By rjinaz10 Go To PostAs many posts as I had, I only caught one ban. And it was for being sarcastic about a poster that was being misogynistic. My problem was I didn't quote the person directly, so it came across like I was being that way too. I thought I had solid post history and the mods would know I was being sarcastic but clearly whichever mod banned me did not.
Anyway, I found it easy to avoid a ban for the most part. Think before posting, if you think it might offend somebody don't do it. If certain mods are popping into the conversation, just stay out of it. I always felt like the mods shut down the conversations because nobody was going to disagree with their viewpoint in fear of facing a ban.
Oh definitely, as soon as I saw red names start to pop up I knew it was usually time to GFTO.
GAF moderation was very heavy handed, and I have no doubt there are many who were unfairly banned, but it was nice watching trolls crash and burn regularly.
I'm digging this place so far.
By John Rabbit Go To PostJust posted in the Discord:Don't think I understand what that means lol
By John Rabbit Go To PostJust posted in the Discord:
Wonder which wave the invite sent to my ancient work email will happen lol
By Xpike Go To Postno account suicide will be as great as evillore retire bitch or nintendo direct about respecting women
I swear to God that "retire bitch" is going in my account suicide. Still laugh at that one.
I still don’t know why I got banned that one time on GAF. There was no reasoning or anything. I think it was because I jokingly referred to Hillary as “The Butcher of Benghazi” because of how absurd that entire investigation was and suddenly, I was out for a month with no explaination lol. Which is strange because I was one of the bigger Hillary supporters on there but oh well. It still puzzles me to this day.
By n8 dogg Go To PostTomato fam
check & m8
You can't argue with science.
By Knuckle Sandwich Go To PostMore like fart.What's the context of this Evilore gif
By n8 dogg Go To PostTomato famlmao
check & m8
By n8 dogg Go To PostTomato famNo jodas..
check & m8
By Kabro Go To Postyou want to fight me too?over pineapples? not rly
By Laboured Go To PostIt's never too late for us rvy, meu amor.
By XxLightxX Go To PostI never caught a ban either. WIth OT being gone that means Poligaf too. Plinko, Aaron Strife, Kirblar, ballladofwinfishes, Diablos etc if your reading this do you have a discord link for Poligaf set up? :(I'm here, don't have a link to discord, though
By n8 dogg Go To PostTomato fam
check & m8
By PingPongvonLaserstein Go To PostI'll tell tomatoes the bad news.
Tomato sauce goes on pizza
Raw tomato is trash.
I don't think ResetERA is going to succeed. The most likely scenario I see is that everyone just naturally splinters between a bunch of different sites over the course of a few years, probably along community lines. I've just never seen a dead forum come back in one piece.
PCGAF seems to be making its home on OpenCritic, SportsGAF seems pretty content with Slaent, and I wouldn't be surprised if some seperate PoliGAF site pops up eventually. There might be some place that gets the bulk of critics, industry people, and focuses more on AAA games and business, but I think that'll happen organically like it did with GAF, and probably won't come out of a desperate need to recreate it.
Hell, I could see the Giant Bomb forums becoming the "next NeoGAF," at least in the "de facto mainstream game industry-focused forum" sense.
PCGAF seems to be making its home on OpenCritic, SportsGAF seems pretty content with Slaent, and I wouldn't be surprised if some seperate PoliGAF site pops up eventually. There might be some place that gets the bulk of critics, industry people, and focuses more on AAA games and business, but I think that'll happen organically like it did with GAF, and probably won't come out of a desperate need to recreate it.
Hell, I could see the Giant Bomb forums becoming the "next NeoGAF," at least in the "de facto mainstream game industry-focused forum" sense.
By uncelestial Go To PostFine, I'LL DO ITNo idea what the original pic is from, but considering the accusation, it's sort of perfect that he looks like some douche motioning into an empty shower.
By Exploratory Go To PostWhy can't I get my profile pic to work despite uploading it….yeah I'm a refugee help me out here.no pngs allowed if that's the problem
By Epsilon-delta Go To PostSomeone snitched on you or yea, PMs were not secure.Someone snitched
By PeskyToaster Go To PostShit I just opened a new tab and went to GAF purely on instinct.I've been doing the same thing all weekend. It hasn't been as bad today, but it will be a hard habit to break.
By Random Ass Username Go To PostFor fuckery's sake I'd love to know what lore tried to sell to the mods about what happened.Called it.By NinjaFridge Go To Post'Bitches be crazy, amirite"
By PeskyToaster Go To PostI’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe. I’ve watched brothers jerkin it with their sisters in the room. Meals of lunchroom quality Italian food costing $30, space moors, and a rimjob for good measure. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.Don’t forget about the countless romantic relationships we had the joy of watching as they blossom like the tale of a man and a foreign stripper, or the 19 year old grocery store employee and the 27 year old man who “just wanted some casual sex.”
