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ResetEra Ownership Update
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Buyouts discussions are always confidential.
I know users didn't come here because it was lucrative, but that is why the site was created. Its easy money. It took mere days to get a site up and running with a large number of users, and that user base has value. It would be virtually impossible to build up a forum of this size from scratch.
I almost forgot to say that I disagree, and I always appreciated your thoughts and moderation.
Was Cerium the big firm data analyst that had people concerned about ulterior motives in those earliest days/weeks?
This is very well said, and I completely agree, especially the last sentence.
Please stop speaking for transera like this. We have a very lovely community here, even if some had to leave for their own reasons.I do think is extremely hilarious that they managed to sell a graveyard at such a premium price
I'm sure some of the other members of the other communities up there feel the same.
I don't really disagree with the idea that it's classist. I hope that they use these other methods then, whatever they are.
Very much so
The 'communities are commodities' thing isnt what stings here, as that is the unfortunate nature of our age - it's a bitter taste because so many came here with good intentions to create a nice community, and the owner has now just said 'Yeah that's cool, but I'll be taking my $4.5million now off the back of that labour and pre-made albeit splintered user base from GAF'
That and the holier than thou tone of Cerium's post in terms of wanting to do what's best by us yadda yadda
I'd have a lot more respect I think if they were a hell of a lot more blunt - 'it was a hustle, a business hustle, I saw an opportunity and I wanted to make bank and I'm cashing out, cha-ching'
Old PoliEra migrated to a discord after some serious issues with other communities and moderation, alot of the old keystones are there still.
Never, and mods have come in here to say that they've actually all stood on the side of keeping it as volunteer work.
I want to make a metaphor on how people will go against their own interests for things they love and that's no excuse to take advantage of them, but all the examples I could think of were so heavy handed... until I got back to the gaming industry and people working in QA. Because after all it's said and done and your passion has been drained, what do mods feel they got out of all of this?
The last time he was "seen" was when he edited the OP. Haven't heard or seen from him since then… which isn't exactly abnormal of him because he's barely here to begin with!
If I were on staff I would leave over this. The owners of the site made huge amounts of money selling off our personal information which will be used for advertising somewhere down the line, and the volunteer staff who worked so hard to make it all possible are seeing absolutely none of it. I don't care if an admin bans me over this; I have had my disagreements with the mod team, but you guys deserve better than this.
The man just got $4.5 million in his pocket. Why would he continue to waste time with us?
He just secured a 4.5 million dollar bag, that man will never post here again lol
Because that's not how business deals are made lmao
How are you so comically ignorant about how the real world works?
Yeah, honestly had no idea but guess you have to be more than a casual browser checking out an OT from time to time.
I'm guessing they are all on Discord?
Think I might have to check a few out and see how the format and chat works.
Back then people were just happy that there was going to be a replacement forum. Cerium bank rolled the whole thing for like 3-4 months until monetisation came in. The forum was then going to be registered as a company with several partners so as to avoid it becoming a one person show, which they early on. But eventually in 2019 the ownership ended up being consolidated to one person once again.
Need to find out if we can do anything about if our posts which were sold can be protected from being sold time and time again by the company that bought era
I didn't opt in. Do we have any course of action?
the sale of this site is a bad thing full stop
I didn't opt in. Do we have any course of action?
the sale of this site is a bad thing full stop
I'd argue Era is a different kind of social media platform where people expect a different experience than reddit. If that does end up happening many users and mods will just leave and the place will become just another irrelevant gaming forum full of spam and shit. It'll suck if that happens but I guess I'll worry about it when I see a shift or something.
He never posts and has no reason to now. The deal is done. Nothing he says or does will change anything
Would you? If it were me I'd have left a stickied thread titled "Sayonara suckers", lol. At least he showed some restraint before laughing all the way to the bank.
User Warned: Antagonizing a fellow member
I wonder if the new owners will continue to pronounce ResetEra the way Cerium taught us.
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yeah these feel odd. There´s even a PC era OT on the first page and what i could say as hundreds of Metroid threads? :D
How can you remotely ensure that? They didn't buy the site for nearly $5 million dollars for the ad revenue.
It's almost as if those regulations for no-profit open organization were put to protect the work of volunteers from hustlers and exploiters.
I hope this community will move to a true, open, no-profit entity that actually publishes public balances.
I hope this community will move to a true, open, no-profit entity that actually publishes public balances.
About 95% of the theories I see posted about our "shadow cabal" and how we operate are things that I can't even foresee how someone came to the conclusion, on top of being wrong. People take this more seriously than we do, ironically.
Ah, yes. The supposed once proud owner of Era barely posts and has roughly the same post count as someone who lurks. NEVER saw him during any drama situation on the site when a leader was needed.
what amazes me is that people never saw the hypocrisy, lol. Good users were banned for talking about this, and other shit that happened over the years it's only when they're killing the site that the blindfolds are falling.
At this point the vitriol for the community has for each other is just self perpetuating. There is so much disdain being thrown at each other from members, ex mods and mods alike that I'm surprised how anyone can continue to post or mod here given the way people are talking to each other whenever a community issue pops up. It certainly hasn't gotten better in all of the threads I've read when there is a community issue that crops up.
we can request account deletion but it does not delete your messages, since the forum was sold to an EU company the forum will have to abide to GDPR and should have to delete your messages if you request it, tried to ask about that but i didnt got an answer
You are very angry and it's hard to talk to someone like that. I am not your enemy here.
I have mentioned that ERA is a business, and there's really no way around NDAs. Im not expecting (nor feel slightened) because the owner didn't mention he was closing a deal to sell the site. I am saying that this community, at the very least, expected the owner to say "I'm willing and actively looking to sell the forum".
That of course was never going to happen, not with the optics we know have and what we know of the ownership of ERA. And a lot of people are just waking up to that reality, and realizing that all the work they put on this site was for someone else to fill their pockets, and they're not even getting their communities as a tradeoff. And I feel bad for those people. And I feel worse for the people that haven't realized that, and will keep working, for free. Because even the work for passion, is work.
I know, sorry. I just wanted to reiterate since someone else was also mentioning the same thing but I lost track of that post.
For those with strong leftist convictions and leanings, you can set up a non for profit alternative a la Wikipedia, but you will be more reliant on donations, just like Wikipedia is.
Or if someone just wants to bankroll the hosting fess and just eat the costs. It's possible.
Or if someone just wants to bankroll the hosting fess and just eat the costs. It's possible.
I would. I am now rich with money to cover me an entire life time and I don't have to work anymore. If he cared about the community as he claims he would.
Announcing that he was pursuing a sale would likely have lowered the price even more in a competent process.
It just ocurred to me how grateful we should be about Wikipedia.
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