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

[benjipwns]

found another Dennis alt, jeez how many do you have man:

Glad to see we are back up and running! I would like to throw my hat in the ring if there is any need for mods or help in any capacity, im sure it is taken care of but I'm here if need be.

[Phoenix Dark]

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Was that your alt?

[close]

Yup.

[helios]

I demand a trial by internet. thx

[thisismyusername]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1453189

PD alt finally bit the bullet?

I dabbled in gay shit

Someone posing as him, anyway.

Edit: Stand corrected. PD PM me your gay phase, bb.

[Let's Cyber]

LOL at The Albatross making giant care posts in the sticky. Lore isn't going to give up the site, move on you fucking goober.

[injurai]

Please tell us how neogaf wasn't an Social Studies Warrior site?

Neogaf wasn't ultra left, but they were still extreme. They banned users for questioning people (aka me) saying statements such as "all white people are racist and scare me." It was its own kind of radical.

they were “radical centrists” who believe in the thoroughly asinine concept of “horseshoe theory” which means “everyone with an actual ideology is bad”. basically you’re allowed to think racism is systemic in 2017 america but can’t support reparations, and that we should let brown people into our countries “if they earn it” but can’t repudiate obama and clinton drone striking their weddings and hospitals.

plenty laughed off horseshoe they're and thought it was a purely linear graduated spectrum too

it doesn't really matter what people thought, there was an in crowd that acted out vindication over perceived dog whistles are giving going against any opportunism that was down with the cause

[Boredfrom]

Please tell us how neogaf wasn't an Social Studies Warrior site?

Neogaf wasn't ultra left, but they were still extreme. They banned users for questioning people (aka me) saying statements such as "all white people are racist and scare me." It was its own kind of radical.

they were “radical centrists” who believe in the thoroughly asinine concept of “horseshoe theory” which means “everyone with an actual ideology is bad”. basically you’re allowed to think racism is systemic in 2017 america but can’t support reparations, and that we should let brown people into our countries “if they earn it” but can’t repudiate obama and clinton drone striking their weddings and hospitals.

...

Dude, that is Horshoe Theory in action.

[nudemacusers]

I like how much this thread has slowed down and nixed all the political babble as everyone is watching this train wreck in real time.

[Jenkem]

this has been a wild weekend, if schadenfreude was food I'd be besada by now

[benjipwns]

i'm surprised at how well thought out some of the suicides are, i guess the two day wait period helped

remember that in the future

[helios]

Got bees in my ass please help. don't want the bees in my ass. eat my bee ass malka bitch

[omensetter]

could someone explain the Mumei controversy to me briefly? I hear it referenced every now and then but I'm still not sure what happened there

[davepoobond]

this is quite the dumpster fire.  i dont think i recognize anyone who is doing an account suicide lol

[Oblivion]

Oooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=252761457&postcount=1097

Wha...?

[injurai]

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Was that your alt?

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Yup.

umbasa man

[nudemacusers]

Need some PD gay experimentation deets tbh 👀

[nomis]

It's true tho. They supported the centrist candidate for president.

right.

neogaf members went ham with the devotion and liberal piety, they just didn't like asking big questions about capitalism or the state

i've never seen any other online community get so excited about such milquetoast candidates

they didn’t just not like asking the big questions about class and inequality, they would call you a russian paid malcontent if you breathed a word about it. as reflexive as alt-right chodes claiming everyone in the women’s march had a pay check from george soros.

[benjipwns]

The response to the allegations against Evilore makes me weep for the future of humanity. What the fuck happened to due process?

[Himu]

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Was that your alt?

[close]

If you know PD, you know that's our man.

[nudemacusers]

i'm surprised at how well thought out some of the suicides are, i guess the two day wait period helped

remember that in the future

The best and most creative kills usually come with a cooling off period.

[Baiano19]

Most of these cornballs will be upset they kamikazi'd their accounts after resetera bombs. Or be back under new alts.

 

resetera will contain the community that caused the crash. Those fuckers don't understand that Evilore wasn´t the cause, he was the consequence.

[benjipwns]

the important issues:

Just don't ban threads of people asking for relationship advice.

[Father_Brain]

It's true tho. They supported the centrist candidate for president.

and even before (I think?) it became a Hillary echo chamber, there were things like Mumei being demodded for expressing views on trans people that Evilore didn't care for, and Tyler was definitely not on the "Social Studies Warrior" side of that argument.

whatever reputation it has as a "far left" forum is based primarily on its hostility to GG, which really shouldn't qualify it as such at all, but that's what GG and the alt-right do

It's not that they were left. It's that if you weren't pious to the cause it was fuck you. The Mumei incident happened YEARS AGO.