OT will be missed.
By ClownsAreATen Go To Postok but for real people the legit worst part of hawaiian pizza is the goddamn ham that shit is so nasty ugh
That's why you go with pepperoni and jalapeños.
By Not Go To PostWhat's the context of this Evilore gif
lmao. It does look like him. Jesus.
By 2002whitegt Go To PostThat's why you go with pepperoni and jalapeños.You and me. We're the same.
By Epsilon-delta Go To PostSomeone snitched on you or yea, PMs were not secure.
Pretty sure PM's can be read through the database on vBulletin, no? At least that used to be the case. But most likely people just snitched.
By 2002whitegt Go To PostThat's why you go with pepperoni and jalapeños.
Take off the pineapple and you've got yourself a decent pizza.
By Ruga Go To PostTomato sauce goes on pizzaTell these fucking heathens..
idk, good luck with recetera but be wary because this type of situation is real easy to take advantage of. Setting up a fully functional forum to support several communities in 3 days is like......wat
By Pennywise Go To PostEL just nuked the OT section or hid it. All according to Keikkaku.He hid it. You can still see it by changing the URL
http://assets.neogafllc.netdna-cdn.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?&f=3
By Meus Renaissance Go To PostHonestly, the fact that he wants to delete the Off-Topic is extraordinary to me.The guys strongest play IMO would honestly just be to swing the doors wide open and ride the destructive wave that would follow to one last advertising cash-in from whatever fuckery would ride in with it(influx of alt-right trolls with pepe memes, Gaf drones walking around the apocalypse in shock, half-invested gamer only people that barely kept up with the craziness slowly seeing the light go out, car wreck observers wanting to experience it all up close).
This attempt at scrubbing and starting fresh seems doomed to fail. The talent you want is going to feel stigmatized and disgusted coming back, and the casuals you want are going to lack interest without the same dynamism and content they were there for to begin with. It's a walking toxic asset and his only realistic play is to embrace it until it burns out.
Then old creepy elf ears can ride off to Valinor with his last bag of money and see if their Gamestop needs a manager.
I used to run a vBulletin forum for my WoW guild and while no one could access other users' PMs through the forum software, if you had database/SQL access you could get a dump of the PM table and they were stored in plain text. Just needed to correlate/parse userIDs with the messages.
By Razdek Go To PostAlright who's going straight back to GAF when the servers come back online?I will because I need to retrieve my subscribed threads, I was away this past weekend so I was unaware of the whole shitstorm till it was too late :(
After that I'll be gone, for good.
I'll be giving a chance to ResetERA if I manage to register, but if I'll find the same kind of dramas, unjustified bans, shitty mods, etc. I'll just stick to other boards.
edit: this wasn't my gaf username
By uncelestial Go To PostFine, I'LL DO IT
You gotta stay on topic, man.
Pineapples: Harmonious and Consensual
By JigglesBunny Go To PostDon’t forget about the countless romantic relationships we had the joy of watching as they blossom like the tale of a man and a foreign stripper, or the 19 year old grocery store employee and the 27 year old man who “just wanted some casual sex.”I'll miss the "fancy seeing more pictures of people's dicks?" ipad shenanigans
OT will be missed.
By Fenderputty Go To PostWonder which wave the invite sent to my ancient work email will happen lolOh yeah, fuck. None of our old college emails work.
By ElBoxyBrown Go To PostSo, they're doing registrations in waves. Basically you'll need to be invited for now.
Boxy, help me get an invite. ;_;
By Exploratory Go To PostWhy can't I get my profile pic to work despite uploading it….yeah I'm a refugee help me out here.It looks like you figured it out?
By ClownsAreATen Go To Postok but for real people the legit worst part of hawaiian pizza is the goddamn ham that shit is so nasty ughNah dude there's hawaiian pizza with bacon instead of ham, it's the shit
By Dozer1003 Go To Posthttps://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/qv384d/inside-the-sexual-misconduct-allegations-rocking-neogafs-last-48-hoursd?utm_source=wptwitterusRead the article. EL's ego is too massive. Doubling down on his defense too.
Klepek's article. reading now
fucking LOL no wonder they all quit
Both of them having sex after the incident wasn't the smartest move either especially when she's already in a relationship, unless it happened after they broke up.
Neogaf with no OT and he's still at the helm? Yeah, no reason to come back now. How he handled Amirox and this. I can understand why the mods wanted to distanced themselves from this train wreck.
