Maybe the real NeoGAF was the friends we made along the way...

[who is ted danson?]

huh, derrick01 is posting at opencritic

[VomKriege]

I thought mods were anonymous now? Why is Timan in red

Timan and Gromph are the people working on the technical side of things, for quite some time now, and supposedly are not moderating per se (though it is said Gromph has granted requests for nuking accounts in the past, if contacted directly).

[VomKriege]

huh, derrick01 is posting at opencritic

As good an intuition on forums than a taste in games, heh ?

[TVC15]

Last decent FF was VIII anyway

VIII was for pedo weeaboos. Don't make me pull up Amir0x's rap sheet again.

[CurseoftheGods]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1454740

Just noticed this new feature on GAF, it seems that posts no longer give notifications if they have been edited. I'm sure anyone with any history on GAF can think of some times when this would have been handy for a variety of members.

Sorry if a thread for this is inappropriate, but it seems like a fairly major change that I didn't see mentioned anywhere else.

edit notifications removed lol

legal fuckery is definitely incoming

[seagrams hotsauce]

Real quick I know the 1000 fights thing gets the attention but I also distinctly remember Lore bragging about rubbing sand in wounds incurred from stepping on coral to prevent himself from bleeding to death, which is the most insane nonsensical shit I've ever heard in my fuckin life. Am I imagining this or was that part of that same pasta?

GODD DAMNIT U NERDS ANSWER ME

Also gonna need deets on that turkish brothel scam story Wrath lmao

[Vertigo]

Back when they kicked out Aquamarine/NDP Mulcair and no one took their place I thought it was the beginning of the end for NeoGAF.

I never understand why did they did that (or missed it, i guess)?

Aqua had an alt, George, so y2k banned her.  Nuking her and zhuge killed salesgaf.

That's not what happened, NPD threatened legal action against Malka over the leaked data being posted. Lore instantly rolled over and gave them all Aqua's details aand since she had to have a paid email of course, it was easily traced back to her job related to NPD and she had to request a ban in order to keep her job

Even more messed up is that she was in a well paid job. To risk it all for gaf cred was amazing.

 

IIRC, she later got official permission by her employer to post the numbers, and that's what she used the Mulcair alt account for. But since alts were not allowed, they (Y2Kev) banned her again. After this, she posted numbers on vgchartz for a while (no idea if she still does).

lol gaf moderation at it's finest.

[oneils]

huh, derrick01 is posting at opencritic

Wow, those guys were fast. I'm really curious to see how that works out.

[injurai]

Reset is actively destroying gaf former communities already brehs.

They been coming into ppls discords full of people who don't want the Reseti, and are like,"JOIN OUR FORUM. WHO IS OUR REP." and people don't want them there, but they strong arm their way in some how. Then they start seeing that you were the "trash" of gaf (and by that I mean having your own opinions) and it turns into fucking war because you have said NO to their forum apparently.

I am reading this from at least three different people.

They are literally satiating their desires for a Gulag.

Regulagera

[seagrams hotsauce]

Also waht's the asset url that u can use to view old pages I googled the fight thing and cant acces the old page pls help

[Steve Youngblood]

Back when they kicked out Aquamarine/NDP Mulcair and no one took their place I thought it was the beginning of the end for NeoGAF.

I never understand why did they did that (or missed it, i guess)?

Aqua had an alt, George, so y2k banned her.  Nuking her and zhuge killed salesgaf.

That's not what happened, NPD threatened legal action against Malka over the leaked data being posted. Lore instantly rolled over and gave them all Aqua's details aand since she had to have a paid email of course, it was easily traced back to her job related to NPD and she had to request a ban in order to keep her job

Even more messed up is that she was in a well paid job. To risk it all for gaf cred was amazing.

 

I don’t know for sure, but our honest read of the situation was that aside from definitely having access to NPD numbers nothing about the Aquamarine account was credible.

[Piikm]

I for one welcome our reeeeeee re-education camps.

[EightBitNate]

(Image removed from quote.)

 

Nice avatar haha

[Nuitangg]

Is Y2kev doing a bit or is he really that dumb?

