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Kotaku: Thousands Of NeoGAF Users Flock To New Website
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It's a new forum. Your chance to be a star!
Are they handing out tags to users like on that old forum? Or have we done way with that?
ResetEra is easily the most user-friendly, QoL-optimized forum I have ever posted on. This would have been a worthwhile endeavor whether the old site imploded or not.
Glad to see all the familiar faces after a couple years away - I'll follow you as I find you.
Glad to see all the familiar faces after a couple years away - I'll follow you as I find you.
A lot of people leftover saw some of the account suicides as negative, childish, and/or aggressive in nature. These same people also assumed (myself included) that those people were coming over here. You can't judge a whole community by what some people did on their suicides...but that is happening and is a factor as to why some are staying away. Personally, I have been sticking to my community thread here for League of Legends, and hardly ever roaming out because I feel the same way. Heck...I still post on GAF too. More than here at this time.
No idea if those types are here or not but moderators ain't tolerating that noise. So pop on out n say hi, we don't bite :)
I appreciate the friendliness. I'm shy here. Working on it.
Same here - was a lurker on GAF but the worry of getting permabanned and the feeling that I was joining a group with all its own in jokes and memes meant I never really posted.
The community at neogaf is almost gone, look at the first page or active threads ... barely posts...threads that usually would have gotten over 50 pages are now only 8 pages long
Wonder how many people felt like that on GAF? I would have to think quite a lot.
A fair few from what I've seen on these type of threads. Have to try and keep this place open and friendly - it also didn't help that it took ages for your account to be opened on GAF so by the time you'd heard about the place, got an account and become a full member, for me around six months had passed!
I know exactly what you mean.
This forum is a real nice upgrade over the old place. And it was up and running in no time. Thanks to all who helped.
It's quite amazing to see 90% of the people I recognize on GAF all here. Haven't seen an exodus like that since the IGN boards back in 2010.
Definitely a lot of people have left. Both gaming and off-topic are much less active than they used to be. OTs for the newest games are quite slow, especially compared to here. Hell, I can't even find the GT: Sport OT on GAF.
And the communities? Ghost towns. Even the most popular community threads only get like 10 posts a day when they used to get dozens.
Definitely a lot of people have left. Both gaming and off-topic are much less active than they used to be. OTs for the newest games are quite slow, especially compared to here. Hell, I can't even find the GT: Sport OT on GAF.
And the communities? Ghost towns. Even the most popular community threads only get like 10 posts a day when they used to get dozens.
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Unless your opinions were on the level of "all gays should be shot" levels of horrible & stupid and assuming you didn't go totally overboard with insulting people (I got a few temporary bans for some "fuck off"s and "fuck you, too"s...), GAF really wasn't all that triggerhappy with permabans. If you just behaved long enough to get out of junior status, permabans weren't all all that easy to get.
I think it was more the worry about it whilst being a Junior and, with it being 300 posts (I think) to get member status I really didn't want to lose the privilege. It's much more likely to be me and my insecurities than the actual banning, but with comments about the ban hammer being sometimes fairly prevalent it was a worry.
One disappointing thing from Evilore's cleaning of his dirty laundry in OT was I was listening to a album over the weekend and was wondering if there was a GAF thread about it so I google and there was but the thread was unviewable now.
GAF, at the very least has a decade + of people reacting to shit I kind of liked looking back at sometimes whenever I discovered a old album / TV show / movie.
I hope the old threads reappear sometime.
GAF, at the very least has a decade + of people reacting to shit I kind of liked looking back at sometimes whenever I discovered a old album / TV show / movie.
I hope the old threads reappear sometime.
Na Bish had a habit of culling dozens of Xbox fans when he so much as had a rough day. Really stifled that side of the community
There's "requests" to reclaim or revive threads. Really weird system. I think what the scouring represents is disgusting, and personally my OT posts were pretty embarrassing so I'm glad.
Would be glad for it to come back though, to stop EL whitewashing his personal history.
