Like I said earlier - before we knew the shower girl had sex with him later - those allegations are not even that bad. He crossed a line, he read things wrong, that's it. He acted weird about going straight nude into the shower, sure, but let's not act as he raped her or something. She asks him to get out out, he was drunk as fuck, horny, nude, ready to fuck, AND he still got out of the shower. Sure, the girl was not "da bomb of the year", but it still takes some good in you to get the fuck out when you're in this situation.
With having the time to take a step back, I think the problem wasn't Malka, he's weird, but I don't even think he's an evil mastermind or a women harasser. I feel bad for the guy, he was drunk, made a mistake, did not have the ressource to just explain the situation and he also had bad luck because the girl version seems to paint the situation in a worse light than what the reality seems to be.
What if something like that happen to one of us ? A random C-grade girl you tried to fuck while drunk tells her story and you're life is done ? Weinstein deserved all of it, but Malka's case is nothing like that. I don't drink alchool, but I've seen friends being stupid while doing so and regretting it while sober, it's fairly common.
If anything, the entire problem was "those" extremist gaf members who lived in their little bubble and I think that's the only true reason people are happy to see gaf explose. To see them getting a taste of the real world - realizing that everyone outside hate them, even leftist - and seeing their bubble explode is the only reason why I'm glad Neogaf exploded that way. But I'm starting to feel for Malka, he's portrayed as a rapist by creepy pedo and basement-dwellers who probably tried to rape people for real at least once in their life. Man, that level of irony.
I'm also buying the theory that the mods had him by the balls. He's a weird guy, I'd never want him as a friend, he does not now how to handle situation like an adult and he's clearly a man child, but he's not a rapist or anything, I hope things calm down a little for him.
I don't think anyone would confuse me for being a "bubble" gaf dweller or anything, but come on dude. Even I'm like "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" That's downright criminal. No matter the amount of acohol it's not something you should think "Hey, that puking girl that has a boyfriend? She probably wants me this instant." It's not like he tried to buy her a drink, or went in for a non-existent kiss. Dude straight up got naked and went into her personal space. I don't know, but even in my book that's far from excusable.
I’m on team “not that big of a deal”.
So she goes to New Orleans with the dude, and they go out drinking all night, stay I. The same hotel room, and now she’s shocked he tries to pipe her down? Like what do you think he thought was going to happpen?
What he did was definitely not cool, and he deserves some side eye for it, but in the scheme of things, eh, he’s not exactly Amiro0x-level predator here. He’s just kind of douche.
Nah, you don't jump in a shower naked like that if the girl is not your girlfriend or saying "wanna join". If he wants to make a move, sure, put an arm around her, go in for a kiss if she's into it. But this is way beyond that. And I am going to assume he knew she had a boyfriend if they knew each other already, so... kind of scummy anyway to think she would cheat like that.
But the way he handled the fallout now is just unbelievable. It would be easily solved by apologizing, explaining how and why you screwed up and moving on.
If that were even remotely true he would have set up NeoGAF as a functioning company that would continue to operate while he steps down. Paid mods wouldn't leave like his team did.
He doesn't want to pay people for it, he had people doing it for free for over a decade.
The site wouldn't have been nearly as profitable with a payroll of 25 mods and accounting overhead.
Plus you know he loved having his soapbox occasionally though he wisely didn't do it nearly as often lately.
Let's be honest here, you don't need a dozen fulltime mods. These people were volunteers with day jobs and such, so they wouldn't be there all day. Hire 3 people, that's what, 120k a year? If you are pulling 300k a year in revenue that is a totally normal cost for your business and leaves you with a ton of money left. Unless he went under 200k a year in revenue, there is little reason to not at least have someone full time to manage things while you are busy traveling or whatever he does all day.
