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[highrider]

More suffocatingly right wing. Wish it was a little easier to avoid people whining about the “left” and “NPCs” and “SJWs”

I do think it’s gone a bit far right, but the left is kind of doing it to themselves. Identity politics are kind of cannibalizing any constructive discussion.

 

[Freedom Gate Co.]

Anyone saying this forum is far right wing are likely from era. They nit pick posts out of a thread that may be all left opinions otherwise and say we are all hurting minorities and other nonsense.

 

[petran79]

Yeah you are right. I'm talking about the ones who feel the need to go on social media and flame the user base for whatever potential game. Basically the ones who white knight and virtue signal etc.

If game devs use Resetera for user feedback for their games, gaming is doomed

 

[Blam]

If game devs use Resetera for user feedback for their games, gaming is doomed

It's already been stated that multiple devs steer clear of era because of the community. Bethesda publicaly said this on their own forums. ERA is a horrible place for devs to be. I"m sure if I wanted to I could throw together a James Gunn hit piece on Stinkles because why the fuck not.

It's stupid for any developer to verify themselves because that causes all words to become PR talk no matter what the topic is, and if they say something out of line your job can be on the line.

 

[The Bloody-Nine]

It's already been stated that multiple devs steer clear of era because of the community. Bethesda publicaly said this on their own forums. ERA is a horrible place for devs to be. I"m sure if I wanted to I could throw together a James Gunn hit piece on Stinkles because why the fuck not.

It's stupid for any developer to verify themselves because that causes all words to become PR talk no matter what the topic is, and if they say something out of line your job can be on the line.

I'm not surprised they avoid it. Say something the lynch mob deem to be politically incorrect and be DDOS'd.

Or, as you say, maybe they'll just go directly to your boss and try to have you fired.

 

[PrimetimeKnight]

It would be nicer when the right/left on this forum settles down a bit. For example, I see a big pile up on the biggest left-wing forum members whenever they post and it's a bit unfair.

I think this is mainly due to a backlash because of how things were before where left wing piled on any right wing posters. Hopefully things kinda even out eventually but I really think its because of how toxic it was before and now right wingers who got piled on are not having their own go at it.

 

[Freedom Gate Co.]

Looks like we got lazy mods not showing up stop issues and just instead banning people out of specific threads for up to a week. I don't think neogaf should be using lazy atariage tactics and he mods should be you know, letting people in the thread know if they thing people are going off base. Thread bans make no sense, we aren't even active enough for that to make sense. Only if it's someone spamming or harassing someone.

 

[Blam]

I'm not surprised they avoid it. Say something the lynch mob deem to be politically incorrect and be DDOS'd.

Or, as you say, maybe they'll just go directly to your boss and try to have you fired.

I'm seriously surprised that Stinkles hasn't been fired yet.

 

[Freedom Gate Co.]

Incidentally, I have bee working with people with access so that we can make our own tracking of sales. If what we end up getting is close to what NPD has then we'll have our own NPD and weekly threads for weekly sales as well as a monthly one at the end of the month.

We won't need NPD here at all and we will attract much conversation since we'll have pretty much accurate hardware sales.

Also Software sales.

 

[Barnabot]

I'm not surprised they avoid it. Say something the lynch mob deem to be politically incorrect and be DDOS'd.

Or, as you say, maybe they'll just go directly to your boss and try to have you fired.

That is so ridiculous and yet possible to happen.

 

[SoulUnison]

GAF is only for the coolest of edgelords, while Era consists of cucks and sjw crazies.

"Cool" and "edgelord" are completely contradictory terms.
Edgelords are edgy because they don't understand what's cool and try to substitute being needlessly provocative.

 

[haxan7]

"Cool" and "edgelord" are completely contradictory terms.
Edgelords are edgy because they don't understand what's cool and try to substitute being needlessly provocative.

i resent this statement

 

[Papa]

ResetEra is worst than Gaf ever was, the moderation style there are basically the same as that pedophile prick we had around here for years that was batshit crazy in moderations.