There is actually a member here who stated they use our forum for their PHD dissertation or something.
It was all subjective and bias driven with that. I was permed for this comment (in the initial picture reveal of the silhouettes of Red Dead 2), and I will quote essentially what I said...
"I think we should hold off on accusing the developers of being sexist and the like and assuming there are no females based on a silhouette with zero information. This all wreaks of headhunting without the facts."
I received a perm with the response, "toodles" *rolleyes*
Was a long time poster and member. But I was not in the 'group think' side of that truly silly thread.
The transparency with the banning or warnings here are much improved/favored (more community building/honoring), versus the moderation tactics there. Feels more welcoming, versus the feeling of 'walking on egg shells' if you had a descending opinion to the topic, with the rogue styled tactics if one just did not like you.
Exactly. There would not have been mockery accounts on twitter about the moderation style, if this was not a common case, in which it surely was.
A lot. I was a fairly active poster but I often held back posting things because I didn't feel apart of the "in" crowd. That's a big reason why I only ever started 1 thread.
The lack of transparency with bans lead to this mindset. A, there was no way to tell if someone was permabanned, and B, unless you dug through post histories there was no way to tell why someone got banned. Even if you did go through post history, it was often hard to tell why someone was banned. I remember going through the post history of a few banned users and being perplexed why they got banned. It also wasn't uncommon to see someone posting a thoughtful dissenting opinions get dog piled and banned.
TBH this is a functionally superior forum to the other site regardless of what happened. The modern features and transparent moderation here are a breath of fresh air compared to the old sluggish system.
Heh, that thread is actually the only ban I've gotten in my 6 year GAF career, I didn't think it was fair but I'm over it. Still wonder what mod was in that thread though.
It's kind of sad that it took a mass exodus for them to start consider updating that forum. But I'm used to ERA's way of things and I doubt I'm going anywhere.
Probably quite a few. I was never banned on GAF, but even I could tell that you could get the axe depending on which way the wind blew on a certain day. Sometimes things were acceptable, others they were not.
Like anyone remember that thread about the 3 women at a restaurant who accidentally got the merchant's copy of the receipt that described them as being fat (so the waiters would know who to bring food to). And the first two pages basically all said "well, they are..." and ALL of those posters got banned only to have Evilore came in a few minutes later and completely reverse all of those bans. That's just one example of how inconsistent it could be.
(Testing massive quote posting, seems to work!)
For what its worth though, the invite-only approach really has worked wonders for ERA in the larval stages.
I mean, i have seen that even Shinobi is called ''scum'' and ''overly positive'' and ''not independent'' because of his ME: Andromeda thing. Regardless of that, if even such a small thing is already enough for you to question someone as not only a user, but as a person as a whole, then you cannot trust anyone really.
The only few things GAF still has over ERA is:
- Old DF discussions. I love reading about what people thought about those games.
- Style. ResetERA looks fantastic, but Other Side has more info and a wider thread width than ERA. I loved that of Other Side as its very minimalistic but also very relaxing to my eyes. ERA is in this regard a bit less ''natural''. atleast to me.
But the biggest plus is that anyone now has a choice. In some things that other place still beats out ERA as highlighted above. But for anything else, i prefer ERA.
And really, i get that this thread has turned into a talk about ''The Other Side'' but i agree with Cerium - We should leave that kind of talk out of ERA. As has been clear by the drought of posts over there, its slowly becoming a wasteland. Whatever happens to it should be left there, i feel.
Dont lie to me. Nintendo made the Switch. Even Google says so: https://www.google.com/search?q=who+made+the+switch
Probably because only one guy approved them, or just a few. All in the name of ''weeding the people out''.
For what its worth though, the invite-only approach really has worked wonders for ERA in the larval stages.
I recall this has atleast been a thing for the past year or so. I dont know, i just find it fascinating that ERA not only announces forthcoming changes, but actually implements them in lighting quick succession. Where you have this other side where every change takes atleast months.