The Mumei demodding was in early 2015. I didn't notice it changing that much on trans issues since then, but maybe I missed that?

[jakefromstatefarm]

Gianna Michaels

anonymous mods plz help

[doctavius bonbon]

[sphagnum]

I never got banned for sticking up for class politics and the potential of good white working class people *shrug*

I argued with liberals a lot but they like me for some reason

congrats on that long con PD

[headwalk]

he dabbled alright. like a frozen lake gets dabbled by a nuclear icebreaker.

[Valhelm]

Please tell us how neogaf wasn't an Social Studies Warrior site?

Neogaf wasn't ultra left, but they were still extreme. They banned users for questioning people (aka me) saying statements such as "all white people are racist and scare me." It was its own kind of radical.

i just feel like a place can't be called an sj w site if it's run by fucking tyler malka and has a userbase not noticeably different from /r/gaming

the mods didn't have any particularly hardcore beliefs on anything, they just handed out bans liberally to those who stepped outside the lines of DNC-approved discourse

[injurai]

this is quite the dumpster fire.  i dont think i recognize anyone who is doing an account suicide lol

Maybe it's because I look at people's names more than avatars, but I remember almost every semi-frequent user over the time that I was on gaf (2011-2016.)

It's fucking crazy seeing all the people come out for this shit show.

[Boredfrom]

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Was that your alt?

[close]

Yup.

 

[Lothar]

[helios]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1453231

[ZephyrFate]

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Was that your alt?

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Yup.

Cesare Borgia in Showtime's The Borgias was such a hottie

[jorma]

To be honest, I am surprised by the number of people sticking by Tyler in that sticky. It seems that the amount of GAFers that hated how GAF was moderated pre-apocalypse was sizable.

Tyler might be able to skate by after all, especially if ResetERA becomes the insular dumpster fire it is looking to be.

Honestly seems pretty 50/50 in support and condemnation. Maybe more skewed to the condemnation side.

To me its how many casual posters that are just gonna wait til the dust settles show back up like business as usual?

I've posted since 2006 and was kinda uninterested in the meta stuff for most of that time. I think it took a year before i found out about the besada email scandal. I remember that i alt tabbed to gaf and searched for besada to see what had happened to him and how it had all played out, and was actually shocked to discover that he was still a mod. I was so naive.

Anyway, i can't imagine i'm unique in that regard  and i think plenty if not most users would be prepared to do just that and i don't think any of them would care enough to post either support or condemnation in that thread. But these like-minded people would also do fuck all to contribute to a barren wasteland in order to get it going again.

I think that the biggest body of content on gaf is/was produced by users who do care, which is evilores problem.

[thehunter116]

It's true tho. They supported the centrist candidate for president.

and even before (I think?) it became a Hillary echo chamber, there were things like Mumei being demodded for expressing views on trans people that Evilore didn't care for, and Tyler was definitely not on the "Social Studies Warrior" side of that argument.

whatever reputation it has as a "far left" forum is based primarily on its hostility to GG, which really shouldn't qualify it as such at all, but that's what GG and the alt-right do

It's not that they were left. It's that if you weren't pious to the cause it was fuck you. The Mumei incident happened YEARS AGO.

Purity test everywhere.

[benjipwns]

I admit I basically made posts that flat out said that was PD for Bore regulars

[injurai]

It's true tho. They supported the centrist candidate for president.

and even before (I think?) it became a Hillary echo chamber, there were things like Mumei being demodded for expressing views on trans people that Evilore didn't care for, and Tyler was definitely not on the "Social Studies Warrior" side of that argument.

whatever reputation it has as a "far left" forum is based primarily on its hostility to GG, which really shouldn't qualify it as such at all, but that's what GG and the alt-right do

It's not that they were left. It's that if you weren't pious to the cause it was fuck you. The Mumei incident happened YEARS AGO.

The Mumei demodding was in early 2015. I didn't notice it changing that much on trans issues since then, but maybe I missed that?

The mumei demodding was entirely justified and probably the last time I saw an attempt to reel an any lunacy.

[Jansen]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1453165

now this is some good account suicide

[Boredfrom]

Please tell us how neogaf wasn't an Social Studies Warrior site?

Neogaf wasn't ultra left, but they were still extreme. They banned users for questioning people (aka me) saying statements such as "all white people are racist and scare me." It was its own kind of radical.

i just feel like a place can't be called an sj w site if it's run by fucking tyler malka and has a userbase not noticeably different from /r/gaming

the mods didn't have any particularly hardcore beliefs on anything, they just handed out bans liberally to those who stepped outside the lines of DNC-approved discourse

No wonder the DNC cannot win elections if you think that is normal.

