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

[Intelligent Calcium]

How do you say DELET THIS!!! in latin?

 

[HumanHive]

I for one must request - nay, demand - that the admin staff of KiwiFarms undertake every effort to provide an open and welcoming space within this community for the LGBTQINDEA refugees no doubt pouring across the proverbial border into our forum from the ravenous authoritarianism of the ResetEra wilds. Any user which does not show the utmost respect and kindness towards our new membership simply must be banned at once, and any moderator which refuses or fails to do so must be fired. This is all to be done to further free speech on the internet, as well as to protect the mental health of our community which as we all know is as fragile and as beautiful as a daffodil’s petals on a dewy morning.

Diversity of cows is our strength.

 

[Yellow Yam Scam]

KiwiFarms has a culture problem. One of the more salient ones is that moderation philosophy largely remains a holdover from pre-nightmare PVCC. Accountability is a lovely sentiment that I appreciate our mods espousing, but with KF's present structure, it's toothless. That's more than a little problem on a forum this large and unwieldy, where personal relationships can only guarantee so much. So, I want to workshop ideas on how to address this issue and make peers of the mods once more. Some of them come from experiences on other (sometimes ancient boards), others are more improvisational:

1. Sanction board: per-user thread that collates their history of warnings, bans, why, and the reasoning behind extensions. Don't obfuscate behind a shell account.
2. Formal ban appeals: to be attended to not by the mod that instituted the ban, particularly when considering long or permanent bans, as a hedge against cronyism, over-reaction, or plain error. Include appeals to the sanction board.
3. Mod nominations: you want better coverage of the forum's corners, more diverse voices, and a less adversarial relationship? Here's a way how. Nominate on a regular cycle such that existing mods can also feel free to step down without shortchanging anyone.
4. Mod recalls: because, let's be honest. Sometimes we get some stinkers and that's just mundane reality when it comes to running a place like this. Make nominations for recall anonymous through a bot akin to the Giftbot, and set a percentile threshold to carry the recall or not.
5. No blanket staff posts: Append each name individually to an advisory post, not in aggregate. If you want to be regarded as like us, post like us instead of erecting a procedural wall of perfect mod unity (it mostly serves to stifle discussion and cement the perspective that you're not our peers).
6. Forget moderation of console warring/port begging/store warz that falls below the point of personal attacks. It's all trivial consumerist faff and coming down on it so hard is a solution in search of a problem. It's busywork, not valuable work.
7. Shed the 4chan vestiges: seriously, so much of this crud is just hanging on because of simple inertia. Do we need member castes? Do we need four canonical subforums? Do we need to mandate OTs that expire at 20k posts?
8. No more heavy-handed, "This is the last word on that, the united, formless, shapeless, and undivided mod mass decrees it" tosh. Discussions taper off and end. Don't throw weight around just to have the last word.
9. More openness: discussion of the site's culture, future, and problems can't solely remain the prerogative of the mod team. Open discussion is the only reasonable way to make things better, work conciliation, and invest the entire forum in better outcomes.
10. Proportion: accusations of bigotry can't be simply played off with stonewalling and blanket accusations of a criminal offense committed by the sanctioned member. It's irresponsible, it's insulting, and perfectly underlines the cultural problem that is driving people away and embittering members against a mod team that increasingly looks out of touch and out of hand.
11. Conciliation: full and open discussions of crises like this one, including giving the accused and their witnesses the chance to speak for and defend themselves, and full ownership of mistakes, blind-spots, failings (both on the account of the mods and the accused). The social expectation to cop to fuckups should be expected of mods too, and not just as something that is nice to have when it happens.

So, these are just a few things that I've been thinking on, and I'd like to talk about where we go from here. Openly. Because it's overdue.

 

[Christ4President2024]

KiwiFarms has a culture problem. One of the more salient ones is that moderation philosophy largely remains a holdover from pre-nightmare PVCC. Accountability is a lovely sentiment that I appreciate our mods espousing, but with KF's present structure, it's toothless. That's more than a little problem on a forum this large and unwieldy, where personal relationships can only guarantee so much. So, I want to workshop ideas on how to address this issue and make peers of the mods once more. Some of them come from experiences on other (sometimes ancient boards), others are more improvisational:

