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

[Hobies cat]

Out of all of this, I expected at least one Psycho shower scene GIF. What a disappointment.

Here: 

[zomgee]

So Tyler's big revelation turns out to be a big sting of "nuh-uh's" followed by ggggamergate.

He still maintains his arrogant attitude with a slice of faultlessness.

He posts one time when the site opens, and...

HE FUCKS OFF THE SITE AND DOESN'T POST AGAIN.

Nothing's changed. He's right back to the hands off approach of "let the broken system work."

[tummyfat]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=252790180&postcount=13

[Steve Youngblood]

You guys think uhh, maybe when he doesn't remotely have control of his site, he should turn off the twitter bot that sends out all the new thread titles... cuz, I sort of think he should.

https://twitter.com/NeoGAFNewThread/status/922666493267009536

That account isn’t officially affiliated with the site.

[Marhunchy]

When you're Eurotrash and have no opinion on Taco Bell

 

qft

never seen the inside of a Taco bell joint

[tiesto]

I sincerely doubt anybody is paid to be on NeoGAF and NeoGAF alone while promoting other publishers games.

Shit like this was always the funniest fucking thing to me. 99.9% of Gaf were so deeply ensconced in their bubble that thought they basically ran the industry and that Sony, MS, Ubisoft, etc were inserting paid shills there to try and control the narrative ALL THE TIME.

Earlier in the year when Wildlands came out and was, at the time, the best-selling game of the year (OVER ZELDA), Gaf went fucking crazy because... w-wha?! How could this be?! We all shit on the game when the beta was out and there was practically NO HYPE on the gaming side?!? Who is playing this game? They literally couldn't process how something could be successful without the full support of Gaf, industry tastemakers.

These are the same people who are shocked, absolutely shocked and offended, when Sony runs a call of duty trailer at their huge fucking press conference instead of giving Ni No Kuni a 30 minute live demo or someshit.

Would much rather see a Ni No Kuni 2 trailer than another cawdoody game, personally.

[kingv]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1453869

If suggestions from GAFfers in the past are anything to go by, I'd bet people in Mental Health GAF have probably become worse. 

There was this dude from Colorado who posted a few times that they were so poor that they didn’t eat everyday. The guy was in his late 20’s and too disabled to work and still lived at home. His mother couldnt work and his father was a huge Trump supporter and bigot and often threatened to leave. The last topic I read from him was that his dad finally left and took their one nearly broken down car they had and split.

I hope they made it out ok but it also seemed like he was trying to get handouts from those that fell for it. He an active XBL and Steam account, so lol

I remember Amir0x too.

[zomgee]

You guys think uhh, maybe when he doesn't remotely have control of his site, he should turn off the twitter bot that sends out all the new thread titles... cuz, I sort of think he should.

https://twitter.com/NeoGAFNewThread/status/922666493267009536

That account isn’t affiliated with the site.

It's certainly reflective of it in the current state though.

[wsippel]

Everyone knows that resetera is for those who got triggered on everything that moves, it’s a bee hive moving to another location , the dog piling will continue the outrage culture will continue

I’ll hate it

It's probably going to implode within days, anyway. Diversity was apparently more important than experience in their staff selection process, and while they spent so much time writing hilarious statements and manifests, they haven't even figured out their board layout yet from what I hear, and are still wasting time coming up with pointless verification schemes and discussing nonsensical rules that will only serve to make them even bigger targets for Voat and 8chan instead of, you know, getting anything up and running.

[LurkinMerkin]

Maybe it's hyperbole, but resetERA makes me sad about humanity. No ability to reflect and learn and improve.
It's so sad that instead of gathering the creative people who made NeoGAF interesting in the first place and starting a better community, the result is this terrible next level of thought-policing and purity testing.

They were never human.

[mxgt]

"neogaf is over it's time to go outside, maybe play video games"
"NO" *makes resetera"

"Neogaf is over, maybe I should actually do something to fight for social justice now"

  NEW FORUM NEW FORUM LOOK AT THIS 

" "

[zomgee]

Steve, did you quit?