[ZephyrFate]

i'm besada myself with laughing fits about this. also i'm low-key trolling popular threads. no ban yet!

[benjipwns]

 

The community is still here, no reason to panic, you're just seeing an orchestrated and fake exodus by sleeper accounts waiting for a moment like this.

[doctavius bonbon]

The Bible Black RTTP 

[helios]

The Bible Black RTTP 

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1453237

[El Babua]

PD, wasn't your alt some insider claiming huge OPPO! on Trump?

[ZephyrFate]

(notice how much better he is at drawing those bisexuals)

[I am (not) a weeb]

fucking lol at the bible black shit

 

[Nuitangg]

Patiently waiting for Messofanego to appear.

[injurai]

I admit I basically made posts that flat out said that was PD for Bore regulars

I knew it was PD from the first day that account showed up in gaf hap, either mods didn't care or he actually flew under the radar. I have no idea.

[agrajag]

It's true tho. They supported the centrist candidate for president.

and even before (I think?) it became a Hillary echo chamber, there were things like Mumei being demodded for expressing views on trans people that Evilore didn't care for, and Tyler was definitely not on the "Social Studies Warrior" side of that argument.

whatever reputation it has as a "far left" forum is based primarily on its hostility to GG, which really shouldn't qualify it as such at all, but that's what GG and the alt-right do

It's not that they were left. It's that if you weren't pious to the cause it was fuck you. The Mumei incident happened YEARS AGO.

The Mumei demodding was in early 2015. I didn't notice it changing that much on trans issues since then, but maybe I missed that?

Come the fuck on. It doesn't matter what side of the issue Evilore was on and if he banned Mumei or not. Evilore flexed his muscles once in every blue moon, but he let his overzealous socially progressive mods run the site most of the time, he was scared to challenge them. On a daily basis, absolutely normal, good people would catch bans and and this anti-SJW Evilore of yours was nowhere to help them. Even that time EL locked BCT when they openly mocked him, Bishop re-opened it and Lore didn't do shit. So spare us the spin.

[doctavius bonbon]

So glad to end the night in laughter rather than a polisnoozefest

[davepoobond]

oh and the OT is definitely getting deleted.  im seeing my subscribed threads count slowly dwindle.  i was at 16k+, now its at 15411 and going down by about 10 a second

[nomis]

It's true tho. They supported the centrist candidate for president.

and even before (I think?) it became a Hillary echo chamber, there were things like Mumei being demodded for expressing views on trans people that Evilore didn't care for, and Tyler was definitely not on the "Social Studies Warrior" side of that argument.

whatever reputation it has as a "far left" forum is based primarily on its hostility to GG, which really shouldn't qualify it as such at all, but that's what GG and the alt-right do

It's not that they were left. It's that if you weren't pious to the cause it was fuck you. The Mumei incident happened YEARS AGO.

Purity test everywhere.

purity tests everywhere... while constantly calling foul on any “purity tests” from the DSA crew like $15 minimum wage and UHC. purity tests were perfectly fine as long as they were verritt verified pragmatic and DNC focus tested.

[Diunx]

neogaf was never an s j w site and if you think the views expressed were particularly radical you need to get out more

Loving the new members

[maninthemirror]

Patiently waiting for Messofanego to appear.

I despised that poster

[Para-Medic]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1453165

http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1453165

Savage. Kat deserves better though.

[Valhelm]

im sad OT is gone because i didn't get to screenshot the time shinra-basho suggested i was racist for criticizing Obama's decision to cancel the ban that stopped us from funding neo nazis in ukraine

[Phoenix Dark]

PD, wasn't your alt some insider claiming huge OPPO! on Trump?

Yea. I kinda gave myself away towards the end yet they never did anything.

[PanickyFool]

The Dude is a POS apparently, never knew.

[seagrams hotsauce]

reverse cowgirl in the main Statement thread

...That's not even hot.

gianna is a queen u nerd

[benjipwns]

It's surreal - we're witnessing an ongoing hybrid war between gamergate and gaf, all while under what looks like weak leadership at best, and a power abusing hypocrite at worst. Just look at the talking points and how many accounts are swarming out just to gloat or say that gaf were the bad guys all along.

I think the moderation went a long way in keeping this place an excellent platform for information, discussion, and legitimate friendships. A few bad users have unfortunately been allowed to fester, given cover by the owner, but there's no way that's representative of the community as a whole - there's no other place like this.
And gg saying that any right or even center opinions are immediately shut down are failing to bring the receipts. Yeah, the dog piling can get gross, but you have to go out of your way in derailing a thread to warrant a ban.