[agrajag]

lol that star wars scroll

[dridru]

Real quick I know the 1000 fights thing gets the attention but I also distinctly remember Lore bragging about rubbing sand in wounds incurred from stepping on coral to prevent himself from bleeding to death, which is the most insane nonsensical shit I've ever heard in my fuckin life. Am I imagining this or was that part of that same pasta?

GODD DAMNIT U NERDS ANSWER ME

Also gonna need deets on that turkish brothel scam story Wrath lmao

This one? http://i.imgur.com/OxCiCJS.png

It's pretty funny. Dude was going to a brothel of some kind. Russian girl worked him into thinking he was the coolest guy ever. Then the bouncers showed up and throw him out after taking his money.

[benjipwns]

The lack of transparency and accountability was the main issue with the moderation team before (which is why Modbot was a terrible idea). So yeah, I agree that making the mod team even more hidden strips way even more accountability. It also opens the door for the moderation team to became a huge groupthink hivemind since they have no reason to factor in the perspective of typical GAF members.

all these people who are leaving for the new utopia sure are concerned about the poor direction gaf may potentially hypothetically go under certain scenarios which don't matter because they're done with the garbage place anyway and does anyone have a discord invite i want to join retrogaf and spend my bitcoins

[Vertigo]

Back when they kicked out Aquamarine/NDP Mulcair and no one took their place I thought it was the beginning of the end for NeoGAF.

I never understand why did they did that (or missed it, i guess)?

Aqua had an alt, George, so y2k banned her.  Nuking her and zhuge killed salesgaf.

That's not what happened, NPD threatened legal action against Malka over the leaked data being posted. Lore instantly rolled over and gave them all Aqua's details aand since she had to have a paid email of course, it was easily traced back to her job related to NPD and she had to request a ban in order to keep her job

Even more messed up is that she was in a well paid job. To risk it all for gaf cred was amazing.

 

I don’t know for sure, but our honest read of the situation was that aside from definitely having access to NPD numbers nothing about the Aquamarine account was credible.

So did NPD ask who it was? Or did EL ban the account just to be safe?

[gfm793]

Reset is actively destroying gaf former communities already brehs.

They been coming into ppls discords full of people who don't want the Reseti, and are like,"JOIN OUR FORUM. WHO IS OUR REP." and people don't want them there, but they strong arm their way in some how. Then they start seeing that you were the "trash" of gaf (and by that I mean having your own opinions) and it turns into fucking war because you have said NO to their forum apparently.

I am reading this from at least three different people.

[injurai]

How about moderators be chosen out of users who don't cultivate personalities. So they can be transparent and dispassionately enforce the rules.

[CurseoftheGods]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1454740

Just noticed this new feature on GAF, it seems that posts no longer give notifications if they have been edited. I'm sure anyone with any history on GAF can think of some times when this would have been handy for a variety of members.

Sorry if a thread for this is inappropriate, but it seems like a fairly major change that I didn't see mentioned anywhere else.

edit notifications removed lol

legal fuckery is definitely incoming

follow up

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=252848569&postcount=49

[doctavius bonbon]

Reset is actively destroying gaf former communities already brehs.

They been coming into ppls discords full of people who don't want the Reseti, and are like,"JOIN OUR FORUM. WHO IS OUR REP." and people don't want them there, but they strong arm their way in some how. Then they start seeing that you were the "trash" of gaf (and by that I mean having your own opinions) and it turns into fucking war because you have said NO to their forum apparently.

I am reading this from at least three different people.

where the screenshots at

[BisMarckie]

It's a good time to remember the high-level abstract political debate that happens on NeoGAF.com.
(Image removed from quote.)

I'm certain that ellipses represents an orgasm.

I remeber that thread, and a couple of people got mad when I said that conservatism stands for one of their favorites: Angela Merkel.

[gfm793]

The lack of transparency and accountability was the main issue with the moderation team before (which is why Modbot was a terrible idea). So yeah, I agree that making the mod team even more hidden strips way even more accountability. It also opens the door for the moderation team to became a huge groupthink hivemind since they have no reason to factor in the perspective of typical GAF members.

all these people who are leaving for the new utopia sure are concerned about the poor direction gaf may potentially hypothetically go under certain scenarios which don't matter because they're done with the garbage place anyway and does anyone have a discord invite i want to join retrogaf and spend my bitcoins

They're worried that the Russians will use NeoGAF as a staging ground. And they, and their Kekistani and gamergate allies will storm their new fledgling country.