I think so? I put in a no-rush request as I had a family engagement to attend to and did not realize that shit was going to hit the fan this quickly. I got home and the site was down.

*shrugs*

I honestly have no interesting dirt to share. Don’t know anything at all about the main scandal and as boring as it may sound I like the rest of the volunteer staff way too much to even inadvertently throw anyone under the bus.

You're always been the type of moderator that looked at it as a janitorial position, not a way of life.

I wouldn't be in a rush to return though.

[Occam]

Sorry for quoting myself, but nobody replied/gave any feedback. Does anyone agree with this assessment?
http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45102.msg2317337#msg2317337

[Kurt Russell]

Okay so I just thought. Call it a showerthought if you must.

Tyler is going to wake up around about now and he has to sit down, log on and dredge through all of the shit that's accumulated overnight. He's so entirely delusional that he probably expected to have to deal with 3 or 4 bad apples, not numerous shitposts hidden within legitimate threads and triple digit account suicides.

He's going to end up like Butters in the episode of Southpark where he had to filter all of Cartman's social media. And then, it hit me.... for the first time ever I actually feel a shred of pity for him. This really is his life imploding before his eyes.

[tummyfat]

Solo's account suicide: http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1453966

[Helen Keller the Musical]

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Did you disable your ad blocker so they wouldn’t find out you use one and ban you? Lol, I was paranoid about that too also

[thisismyusername]

If it ever launches. They keep changing logos, saying they're changing providers, in-fighting in Discord over gender pronouns.

I doubt it'll even launch.

[Anime Avatar]

Maybe it's hyperbole, but resetERA makes me sad about humanity. No ability to reflect and learn and improve.
It's so sad that instead of gathering the creative people who made NeoGAF interesting in the first place and starting a better community, the result is this terrible next level of thought-policing and purity testing.

They were never human.

Nobody should ever feel defensive of their humanity

[Helen Keller the Musical]

Okay so I just thought. Call it a showerthought if you must.

Tyler is going to wake up around about now and he has to sit down, log on and dredge through all of the shit that's accumulated overnight. He's so entirely delusional that he probably expected to have to deal with 3 or 4 bad apples, not numerous shitposts hidden within legitimate threads and triple digit account suicides.

He's going to end up like Butters in the episode of Southpark where he had to filter all of Cartman's social media. And then, it hit me.... for the first time ever I actually feel a shred of pity for him. This really is his life imploding before his eyes.

True however he is doing it for the cash money $$$ 

With how many users and density of traffic from his dumb site, there’s too much ad revenue to lose. So of course he is going to suck the poop sick sandwiches as much as he can to rebuild the site or else he would risk getting a normal job.

[Optimus]

Everyone knows that resetera is for those who got triggered on everything that moves, it’s a bee hive moving to another location , the dog piling will continue the outrage culture will continue

I’ll hate it

There won't be any dogpilling because no one outside the cult will even care enough to register there. The only reason people went to GAF was because it was the biggest gaming forum not because of the psychotic moderation.

[Kurt Russell]

If it ever launches. They keep changing logos, saying they're changing providers, in-fighting in Discord over gender pronouns.

I doubt it'll even launch.

The greatest thing about it is that it seems a chunk of what Best Besada said on Twitter yesterday about membership tests and being primarily a progressive forum with videogames within OT is not too far from the truth.

[Helen Keller the Musical]

I mean given how hard it is to get a GAF account, the suicides would have to stop eventually and be manageable, but when they're done after that big of a showing... there's such a small group left.  So with that place toast...

I guess for new fuckery we have to wait for this other site to formally launch?

The least he could do and say fuck it and approve all the pending accounts now and see which ones stick.

[Hobies cat]

I mean given how hard it is to get a GAF account, the suicides would have to stop eventually and be manageable, but when they're done after that big of a showing... there's such a small group left.  So with that place toast...

I guess for new fuckery we have to wait for this other site to formally launch?

