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What Does ResetEra Mean To You?
- Thread starter Ondor
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Thank you both. These were the kinds of responses I was looking to hear about. Really appreciate the insight.
The level of discourse in this community is second to none. The variety of discussions is second to none.
I've been a video game forum dweller since I was 13. That's half of my life. And this place and community is the best I've ever seen.
This place means a lot to me. I can talk about my favourite hobby in ways that I cannot in real life because none of my friends are in to video games to the level that I am. Analysis of games, industry discussion etc. is something I can only express with the people here.
That means an awful lot.
I've been a video game forum dweller since I was 13. That's half of my life. And this place and community is the best I've ever seen.
This place means a lot to me. I can talk about my favourite hobby in ways that I cannot in real life because none of my friends are in to video games to the level that I am. Analysis of games, industry discussion etc. is something I can only express with the people here.
That means an awful lot.
Hopefully it's a place where the acidity of you know where has been left behind but it appears it's started to seep through again.
Hopefully it's a place where we can talk about why we are enjoying games, rather than topics of uproars of some issues people have and flipping as many tables as possible about it.
And hopefully it's a place where threads created just to ruffle feathers are kept to a minimum.
Hopefully it's a place where we can talk about why we are enjoying games, rather than topics of uproars of some issues people have and flipping as many tables as possible about it.
And hopefully it's a place where threads created just to ruffle feathers are kept to a minimum.
GAF, but for better or worse a lot of banned people came back and it has a really shitty mobile interface.
Also has an incredibly enigmatic privilege system that gave thread privileges to an elite that is poorly defined to the outside.
Also has an incredibly enigmatic privilege system that gave thread privileges to an elite that is poorly defined to the outside.
I wanted quality technical discussion and hear personal stories i could interact with. ERA so far has not dissapoint in that regard. People are good folk over here.
Except for Dennis8k with his Crysis screenshot. Can't respect that. ;)
Except for Dennis8k with his Crysis screenshot. Can't respect that. ;)
Only community worth discussing the political and social dimension of games in. The old place and Era are so far ahead of every other gaming community in terms of post quality, it's not even funny.
It is a webpage/forum. Other than that I prefer getting/discussing news like this instead of in the FB format, most news webpages with modern design looks like shit to be honest, and places like reddit etc are just mayhem. I like forums. Joined because The Other Place was obviously dying. Kind of gotten used to having an obvious place for news and discussion during the years.
Like the other place but thankfully without the cult of personality around moderation which frankly ruined the other site.
Absolutely nothing, and that scares me. Sometimes when Reset Era is discussing hot button topics I stand there nodding my head, and smiling, but I'm not really listening. When we make love I think about other forums I used to make love to, and think how much better the sex was.
Without sounding too sentimental, Era so far has been an answer to everything a cynic about the GAF community continuously tried to belittle - when presented with the situation of rejecting the entire avenue of our news aggregating, gaming discussion, political discussion, drunk thread posting, stealth brag posting (the list goes on), in order to take the stance that what the owner of that old site did, so many people were willing to take a chance at migrating to a site so easily dismissed as a knee-jerk reaction, a site that would lack any real integrity given the drama in which it was conceived with, and those trying to build it and join it examples of a so-called "toxic community" by onlookers, a site doomed to fall into the same trappings as it's predecessor as far as staff and users go.
So far, it has proven each of those notions wrong; it wasn't a knee-jerk reaction, it was a solution, it touts a hard-working spine of staff and admins that are devoted to transparency and progressive views in so many fields, and any toxicity being displayed seems wholly to come from those attempting to bring past baggage here with them. It's also a site that blew up relatively fast - faster than most of us were anticipating. And it's a site that is already keeping the community-led spirit of the old site alive, both in Gaming and Etcetera.
So far, Era is an example that, as long as you care about such communities to begin with, there will always be those willing to make a platform to let said communities nurture and grow.
So far, it has proven each of those notions wrong; it wasn't a knee-jerk reaction, it was a solution, it touts a hard-working spine of staff and admins that are devoted to transparency and progressive views in so many fields, and any toxicity being displayed seems wholly to come from those attempting to bring past baggage here with them. It's also a site that blew up relatively fast - faster than most of us were anticipating. And it's a site that is already keeping the community-led spirit of the old site alive, both in Gaming and Etcetera.
So far, Era is an example that, as long as you care about such communities to begin with, there will always be those willing to make a platform to let said communities nurture and grow.