By W Go To PostPretty sure PM's can be read through the database on vBulletin, no? At least that used to be the case. But most likely people just snitched.Yup.
You can see stuff via the Admin Control Panel.
By NinjaFridge Go To PostHe hid it. You can still see it by changing the URLI know, but take a look at the top. Only "Gaming" and "Community" are left. Even if you go into the OT section, you'll only see those two on top.
http://assets.neogafllc.netdna-cdn.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?&f=3
This wasn't the case this afternoon.
By ElBoxyBrown Go To PostSo, they're doing registrations in waves. Basically you'll need to be invited for now.the gmail approach I see
By Not Go To PostOh yeah, fuck. None of our old college emails work.Not only that, if they're doing in waves I expect an invite a year from now lol.
By ElBoxyBrown Go To PostSo, they're doing registrations in waves. Basically you'll need to be invited for now.Wait... it's starting?
Hey everyone never was a gaffer (no paid email :( ) but the site basically became my main internet page due to the insider stuff aswell as the constant stream of new news for all kinds of games, obviously thanks to all the different communities interested in all kinds of games. I loved reading all the OTs and community threads. It really was the only site that manged to have so many different smaller communities. Fighting game threads as active as full fledged fgc sites, a big Dragonball OT with people constantly talking, despite something like Kizenshuu existing, etc. really made the forum a joy to read.
No gaf has really left a void in my internet reading and right now it feels like i am missing half of the new news....
The site definitely had users that would made me roll my eyes but as a whole i liked reading on it. Can’t really talk much about mods obviously aside from the obvious stuff like how the amirox aftermath was handled.
I think ResetEra has a pretty good chance to quickly look like a normal day on gaf on a smaller scale at first of course. While the forum obviously had a lot of members, from an outsider perspective it definitely looks like a smaller core userbase really made it as active as it was with OTs having recurring names in the wall of shames and the different parts of gaf organized in their discords already to start up things again
Always wanted to join gaf because there really was no other place where you would be able to talk about so much different stuff with active big communities. Talk about fighting games and comment on the big match roundups shaowebb posted, then check out what people think of the new fire emblem, share thoughts on the newest DB episode, visit the seasonal anime thread for all the other anime stuff, laugh at some random shit, lament about the lack of a new dino crisis with Jawmuncher, join ShinMaruku to protect anime tiddies, etc.
Could have been great.
Would love to join you guys on ResetEra as a new part of this like the dude who shows up in season 3 to become a staple cast member but with the talk about reset also having the paid email stuff i guess that won't be happening..
Maybe i will post here more if that happens but it was really the wide range of bigger active communites that made gaf interesting, time will tell i guess
With all the twitter shitstorm and hate going on i thought some would be interested in reading something else from a non gaffer
No gaf has really left a void in my internet reading and right now it feels like i am missing half of the new news....
The site definitely had users that would made me roll my eyes but as a whole i liked reading on it. Can’t really talk much about mods obviously aside from the obvious stuff like how the amirox aftermath was handled.
I think ResetEra has a pretty good chance to quickly look like a normal day on gaf on a smaller scale at first of course. While the forum obviously had a lot of members, from an outsider perspective it definitely looks like a smaller core userbase really made it as active as it was with OTs having recurring names in the wall of shames and the different parts of gaf organized in their discords already to start up things again
Always wanted to join gaf because there really was no other place where you would be able to talk about so much different stuff with active big communities. Talk about fighting games and comment on the big match roundups shaowebb posted, then check out what people think of the new fire emblem, share thoughts on the newest DB episode, visit the seasonal anime thread for all the other anime stuff, laugh at some random shit, lament about the lack of a new dino crisis with Jawmuncher, join ShinMaruku to protect anime tiddies, etc.
Could have been great.
Would love to join you guys on ResetEra as a new part of this like the dude who shows up in season 3 to become a staple cast member but with the talk about reset also having the paid email stuff i guess that won't be happening..
Maybe i will post here more if that happens but it was really the wide range of bigger active communites that made gaf interesting, time will tell i guess
With all the twitter shitstorm and hate going on i thought some would be interested in reading something else from a non gaffer
The more I think about it the more pissed I am that I might not be able to get a hold of my subbed threads.
By Dozer1003 Go To PostI used to run a vBulletin forum for my WoW guild and while no one could access other users' PMs through the forum software, if you had database/SQL access you could get a dump of the PM table and they were stored in plain text. Just needed to correlate/parse userIDs with the messages.
There was also a plugin that allowed admins to read them in admincp iirc.
By Randolph Freelander Go To PostTake off the pineapple and you've got yourself a decent pizza.My man.