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This is what I miss most about oldGaf (hot babes thread era GAF, not sjw era) is that the gaming side was moderated heavily and stupid fanboy posts weren't welcome. Oftentimes I will read through a thread and just not bother to respond because for the most part the conversation is just too idiotic to engage in. Hopefully these are just growing pains. The internet needs a proper place to talk about games.
Totally agree. The worst part of the Gaf/Era split was it left us no good place to talk games. Era was to politicized on the gaming side from the get go, and traffic died here and as it's came back too much if fanboy console warring nonsense. Other forums are either too slow, or even less moderated and more full of kids and fanboy nonsense. Most sub-reddits are full of kids, memes and people posting screen shots and clips of them playing that I couldn't care less about.
Hopefully, as you say, it's just growing pains. They need the traffic and ad views etc. so it's probably hard to be overly strict in bans for that petty fanboy stuff right now. The few game OTs that get traffic, as well as the news threads that don't devolve into fanboy bickering, are quite good. The balance just needs to shift to more of those and less of the console warring crap.