Recca
Post subject: Re: END OF AN ERA!!
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 8:54 am
Site Admin
Joined: Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:33 pm
Yeah, I've heard about this and have rather mixed feelings on the subject. On one hand, it was a site that I've visited and known about since its very beginning back in 2005. It was and still currently is the biggest site that hosts the largest amount of various translations and romhacks alike. If it wasn't for RHDN, I might not have found out about Dynamic-Designs and its many great translations. So from that aspect, I am a bit sad to see it go out like this. After all, it was because of RHDN that I became a member here shortly after hearing about the Burning Heroes translation effort, which was the first project that I actively took part in, along with Mystic Ark.
On the other hand, I definitely saw that something like this was going to happen to the site eventually, sooner or later. I've spoken to Nightcrawler privately about this in the past on a few occasions and told him that many of the current staff members and moderators there don't have the site's best interests in mind. Instead, they were only interested in tearing down the community as a whole by driving away many prominent and talented members and contributors alike such as MrRichard999, Tom, aishsha, paul_met, Pennywise and Kitsune Sniper, among many others, as well as pushing forward their radical leftist ideology. Many of these newer moderators, staff and other members in general there started using RHDN as just another social media hangout for alt-left "woke" lunatics to push their political agendas by constantly virtue signaling and harassing anyone who they didn't agree with or despised for whatever reason, our group and members included. In short, the site became nothing more than a leftist echo chamber.
This is what started changing RHDN from a site dedicated to romhacks and translations into just another generic leftist platform to launch their attacks from and push their political agendas, as previously mentioned. In turn, this obviously led to others getting upset over their mistreatment and seeking "vengeance" against the site and its toxic staff and member base. What else can I say rather than I told Nightcrawler and others there that something like this was eventually going to happen, and they didn't listen. RHDN started having an obvious double standard which was only getting worse and worse with time. Namely, that the many fanatical leftists there were allowed to be as rude and toxic as possible and get away with it while so much as even a small word of disagreement from any conservative or centrist person would result in their posts being instantly deleted and their accounts getting banned without question. Real contributors were insulted and chased away while people who provided absolutely nothing to the community got away with being as disrespectful and belligerent as possible. Because of this, obviously no serious romhacker or translator wanted to remain part of such a toxic, hostile and aggressive community anymore and moved onto other more welcoming sites. Hopefully, in time other sites such as romhacks.org will rise up to fill the gap left by RHDN.
The moral of the story here is: Go woke, go broke.
