NeoGAF & ResetERA - The Hilarious N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶e̶n̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ Splintering "Gaming" Forum Circus

[AnOminous]

What a complete cock up. By not enlisting rational, calm individuals to moderate their forums, they have managed to make it worse for everyone - liberals, conservatives, moderates, out right loons and libtards (the regressive left), everyone. It is now worse than NeoGAF in every way.

Who would they enlist? The site was started by utter morons. The fact that NeoGAF nearly immediately improved upon their departure makes that clear. The people who started REE were the very cancer who nearly destroyed GAF in the first place.

 

[Dogs can't look up]

Who would they enlist? The site was started by utter morons. The fact that NeoGAF nearly immediately improved upon their departure makes that clear. The people who started REE were the very cancer who nearly destroyed GAF in the first place.

It was a rhetorical thought, really.

 

[Water-T]

....but...but...Ms. Pac-Man was a treatise on how the Patriarchy forces round yellow women to swallow balls just to survive!

 

[Oh Shit I'm Sorry]

Polygon wrote some drivel about how people who play videogames while having a penis are the devil and the Reetard thread on it is about as much of a circle-jerk as you'd expect.

Instead you should shitpost about them on your echo-chamber. That'll fix the problem!

Game developers are bad for not going out of their way to piss off potential customers over some dumbfuck internet drama no one who ever leaves their house gives a flying fuck about.

Straight white men are vampires and the only way to defeat them is to drag them out into the sunlight.

It's funny because the thread should have been about how Era is unwelcoming to anyone with more than 2 functioning brain cells.

 

[Pablo Birmingham]

"Everything is political", "Ignoring politics IS politics", "Not making something political is only supporting the status quo"

These are all shitty things that shitty people say to try and insert their shitty politics into things their shitty politics simply don't belong in. The same way that a sonichu medallion is the hallmark of autism, so too are these phrases the hallmark of the misinformed.

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

Instead you should shitpost about them on your echo-chamber. That'll fix the problem!

I wonder if PhazonBlonde is gunning for a mod position? It's the only explanation I can come up with that explains why she seems to be in every single thread that gets brought to our attention.

"Everything is political", "Ignoring politics IS politics", "Not making something political is only supporting the status quo"

These are all shitty things that shitty people say to try and insert their shitty politics into things their shitty politics simply don't belong in. The same way that a sonichu medallion is the hallmark of autism, so too are these phrases the hallmark of the misinformed.

Not just misinformed, actively malicious. Politics is the only thing these people are educated about (not really, but they think they are), so to avoid showing how limited their interests are they make asinine reasons to have their interests encompass everything.

 

[CrunkLord420]

who said the left can't meme https://www.resetera.com/threads/th...ed-leaving-politics-at-the-door.58030/page-12

This guy probably deserves a VIP spot

???

Sure, now with the new reply meta-data I have a metric to see how VIP-worthy someone is, Khanimus scoring 23 action-replies.

Spoiler

+----------+----------+-------------------+
| from_id | to_id | to_user |
+----------+----------+-------------------+
| 10680302 | 10679839 | Chicken Wing |
| 7418537 | 7418454 | anthraxus |
| 6972269 | 6972226 | Spawnsniper |
| 7266636 | 7266074 | Thorn |
| 7429888 | 7429802 | mango. |
| 7433588 | 7433222 | Iva Demilcol |
| 7655033 | 7654595 | Red Cadet 015 |
| 7696117 | 7695899 | hasan114 |
| 7856123 | 7856089 | Solace |
| 7858847 | 7858498 | Monkey D. |
| 8753729 | 8753270 | Smelck |
| 9499410 | 9493012 | Squaresoft |
| 9632224 | 9632128 | Eduardo Corrochio |
| 9798357 | 9797923 | Azajabar |
| 10252734 | 10251940 | Subba |
| 10262070 | 10261666 | Bitsmurch |
| 10275639 | 10275300 | Ivan2Nguyen |
| 10298451 | 10298341 | Phire Phox |
| 10335397 | 10335088 | Dizagaox |
| 10366712 | 10366658 | Zygnosis |
| 10366813 | 10366658 | Zygnosis |
| 10370241 | 10370206 | AliasGreed |
| 10464969 | 10462719 | RandomHopeInc |
+----------+----------+-------------------+
23 rows in set (0.01 sec)

 

[Neil]

Crossing Eden is having a meltdown in progress. Just a couple of choice posts:

The whole environmentalist aspect of Sonic the Hedgehog was an afterthought. The main focus on Sonic was gameplay, momentum, and platforming, as well as marketability to the west. Literally only one game had a direct focus on Nature vs Machine, Sonic CD, and that game's whole plot line is: Stop Robotnik from fucking up time with his robots and shit.

Much like how the Bugs Bunny vs Elmer Fudd scenario is mainly focused on comedy and slapstick, not the struggle of Nature vs Mankind.

"Refusing to talk about politics is politics"
Okay then, so why are you complaining about them keeping politics out of their reporting if that's such a political statement by itself?

 

[CrunkLord420]

So something stood out to me, there are only two mods who really reply to actioned users. Morrigan and Volimar. After reviewing a random sample it seems like the result of wanting to have the "last word" on something.