[seagrams hotsauce]

Real quick I know the 1000 fights thing gets the attention but I also distinctly remember Lore bragging about rubbing sand in wounds incurred from stepping on coral to prevent himself from bleeding to death, which is the most insane nonsensical shit I've ever heard in my fuckin life. Am I imagining this or was that part of that same pasta?

GODD DAMNIT U NERDS ANSWER ME

Also gonna need deets on that turkish brothel scam story Wrath lmao

This one? http://i.imgur.com/OxCiCJS.png

It's pretty funny. Dude was going to a brothel of some kind. Russian girl worked him into thinking he was the coolest guy ever. Then the bouncers showed up and throw him out after taking his money.

LMAO that's fucking gold. The complete bullshit ending especially. "I told my wide eyed friend we were scammed. "DUUUUHHHH REALLY?" he said. "Yup," i replied. "Old Lore done seen a few things in his days." He didn't seem to mind getting scammed out of two gs, because Swedish people are distinguished mentally-challenged. I'm very smart though, because despite falling for the same scam as this asshole, I can call my bank to tell them I fell for said scam."

[benjipwns]

MOD TEAM POSTS: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=252848569&postcount=49

[Dennis]

Back when they kicked out Aquamarine/NDP Mulcair and no one took their place I thought it was the beginning of the end for NeoGAF.

I never understand why did they did that (or missed it, i guess)?

Aqua had an alt, George, so y2k banned her.  Nuking her and zhuge killed salesgaf.

That's not what happened, NPD threatened legal action against Malka over the leaked data being posted. Lore instantly rolled over and gave them all Aqua's details aand since she had to have a paid email of course, it was easily traced back to her job related to NPD and she had to request a ban in order to keep her job

IIRC, she later got official permission by her employer to post the numbers, and that's what she used the Mulcair alt account for. But since alts were not allowed, they (Y2Kev) banned her again.

 

[nachobro]

meanwhile I had someone in the newly tolerant GAF FGC room tell me I belonged in a concentration camp before I was booted out for not being woke enough. that'd be a real shame if it stopped them from getting in to Resettiera

[samir]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1454740

Just noticed this new feature on GAF, it seems that posts no longer give notifications if they have been edited. I'm sure anyone with any history on GAF can think of some times when this would have been handy for a variety of members.

Sorry if a thread for this is inappropriate, but it seems like a fairly major change that I didn't see mentioned anywhere else.

edit notifications removed lol

legal fuckery is definitely incoming

follow up

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=252848569&postcount=49

30$ Italian meal?
 

[TVC15]

Who the hell is $30 Italian meal? New account from today with 3 posts. Listed as part of the mod team. He closed the edited post notifications thread.

http://www.neogaf.com/member.php?u=71921

$30 Italian meal! Like the old hilarious GAF meme! You know, from before the site was most widely known as the den of a sexual assaulter?

[Walter White Walker]

Hello.
Well, that was an interesting Saturday night.
I poked my head in the door after GAF semi-opened back up and what a clusterfuck that is. No thanks, although I just logged out rather than taking a ban.

[VomKriege]

Real quick I know the 1000 fights thing gets the attention but I also distinctly remember Lore bragging about rubbing sand in wounds incurred from stepping on coral to prevent himself from bleeding to death, which is the most insane nonsensical shit I've ever heard in my fuckin life. Am I imagining this or was that part of that same pasta?

GODD DAMNIT U NERDS ANSWER ME

Also gonna need deets on that turkish brothel scam story Wrath lmao

This one? http://i.imgur.com/OxCiCJS.png

It's pretty funny. Dude was going to a brothel of some kind. Russian girl worked him into thinking he was the coolest guy ever. Then the bouncers showed up and throw him out after taking his money.

LMAO that's fucking gold. The complete bullshit ending especially. "I told my wide eyed friend we were scammed. "DUUUUHHHH REALLY?" he said. "Yup," i replied. "Old Lore done seen a few things in his days." He didn't seem to mind getting scammed out of two gs, because Swedish people are distinguished mentally-challenged. I'm very smart though, because despite falling for the same scam as this asshole, I can call my bank to tell them I fell for said scam."