And the longer they take to launch the more people are positioning themselves to counter-attack that place. They won't have to do a great deal as indicators are reset are well on the way to being the world's first self instituted abortion. They are building up such an envelope of razors that as soon as someplace like voat pokes them and they knee jerk in reaction its death by a thousand cuts.

[Nabbis]

I mean given how hard it is to get a GAF account, the suicides would have to stop eventually and be manageable, but when they're done after that big of a showing... there's such a small group left.  So with that place toast...

I guess for new fuckery we have to wait for this other site to formally launch?

The least he could do and say fuck it and approve all the pending accounts now and see which ones stick.

But hes already putting in over 200 hours a week just due to the ads...

[kingv]

If it ever launches. They keep changing logos, saying they're changing providers, in-fighting in Discord over gender pronouns.

I doubt it'll even launch.

Arguing about pronouns

[tummyfat]

Resetera doesn't need to be brigaded or attacked at all. The infighting will destroy it by itself.

They're not even letting people register through ordinary means, you need to be part of a locked down Discord. People who want to post on the forum are going to feel favoritism is being shown and bitch nonstop about it. This bitching will lead to moderation - and the group feeling shunned will take that moderation action as proof that resetera is corrupt and just as bad as neogaf. Rinse, wash, repeat

[Daffy Duck]

Also looks like numbers have dropped on the discord for the new place, was over 1,000 at one point, now it's around 840.

[Deavl]

When you're Eurotrash and have no opinion on Taco Bell

 

I dunno, there's Taco Bell in NL these days.

Also, my interest in retcetera is basically negative a thousand.

Oh hey, there's one close to the border.
I'll consider driving over there if i ever go insane.

[Nabbis]

Also looks like numbers have dropped on the discord for the new place, was over 1,000 at one point, now it's around 840.

It's like breeding antibiotic resistant bacteria, only the most mutated ones survive.

[border]

Yeah, I don't know how Reset Era is going to reconcile the fact that they need thousands and thousands of new members to be as active as NeoGAF with the fact that they are going to be beset on all sides by trolls who want to ruin the place.  Let too many people in and moderation is a nightmare.....let too few people in and the forum is just too boring and slow-paced.

[dridru]

That New Thread Twitter sure is something. Busy deleting stuff all the time. Wonder what happens when the dude goes to sleep, because I don't think there are actually any other mods?

And the "secret" mods. Why would anyone want to do that work when you can't even be known. Maybe he'll start paying them now.

[Stormhammer]

people making cool funny ban bait threads feel like people who go to protests and just knock over trashcans

[Baiano19]

So Tyler's big revelation turns out to be a big sting of "nuh-uh's" followed by ggggamergate.

He still maintains his arrogant attitude with a slice of faultlessness.

He posts one time when the site opens, and...

HE FUCKS OFF THE SITE AND DOESN'T POST AGAIN.

Nothing's changed. He's right back to the hands off approach of "let the broken system work."

There is nothing to salvage, let's just enjoy this clusterfuck. The other rigatoni board is DOA.

[Nintex]

I'm sure he can just outsource banning and moderation to India or China.

The instruction is pretty simple, ban everyone using these words:
shower, girl, shower girl, politics, trump etc. etc.

You get paid $1 hour and bonus for each 5 bans. Happy moderating JobJob!

[who is ted danson?]

Everyone knows that resetera is for those who got triggered on everything that moves, it’s a bee hive moving to another location , the dog piling will continue the outrage culture will continue

I’ll hate it

It's probably going to implode within days, anyway. Diversity was apparently more important than experience in their staff selection process, and while they spent so much time writing hilarious statements and manifests, they haven't even figured out their board layout yet from what I hear, and are still wasting time coming up with pointless verification schemes and discussing nonsensical rules that will only serve to make them even bigger targets for Voat and 8chan instead of, you know, getting anything up and running.

So much for striking while the iron is hot and sorting out the rest later.

[LurkinMerkin]

Maybe it's hyperbole, but resetERA makes me sad about humanity....

