Maybe the real NeoGAF was the friends we made along the way...

[CrankyJay]

Furthermore, Tyler better get the site back up within the next few hours otherwise he's going to lose his base to ResetEra, lol

[VomKriege]

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.

[Momo]

THE STATEMENT will be whatever tepid "I've let you down so I'm stepping down" post the company who buys neogaf will contractually obligate Malka to agree to

and Evilore will waddle off into the sunset because he has zero talents and cant even get a job at google like moot because of fucking up this bad

imagine being more hated, less talented and less employable than moot

Tyler to pursue career in MMA

spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'd buy every PPV 

[close]

[Sai]

y’all still responding to karpalajoe’s creepy rapey shit? wild.

how are y’all this morning

[injurai]

I'm here mostly because of how atrocious and one-sided Tyler let the moderation become, and now that the environment he fostered turned hostile towards him, maybe he's willing to dial back some of the moderation policies. I have a feeling he let it get as far as it did for ad revenue purposes, but you could tell from many of his posts he's a moderate kind of guy. I actually found myself agreeing with a lot of his posts on things, despite his coming off as a massive prick. If he changes his moderation style to be more in line with his own beliefs then there's a chance for GAF to move on from its current state.

He wants the forum to operate itself, not require him to admin it.

As long as he avoids self-righteous, pious, fuckwit mods, he might get it to work like that again.  Maybe an election system for mods, with rotating chairs and whatnot, like a board of directors? At least then you always get the mods you deserve. Mind you the politics around mod election time would be a sight to behold Hey maybe that makes it even more fun....

Gaf to become truly alt-right, confirming the false confirmation bias the old guard held all along. It would be Evilore's greatest gas lighting yet.

[M]

I have decided to join you jaded cyber weirdos in complaining about a dead site I don't particularly like.

[border]

I'm here mostly because of how atrocious and one-sided Tyler let the moderation become, and now that the environment he fostered turned hostile towards him, maybe he's willing to dial back some of the moderation policies. I have a feeling he let it get as far as it did for ad revenue purposes, but you could tell from many of his posts he's a moderate kind of guy. I actually found myself agreeing with a lot of his posts on things, despite his coming off as a massive prick. If he changes his moderation style to be more in line with his own beliefs then there's a chance for GAF to move on from its current state.

I would be happy to see the forum rebooted.  The problem is that Evilore seems to have absolutely no humility and no ability to admit fault.  He speaks in tones that are either authoritative or condescending, and that's about it.  It's weird to see someone who is simultaneously incredibly thin-skinned but also immensely vain and proud.  Usually those are contradictory personality traits.

I honestly think he would rather let the whole damned thing burn down than ever have to apologize or say he was wrong.  Just look at how pouty he got when people reacted badly to his Spanish ass-handling tale.

I would honestly not be that surprised if THE STATEMENT was: "All these losers need to get out of their mom's basement and realize what's going on in the real world."  Every time he's faced with rebuke he's reverted to some kind of Alpha Nerd from 2005 who believes he's the only one well-adjusted and experienced enough to know how the world really works, and his critics are just naive shut-ins who have never had to ability to enjoy the bacchanalia .

[CrankyJay]

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.

Well, when you let your mod team pay themselves in S-J-W prestige that's what happens....

[tummyfat]

I'm here mostly because of how atrocious and one-sided Tyler let the moderation become, and now that the environment he fostered turned hostile towards him, maybe he's willing to dial back some of the moderation policies. I have a feeling he let it get as far as it did for ad revenue purposes, but you could tell from many of his posts he's a moderate kind of guy. I actually found myself agreeing with a lot of his posts on things, despite his coming off as a massive prick. If he changes his moderation style to be more in line with his own beliefs then there's a chance for GAF to move on from its current state.

I would be happy to see the forum rebooted.  The problem is that Evilore seems to have absolutely no humility and no ability to admit fault.  He speaks in tones that are either authoritative or condescending, and that's about it.  It's weird to see someone who is simultaneously incredibly thin-skinned but also immensely vain and proud.  Usually those are contradictory personality traits.

I honestly think he would rather let the whole damned thing burn down than ever have to apologize or say he was wrong.  Just look at how pouty he got when people reacted badly to his Spanish ass-handling tale.