1. Sanction board: per-user thread that collates their history of warnings, bans, why, and the reasoning behind extensions. Don't obfuscate behind a shell account.
2. Formal ban appeals: to be attended to not by the mod that instituted the ban, particularly when considering long or permanent bans, as a hedge against cronyism, over-reaction, or plain error. Include appeals to the sanction board.
3. Mod nominations: you want better coverage of the forum's corners, more diverse voices, and a less adversarial relationship? Here's a way how. Nominate on a regular cycle such that existing mods can also feel free to step down without shortchanging anyone.
4. Mod recalls: because, let's be honest. Sometimes we get some stinkers and that's just mundane reality when it comes to running a place like this. Make nominations for recall anonymous through a bot akin to the Giftbot, and set a percentile threshold to carry the recall or not.
5. No blanket staff posts: Append each name individually to an advisory post, not in aggregate. If you want to be regarded as like us, post like us instead of erecting a procedural wall of perfect mod unity (it mostly serves to stifle discussion and cement the perspective that you're not our peers).
6. Forget moderation of console warring/port begging/store warz that falls below the point of personal attacks. It's all trivial consumerist faff and coming down on it so hard is a solution in search of a problem. It's busywork, not valuable work.
7. Shed the 4chan vestiges: seriously, so much of this crud is just hanging on because of simple inertia. Do we need member castes? Do we need four canonical subforums? Do we need to mandate OTs that expire at 20k posts?
8. No more heavy-handed, "This is the last word on that, the united, formless, shapeless, and undivided mod mass decrees it" tosh. Discussions taper off and end. Don't throw weight around just to have the last word.
9. More openness: discussion of the site's culture, future, and problems can't solely remain the prerogative of the mod team. Open discussion is the only reasonable way to make things better, work conciliation, and invest the entire forum in better outcomes.
10. Proportion: accusations of bigotry can't be simply played off with stonewalling and blanket accusations of a criminal offense committed by the sanctioned member. It's irresponsible, it's insulting, and perfectly underlines the cultural problem that is driving people away and embittering members against a mod team that increasingly looks out of touch and out of hand.
11. Conciliation: full and open discussions of crises like this one, including giving the accused and their witnesses the chance to speak for and defend themselves, and full ownership of mistakes, blind-spots, failings (both on the account of the mods and the accused). The social expectation to cop to fuckups should be expected of mods too, and not just as something that is nice to have when it happens.

So, these are just a few things that I've been thinking on, and I'd like to talk about where we go from here. Openly. Because it's overdue.

Instead of all that dumb shit, Null should implement positivity day. One day per month, nobody is allowed to say anything negative about anything, whatsoever. It will unite us all and make the forum best place

 

[Blasterisk]

Bank of England to Release Commemorative Note Honoring Internet Mod From ResetERA​

 

[Neil]

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Imagine my shock everyone reeeeeing for weeks is buying it anyway and now doing everything possible to say they hate it

CDPR still got your $60, seethe harder tranny

It's clear the jannies are at breaking point after Android Sophia was massacred by a pack of feral troons. Even with this man down, they still desire more blood.

The answer to all of this crying?

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POUND SAND.

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POODLESTRIKE MUST APOLOGIZE AND STEP DOWN.

#HeatedGamerMoment

SAYING POUND SAND IS LITERALLY THE MOST G RATED WAY TO SAY "FUCK OFF"
YET THESE FREAKS ARE ACTUALLY WOUNDED BY IT
WOW

Next we'll see them throw a shitfit over being told "walk away". Hearing the ACTUAL insulting words "fuck off" would probably drive them to wrist-slitting.

Trans Gaymers (tm) living in the first world are truly the most oppressed minority. I weep for their struggles, being told to fuck off in the most kid-gloves way possible by mods on a site that otherwise sucks their HRT addled dicks because people want to discuss a game that doesn't use soft-enough kid-gloves language for grown adults.

 

[Denmark Mafia]

For people who don't have time to catch up on all this insanity, reminder that

has created a 7000 word sperging manifesto because Black Chamber once made a tweet about Trump. Maybe still my favorite thing in all of this.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cdpr-is-a-transphobic-company-its-time-we-stop-making-excuses-for-them.307474/page-73#post-53350075

Since my post got linked now, I updated it with some "threadmarks" (lol) and @Ashen One 's excellent summary.

 

[Simply Outplayed-HD]

KiwiFarms has a culture problem. One of the more salient ones is that moderation philosophy largely remains a holdover from pre-nightmare PVCC. Accountability is a lovely sentiment that I appreciate our mods espousing, but with KF's present structure, it's toothless. That's more than a little problem on a forum this large and unwieldy, where personal relationships can only guarantee so much. So, I want to workshop ideas on how to address this issue and make peers of the mods once more. Some of them come from experiences on other (sometimes ancient boards), others are more improvisational:

1. Sanction board: per-user thread that collates their history of warnings, bans, why, and the reasoning behind extensions. Don't obfuscate behind a shell account.
2. Formal ban appeals: to be attended to not by the mod that instituted the ban, particularly when considering long or permanent bans, as a hedge against cronyism, over-reaction, or plain error. Include appeals to the sanction board.
3. Mod nominations: you want better coverage of the forum's corners, more diverse voices, and a less adversarial relationship? Here's a way how. Nominate on a regular cycle such that existing mods can also feel free to step down without shortchanging anyone.
4. Mod recalls: because, let's be honest. Sometimes we get some stinkers and that's just mundane reality when it comes to running a place like this. Make nominations for recall anonymous through a bot akin to the Giftbot, and set a percentile threshold to carry the recall or not.
5. No blanket staff posts: Append each name individually to an advisory post, not in aggregate. If you want to be regarded as like us, post like us instead of erecting a procedural wall of perfect mod unity (it mostly serves to stifle discussion and cement the perspective that you're not our peers).
6. Forget moderation of console warring/port begging/store warz that falls below the point of personal attacks. It's all trivial consumerist faff and coming down on it so hard is a solution in search of a problem. It's busywork, not valuable work.
7. Shed the 4chan vestiges: seriously, so much of this crud is just hanging on because of simple inertia. Do we need member castes? Do we need four canonical subforums? Do we need to mandate OTs that expire at 20k posts?
8. No more heavy-handed, "This is the last word on that, the united, formless, shapeless, and undivided mod mass decrees it" tosh. Discussions taper off and end. Don't throw weight around just to have the last word.
9. More openness: discussion of the site's culture, future, and problems can't solely remain the prerogative of the mod team. Open discussion is the only reasonable way to make things better, work conciliation, and invest the entire forum in better outcomes.
10. Proportion: accusations of bigotry can't be simply played off with stonewalling and blanket accusations of a criminal offense committed by the sanctioned member. It's irresponsible, it's insulting, and perfectly underlines the cultural problem that is driving people away and embittering members against a mod team that increasingly looks out of touch and out of hand.
11. Conciliation: full and open discussions of crises like this one, including giving the accused and their witnesses the chance to speak for and defend themselves, and full ownership of mistakes, blind-spots, failings (both on the account of the mods and the accused). The social expectation to cop to fuckups should be expected of mods too, and not just as something that is nice to have when it happens.