They were never human.

Nobody should ever feel defensive of their humanity

Sorry, you’re right. Far too mean.

[REDPILLALPH ABIGCOCK]

If it ever launches. They keep changing logos, saying they're changing providers, in-fighting in Discord over gender pronouns.

I doubt it'll even launch.

The greatest thing about it is that it seems a chunk of what Best Besada said on Twitter yesterday about membership tests and being primarily a progressive forum with videogames within OT is not too far from the truth.

It's amazing that a joke account went "What's the dumbest weirdo shit I can think of that'd make them look insane and put people off?" and it's almost exactly what they're doing

[Mr Gilhaney]

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Did you disable your ad blocker so they wouldn’t find out you use one and ban you? Lol, I was paranoid about that too also

What? The screenshot is another guy from the footballgaf crew that is now on slaent. But it's also on mobile, where I always had ads as I just use standard chrome browser. 

[gfm793]

Okay so I just thought. Call it a showerthought if you must.

Tyler is going to wake up around about now and he has to sit down, log on and dredge through all of the shit that's accumulated overnight. He's so entirely delusional that he probably expected to have to deal with 3 or 4 bad apples, not numerous shitposts hidden within legitimate threads and triple digit account suicides.

He's going to end up like Butters in the episode of Southpark where he had to filter all of Cartman's social media. And then, it hit me.... for the first time ever I actually feel a shred of pity for him. This really is his life imploding before his eyes.

I have pity for him in the same way I have pity for criminals who now realize that they are truly boned. It sucks that they are in this situation, but it is a situation of their own making. Even taking the assumption, which is a fair one, that the accusations against Malka are 100% true, the reason that it killed the site has to do with not only his pitiful reaction, but his fostering of a witch hunt culture on the boards and enabling the mods to do it.

I do find it delicious that what lit the match on GAFs burning was a stereotypical hipster feminist. If it wasn't so pathetic it'd be Shakespearean.

[pj]

Also looks like numbers have dropped on the discord for the new place, was over 1,000 at one point, now it's around 840.

I think that's just how many are online.  One of the mods just said they have about 2500 in the discord, and 1000 of those are destiny gaf

[Dougstyles]

Very disappointed in Solo. This was the perfect opportunity to suicide via unwanted James Bond sexual advance reference and he blew it on some dumb video game shit.

[tummyfat]

Very disappointed in Solo. This was the perfect opportunity to suicide via unwanted James Bond sexual advance reference and he blew it on some dumb video game shit.

To be fair, someone already did a James Bond one yesterday

[Kartik]

"Ghost in the Shell was not racist"

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1453981

Dunno if it's an account suicide or not. Interesting to see if he gets banned.

[Third]

I don't get all the ban requests or suicide posts

Just don't post anymore

[Kartik]

I'm sure he can just outsource banning and moderation to India or China.

The instruction is pretty simple, ban everyone using these words:
shower, girl, shower girl, politics, trump etc. etc.

You get paid $1 hour and bonus for each 5 bans. Happy moderating JobJob!

I'm sure he can find Americans willing to do it for free. He did for the past 10 years after all.

[Daffy Duck]

I don't get all the ban requests or suicide posts

Just don't post anymore

Can't do that, how will you claim internet kudos.

[bork]

Resetera doesn't need to be brigaded or attacked at all. The infighting will destroy it by itself.

They're not even letting people register through ordinary means, you need to be part of a locked down Discord. People who want to post on the forum are going to feel favoritism is being shown and bitch nonstop about it. This bitching will lead to moderation - and the group feeling shunned will take that moderation action as proof that resetera is corrupt and just as bad as neogaf. Rinse, wash, repeat

Far from me to be some kind of Resetera apologist/defender, but AFAIK they are simply starting with the people on Discord (more than just the former-GAF one, other Discords are included) to test things out and then will let everyone in.  They're also currently testing the board before they open it up to the Discord people.  They've been posting updates about it on their channel.