BTW is neogaf still infested with pedophiles like it was before?

Was there ever more than just Amir0x? Genuine question. I never heard of any others.

 

[Papa]

She. I’m a trans woman. Sorry for the double post, just noticed.

How do you know he wasn’t using dude as a neutral term like guys?

 

[Papa]

Been lurking a bit here and finally registered. Seems like a pretty chill place for casual conversation.

ERA had become unbearable for me, most recently banned for calling out someone for stirring up the pot on a racial issue that didn’t even exist within an article. I was told I was dismissive of racism in the country and some other such bullshit. If you aren’t part of the hive mind there, you will not make it.

Look forward to making my new roots here.

Welcome!

 

[Dr. Claus]

How do you know he wasn’t using dude as a neutral term like guys?

I thought the same thing, so I went back to double check. "Dude will probably get himself permed at some point when he goes off the rails tilting at windmills."

Definitely uses male pronouns in the thread, which makes TayTay's post understandable.

 

[Battlechili]

People don't get banned here unless they're being really terrible now
Video game discussion is WAY up
Though some people are a little too quick to meme and be edgy now

I'm only here until my Resetera account is approved, then it's "bye bye, fuckers"!

wow rood

 

[Papa]

I thought the same thing, so I went back to double check. "Dude will probably get himself permed at some point when he goes off the rails tilting at windmills."

Definitely uses male pronouns in the thread, which makes TayTay's post understandable.

How do you know he wasn’t using himself and he as neutral terms?

Spoiler

I was being facetious.

 

[Wulfric]

Thank

Thank god, gaming "journalism" is pure shit these days.

If all you want are press releases, just say so.

 

[God Enel]

Bill O'Rights or any other mod. It’s a little bit off topic
I’m curious about a statistic. If you ban someone for a certain amount of time (ie not permanant), how many of them post again after the ban was lifted and how many stopped posting completely after the ban?

I think gaf is doing good or at least on track again. Though more activity would be welcome and i would appreciate less Bullshit about sjw npc and so on. Sometimes readers get tired of it.. though I understand it more or less.

 

[ILLtown]

Was there ever more than just Amir0x? Genuine question. I never heard of any others.

There were some suspect fuckers on here, including another mod who used to like defending paedos a bit too much. In one thread a girl who had been the victim of a paedophile spoke out against someone who was equating defending paedophiles with defending black people or Muslims from prejudice (i.e. this guy was batshit crazy), and this mod told her that she shouldn't be commenting because she wasn't able to think about paedos objectively (!!!). He then went on to warn her that if she didn't stop posting in the thread, she'd be banned. That led to him being demodded and EviLore apologised to the girl.

Someone also found an album full of photos of kids under his name online. Not child porn, but there were some creepy photos in there. He left GAF, but ended up turning up at TheBore and trying to explain why people had misunderstood him, but I don't think anyone was buying it.

 

[L0wMax]

Good thread so far imo. Just adding my worthless opinion to whats been somewhat discussed so far...

- "Insiders" left before October 2017. Whether that was people officially associated with companies or people posting anonymously. Can't blame them. Companies didn't want to be associated with this toxic community. And people didn't want to be dog piled or worse for saying something "we" didn't like. Gaf had some truly shitty people. Wiling to attempt destroying someones life with fucked up justification.

- We had a good number of bullshitters here as well. Lots of people pretending (IMO) to be members of oppressed groups. Constantly punching their keyboards about "PRIVILEGE" and "POWER" when in reality everyone in Gaf was in the privileged class. If you have access to Video Games, home Internet and Computer access, Smart Phones, 3 Hots and a Cot... then you are incredibly privileged. You are easily in the top 10% of all privileged people in the world. Most of the world doesn't have access to all of those things. Could you have said that on Old Gaf, NO! Why? (next point)

- Where Gaf really fucked up (Again IMO) is giving certain groups ultimate protection from criticism, allowing those groups to determine what was offensive and rule breaking based on how they felt (remember "shut up and listen"? more on that below). And then giving them the freedom to attack certain groups. Unfair fight where one person was allowed to throw punches and it was an unwritten rule for the other to do the same.Shut up and listen and discussion board don't go together. It started the beginning of the end.