I would honestly not be that surprised if THE STATEMENT was: "All these losers need to get out of their mom's basement and realize what's going on in the real world."  Every time he's faced with rebuke he's reverted to some kind of Alpha Nerd from 2005 who believes he's the only one well-adjusted and experienced enough to know how the world really works, and his critics are just sad shut-ins who have never had to ability to enjoy the bacchanalia .

Evilore: I've never been scammed

Crankjay: Here's proof you got scammed, you wrote about it yourself

*bans Crankyjay*

Evilore: I've never been scammed

[benjipwns]

Furthermore, Tyler better get the site back up within the next few hours otherwise he's going to lose his base to ResetEra, lol

It's been up for a while. But he can't moderate it alone when it comes back and goes nuts again so it's "off" for now.

He's still going to have all the old threads and user accounts, they're going to have...the same things wastingyourlife and everyone else had when they tried to start up a splinter. Well, except that 9000 word manifesto.

[pj]

I've been following the last like 80 pages and it's been mostly whining about being banned on NeoGAF. I mean I agree with some of the echo chamber and inconsistency concerns but if you got permabanned on GAF and you're still whining about it incessantly somewhere else online you probably deserved it.

Tyler is probably taking so long because he's consulting with his lawyer. But I think this is probably the end of modern GAF as we know it.

In terms of word count, I think most of the last 80 pages has been Opiate droning on about why he was mean to a child abuse victim or something.  I'm not sure because I can't make it through one of his posts without dozing off.

A lot of people posted about being permed because some jag was talking about how generally fair the mods were on gaf.  I doubt anyone who's been banned more than a week really cares, but of all places on the internet, this thread is where it makes sense to be like "yeah the mods over at gaf sucked".

[CrankyJay]

I'm here mostly because of how atrocious and one-sided Tyler let the moderation become, and now that the environment he fostered turned hostile towards him, maybe he's willing to dial back some of the moderation policies. I have a feeling he let it get as far as it did for ad revenue purposes, but you could tell from many of his posts he's a moderate kind of guy. I actually found myself agreeing with a lot of his posts on things, despite his coming off as a massive prick. If he changes his moderation style to be more in line with his own beliefs then there's a chance for GAF to move on from its current state.

I would be happy to see the forum rebooted.  The problem is that Evilore seems to have absolutely no humility and no ability to admit fault.  He speaks in tones that are either authoritative or condescending, and that's about it.  It's weird to see someone who is simultaneously incredibly thin-skinned but also immensely vain and proud.  Usually those are contradictory personality traits.

I honestly think he would rather let the whole damned thing burn down than ever have to apologize or say he was wrong.  Just look at how pouty he got when people reacted badly to his Spanish ass-handling tale.

I would honestly not be that surprised if THE STATEMENT was: "All these losers need to get out of their mom's basement and realize what's going on in the real world."  Every time he's faced with rebuke he's reverted to some kind of Alpha Nerd from 2005 who believes he's the only one well-adjusted and experienced enough to know how the world really works, and his critics are just sad shut-ins who have never had to ability to enjoy the bacchanalia .

Evilore: I've never been scammed

Crankjay: Here's proof you got scammed, you wrote about it yourself

*bans Crankyjay*

Evilore: I've never been scammed

Yeah, the thin skin doesn't help his case, at all, lol

I knew the second I posted the image of his post I was a goner.

[Brehvolution]

I have decided to join you jaded cyber weirdos in complaining about a dead site I don't particularly like.

[sgt. pep pep]

i posted on gaf under the name arab since 2006. i remember demi though, came here once and forgot about it. i've spent 11 years shitposting on gaf and now i'm a man without a place to shitpost. i believe EL is a piece of shit and i probably won't go back regardless of the statement. i just gotta get out of the habit of typing "neogaf" into my address bar. this place needs a dark theme (and not that steam lite shit)

[nudemacusers]

I have decided to join you jaded cyber weirdos in complaining about a dead site I don't particularly like.

Welcome to the new flesh, same as the old flesh

[Trurl]

I'm here mostly because of how atrocious and one-sided Tyler let the moderation become, and now that the environment he fostered turned hostile towards him, maybe he's willing to dial back some of the moderation policies. I have a feeling he let it get as far as it did for ad revenue purposes, but you could tell from many of his posts he's a moderate kind of guy. I actually found myself agreeing with a lot of his posts on things, despite his coming off as a massive prick. If he changes his moderation style to be more in line with his own beliefs then there's a chance for GAF to move on from its current state.

