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PostRe: NeoGAF owner accused of sexual assault - spin-off site Resetera launched
by Mafro » Tue May 29, 2018 11:32 am

User Banned (1 Week): Peddling Conspiracy Theories about Moderation/Site being part of an Israeli plot

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PostRe: NeoGAF owner accused of sexual assault - spin-off site Resetera launched
by Preezy » Tue May 29, 2018 11:32 am

They just have zero sense of humour in that place, it's tiresome.

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PostRe: NeoGAF owner accused of sexual assault - spin-off site Resetera launched
by Green Gecko » Tue May 29, 2018 4:06 pm

:lol: If we had that there would be about 5 entries per year.

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Reason: User Banned (Duration Pending): Unironic use of the pejorative "SJW", framing diversity efforts as a world-ruining agenda

Agendas man, agendas. How do these guys even have debates?

I honestly can't believe how many unnecessary moderator actions are actioned on that site per day.

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PostRe: NeoGAF owner accused of sexual assault - spin-off site Resetera launched
by Lex-Man » Tue May 29, 2018 4:23 pm

There ban list is a great read.

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PostRe: NeoGAF owner accused of sexual assault - spin-off site Resetera launched
by Preezy » Tue May 29, 2018 4:30 pm

Green Gecko wrote:How do these guys even have debates?

It's like they just want this big echo chamber where they can endlessly agree with each other and squash any differing opinion on anything.

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PostRe: NeoGAF owner accused of sexual assault - spin-off site Resetera launched
by Tomous » Tue May 29, 2018 4:32 pm

I use it to check up on videogame news and they normally jump on anything going on very quickly.

I have no desire whatsoever to sign up and contribute though.

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PostRe: NeoGAF owner accused of sexual assault - spin-off site Resetera launched
by Green Gecko » Tue May 29, 2018 4:37 pm

I'm going to post something super inflammatory, and mind-boggling, and world destroying: alternative opinions are a good thing because they make debate possible, even if they aren't delivered in the most politik way. This is how people learn and the world most likely improves, and society is formed.

Amazing idea isn't it? I've never seen such evidence of editorial-driven discussion before.

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PostRe: NeoGAF owner accused of sexual assault - spin-off site Resetera launched
by PES Fan » Tue May 29, 2018 4:44 pm

Their latest banning

Using the term "gay" pejoratively.

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They completely misinterpreted lando. He’s a suave smooth talking ladies man but in this movie he comes across as like a flamboyant gay dude. I thought Alden was fine as young Han and the Darth Maul cameo was totally pointless and cheesy. The twist where the maurader turned out to be some kid was bad too and dragged the movie down. First half of the film was good though.


He got a 3 day ban for the above.

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This guy just got 5 days.

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PostRe: NeoGAF owner accused of sexual assault - spin-off site Resetera launched
by Green Gecko » Tue May 29, 2018 4:51 pm

To be fair I'd probably consider the last post pretty awful trolling even in jest but the first one isn't exactly black and white, "flamboyant gay dude" certainly describes some gay people and if a character comes across as gay-ish because they're flamboyant or in some other way evocative of gay culture (and I'm well aware the two terms are NOT intrinsically connected), it's tasteless yes but I don't see it as categorically wrong thing to say. Obviously it would be different if was something like "flamboyant gay fairy" or flamboyant gay twat" because that is aggressive and not simply comparing something with something else.

I'm not really sure the word "dude" can ever be interpreted badly. It's mildly homophobic and condescending at worst.

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PostRe: NeoGAF owner accused of sexual assault - spin-off site Resetera launched
by Hexx » Tue May 29, 2018 5:01 pm

Dude is homophobic?

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PostRe: NeoGAF owner accused of sexual assault - spin-off site Resetera launched
by Green Gecko » Tue May 29, 2018 5:08 pm

Apparently. I mean, going with my one punch man signature theme, is this guy homophobic or celebrating openly gay and flamboyant, yet super strong, characters? Not to mention the reams of androgynous and other gay characters in anime, and characters with no obvious sexual orientation, because it simply doesn't matter (because it's normal anyway)?

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I would describe that as a "gay dude" in the traditional, totally ridiculous and hyperbolic style of anime. And maybe that's how that guy felt about Han Solo. Who let's be honest, in retrospective, is pretty camp.

But nooo the word "gay" is always bad. Isn't that more homophobic? Do gay people really need that kind of protection, from being compared to straight characters? I find that pretty condescending in the tone of almost all of resetera's moderation. It is, in a way, stifling discussion of gay characteristics, whether overzealously or fictionally assigned or not, by disallowing those comparisons.

"Don't compare anyone to a gay person, these people don't like being compared to anyone" is presumptuous and exclusive, not inclusive, because it is stifling comparisons of culture and characteristics that simply exist.

Over to you Hexx.

