GAF isn't THAT bad.
No, it IS THAT bad. That's why this thread keeps on going strong.
It has continued to get worse and worse, to the point where all the crap that infected the Off-Topic forum has now seeped into the Gaming forum.
Where else are you going to post? Something Awful? Legit question: What other forums are out there with such a large user-base that you can get news from?
Reddit? GameFAQs/Gamespot? Giant Bomb? Twitter? FB groups? Hell, there's plenty of news sites out there that update all the time anyway.
You can still go to GAF to get news...there's just no reason to post much anymore. Everything gets lost in the shuffle and/or you have idiots piling on you for posting an opinion. I got shit for pointing out that Rock Paper Shotgun had more than one set of impressions for Mass Effect in a thread that made it sound like RPS just hated it. It was enough to make me go back to just posting in the few community threads I still like enough to browse daily.
I can't stand all the politically-correct bullshit from SJWs and millennials. Fuck off with all that crap. The forum sucks now. I thought for a brief moment that things might improve with Bishop gone, but now I see more threads being locked for the dumbest reasons than ever before. It has never been so bad there.
I see some of the better posters have long-left forums. They haven't gone elsewhere...they're just on Twitter/FB now. If it wasn't for smaller forums like the Bore, I'd be done with forums too.