I mean, Saddam Hussein* was a moderate in a lot of ways. Evilore could be more moderate than David Brooks but he still has an authoritarian personality that would lead to the same old problems.

Personally I consider myself to be as left-wing as most of the GAF mods (and I suspect Bore mods are too) it's just a question of those beliefs being mixed with authoritarianism.

*sorry for the hyperbole

[CrankyJay]

Furthermore, Tyler better get the site back up within the next few hours otherwise he's going to lose his base to ResetEra, lol

It's been up for a while. But he can't moderate it alone when it comes back and goes nuts again so it's "off" for now.

He's still going to have all the old threads and user accounts, they're going to have...the same things wastingyourlife and everyone else had when they tried to start up a splinter. Well, except that 9000 word manifesto.

Well, he could take your advice and open up gaming side only for the time being. I'm sure he can scrape together a mod team of people who don't really care what went down.

[dridru]

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.

[CrankyJay]

I'm here mostly because of how atrocious and one-sided Tyler let the moderation become, and now that the environment he fostered turned hostile towards him, maybe he's willing to dial back some of the moderation policies. I have a feeling he let it get as far as it did for ad revenue purposes, but you could tell from many of his posts he's a moderate kind of guy. I actually found myself agreeing with a lot of his posts on things, despite his coming off as a massive prick. If he changes his moderation style to be more in line with his own beliefs then there's a chance for GAF to move on from its current state.

I mean, Saddam Hussein* was a moderate in a lot of ways. Evilore could be more moderate than David Brooks but he still has an authoritarian personality that would lead to the same old problems.

Personally I consider myself to be as left-wing as most of the GAF mods (and I suspect Bore mods are too) it's just a question of those beliefs being mixed with authoritarianism.

*sorry for the hyperbole

Yeah, that's a fair assessment.

[HaughtyFrank]

Even so, is that really a cause for mass exodus? The admin can’t read signals properly and may be kind of a creep. Is that a reason to leave the forum you spend every day of your life on?

For some of the reeeeeee'ers there? Sure.

It was common knowledge that he was a creep before though. Anyone who spends every waking moment on the site (Besada for example) had to have known it. And now people like Besada are being asked to head the new site. It’s just got me like

Haha it is wird. Can already guarantee that any discussion about Besada's involvement will be instantly deleted. He learned from the best worst

[border]

Yeah, the thin skin doesn't help his case, at all, lol

I knew the second I posted the image of his post I was a goner.

I was surprised that people kept spamming the image of your ban during the final hours of NeoGAF, seeing as it had nothing to do with Evilore creeping on women.  It was just an example of him being a petty asshole who thought he could shape his image by deleting history.  That must have felt good to see.

[CrankyJay]

Yeah, the thin skin doesn't help his case, at all, lol

I knew the second I posted the image of his post I was a goner.

I was surprised that people kept spamming the image of your ban during the final hours of NeoGAF, seeing as it had nothing to do with Evilore creeping on women.  It was just an example of him being a petty asshole who thought he could shape his image by deleting history.  That must have felt good to see.

Wait, it did? I didn't know this, lol

[Occam]

I'm here mostly because of how atrocious and one-sided Tyler let the moderation become, and now that the environment he fostered turned hostile towards him, maybe he's willing to dial back some of the moderation policies. I have a feeling he let it get as far as it did for ad revenue purposes, but you could tell from many of his posts he's a moderate kind of guy. I actually found myself agreeing with a lot of his posts on things, despite his coming off as a massive prick. If he changes his moderation style to be more in line with his own beliefs then there's a chance for GAF to move on from its current state.

I would be happy to see the forum rebooted.  The problem is that Evilore seems to have absolutely no humility and no ability to admit fault.  He speaks in tones that are either authoritative or condescending, and that's about it.  It's weird to see someone who is simultaneously incredibly thin-skinned but also immensely vain and proud.  Usually those are contradictory personality traits.

I honestly think he would rather let the whole damned thing burn down than ever have to apologize or say he was wrong.  Just look at how pouty he got when people reacted badly to his Spanish ass-handling tale.