"You're a good dancer man !"

[CrankyJay]

Who the hell is $30 Italian meal? New account from today with 3 posts. Listed as part of the mod team. He closed the edited post notifications thread.

http://www.neogaf.com/member.php?u=71921

Someone has a side account....!

[Uncle]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=252843369&postcount=1071

You get NeoGAF already isn’t, right?! The community left is GamerGate/4chan and those too simple/ignorant to understand what’s happening. Hatred is not okay to stand by and let roll.

Also those nice detailed threads you enjoyed were made by hard working progressive members that already left or are going to. Conservative red neck assholes aren’t going to put the work in for detailed write ups and elaborate OTs. They are too lazy and complain about anything that their delicate snowflake eyes can’t handle seeing about social and environmental issues.

Man this is the first OT I know of that has happened since all this went down, we didn't know the game was going to be shown off in advance so it's not like an OT was prepped, you could call it comparatively low effort but it's as bloated and horrible as any OT has ever been.

[Steve Youngblood]

So did NPD ask who it was? Or did EL ban the account just to be safe?

To my knowledge NPD never inquired about the account. The NPD_mulcair account was just banned because it was an alt account misrepresenting its credentials as an NPD employee. The original sob story about NPD ninjas out to get them and needing to quit the forum came immediately after a request for a better tag from “GAF’s waifu” (or something, I don’t remember exactly) resulted in the tag being reverted to Member.

It’s possible that everything that was shared on Chartz is 100% true. I don’t know or care anymore.

[Pwnz]

Need to add Tyler to my linked in and vouch for hacking skills, and reading other people's mail. Could land him a job somewhere after this.

[Jenkem]

trump shills and hillary shills are better than LEAFS

go eat maple syrup in your igloos and drink milk out of bags, LEAFS

I think Justin Trudeau needs a shoulder to cry on, LEAFS

[VomKriege]

So did NPD ask who it was? Or did EL ban the account just to be safe?

To my knowledge NPD never inquired about the account. The NPD_mulcair account was just banned because it was an alt account misrepresenting its credentials as an NPD employee. The original sob story about NPD ninjas out to get them and needing to quit the forum came immediately after a request for a better tag from “GAF’s waifu” (or something, I don’t remember exactly) resulted in the tag being reverted to Member.

It’s possible that everything that was shared on Chartz is 100% true. I don’t know or care anymore.

Too mundane

[who is ted danson?]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=252843369&postcount=1071

You get NeoGAF already isn’t, right?! The community left is GamerGate/4chan and those too simple/ignorant to understand what’s happening. Hatred is not okay to stand by and let roll.

Also those nice detailed threads you enjoyed were made by hard working progressive members that already left or are going to. Conservative red neck assholes aren’t going to put the work in for detailed write ups and elaborate OTs. They are too lazy and complain about anything that their delicate snowflake eyes can’t handle seeing about social and environmental issues.

Man this is the first OT I know of that has happened since all this went down, we didn't know the game was going to be shown off in advance so it's not like an OT was prepped, you could call it comparatively low effort but it's as bloated and horrible as any OT has ever been.

not the first ot, i tried to do one for dsp twice but people posted porn and it got nuked

[injurai]

meanwhile I had someone in the newly tolerant GAF FGC room tell me I belonged in a concentration camp before I was booted out for not being woke enough. that'd be a real shame if it stopped them from getting in to Resettiera

(Image removed from quote.)

 

[Vertigo]

So did NPD ask who it was? Or did EL ban the account just to be safe?

To my knowledge NPD never inquired about the account. The NPD_mulcair account was just banned because it was an alt account misrepresenting its credentials as an NPD employee. The original sob story about NPD ninjas out to get them and needing to quit the forum came immediately after a request for a better tag from “GAF’s waifu” (or something, I don’t remember exactly) resulted in the tag being reverted to Member.

It’s possible that everything that was shared on Chartz is 100% true. I don’t know or care anymore.

Interesting. Thanks for answering though.