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PostRe: NeoGAF owner accused of sexual assault - spin-off site Resetera launched
by Hexx » Tue May 29, 2018 5:14 pm

Green Gecko wrote:Apparently. I mean, going with my one punch man signature theme, is this guy homophobic or celebrating openly gay and flamboyant, yet super strong, characters? Not to mention the reams of androgynous and other gay characters in anime, and characters with no obvious sexual orientation, because it simply doesn't matter (because it's normal anyway)?

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I would describe that as a "gay dude" in the traditional, totally ridiculous and hyperbolic style of anime. And maybe that's how that guy felt about Han Solo. Who let's be honest, in retrospective, is pretty camp.

But nooo the word "gay" is always bad. Isn't that more homophobic? Do gay people really need that kind of protection, from being compared to straight characters? I find that pretty condescending in the tone of almost all of resetera's moderation. It is, in a way, stifling discussion of gay characteristics, whether overzealously or fictionally assigned or not, by disallowing those comparisons.

"Don't compare anyone to a gay person, these people don't like being compared to anyone" is presumptuous and exclusive, not inclusive, because it is stifling comparisons of culture and characteristics that simply exist.

Over to you Hexx.


I don't even know what any of this is.

I get the perceived problem with "gay dude"
But not "dude"

But whatever you be you. Be happy.

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PostRe: NeoGAF owner accused of sexual assault - spin-off site Resetera launched
by PES Fan » Tue May 29, 2018 5:14 pm

Green Gecko wrote:To be fair I'd probably consider the last post pretty awful trolling even in jest but the first one isn't exactly black and white, "flamboyant gay dude" certainly describes some gay people and if a character comes across as gay-ish because they're flamboyant or in some other way evocative of gay culture (and I'm well aware the two terms are NOT intrinsically connected), it's tasteless yes but I don't see it as categorically wrong thing to say. Obviously it would be different if was something like "flamboyant gay fairy" or flamboyant gay twat" because that is aggressive and not simply comparing something with something else.

I'm not really sure the word "dude" can ever be interpreted badly. It's mildly homophobic and condescending at worst.


I don’t think the first poster should have been banned.

Second poster got off lightly even though he was trolling compared to what other posters have gotten.

Everyone was expecting the place to be something different from Neogaf. It’s somehow got way worse without EvilLore, which is some sort of achievement.

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PostRe: NeoGAF owner accused of sexual assault - spin-off site Resetera launched
by KK » Tue May 29, 2018 5:18 pm

Preezy wrote:
Green Gecko wrote:How do these guys even have debates?

It's like they just want this big echo chamber where they can endlessly agree with each other and squash any differing opinion on anything.

Preezy Banned (Permanent): Negatively characterizing ResetEra as an echo chamber. Whining.

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PostRe: NeoGAF owner accused of sexual assault - spin-off site Resetera launched
by Green Gecko » Tue May 29, 2018 5:33 pm

I appreciate I have chucked you a bit in the deep end there, Hexx.

Even if that is pretty much my mental image of you mixed with a Wigglytuff ;) :wub:

PES Fan wrote:Second poster got off lightly even though he was trolling compared to what other posters have gotten.

Everyone was expecting the place to be something different from Neogaf. It’s somehow got way worse without EvilLore, which is some sort of achievement.

Oh right, I see you were making a comparison.

I'd probably agree. Although I find the whole comparing punishment things a bit fallacious, I really would prefer people not to be dicks, but what can you do.

Football just seems to amp everything up to a whole new, identifiably "banter" level, that I find very tough to decode through the veil of the Internet and my lack of knowledge on the culture and subject.

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PostRe: NeoGAF owner accused of sexual assault - spin-off site Resetera launched
by Tomous » Tue May 29, 2018 5:41 pm

Wishing people’s kids die of cancer definitely isn’t within the realms of acceptable football banter

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PostRe: NeoGAF owner accused of sexual assault - spin-off site Resetera launched
by Green Gecko » Tue May 29, 2018 5:50 pm

Oh yeah, I wouldn't consider that an enigma. :dread:

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PostRe: NeoGAF owner accused of sexual assault - spin-off site Resetera launched
by That » Tue May 29, 2018 5:54 pm

I don't see a problem with any of the bans on that GitHub page. Saying that you don't like a character because he comes across as a "flamboyant gay dude" is homophobic, at least in phrasing. "SJW" is a slur used to belittle people who care about equality, and it's good they have a rule against using it. "Die of cancer" even as a joke is obviously worthy of a ban.

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PostRe: NeoGAF owner accused of sexual assault - spin-off site Resetera launched
by Green Gecko » Tue May 29, 2018 6:04 pm

You see this is why we have highly paid SJWs on our team :wub: ;)

I really am a terrible moderator. I go from super hands off to super worked up.

I seem to be in a cool mood today.

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PostRe: NeoGAF owner accused of sexual assault - spin-off site Resetera launched
by That » Tue May 29, 2018 6:08 pm

Green Gecko wrote:You see this is why we have highly paid SJWs on our team :wub: ;)

:lol:

I recognise I am probably the only person on GRcade that cares about this stuff which is why I don't enforce it on here. But if I were running a huge site like Era then TBH I'd moderate in exactly the same way they do.

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