- It started the transition from a "discussion" board to a "statement" board. But we kept up the illusion that we were a discussion board. We did so through fucked up justifications like changing the definition of racism for example. Or calling opposition childish insults that had a ton of venom behind it. We went from a site that welcomed all, that said we didn't tolerate hate to a site that allowed certain groups to preach their hate because they got it rough in life.

- The numbers for the ultra left grew in Gaf. Slowly started to push out people who didn't see it their way. They had some Mods who sided with that narrative. Also started to push it. And before we knew it, the site was held hostage by this group. And then the rest of the site had to tip toe around them... even the non comprised Mods. Because we all knew they would throw a hissy fit and tear up the site. And we were all still feeling sorry for the OMG oppressed groups here too. Shit hit the fan like it was inevitably going to.

- I look at Gaf like this : We threw a party. Everyone came and got shit faced. Tore up the house and yard. Got noise complaints. All the party folk left. We are left to clean up the mess. And clean up we will. It will be better than before we threw the first party. Hopefully we learn the lessons so we have a better second party.

- Is the NeoGaf name holding us back? I don't think so personally. I do realize that there are people who still think NeoGaf is what it once was. Even people who are aware of Oct 2017. But I say that is only like 10% of the issue.

- Discussion boards are a niche thing. Sure plenty are "looking" for one and they'd love to be a member and share their comments. But they aren't interested in hearing the opposition. So they are really looking for statement boards... agreement boards. Boards that will allow them to say their opinion and weed out anyone who disagrees.

- I said this once months ago, but big thanks to @EviLore for keeping this site going. I wouldn't have done that if I were you. I would have sold the site when you were offered millions for it. I know you take the bulk of the hate and insults towards the site.

- Thank you staff for all your tireless thankless work you do so we can talk about RDR2 Horse Balls and argue resolution importance. I do not envy your job or title here, but I am thankful for your work.

- Thank you to all Neogaf posters here. Yes even you reading this right now. We may agree and disagree and like or dislike certain topics, but you are a huge part of why this site rocks! I appreciate you even when I think you say something dumb as dog shit.

- Off Topic, I may lose Bryce Harper if he doesn't resign. But we have Juan Soto!

That's an excellent distinction you made between a discussion board and a statement board.

 

[DeafTourette]

I do want to say I like the slower pace of the site compared to last year (I was a heavy lurker and had been burned out on contributing to message boards).

I don't think this is a hive-mind of alt-right trolls. I think there are varying opinions and outlooks here. Yes, there have been some racists like those that have been banned and maybe a couple who have yet to be, but overall, I like the diversity of opinions. I agree and disagree a lot with folks on here, sometimes both in the same post! That is what makes discourse so nice here.

Anyway... A lot of the politics stuff is academic to me. I'm not involved in that world so it's more like a thought experiment.

 

[TrainedRage]

If all you want are press releases, just say so.

Fuck that too. Give me gameplay videos and I will form my own opinion like I have been doing for years now.

 

[notkeylime]

Bill O'Rights or any other mod. It’s a little bit off topic
I’m curious about a statistic. If you ban someone for a certain amount of time (ie not permanant), how many of them post again after the ban was lifted and how many stopped posting completely after the ban?

I think gaf is doing good or at least on track again. Though more activity would be welcome and i would appreciate less Bullshit about sjw npc and so on. Sometimes readers get tired of it.. though I understand it more or less.

From what I've observed, people just about always come back...and there's a minor chance there's a venting of frustration in a post or two...and then things go back to normal. I'm not aware of anyone that's had a temporary ban and then just completely disappeared, but I'm sure it's happened.