[omensetter]

Very disappointed in Solo. This was the perfect opportunity to suicide via unwanted James Bond sexual advance reference and he blew it on some dumb video game shit.

you've reminded me of the creepy Skyfall shower sex scene and how apt that reference would have been

[FunSlower]

I don't get all the ban requests or suicide posts

Just don't post anymore

But if you post w/porn images, you have people either unfollow the GAF New Thread Twitter and put his ad network at risk.

[Vertigo]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=252769471&postcount=25

Prime example of BCT members using the "not arguing in good faith" tool they learned a few months back.

IMO BCT actually dialed it back a bit after Bish left. There was still some dumb shit when someone had the racist audacity to suggest that Colin Kaepernick kneeling was not equivalent to the march on Birmingham or some other cac-ass cac position. But they didn’t pile on nearly as much.

I’m still shocked that Commedieu was an agent. I basically put him right next to Slayven and Angelus Errare as top-tier BCT members to avoid discussion with about anything other than video games or comics. That’s why his statement confused me, I didn’t get who he was talking about.

Honestly, I thought all of PT got better after Bish left. It still had massive problems, but it was moderated somewhat less ideologically.

Edit: also saw lots of posts asking about why Bish left, didn’t he have some kind of bet about leaving as a mod if Hillary didn’t win?

I thought Commedieu was black?

[tummyfat]

Resetera doesn't need to be brigaded or attacked at all. The infighting will destroy it by itself.

They're not even letting people register through ordinary means, you need to be part of a locked down Discord. People who want to post on the forum are going to feel favoritism is being shown and bitch nonstop about it. This bitching will lead to moderation - and the group feeling shunned will take that moderation action as proof that resetera is corrupt and just as bad as neogaf. Rinse, wash, repeat

Far from me to be some kind of Resetera apologist/defender, but AFAIK they are simply starting with the people on Discord (more than just the former-GAF one, other Discords are included) to test things out and then will let everyone in.  They're also currently testing the board before they open it up to the Discord people.  They've been posting updates about it on their channel.

It's going to be a shitshow. These aren't emotionally stable people they are dealing with.

[pj]

I don't get all the ban requests or suicide posts

Just don't post anymore

Political statement.  Like putting a pussy hat on whatever is in your avatar, times a MILLION

[bork]

"Ghost in the Shell was not racist"

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1453981

Dunno if it's an account suicide or not. Interesting to see if he gets banned.

It's actually kind of fascinating to see how far the board has fallen/posting has devolved into nonsense since it was put back online.  I can't see NeoGAF ever getting back to the level it was before the shower rapist Tyler took it down in a panic.

[Hobies cat]

Very disappointed in Solo. This was the perfect opportunity to suicide via unwanted James Bond sexual advance reference and he blew it on some dumb video game shit.

Or.....

http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/movies/243458/17-moments-of-movie-terror-in-the-bathroom


And yeah, it should now read 18 Moments...

[Jerry]

I imagine a lot of users are waiting for the dust to settle.

[Daffy Duck]

I imagine a lot of users are waiting for the dust to settle.

Without doubt.

[daemon]

If it ever launches. They keep changing logos, saying they're changing providers, in-fighting in Discord over gender pronouns.

I doubt it'll even launch.

and yet again, it will be poetic, because there's people who talk about getting shit done and people who actually do shit.

[maninthemirror]

Watch the slaent thead. Dogpiling has begun on users calling gaf a hivemind 🍌.

[gfm793]

If it ever launches. They keep changing logos, saying they're changing providers, in-fighting in Discord over gender pronouns.

I doubt it'll even launch.

and yet again, it will be poetic, because there's people who talk about getting shit done and people who actually do shit.

And some people even try to do shit in the shower.

[Daffy Duck]

Watch the slaent thead. Dogpiling has begun on users calling gaf a hivemind 🍌.

My brain cannot comprehend that sites layout at all, it's like it was designed by someone with their eyes shut, and then they stood back and thought, yep, nailed it.