Discussion on NeoGAF is very much a top-down affair. The moderators and administrators tell you what you can discuss, how you can feel about a particular event, and any deviation is met with harshly. The forum users are completely interchangeable as a result. Even though they have spent hours trying to find the right avatar and the right (safe and acceptable) quirks in hopes of a moderator giving them a tag, they are pretty much nobodies whose role is to express the right emotions on cue. If you don't want to follow along, no big deal, they can find a bunch of mooks to take your place.