Hey so I used to be a regular on GAF from like 2010-2016. At a certain point I realized I hated everyone on the board generally as it was getting very social justice-ey. Around the election I dumped GAF and moved on to other sites(mostly reddit although that's no better).
I come back and this place is sane again. Can anybody give me kind of a run down of what happened? Did all the sjw types go to this resetera forum? I see people freely speaking in ways that used to get you insta Bishoptl banned.
I was gone for social justice-ey reasons around the same time as well. I didn't know REE was an even worse place as I was mostly hanging out in gaming subforums (you know, just talking about games). But I kept seeing more and more fake justice on gaming side and realized (I know, way too late) that I jumped from a frying pan into the fire. By chance I just wanted to check out how GAF is nowadays and to my surprise, it completely reformed. I thought it was unsalvageable and didn't think it was possible to weed out an entire wrongthink community and it's moderators (who enforced this wrongthink mentality).
You can read more of the history of changes in that timeframe in the intro that EviLore wrote
here.
I'm all for human rights and being humanitarian and I think most of society is. But trying to achieve that goal and start spreading hate does not go together. I think it's people who completely missed their mark and forgot what they were fighting for in the first place. Hate is not the answer and only spreads more hate and these people are becoming what they are pointing their fingers at. And when these hatemongers start banning people who mostly argue to accept
everyone with open arms, it's not that hard to see who are the bad guys. And while there's surely a percentage that's enjoying their power trips in their small bubbles, I mostly think (or want to believe) that most people had a bad experience in their life, made the wrong conclusion and got stuck in that bubble (which will never heal them) that keeps them thinking that way. I feel more pity for most than anything. Expressing more hate won't make anyone happy, especially themselves.
It's weird knowing that what I typed above is probably like stepping on a minefield back in the day on GAF or still now on Era. I really love what GAF has become (though people should be a little bit less console war-ry IMO, but it's bearable).