[VomKriege]

Who the hell is $30 Italian meal? New account from today with 3 posts. Listed as part of the mod team. He closed the edited post notifications thread.

http://www.neogaf.com/member.php?u=71921

$30 Italian meal! Like the old hilarious GAF meme! You know, from before the site was most widely known as the den of a sexual assaulter?

It's really a pathetic attempt at pandering yet the most GAF thing to do too.

[CurseoftheGods]

Need to add Tyler to my linked in and vouch for hacking skills, and reading other people's mail. Could land him a job somewhere after this.

does malka even have any employable skills? iirc, he made a living off of the forum

[tummyfat]

Steve, what's the ModBot password?

[Dennis]

Who is "$30 Italian Meal"?

Could it be someone Bore knows?

[jiji]

trump shills and hillary shills are better than LEAFS

go eat maple syrup in your igloos and drink milk out of bags, LEAFS

I think Justin Trudeau needs a shoulder to cry on, LEAFS

[injurai]

Of all the gaf memes, that was the one that needed to die most. At the end nobody that was around for that was still laughing, it was merely used as a way to show that you had drank the culture koo-aid.

[Pills Here]

Reset is actively destroying gaf former communities already brehs.

They been coming into ppls discords full of people who don't want the Reseti, and are like,"JOIN OUR FORUM. WHO IS OUR REP." and people don't want them there, but they strong arm their way in some how. Then they start seeing that you were the "trash" of gaf (and by that I mean having your own opinions) and it turns into fucking war because you have said NO to their forum apparently.

I am reading this from at least three different people.

They are literally satiating their desires for a Gulag.

Regulagera

North KorERA

[samir]

Need to add Tyler to my linked in and vouch for hacking skills, and reading other people's mail. Could land him a job somewhere after this.

does malka even have any employable skills? iirc, he made a living off of the forum

No. If GAF goes bye bye he's screwed. 

[Occam]

So did NPD ask who it was? Or did EL ban the account just to be safe?

To my knowledge NPD never inquired about the account. The NPD_mulcair account was just banned because it was an alt account misrepresenting its credentials as an NPD employee. The original sob story about NPD ninjas out to get them and needing to quit the forum came immediately after a request for a better tag from “GAF’s waifu” (or something, I don’t remember exactly) resulted in the tag being reverted to Member.

It’s possible that everything that was shared on Chartz is 100% true. I don’t know or care anymore.

What I always wondered was how much it would have been for EL to pay for NPD's numbers and just post them officially. I wonder why no US gaming publication or website does it. Is it that expensive to get NPD console sales data to publish?

[Vertigo]

meanwhile I had someone in the newly tolerant GAF FGC room tell me I belonged in a concentration camp before I was booted out for not being woke enough. that'd be a real shame if it stopped them from getting in to Resettiera

(Image removed from quote.)

if that's the same Dahbomb as the gaf one they still have their account on gaf

Maybe the resetters need to be asking why that is?

Is he not true to the cause?

 

[nachobro]

It's really a pathetic attempt at pandering yet the most GAF thing to do too.

well, second most. the most gaf thing to do is throw a fit and go to make your own forum...then never actually launch it because you are too concerned with how to exclude people that you never finish the damn thing

[Dennis]

meanwhile I had someone in the newly tolerant GAF FGC room tell me I belonged in a concentration camp before I was booted out for not being woke enough. that'd be a real shame if it stopped them from getting in to Resettiera

(Image removed from quote.)

if that's the same Dahbomb as the gaf one they still have their account on gaf

Maybe the resetters need to be asking why that is?

Is he not true to the cause?

 

  First mole detected. Someone alert the ResetEra police.

[Steve Youngblood]

So did NPD ask who it was? Or did EL ban the account just to be safe?

To my knowledge NPD never inquired about the account. The NPD_mulcair account was just banned because it was an alt account misrepresenting its credentials as an NPD employee. The original sob story about NPD ninjas out to get them and needing to quit the forum came immediately after a request for a better tag from “GAF’s waifu” (or something, I don’t remember exactly) resulted in the tag being reverted to Member.

It’s possible that everything that was shared on Chartz is 100% true. I don’t know or care anymore.

