2) I turned down 7 and 8 figure offers purely to keep neogaf independent because of its importance as a neutral, pro-indie voice in the online video game scene and because of the responsibility I accepted when the community entrusted me with running it in 2004, despite the absolute impossibility of ever achieving an alternate route to that financial outcome or anywhere remotely near it. I was smeared and defamed by the press and this place was bombarded with over a thousand account suicides and porn bombs last year, along with DDoS attacks, attempting to kill it, and I was encouraged to kill myself by community members I held dear.
I'm still here. NeoGAF is still independent. The mods abusing power have all been identified, removed, and their methods closed off from future abuse potential. Over a thousand bans from 2016-2017 have been personally reviewed and adjudicated one by one, with every overturned permed account holder individually and personally emailed by me. We've proudly installed a public, transparent ban record and the entire mod team has been hand picked and personally mentored by me on a daily basis, with additional accountability, logging, and cross-vetting standards in place.
Still concerned about $5 bribes, Yoshi?