There isn't any kind of automated report that shows that specific statistic that I'm aware of.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Spheyr kept coming back until he was banned for the 10th time...permanently. Others did as well. So yes.

 

[God Enel]

From what I've observed, people just about always come back...and there's a minor chance there's a venting of frustration in a post or two...and then things go back to normal. I'm not aware of anyone that's had a temporary ban and then just completely disappeared, but I'm sure it's happened.

There isn't any kind of automated report that shows that specific statistic that I'm aware of.

Hey thanks for the answer! Was just curious about how many people are so pissed off/let down/disagreeing with a ban that they never came back. But when you say from experience they almost always come back, it’s enough. Thanks again!

 

[Redneckerz]

So much stuff. Let me briefly address all, but first and foremost thank you Bill for your extensive commentary.

Interesting feedback. We do read a lot of threads. Obviously we have trends we look at in the background and the site/community is 'growing' for want of a better expression. In terms of users and activity. You have access to see the 'members online', which is - and has - been trending upwards for some time. We are gathering a bit of momentum with respect to this but we're also wary of just approving everything in the queue in one blast. For better or worse, slow and steady is the path we're treading, mainly because a community evolves over time and any sort of concentrated toxicity or discord has potential to really gut punch it if introduced suddenly.

Understandable in word and form.

We do take on board more than you think and we have chatted a lot about issues raised in here already. For instance; Should we - as moderator's - participate more in general gaming threads. But there is a balance to be had and reserve is one trait we ask posters to exercise in certain threads, so need to set the example. There are some great people on here that would actually be kinda cool to share a beer with and chat about anything and nothing. But it goes against one of the primary founding principles we wanted to avoid, even if it's only by perception. Protected posters, vanity moderating and compromised principles. Remaining impartial and independent is important to every mod team member, so we're still struggling with something as a happy medium.

I totally agree with most of this. However i do once more want to point out the referencing stuff from earlier. Over time some users, infamous as they are, attract certain commentary that i feel has not much to do with providing proper discourse, constructive critique addressing the user, or both. It seeks to make fun of the user in question. A mild joke is obviously okay, but when are serious references to topics (political ones, mainly) i feel this should be looked upon. Something like a Trump allows gays to drink milk and you have people going ''This is something @ nobody important could get behind considering his advocacy for these things'' or something similar.

I feel this is too much picking on someone on a personal level.

We also are aware of our more 'energetic' posters who even after 'cease and desists' on certain behaviors they persist. Shoutout to our #1 Nintendo fan @Killer751 for example That's why you might see a few inconsistencies in the ban lengths. Sometimes we outreach when we delete or edit a post and send a gentle nudge in the notifications. But sometimes the burden of moderating an individual is greater than the benefit they bring. We also have to be adaptive in bans. Someone may post on average once every five days, so they won't really feel a three day ban. Similarly someone may post every day and really feel a three day ban. The posts we try to include on the ban page - at the moment this is manual. For spambots we don't bother. When posting on mobile it's sometimes a headache to copy/paste between two/three windows so we tend to plan to revisit it later. And the other instance is simply 'look at post history'.

Understandable. Can this be more prominentely highlighted in official ruling, say, in stickied staff threads or even in the FAQ? I think this would serve well in the face of clarity for all users. Perhaps its already there though, something like ''The staff treats every ban on a unique case by case basis: Just because Person B gets a harsher ban for something similar to what Person A did, is by no means protection for members: But they are treated on a unique basis.'' or something like that.

For us personally as moderators we're putting in a lot of hard work. We had a little set back with the redesign but people like @Avasarala and @Palliasso are busy fixing things behind the scenes. We will be asking the community about their opinions on other small features we may like to introduce in the near future as well. So keep an eye out. The hardest thing we find at the moment is the smear campaign. We're all from very different walks of lives on the team, different locations and experiences but we absolutely want the best for videogames and the site in general. GAF should be the place where your identity is the least important thing about you. We share a common love here. Our commonality is the thing that unites us, not the thing that divides us. As Bart Simpson said 'The little, stupid differences are nothing next to the big, stupid similarities.' However, the slurs across social media and even from the driveby trolls who like to shout alt-right and try to keep up the image they invent is disheartening. Having said that, we feel when people actually come here now, they realise it's actually lies and stay which is why we *are* trending upwards.

