Just say whatever the fuck you want, dumbass.
EDIT: The only two people we ever banned for off-site behavior were:
1) HIVE, who is coicindentally probably the only person to have ever had his posts nuked by Demi on this site and
2) Gigan, who you'll all remember was the one who got Phoenix Dark permabanned from NeoGAF.
Ok then.
Gotta say the site is kinda bad but I thought gaf was bad too. I would suggest only posting in communities, no different than gaf. The good news is that unlike gaf which was anti-community (NegroGaf never forget) Era is at least pro-community. I really like some of their ideas, like the community showcase. And unlike gaf they don’t seem to be about killing entire communities or strong arming them with a pervasive animosity for daring to not post on the main forum and having our own communities within an community. EviLore hated community threads because a lot of us would just stick to that one thread. Sticking to one thread meant less clicks overall, which meant less money feeding his sexual harassment habit. Gaf was trash for that. Killing my NegroGaf thread because “we try to be inclusive here rather than exclusive” told me all I needed to know about that site and how it viewed its users. Era so far has avoided this and embraced communities. So for that alone I still put it above gaf because of the community focus. It tells you that - for better or worse - the site cares about its users.
Unfortunately, as far as positive comments, that is about as best as I can say. I have so far accrued two bans because of misunderstandings with my posts naturally assumed to be as nasty as possible. It feels like the staff is on a purge to keep a baseline status quo on certain issues. I feel an inability to express myself even without the actual act of calling people names. Its users have taken posts I have said off site to steer discussions in ways they see fit. The actual discussions are kind of boring and, my Chrono Cross thread aside, I haven’t really
enjoyed the discussion of any thread I’ve had there. I consider it a lost cause and have no further interest besides the occasional post about fighting games and One Piece - again, community.
I kind of think it’s a massive circlejerk with staff that aren’t nearly as open as they think. The forum has a lot of good intentions though, and that’s felt in certain areas I discussed above. But as someone who doesn’t really follow much less play video games anymore (besides arcade and fighting games of course) combined with the fact there’s elements of my politics that don’t gel with the majority (Christian, pro-life, being trans is a medical condition, pro-gun, women’s march is trash, blm is trash, anti-sjw;etc) the site is kind of wasted on someone like me and Discord serves me better. Reset staff doesn’t have to clean up after me and I don’t have to self censor while being accused of abusing people. Win-win.
I just don’t know where to talk about games. Like I said in the past, I like writing about games sometimes.