I would honestly not be that surprised if THE STATEMENT was: "All these losers need to get out of their mom's basement and realize what's going on in the real world."  Every time he's faced with rebuke he's reverted to some kind of Alpha Nerd from 2005 who believes he's the only one well-adjusted and experienced enough to know how the world really works, and his critics are just sad shut-ins who have never had to ability to enjoy the bacchanalia .

Evilore: I've never been scammed

Crankjay: Here's proof you got scammed, you wrote about it yourself

*bans Crankyjay*

Evilore: I've never been scammed

Yeah, the thin skin doesn't help his case, at all, lol

I knew the second I posted the image of his post I was a goner.

And that's total BS. If you want to run a large forum, you have to be above this. Otherwise you simply aren't qualified.
Banning a longterm member for what amounts to nothing is a sign of incredibly social ineptitude. A normal person would simply have shrugged, and admitted you were right.

[HaughtyFrank]

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.

Don't think that any amount of apology would have sufficed for that purity crazy crowd

[Transhuman]

y’all still responding to karpalajoe’s creepy rapey shit? wild.

how are y’all this morning

Can you get me a picture of Horse Detective's current hairstyle?

[benjipwns]

http://twitter.com/King_Seda/status/922376395019264000

http://twitter.com/King_Seda/status/922377599787003904

[tummyfat]

Gaming-Age wrote a statement before Evilore could

http://www.gaming-age.com/2017/10/death-of-a-conversation/?utm_campaign=death-of-a-conversation&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

Serious shade thrown in there

[demi]

LULLLLL who wrote that, couldn't have been Jim. Does Jim even run GA still?

[arrow]

Gaming-Age wrote a statement before Evilore could

http://www.gaming-age.com/2017/10/death-of-a-conversation/?utm_campaign=death-of-a-conversation&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

Serious shade thrown in there

OOOOO BURRRRRNNNNN   

[Cryo]

y’all still responding to karpalajoe’s creepy rapey shit? wild.

how are y’all this morning

Afraid that this thread will grow another 20 pages if I don't refresh every hour. I'm staying here because I like this community, but I'm tired of waiting for evangelion 4.0 and this reset will have to do.

[arrow]

That is a garbage statement. Guessing they put that bullshit out to remind people that somebody still writes for gaming age.

Coming soon, the NewGamingAge forums!

[thisismyusername]

AFAIK, Jim is the poster, since it's posted on the GamingAge twitter account and that was ran by him IIRC.

[benjipwns]

Gaming-Age wrote a statement before Evilore could

http://www.gaming-age.com/2017/10/death-of-a-conversation/?utm_campaign=death-of-a-conversation&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

Serious shade thrown in there

so much for loyalty between the world's most oppressed minority: gamers

[nudemacusers]

Gaming-Age wrote a statement before Evilore could

http://www.gaming-age.com/2017/10/death-of-a-conversation/?utm_campaign=death-of-a-conversation&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

Serious shade thrown in there

Lol it’s not shade when there’s a floodlight pointing in one direction 😂

[TVC15]

THE STATEMENT will be whatever tepid "I've let you down so I'm stepping down" post the company who buys neogaf will contractually obligate Malka to agree to

and Evilore will waddle off into the sunset because he has zero talents and cant even get a job at google like moot because of fucking up this bad

imagine being more hated, less talented and less employable than moot

Tyler to pursue career in MMA

spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'd buy every PPV 

[close]

Finally, a worthy opponent for CM Punk.

[headwalk]

stump is the person who will benefit most from GAF going down. bloke went from being a decent level headed sanguine sort to going properly mental.

[EightBitNate]

Gaming-Age wrote a statement before Evilore could

http://www.gaming-age.com/2017/10/death-of-a-conversation/?utm_campaign=death-of-a-conversation&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

Serious shade thrown in there

Yeah I refuse to believe that any of the GAF mods didn’t know Evilore was a creep anymore. Their outrage isn’t genuine disgust; it’s extreme virtue signaling.

[benjipwns]

Well, he could take your advice and open up gaming side only for the time being. I'm sure he can scrape together a mod team of people who don't really care what went down.

If he took my advice, Trump wouldn't be President right now.

