99% of all gaming forums are pro GG and some are explicitly alt-right on top of it. So not really? NeoGAF being detested by these scum is not exactly something to mourn.
LOL.
I've been on many big boards, it's very rare politic materials are taken as seriousely as on Neogaf. If anything Neogaf is one of the rare site where politic and being left (or an alt-right) is something important, most of time people on gaming board speak about... games. Of course you can find shitty obscure forum or straight savagery like 4chan subforum, but the biggest board like IGN, gamefaq, Gamespot etc are mostly free of serious political discussions, for the best.
Oh and everyone I know hate and love Neogaf for the same thing :
+ Quick to get informations.
+ Forum without thousand of subforums (still baffle me no one is copying Neogaf forum layout, it's a staple of clarity imo)
+ Useful informations.
- Shill everywhere.
- Insecure individuals aroudn every fucking corner, broken people that tends to get weirdly attached to the game, the brand they love preventing any level-headed critisim.
- Mods who ban people that are too critical toward games, especially games they love or games they're paid to defend.
- Gaming side being infested by threads about "female or trans victims working in the industry" where you had to bend the knee or get permabanned.
- Impossible to be critical around a popular game release, because the fanboys would ask for you to be ban in mass through mod PM.
- Passive agressivness when you don't like the same game as everyone, like "You don't like Gran Turismo, maybe you should play something like Sega Rally, it's more arcade (true thing I read last week)", while the lad was just saying that Forza was more his thing in Gran Turismo OT.
To make a long story short, it has nothing to do to racism, sexism, trans people, black people or Hillary Clinton.
I'm sure nobody - expect Gaf members themselves - gived a single shit about OT or political discussion on Neogaf. I wasn't a gaf member and I couldn't be happier to see the OT side of Neogaf die once and for all, it was a real pain to read most of the time. For one usefull information you had to swim hard against the current (suicide threads, emotional people telling the story of their pool life, depressing shit, dogpilling on people they thought were alt-right etc).