And i think that's a good thing. I do like that a lot of free-form thought is maintained and that dialogue like this is possible, even when it is scattered across threads (Perhaps a community thread with the staff can be an option to discuss more official matters?) I realize that such is a difficult idea to work out with all the users here, but ill just throw it in anyways.

The reset threads are a necessary evil at the moment. I did ask about idea's on those. The frustrating thing is that sometimes there are really good in depth discussions taking place in there. Topics like corporal/capital punishment - even the political digressions about republican and democrat have merit and value. But they're stuck in this little vacuum. So we might lock them at some point next week and start one thread for the latest controversy/meltdown (based on current affairs) and one for the meta-discussions that take place around it.

How would that look like? Because the current thread just picks up on new controversy as it goes. If i get this right, then i reckon you would want to tag it with (ResetERA) and (ResetERA-Meta) or something like that to denote that the discussion should only be about that. (In which case, you wouldn't need Meta in the first place.)

Gaming is picking up and people like @IbizaPocholo are doing great work keeping things current. It would be nice to see a few others chip in as well. There are a number of posters here who I won't 'name' who we see as the backbone of the community and would love to see them be a bit more visible and contribute more but we all have lives and all play video games so...time is more precious. There used to be an air of dread or judgement on OT's - they had to be these sacred week long projects. Hey, we're all adults - just an image and a barebones paragraph is enough folks. Don't be intimidated People just want a place to stick their thoughts.

I try to be here as often as i can writing proper posts and the occassional thread - I already feel bad that i dont have time to post Neo Member threads, and i also remember Scopa ''s thread of retro games (Ill finish it, but ill just forfeit the descriptions - Its way too much work) so... time is of an essence.

 

[The Bloody-Nine]

A single thread (or subforum) for all of the politically motivated gaming 'scandals' would be good. They stink up the gaming forum, in my opinion. That said, there's so many of them and they're so popular that maybe it's the gaming threads that need the subforum.

 

[Ivellios]

A single thread (or subforum) for all of the politically motivated gaming 'scandals' would be good. They stink up the gaming forum, in my opinion. That said, there's so many of them and they're so popular that maybe it's the gaming threads that need the subforum.

I dont think splitting the gaming forum is a good idea, just dont enter the few threads about politics in gaming.

ll

 

[The Bloody-Nine]

I dont think splitting the gaming forum is a good idea, just dont enter the few threads about politics in gaming.

ll

I know, I know. But I'm weak.

 

[Chittagong]

I have been following the members online ticker for some months and it seems to be ticking up steadily. It was quite routinly hovering at just over a hundred, now it has been at around 250. I wonder if actual data supports my observation.

Also, the member/lurker ratio is bonkers, like 1 to 5.

 

[Papa]

I know, I know. But I'm weak.

So stop being weak

 

[Wulfric]

Fuck that too. Give me gameplay videos and I will form my own opinion like I have been doing for years now.

But that isn't journalism.

 

[Davey Cakes]

I decided to pop in because the other day I received a one-week ban from ResetEra for trolling when I wasn't trolling (intentionally, anyway). Should've just stayed out of the midterms thread because it's like walking on eggshells.

The only other time I've ever been banned in my 16 years of message board posting was on Zelda Universe where I took part in a "ban bet" and lost because a new Zelda game wasn't announced at E3 that year.

I actually like Era but it's refreshing to come here and see people being generally positive about the more relaxed atmosphere. Shows that controversy doesn't entirely destroy communities and people have solid choices for where they can participate. Obviously GAF is lighter on content than some other boards but that's not always a bad thing.

Also, the features are interesting! Achievements remind of the RPG experience points that boards like Cloudchaser had back in the day.

