ResetEra - sold for $4.55 million

GlassjAw wrote:Is there anyway of accessing the site moments before going under?

Interested in seeing the aftermath.

Gamesradar was an interesting read to say the least

GlassjAw wrote:Is there anyway of accessing the site moments before going under?

Interested in seeing the aftermath.

Gamesradar was an interesting read to say the least

GlassjAw wrote:Is there anyway of accessing the site moments before going under?

Interested in seeing the aftermath.

Gamesradar was an interesting read to say the least

Lucien wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:

Garth wrote:

Lucien wrote:I can't wait until NeoGAF goes back up anyway.

I'll get the popcorn ready

Should we start a betting pool on how long it takes before it gets taken back down again?

I think it'll go down within an hour of going back up. This is a mostly baseless guess - but with at least half the mods gone I suspect there'll be a tsunami of posts nobody can stop.

Dangerblade wrote:The main "offshoot" forum is called Reset Era and is launching tonight apparently.

twitter.com/ReseteraForum/status/922481368529096704

ResetEra is a brand new forum set to be launched by the NeoGAF's moderators and community, following a mass exodus from the site as a result of sexual harassment accusations leveled at its creator.

The site is being created by NeoGAF's official Discord community, with it already securing web hosting duties and reportedly set for launch later today. It will feature familiar faces from the troubled gaming forum's moderation staff, along with various members of the site's community.

Mafro wrote:

GlassjAw wrote:Is there anyway of accessing the site moments before going under?

Interested in seeing the aftermath.

Gamesradar was an interesting read to say the least

http://assets.neogafllc.netdna-cdn.com/ ... ay.php?f=2

Gideon wrote:Neogaf refugee here, just resurrected my grcade account from like five or six years ago. Some of you may remember me as Stormcaller from back in GR days and some of you have still found your way onto my Switch friends list despite me being an antisocial banana split for the best part of a decade.

As others have said, Neogaf was excellent for a couple of the specific communities, getting news and generally not being a cuck-screaming, right-wing hellhole like the majority of gaming forums (it was a far left hellhole instead) but an absolute shitehole for literally everything else. Evilore has always been a prick and I hope he tries to rebuild only to have it all fail again.

So here I am, back with you ugly lot. I’ve missed a lot of you in a way, but before you think I’m being sappy just remember that I chose GRcade second, after a forum run by a man with a reputation for sexual assault and his nonce friend.

Pedz wrote:Why would people want to go back to an offshoot site if the mods are going to be the same trigger-happy mods from gaf?

Pedz wrote:Why would people want to go back to an offshoot site if the mods are going to be the same trigger-happy mods from gaf?

Rocsteady wrote:Do this or else.... you lose your modship.

I can imagine the dilemma in this high stakes scenario.

Hi.

An allegation of sexual misconduct has been made against me by an ex. It's not true, the individual making the accusation isn't credible, the story doesn't reconcile logically with the facts, and there's plenty of evidence and witnesses to corroborate that. It'll be a process.

All allegations of this nature are serious, of course. I first got word of it on Wednesday when a screenshot of a Facebook post was handed to Voat. I immediately talked with my mod team about the contents of the screenshot and clarified that it was baseless and explained some of the details concerning my former associations with her, and tried to ensure any concerns from the team were addressed fully and transparently to everyone's satisfaction. On Thursday I heard that she had deleted the accusation from Facebook, and wasn't entirely sure how to proceed from there or how this would all play out in the public space at that point. Then, Friday morning, the screenshot made its way to NeoGAF and chaos ensued.

I was in the process of writing a statement that entire day to address formally address the allegation, but the community had erupted in a flash that morning. While the moderation team was trying to restore the peace, accusations and threats concerning the screenshot started shifting to them as well by association with me, and I was asked by my team to do something to fix things and get the heat off of all of them at least. I was beyond exhausted by that point, though, stretched too thin in the time since the post had first appeared and seeing unprecedented events unfold on NeoGAF. I was slow and weak. I failed to handle it quickly enough and let the team down. Before I could finish a statement and get it out there, understandably some mods hit their emotional limit, expressed concerns about the community coming after them, and decided to leave. A few people resigned, and many more quickly followed for similar reasons, citing stress and harassment. The site started breaking under load spikes leading up to the first resignations, too, and then flatlined altogether, so issuing a statement at that time on NeoGAF itself became impossible for the time being, and my attention shifted toward the moderation team's future.

Since that whole mess, lasting from Friday morning through Saturday, before we formally went offline for maintenance and repair and restructure, we've just been trying to figure out the best course of action for NeoGAF going forward. And as stories began being published by various outlets, I issued some comments to the press, since everything coming out was proving to be sensationalized, opportunist, and unprofessional.

We've all become increasingly stressed and weary this year in ways even I'm not accustomed to by now, and discussions on heated news, political issues, and social issues on the off-topic side of the site have become areas no one has wanted to moderate in the open for fear of backlash or just general exposure to the inevitable toxicity. I've gone in there myself to take the heat, since it's very much my responsibility to do so before anyone else's, but there's been little headway, mostly just more anger and resentment and a lot of bans. I don't think this necessarily reflects on our community; more so the tone of the entire internet this year with regards to heated issues.

That's all going to inform the way forward for NeoGAF as we refocus on what the main goals are supposed to be for the site. The mod team will talk about more specifics on what that will entail below.

One last thing. The NeoGAF mod team is here for this community; all of you. You have no obligations to respect me or believe anything I say about my personal life one way or another, but if you're going to be here and participate on NeoGAF, respect the mod team by following the rules and behaving. The team is diminished at the moment and the folks who stuck around care very much about this community and its future. Be considerate of them. That's non-negotiable.

Thanks.

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