[border]

Wait, it did? I didn't know this, lol

You missed it?  Once people had realized that the moderation staff had given up on trying to contain the news/rebellion, whenever somebody asked what was going on a trio of images got spammed.  The first was the Facebook capture, the second was the Spanish groping tale, and the third was your final post on NeoGAF with the Turkey story (http://i.imgur.com/OxCiCJS.png).

OpinionatedCyborg was throwing it up all over the place.

[Dennis]

Who was the first mod to walk?

Was it Kabouter?

[VomKriege]

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.

Yeah but why do that when you can keep the money for yourself. I'm not Lore's accountant but really the site has always been lazily managed, pointing to Lore clocking as low effort as possible. Just look at how ads were managed. He did buff up the servers ultimately and the mobile version was decent but otherwise not exactly up to date forum (wasn't there facebook / twitter buttons that survived only a few months ?).

Well apparently he compensated in some capacity the guy in charge of tech.

But yeah, he should and could have approached it as a real business or job. But obviously didn't care to.

[headwalk]

Who was the first mod to walk?

Was it Kabouter?

kabouter simulated every possible scenario in a custom made hearts of iron 2 mod before making his decision.

[Swollen Bowels]

I'm starting to buy into the story that EL will promote this as a chance to go back to the glory days of gaf, sans the bullshit mods.

Plus, that whole story of the shower scene doesn't quite ring right if she was balling him a month or two afterwards.

I want to see him do a AMA.

Who gives a shit what transpired?

And yet, here we all are in this thread :'(

I'm here mostly because of how atrocious and one-sided Tyler let the moderation become, and now that the environment he fostered turned hostile towards him, maybe he's willing to dial back some of the moderation policies. I have a feeling he let it get as far as it did for ad revenue purposes, but you could tell from many of his posts he's a moderate kind of guy. I actually found myself agreeing with a lot of his posts on things, despite his coming off as a massive prick. If he changes his moderation style to be more in line with his own beliefs then there's a chance for GAF to move on from its current state.

Moderation in this age of Trump, whose presidency has given rise to open and unapologetic affinity for fascism, is no different than collaboration. You cannot be a moderate in an environment where people go on social media, with their identities exposed, and gladly express vile and hateful views that were once relegated to the fringes of public opinion (yes, they've always existed in the shadows, but their open expression would always be met with swift and penalizing rebuke). Many moderate Germans believed their Jewish friends would face little persecution under Hitler's regime. Funny how that turned out.

[Joe Molotov]

THE STATEMENT will be whatever tepid "I've let you down so I'm stepping down" post the company who buys neogaf will contractually obligate Malka to agree to

and Evilore will waddle off into the sunset because he has zero talents and cant even get a job at google like moot because of fucking up this bad

imagine being more hated, less talented and less employable than moot

Tyler to pursue career in MMA

spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'd buy every PPV 

[close]

Finally, a worthy opponent for CM Punk.

CM Punk vs. CP Punk

[benjipwns]

Who was the first mod to walk?

Was it Kabouter?

in terms of announcements post statement announcement it was besada

[Kevtones]

Lttp but I finally read the 2012 Spain shit and the recent 'wait for the facts' shit attributed to Malka. What a garbage dump of a man.

[thisismyusername]

THE STATEMENT will be whatever tepid "I've let you down so I'm stepping down" post the company who buys neogaf will contractually obligate Malka to agree to

and Evilore will waddle off into the sunset because he has zero talents and cant even get a job at google like moot because of fucking up this bad

imagine being more hated, less talented and less employable than moot

Tyler to pursue career in MMA

spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'd buy every PPV 

[close]

Finally, a worthy opponent for CM Punk.

CM Punk vs. CP Punk

Child Molesting Punk vs Child Porn Punk?

[FoneBone]

Gaming-Age wrote a statement before Evilore could

http://www.gaming-age.com/2017/10/death-of-a-conversation/?utm_campaign=death-of-a-conversation&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

Serious shade thrown in there

I can't be the only one who had no idea Gaming-Age even still existed.

[nudemacusers]

Tvc would you let ted danson beat you up for two hours and if yes would you charge and how much

[M]

It's really mind blowing to see this actually happen. He was making all that money whilst doing minimal work in the running of the site. He literally had free labour from the community. Why not just pretend to be a good guy? Why did he have to make it so clear he was a massive cunt and a creep? This case was more about the straw that broke the camels back rather than a single case. If he wasn't such a cunt with a history of creep behaviour, I would guess he would still have his site. He wasted it because he is a cunt and a creep who loved bragging. Almost everyone on GAF who had ever seen him post knew he was a cunt and creep. If he had just pretended to be a normal person and treated his community with respect.

