The attempt to pretend the banner wasn't intentionally set up to be as unalparming and nondescript as possible is pretty laughable--No user-created thread would have been called "Resetera Ownership Update"; it'd have been more specific about MOBA buying out Era. It'd have a name that jumped out to grab attention, if getting attention was the goal. It wasn't. It was doing the bare minimum to say you informed everyone--use a generic banner people are going to default ignore; use inoffensive wording that won't grab the attention of people who are generally uninterested in the minutia of moderating, etc. They're not obligated to do more than they have, but it's hilariously disingenuous to pretend that keeping it low-key isn't part and parcel of the whole design.
What
is interesting to me is that this seems to be their method of announcing a ToS update:
We've updated the Privacy Policy and ToS to change the company names and the legal jurisdictions (making them M.O.B.A. Network and Sweden respectively). Nothing else has been changed.
Which is phrased to sound minor, but people in the thread note includes:
By submitting user content to ResetEra, you represent that your submitted user content does not violate the laws of Sweden or the jurisdiction in which you reside.
So now 50k bonus people are agreeing to abide by Swedish law, and that doesn't appear to have made a banner or anything. You'd have to click back into the thread now and check for new threadmarks to even know that happened. I'm not entirely clear on if they can just do that--unilaterally change the ToS and bury the announcement--and I don't think it matters in terms of anything likely to happen to anyone, but is just another weird self-own given the ongoing discussions about a lack of transparency. It is fascinating to watch the thread bitch about how transparent and open the mods have been, how cruelly the community constantly is to doubt their purity of heart, and then watch them also just kind of slide in ToS updates in post seven thousand and eight of a thread mods and pals had heavily derailed and driven users out of already.
While checking on the thread mark I also noticed they went back and thread banned this guy:
User threadbanned: trolling
Not freaking out. Just trying to support a poster that's getting comments about new etiquette I've never heard of.
so gonna guess that instead of locking the thread they'll just threadban the inconvenient elements until it dies of natural causes.