Ayup. Conversations so far has been great (Although i havent done much conversing so far, sad me :() If you would want to converse, hit me up. Im always open for a chat on anything.
People just like to be unaware, i guess. What is also noticeable is that these things are either said by new accounts or by users that i have never seen in all my years of lurking.
I mean, i have seen that even Shinobi is called ''scum'' and ''overly positive'' and ''not independent'' because of his ME: Andromeda thing. Regardless of that, if even such a small thing is already enough for you to question someone as not only a user, but as a person as a whole, then you cannot trust anyone really.
I agree. It really is a testament to this site that ERA has found its home so quickly.
The only few things GAF still has over ERA is:
- Old DF discussions. I love reading about what people thought about those games.
- Style. ResetERA looks fantastic, but Other Side has more info and a wider thread width than ERA. I loved that of Other Side as its very minimalistic but also very relaxing to my eyes. ERA is in this regard a bit less ''natural''. atleast to me.
I just wanted to say thank you.. until i realized i used this feature already although it does not open two at once. Still, thank you :)
All talk but no walk. Yesterday i even saw a page where the bottom was from 2 days ago. I feel the people there are on some placebo effect, thinking that its rather ERA that feels like a wasteland instead of the other way around.
But the biggest plus is that anyone now has a choice. In some things that other place still beats out ERA as highlighted above. But for anything else, i prefer ERA.
That's also because one of the lead mods (Cerium) has gently requested us all not to do so :)
And really, i get that this thread has turned into a talk about ''The Other Side'' but i agree with Cerium - We should leave that kind of talk out of ERA. As has been clear by the drought of posts over there, its slowly becoming a wasteland. Whatever happens to it should be left there, i feel.
Welcome to you too, Sami-san! :)
+1! I used a few times already and its such a natural flow so far. Only thing annoying is that the post button is hidden because of the message screen and i have to tap on anywhere on the page to reveal it. Other than that: LAF IT! :)
To be fair, in some topics in history, it has been quite remarkable to have a civil discourse at all..
Oh yes, seen a lot of bans in that thread, over posts that were not even trolling or negative, they just disagreed that a silhouette with zero information should not cause a "they are sexist for not including females" postings.
I would also love to know which one it was, lol.
I was also 30 day banned prior because I was told "I was too invested in a game, take a long break to play it then", because my post count was highest in an |OT| thread, but a person bashing the game only had a handful of posts less than I, but he received no such ban. Woefully silly.
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This 100%. I truly hope ResetEra rises above the dogpiling mentality that plagued a lot of discussions over there. Unless someone is posting racist/sexist/homophobic/etc, there is no reason to dogpile. Even political threads where someone disagrees about something (stritly on a political level, not the other stuff noted above), shouldnt give folks a free pass to bully someone as a group, which happened all too frequently there.
Redneckerz
It does open both tabs. If you have them both on the same folder, you right click on them and it'll open. It's open both in new tabs. I use Firefox. I pretty much have all my fave sites in a folder and I click on the folder and it opens them all at once, all on their own page/tab
It does open both tabs. If you have them both on the same folder, you right click on them and it'll open. It's open both in new tabs. I use Firefox. I pretty much have all my fave sites in a folder and I click on the folder and it opens them all at once, all on their own page/tab
My first post here after the admins of Resetera payed my £250 million release clause to Neogaf.
I do keep popping my head through the door over there. It's a morbid curiosity akin to slowing down to rubberneck at a car crash.
It's just so.. intriguing. Across both Gaming and Off Topic, the only threads to push above 10 pages on the first pages are the Mario OT and threads that pre-date The Event. Even at the height of shit going down I think it's legit a surprise to see a community shift of this scale.
It's also amazing. This forum continues to thrive.
It's just so.. intriguing. Across both Gaming and Off Topic, the only threads to push above 10 pages on the first pages are the Mario OT and threads that pre-date The Event. Even at the height of shit going down I think it's legit a surprise to see a community shift of this scale.