So, these are just a few things that I've been thinking on, and I'd like to talk about where we go from here. Openly. Because it's overdue.

Jesus fucking christ, no wonder the mods are having mental breakdowns. They're simultaneously expected to ban at the drop of a hat as well as have a hands off approach. Since they can't ever say no to a Troon they might as well just make being trans a prerequisite to being a moderator and hand over the keys to the site. It's inevitable that these troons on welfare with nothing else better to do than to write the equivalent of War & Peace about a gaming forums moderation policies every day will never stop. This is the only thing in their life that gives them some semblance of feeling powerful.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

I, for one, am fucking loving "pound sand" becoming our new transphobic dog-whistle

It’ll be fun to see some hapless SJWs get dog piled by their own for not being aware that “pound sand” is now transphobic. A fair number of them like to use that term frequently.

 

[YarrBlueballs]

they might as well just make being trans a prerequisite to being a moderator and hand over the keys to the site.

They've already done that and the troonmods are still being bullied in discord calls.

This is why they 41% themselves, they can't stand eachother.

 

[Pope of Degeneracy]

For people who don't have time to catch up on all this insanity, reminder that
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has created a 7000 word sperging manifesto because Black Chamber once made a tweet about Trump. Maybe still my favorite thing in all of this.
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https://www.resetera.com/threads/cdpr-is-a-transphobic-company-its-time-we-stop-making-excuses-for-them.307474/page-73#post-53350075

Since my post got linked now, I updated it with some "threadmarks" (lol) and @Ashen One 's excellent summary.

The day one of my shitposts elicit an encyclopedic spergout like this is the day my brain will receive an endorphin rush that no drug on this Earth could ever bring me.

 

[Plague Dog]

Telling someone to "pound sand" (or more commonly in my area, "pound salt") is just a standard way to tell someone to fuck-off. There is no relation to trans identity or trans-specific about it. It's just generic slang.

This whole thread is documenting a competition for least likable twat of the year. Admin tells someone to fuck off pound sand while doing admin stuff. Instead of just pointing out that the admin was being a bit of a twat, they demand reparations in blood for transphobia. And voting for trump would be a bannable offense?

... All this on an internet form where literally no one needs to know you're trans. And about a game that lets you be more trans than average. Surely this will lead to more trans representation in media. Can this end with mass suicide? Surely with all the transphobia they must be close.

 

[Dysnomia]

Trannies are pissed that they're being treated like women in the game. They say they want normalized, but they really want special treatment. Kind of like how you're transphobic if you don't date trans people and also transphobic if you want to date trans people. Schrödinger's faggot.

That's because it's not about being treated as your chosen gender anymore. It's about being trans and reminding everyone 27/7 that you are and REEEEEEE my special treatment. Everything is transphobic because trannies are mentally unstable and need real help. Not dick chops, boobectomies and hormones.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

what in the world

 

[Whatsup bud?]

Why do they even need Era when they have all these Discords?

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Why do they even need Era when they have all these Discords?

It's the battleground where the groups meet up to fight.

 

[Salubrious]

I know it's preaching to the choir, but it's never not fucking hilarious that these groups get the angriest at media that attempts to be the most inclusive to them.

Salubrious's Second Law: "SJWs attack their own more than their actual enemies because they know they are more likely to get a knee bend and a tearful apology."

How is CP2077 not at least the second most trans friendly game out there right now other than Druckmann's magnum opus, yet they are pitching an absolute shitfit about it?

 

[HumanHive]

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what in the world

The Koran advises that this behavior be treated with beatings, twice daily.

 

[Pope of Degeneracy]

So I'm probably extremely late to this knowledge, but when I browsed the new account register page and I saw this under the E-mail slot:

Which just made me realize something....

A database breach of this site would be fucking tremendous

All those public email account leaks would be a doxing treasure trove of lulz

 

[Journoscum]

Why do they even need Era when they have all these Discords?

Era is for when they publicly shame people for having the wrong opinions. Discord is where they privately have the wrong opinions.