What I always wondered was how much it would have been for EL to pay for NPD's numbers and just post them officially. I wonder why no US gaming publication or website does it. Is it that expensive to get NPD console sales data to publish?

It’s proprietary data. You’re not allowed to publicly dump the raw data even if you have legitimate access to it.

[FStop7]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1454700

Apparently some NeoGAF users are getting their accounts banned because they used to verify their Discord ID by PMing other GAFfers with their Discord credentials, in order to prove their identity and be able to register on the new forum. It's not clear if some mods are manually banning those people or if there's some kind of script. What's certain is that someone high up is deliberately going through them, and that's a huge invasion of privacy and breach of trust.

evilore is now going through private messages

this is a shit show

Pretty sure that reading PMs has been going on for years.  coughamiroxcough

[VomKriege]

So did NPD ask who it was? Or did EL ban the account just to be safe?

To my knowledge NPD never inquired about the account. The NPD_mulcair account was just banned because it was an alt account misrepresenting its credentials as an NPD employee. The original sob story about NPD ninjas out to get them and needing to quit the forum came immediately after a request for a better tag from “GAF’s waifu” (or something, I don’t remember exactly) resulted in the tag being reverted to Member.

It’s possible that everything that was shared on Chartz is 100% true. I don’t know or care anymore.

What I always wondered was how much it would have been for EL to pay for NPD's numbers and just post them officially. I wonder why no US gaming publication or website does it. Is it that expensive to get NPD console sales data to publish?

I would be surprised subscribers are allowed to publicize NPD numbers (beyond the chart with no sales number attached you see everywhere, maybe I'm thinking of another organization). I mean the whole point of their business is making people pay to access it.

[Occam]

So did NPD ask who it was? Or did EL ban the account just to be safe?

To my knowledge NPD never inquired about the account. The NPD_mulcair account was just banned because it was an alt account misrepresenting its credentials as an NPD employee. The original sob story about NPD ninjas out to get them and needing to quit the forum came immediately after a request for a better tag from “GAF’s waifu” (or something, I don’t remember exactly) resulted in the tag being reverted to Member.

It’s possible that everything that was shared on Chartz is 100% true. I don’t know or care anymore.

What I always wondered was how much it would have been for EL to pay for NPD's numbers and just post them officially. I wonder why no US gaming publication or website does it. Is it that expensive to get NPD console sales data to publish?

It’s proprietart data. You’re not allowed to publicly dump the raw data even if you have legitimate access to it.

I know, but presumably they offer specific licenses that allow publication. After all, the console makers occasionally do post numbers.

[Pwnz]

Need to add Tyler to my linked in and vouch for hacking skills, and reading other people's mail. Could land him a job somewhere after this.

does malka even have any employable skills? iirc, he made a living off of the forum

Probably not. I think we are around the same age which means he bought gaf in high school. Unless he invested well hed have to move. Austonian pent house isnt cheap.

[Vertigo]

So did NPD ask who it was? Or did EL ban the account just to be safe?

To my knowledge NPD never inquired about the account. The NPD_mulcair account was just banned because it was an alt account misrepresenting its credentials as an NPD employee. The original sob story about NPD ninjas out to get them and needing to quit the forum came immediately after a request for a better tag from “GAF’s waifu” (or something, I don’t remember exactly) resulted in the tag being reverted to Member.

It’s possible that everything that was shared on Chartz is 100% true. I don’t know or care anymore.

What I always wondered was how much it would have been for EL to pay for NPD's numbers and just post them officially. I wonder why no US gaming publication or website does it. Is it that expensive to get NPD console sales data to publish?

Apparently (someone can correct me) A lot of companies use it for forecasting. So the in depth data subscription was apparently very pricey more than EL could probably afford or want to pay for certainly. Ditto these game websites. They took the top ten scraps that were thrown their way with no official sales numbers and then later maybe a few numbers from someone who had access to the hard data.

And some massaged numbers from the game company PR arms

[Dougstyles]

Man this is the first OT I know of that has happened since all this went down, we didn't know the game was going to be shown off in advance so it's not like an OT was prepped, you could call it comparatively low effort but it's as bloated and horrible as any OT has ever been.

At the very least, I've always appreciated OTs without the lolsowitty titles that losers spend pages trying to claim.