Spoiler: Morrigan

+----------+----------+----------------+
| from_id | to_id | to_user |
+----------+----------+----------------+
| 698970 | 698540 | Hex |
| 754107 | 748700 | The Golden Age |
| 761895 | 761640 | IplayGames4Fun |
| 789344 | 779271 | potatohead |
| 793939 | 793053 | potatohead |
| 1089633 | 1088087 | twinspectre |
| 1100917 | 1100348 | WoollyTitan |
| 1130833 | 1129802 | LunarEmerald |
| 1165801 | 1165387 | Biggui4yew |
| 1675819 | 1674924 | Amiibola |
| 7450328 | 7444682 | Oblivion |
| 7643015 | 7642829 | Real Hero |
| 7676292 | 7673950 | Deepwater |
| 8289517 | 8276455 | Flo_Evans |
| 10297011 | 10296576 | Bleepey |
| 10613107 | 10612633 | Loganclaws |
+----------+----------+----------------+
16 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Volimar's ban replies are especially weird. It's not like he's adding context to an action, or even just rubbing it in. He replies as if he didn't action them at all and is just continuing a conversation.

Spoiler: Volimar

+----------+----------+---------------------+
| from_id | to_id | to_user |
+----------+----------+---------------------+
| 808187 | 808003 | WoollyTitan |
| 10728100 | 10727657 | Busty |
| 6972333 | 6972226 | Spawnsniper |
| 7654856 | 7654595 | Red Cadet 015 |
| 7655334 | 7655211 | Hopping_Mad |
| 7728375 | 7727947 | Dude Abides |
| 8101275 | 8101247 | GreenMonkey |
| 8666203 | 8666169 | mrtl |
| 8734015 | 8733822 | Green Yoshi |
| 9300435 | 9300334 | Kevers |
| 9373922 | 9373866 | Wein Cruz |
| 9384925 | 9384884 | Tesseract |
| 9508499 | 9508394 | ryllix |
| 9522491 | 9522360 | FireFistAce |
| 9969131 | 9969080 | McMahon |
| 10074572 | 10074438 | TheUnseenTheUnheard |
| 10298406 | 10298341 | Phire Phox |
| 10367007 | 10366790 | Obvious |
| 10397859 | 10397751 | Poj |
+----------+----------+---------------------+
19 rows in set (0.00 sec)

PS. the network is slowly becoming more accurate, blue dots should be turning red. There shouldn't be two blue dots connecting to each other, so one of them is likely actioned but not corrected yet.

 

[Ledian]

Volimar's ban replies are especially weird. It's not like he's adding context to an action, or even just rubbing it in. He replies as if he didn't action them at all and is just continuing a conversation.

I remember reading earlier on that the mods aren't really communicating with each other all that well, what with the haphazard bans and warnings being all over the place and their lengths being all over as well.
Benefit of the doubt tells me that maybe he isn't the one banning those people he's replying to but this is ReeeeEra so who knows.

 

[CrunkLord420]

If you receive replies from any blue names here, you may as well just delete your ResetEra account. The data should be good now, unless I find more problems. I've surfaced it as a link on the graphs page.

 

[GethN7]

If you receive replies from any blue names here, you may as well just delete your ResetEra account. The data should be good now, unless I find more problems. I've surfaced it as a link on the graphs page.
View attachment 504840

It's amazing how well you have distilled the actions of that site community into raw data.

I'm honestly stunned it's THAT's much of an anarchistic shitshow underneath the hood.

 

[CrunkLord420]

this nigga gonna report you

 

[Feline Darkmage]

View attachment 504849
this nigga gonna report you

And then he gon raep you.

 

[CrunkLord420]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-would-it-take-to-turn-trump-supporters-around.58137/

Boy, ResetEra mods are quite something.

Brazil saying Trump is as bad as Bush because he's 16 years old

 

[SwanDive]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-would-it-take-to-turn-trump-supporters-around.58137/

Honestly though, what would any video game forum be without advocacy for political violence?

 

[Done]

wonder if PhazonBlonde is gunning for a mod position? It's the only explanation I can come up with that explains why she seems to be in every single thread that gets brought to our attention.

>she

And yes, they're brown-nosing really, really hard.

I remember reading earlier on that the mods aren't really communicating with each other all that well, what with the haphazard bans and warnings being all over the place and their lengths being all over as well.

Benefit of the doubt tells me that maybe he isn't the one banning those people he's replying to but this is ReeeeEra so who knows.

Even if he isn't the one doing the banning, he can clearly see the mod actions.

 

[Atsuta]

Excuse me? Users are not allowed to identify as attack helicopters? That's fucking transphobic REEtards.

 

[CrunkLord420]

I did the markov chain thing, but the problem is they all read like normal messages. Some funny ones like..

"Thread Shitting. Clearly, many people in this topic. Many analogies are available to you, but not this one."
"User warned: Personal attack. Please be respectful and polite when posting in bad faith, antagonizing other members"
"People get murdered in every country. Please refrain from low-effort driveby posts - also just got back from a satirical website"
"User warned: Awful humor leading to copyright infringing material"

 

[Slap47]

For some reason I thought I was seeing the autism puzzle piece.