that isn't even trying to troll (which is already their MO), and even if they do manage all of that, once it starts to affect the bottom line they will eventually be silenced by their new over lords, just as they have done to all of their subordinates over the last 4 years.

and they will claim its absurd and unfair through out the whole thing

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It's hilarious watching that place slowly implode.
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my god, it's starting to hit home now. christmas really has come early this year <3

lol it is crystal clear: these dudes are all business. there is zero chance they are going to be concerned with reeeee's radical internet activism because there is no profit in such cookery. mods wont be able to stop the influx of trolls they are about to receive, and they wont be able to handle the stress of banning ever other user that isn't even trying to troll (which is already their MO), and even if they do manage all of that, once it starts to affect the bottom line they will eventually be silenced by their new over lords, just as they have done to all of their subordinates over the last 4 years.

and they will claim its absurd and unfair through out the whole thing

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I see some mods, K Jack in particular, really doubling (tripling? quadrupling? quintupling?) down on their stupidity. Good on breakfuss for their responses there. I'm legit surprised that they aren't banned yet for also not putting up with that bullshit.

I wonder what tonight will bring to try to distract from the elephants in the room. More tags?
They cant lock the thread or ban users who write reasonably written posts because it'll look bad on the site and mods, like they are trying to avoid answering questions or limit people taking about MOBA. A mod even closed down another thread telling people all MOBA and site concerns go to that master thread. So they cant lock it.

Well, they got to think of something because Poodle can only talk about account deletion processes to kill time for so long. All the racist/anti-racist back and forth between users (at mods) has zero mod responses for hours.

I don't think they know what to do or answer.
 
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Their intentions were pretty clear when they didn't want it to be a stickied thread on gaming side or off topic. I personally ignore those banners unless it's a thread that's stickied to the main page.
 
So I am seeing some fantastic posts from some clearly intelligent Era members, which begs the question: why would you bother to stay?

I kept my account there until I was banned, because there were some awesome people there, and some decent content. A few of them are still there, and unaware of the full extent of the drama. That thread isn't pinned on the main gaming forum because that would make too much sense. But most of them are now on other sites, or on Discord; got tired walking on eggshells and looking over our shoulders all the time.
 
Genuine question. This will sound rhetorical, but I'm asking it sincerely:

Does Era as a site ever say or do anything supportive to the minority groups they claim to care about? Or is it predominantly users attacking groups they perceive as high-privilege and rationalizing that as somehow being helpful to minorities? I think I know the answer but I seriously want to know if I'm just missing something.
 
who's up for some more tags?

Y'know just to brighten up this atmosphere and help my mental health?
I'd like a tag that acknowledges how pretty I am.

On the cracker thing: The term means "poor rural whites, all of whom are worthless/disgusting people," not "racist whites." It's not nearly as bad as other slurs (racist slurs, but also homophobic slurs, anti-Semitic stereotypes, etc.), but as someone who grew up fairly poor (and white) in the rural Midwest, I would definitely take strong offense if an authority figure declared they could call me that with impunity.
 
I'd rather 4.5M USD, and a legion of deluded tools working for me for free, to help me with my mental health thanks.

So what your saying is Cerium is like Slugworth trying to steal Willie Wonkas recipe's but instead of stealing the recipe's.....he stole the Oompa Loompas!

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Well, as Asian immigrant, I learned something new about American culture (cracker), after living in the U.S. for 30 years.
I'm more of a biscuit person...
What they don't get is we're all crackers. Whites are saltines. Hispanics are graham crackers. Blacks are chocolate graham crackers.
 
Genuine question. This will sound rhetorical, but I'm asking it sincerely:

Does Era as a site ever say or do anything supportive to the minority groups they claim to care about? Or is it predominantly users attacking groups they perceive as high-privilege and rationalizing that as somehow being helpful to minorities? I think I know the answer but I seriously want to know if I'm just missing something.
They ask people to donate to charities when issues related to that charity come up--I don't remember the specifics, but you can usually find a sticky there.

It's mostly arguing about which people need to lose their jobs and/or go to prison, though.
 
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