[EightBitNate]

Who was the first mod to walk?

Was it Kabouter?

Amir0x. He was playing the long con.

[Dennis]

Who was the first mod to walk?

Was it Kabouter?

Amir0x. He was playing the long con.

Perp walks don't count.

[benjipwns]

the mobile version was decent

I think somebody made that for free too.

Dude had people falling over to improve the site management for free, look at ModBot ffs.

[VomKriege]

For Gaming-Age, imagination isn’t needed.

[CrankyJay]

Wait, it did? I didn't know this, lol

You missed it?  Once people had realized that the moderation staff had given up on trying to contain the news/rebellion, whenever somebody asked what was going on a trio of images got spammed.  The first was the Facebook capture, the second was the Spanish groping tale, and the third was your final post on NeoGAF with the Turkey story (http://i.imgur.com/OxCiCJS.png).

OpinionatedCyborg was throwing it up all over the place.

Me and my alt have been permed for ages now. The last time I visited GAF for non-gaming purposes was months ago. I visited Friday night to hack my SNES classic mini.

I'm famous!

[Transhuman]

Who was the first mod to walk?

Was it Kabouter?

He left two days before I heard. It was just a coincidence that all this shit went down. Or he's psychic.

[arrow]

some of you losers speculating on this being the "return to the GAF glory days because no bad mods" are not only in for a rude awakening if this shit somehow bounces back, but posting "the girl banged him later so what's the big deal" while getting at mods for deleting amir0x threads sure are showing your asses. The ones doing it multiple times in one thread are especially bitch-made.

World of difference between pedophilia and evilore's usual creepy behavior? Sure. But dude got his just desserts and the girl maybe banging him later doesn't change that getting in the shower with someone who's vomiting, has a boyfriend, and didn't invite you isn't something to defend. As I've said before she might have bad judgement but she wasn't wrong about that incident.

Is it so hard to just enjoy the trash fire and relish in the fuckery? If you don't like the gaf off-shoots and want GAF for news aggregation or even just a big forum to shoot the shit and have discussions there's dozens of options out there.

I'm absolutely down with watching the trash burn. It's pretty enjoyable after a number of years of feeling like I was browsing some kind of Orwellian story/forum. But I doubt EL is going to throw it away: he's most likely going to try and portray what comes next as return to the glory days. Doesn't mean I think it will work... but it might. I bet lots of part time lurkers out there barely know or care about the drama, and will go right back, if the site comes back up.

And sure, he does sound like a creep. But maybe he has a legit side to the story, who knows? We've only publicly heard one side.

[injurai]

It's really mind blowing to see this actually happen. He was making all that money whilst doing minimal work in the running of the site. He literally had free labour from the community. Why not just pretend to be a good guy? Why did he have to make it so clear he was a massive cunt and a creep? This case was more about the straw that broke the camels back rather than a single case. If he wasn't such a cunt with a history of creep behaviour, I would guess he would still have his site. He wasted it because he is a cunt and a creep who loved bragging. Almost everyone on GAF who had ever seen him post knew he was a cunt and creep. If he had just pretended to be a normal person and treated his community with respect.

He had an inferiority complex and he wanted to cultivated a different identity amongst randos. He wanted to be a globe-trotting tramp that the ladies desired. In the end he finds out he's a pervert on a power-trip.

[TVC15]

Tvc would you let ted danson beat you up for two hours and if yes would you charge and how much

Two hours is a long time. 20k, with some ground rules:

1. 5 minute break at the half hour, hour, and hour and a half mark. Includes water and potential wound maintenance.
2. No weapons.
3. Any stuff done to the head and face must leave no marks. If any marks are left, there's a 20k post-beating penalty.
4. You get one nut shot an hour. Must be within 5 minutes of a break.
5. The last ten minutes must feature Ted Danson safewordlessly violently faux-raping me.

[tummyfat]

Who was the first mod to walk?

Was it Kabouter?

He left two days before I heard. It was just a coincidence that all this shit went down. Or he's psychic.

Voat posted poly's Facebook screens four days before the news killed the site though.