 

[Papa]

But that isn't journalism.

What do you think journalism is?

 

[Freedom Gate Co.]

I decided to pop in because the other day I received a one-week ban from ResetEra for trolling when I wasn't trolling (intentionally, anyway). Should've just stayed out of the midterms thread because it's like walking on eggshells.

The only other time I've ever been banned in my 16 years of message board posting was on Zelda Universe where I took part in a "ban bet" and lost because a new Zelda game wasn't announced at E3 that year.

I actually like Era but it's refreshing to come here and see people being generally positive about the more relaxed atmosphere. Shows that controversy doesn't entirely destroy communities and people have solid choices for where they can participate. Obviously GAF is lighter on content than some other boards but that's not always a bad thing.

Also, the features are interesting! Achievements remind of the RPG experience points that boards like Cloudchaser had back in the day.

If i were to gauge Gafs activity it's still really good. We are 3x faster than politicalforum. And only slightly slower than Smomy.

 

[Lionel Richie]

I love it here. I was a regular back in the old days up until I had enough with the suffocating vibe you had in those months prior to the incident. People were so fucking detached from reality and some of the moderators really got into a big power tripping trance. It's not even about political inclination, a lot of the people that were crazy left-wing and now are regulars at Era, including some moderators, were really kind and nice people. I wish them the best, I genuinely do. But there were a lot of assholes and genuinely scary crazy people. It was not about political inclination, though that obviously played a part, but the community as a whole was really in a bad place. It wasn't fun and you could get banned for stupid shit and get piled on while you were unable to defend yourself.

Now it's just better. There's some actual comradery around here and you get different people disagreeing with one another. And that's pretty much all that an internet forum should be. An endlessly circle jerking echo chamber fucking sucks.

 

[Freedom Gate Co.]

I love it here. I was a regular back in the old days up until I had enough with the suffocating vibe you had in those months prior to the incident. People were so fucking detached from reality and some of the moderators really got into a big power tripping trance. It's not even about political inclination, a lot of the people that were crazy left-wing and now are regulars at Era, including some moderators, were really kind and nice people. I wish them the best, I genuinely do. But there were a lot of assholes and genuinely scary crazy people. It was not about political inclination, though that obviously played a part, but the community as a whole was really in a bad place. It wasn't fun and you could get banned for stupid shit and get piled on while you were unable to defend yourself.

Now it's just better. There's some actual comradery around here and you get different people disagreeing with one another. And that's pretty much all that an internet forum should be. An endlessly circle jerking echo chamber fucking sucks.

If you were not watching a thread on your computer for 18 hours straight, you could be banned for not responding back, don't you dare go to work or use the bathroom. There were many times I saw people banned because they were in arguments and than more people or mods would jump in hours later and then 30 minutes to 3 hours later you were banned overnight or while you were doing things other than posting on a gaming board.

Gamespot had a thread about neogaf bans and some of them were just crazy. New gaf is much better.

 

[Neverwas]

seems like the same old shit with a slightly different demographic. there's fewer 'boy meets world' idiots crying over the basic functions of existence, though.

 

[Lionel Richie]

If you were not watching a thread on your computer for 18 hours straight, you could be banned for not responding back, don't you dare go to work or use the bathroom. There were many times I saw people banned because they were in arguments and than more people or mods would jump in hours later and then 30 minutes to 3 hours later you were banned overnight or while you were doing things other than posting on a gaming board.

Gamespot had a thread about neogaf bans and some of them were just crazy. New gaf is much better.

Wasn't that called a "drive by"? Yeah I fucking always hated those and shit like that. There was one mod in particular in the final days prior to the whole splitting shit that was just automatic. If you saw his black and white avatar on any thread, it was better to move on.

 

[Freedom Gate Co.]

Wasn't that called a "drive by"? Yeah I fucking always hated those and shit like that. There was one mod in particular in the final days prior to the whole splitting shit that was just automatic. If you saw his black and white avatar on any thread, it was better to move on.

usually how it would work is they would dogpile on the user after the argument went on for awhile the user would go to work or bed or whatever, and then the mod would come in, ban the user while he was offline then proceed to insult him.