It's also amazing. This forum continues to thrive.
Thanks, I appreciate that. :) Welcome as well, Redneckerz!
Ah dag nab it, i dont use folders, but singular links (Also Firefox user here). Thank you regardless, ill keep this in mind!
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No problem. If you ever want a chat, just hit me up :) Welcome welcome welcome!
I believe I saw they're bringing back everything from old OT, just locked. Which would be nice, since there was a lot I wanted archived. Just a shame my years of bookmarks and subscriptions got auto-deleted when he hid OT, so I'd need to re-find everything. :|
Also, they're rolling out new "transparent" moderation policies (with mods that won't be well-known community figures... huh), and they're supposedly rolling out a massive software upgrade this month. Definitely all reactionary decisions with ResetEra eating up everything and GAF dead in the water. Gonna be interesting to see what he does going forward, and if he'll ever realize it's never going to be the site it was by any metric.
Me too, I was a member for over a year after lurking for much longer, but never got out of junior status I posted so infrequently. Very large forums with active communities can be a bit intimidating for a latecomer, so I was content to read most of the time. Hoping to be a bit braver here and jump in. :)
I used the old forum as a part of my MA Thesis, "Concepts of authorship in video game culture: Consumer and producer discourses of creativity and commercialization."
I just got an email from NeoGAF saying my account was approved. I signed up like a year ago. Yeah, no thanks...
I never had an account at GAF, but I could see myself being super intimidated. I'm really shy around here, but it seems a lot friendlier than GAF was, so that's something!
I never had an account at GAF, but I could see myself being super intimidated. I'm really shy around here, but it seems a lot friendlier than GAF was, so that's something!
I only go back to answer PMs from old members trying to get out of there.
It's weird. I was an avid advocate for Dark Theme back on NeoGAF. Light Theme was unusable to me. When we migrated here, I thought I couldn't wait for the dark option. But as I got acclimated, the brighter and lighter environment of ResetEra really helped sell that feeling of a totally fresh start with a new outlook. When I go back to the old forum and my whole screen goes dark, it feels so heavy and oppressive and miserable. It's amazing how different it feels with new context.
Even when dark theme launches on Reset, I think I will stay with the default. It's grown on me an awful lot. I think I already posted about this before, but there were only a few thousand of us back then. I still feel the same as time goes on.
It's weird. I was an avid advocate for Dark Theme back on NeoGAF. Light Theme was unusable to me. When we migrated here, I thought I couldn't wait for the dark option. But as I got acclimated, the brighter and lighter environment of ResetEra really helped sell that feeling of a totally fresh start with a new outlook. When I go back to the old forum and my whole screen goes dark, it feels so heavy and oppressive and miserable. It's amazing how different it feels with new context.
Even when dark theme launches on Reset, I think I will stay with the default. It's grown on me an awful lot. I think I already posted about this before, but there were only a few thousand of us back then. I still feel the same as time goes on.
Only thing I wish this place had like GAF is a home button on the bottom of the page on the Mobile Website. Still a force of habit for me to scroll all the way down and hit the home button I keep hitting the 'Help' button instead. Gonna take some getting used to.
I think it would help your argument if you wouldn't refer to women as females.
Same here, I generally find it quite hard to take part anyway (rarely even PuG in multiplayer games). So remained a lurker on the other side for a very long time. Though I did start to come out of myself in recent times, especially in No Mans Sky 1.3 OT, and the ME:A relationship threads. The notifications and fresh start has helped "force" me to try and be less introverted here :)
Glad to see you made it over. I noticed you had been banned for whatever reason. You and quite a few others helped me out tons in Dark Souls+Dark Souls 3.
It's nice seeing a lot of users that were permed for whatever reason make their way here. The community was getting decimated on the other site because of perma bannings.
I browse mostly on mobile at night so the dark theme can't come soon enough. On pc I installed the unofficial dark theme a fellow reseter made a few days ago.
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