It's actually worse on era than it was on here from what I've seen. Also if you're in an off-topic thread on era and see Nicole posting don't come back to thread.

I never post in off-topic because of the hidden rule to fall in line. Posting in off topic just saying you disagree to a poster will get you banned depending on what the thread is about. I barely post in gaming either though. There can be a thread about some racing game and then the thread will stop being about the racing game and will be 40 pages of some social topic that has nothing to do with cars.

Heck i jsut remembered that thread where someone made a sexy console thread and the first sentence was "look at these sexy ladies" followed by pictures. Obvious joke ok. Banned for insulting women or something like that. You gotta be careful.

Unless you have a high post count or come out on the board, then you're immune for some reason. Not a very fair system there.

 

[Codes 208]

The biggest difference for me is that now i can actually chat. Im a gaffer, not a lurker anymore.

But yeah, things have definitely sparked with politics and i see a lot of SJW and NPC arguments. Even on the gaming side.

 

[The Giant]

You don't get banned for having a different opinon here.

Era off topic has far too much shitty american politics. Everything with you americans is either black or white.

 

[brap]

You don't get banned for having a different opinon here.

Era off topic has far too much shitty american politics. Everything with you americans is either black or white.

An american forum has threads about american politics? Imagine my shock.

 

[iconmaster]

But yeah, things have definitely sparked with politics and i see a lot of SJW and NPC arguments. Even on the gaming side.

That has really increased lately. I don’t mind an occasional tweaking of the liberal schnoz but it’s getting a bit endemic.

 

[Ivellios]

usually how it would work is they would dogpile on the user after the argument went on for awhile the user would go to work or bed or whatever, and then the mod would come in, ban the user while he was offline then proceed to insult him.

It's actually worse on era than it was on here from what I've seen. Also if you're in an off-topic thread on era and see Nicole posting don't come back to thread.

I never post in off-topic because of the hidden rule to fall in line. Posting in off topic just saying you disagree to a poster will get you banned depending on what the thread is about. I barely post in gaming either though. There can be a thread about some racing game and then the thread will stop being about the racing game and will be 40 pages of some social topic that has nothing to do with cars.

Heck i jsut remembered that thread where someone made a sexy console thread and the first sentence was "look at these sexy ladies" followed by pictures. Obvious joke ok. Banned for insulting women or something like that. You gotta be careful.

Unless you have a high post count or come out on the board, then you're immune for some reason. Not a very fair system there.

This is a good of summary, like you said even gaming side stopped being fun because almost every thread is not about the game itself, but rather why said game did not have more diversity, or that its sexist and so on. I know im repeating myself but somehow people managed to turn smash roster into a discussion about lack of diversity.

You don't get banned for having a different opinon here.

Era off topic has far too much shitty american politics. Everything with you americans is either black or white.

I dont know it its only a Era thing or a US thing in general, but like you said there is truly a obsession with a person being white or black.

 

[Dr. Claus]

This is a good of summary, like you said even gaming side stopped being fun because almost every thread is not about the game itself, but rather why said game did not have more diversity, or that its sexist and so on. I know im repeating myself but somehow people managed to turn smash roster into a discussion about lack of diversity.



I dont know it its only a Era thing or a US thing in general, but like you said there is truly a obsession with a person being white or black.

Most Americans don't care. The people who do are on the far left or far right. The far right is pro-white while the far left is anti-white. Both push racist tendencies and see the world via such narrow lenses.

 

[Vinsanity.]

ResetERA bans at least 1 user per day for the reason of "Posting/arguing in bad faith". Which is what they say when the person is posting something in disagreement with the other posters in that thread...

 

[thebagofsand]

I was never really an active poster but this was one of the only forums I have ever registered and/or posted on. I really like the way things are right now. Everyone here seems really civil which is a breath of fresh air.