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Where are the nice people online?
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Anything political is going to attract two groups of people: zealots and paid shills. The two are often indistinguishable, but feed off of each other for toxic discourse.
For non-political stuff it's mostly a non-starter, hence why porn-site comments have a surprisingly decent reputation, it's either merely lewd observations or people being helpful because nobody there has an agenda.
Video game websites can get bad because of the younger demographic. I know as late as 5 years ago i was still filled with a certain zeal for my favorite games and companies that led me to being more defensive than was proper, so you get a lot of that, along with the same sorts of tribal hostilities that come to places like sports fandoms.
But half-decent moderation clears up the worst of it almost overnight. Really, just having a handful of human mods is a big step up from so many communities.
For non-political stuff it's mostly a non-starter, hence why porn-site comments have a surprisingly decent reputation, it's either merely lewd observations or people being helpful because nobody there has an agenda.
Video game websites can get bad because of the younger demographic. I know as late as 5 years ago i was still filled with a certain zeal for my favorite games and companies that led me to being more defensive than was proper, so you get a lot of that, along with the same sorts of tribal hostilities that come to places like sports fandoms.
But half-decent moderation clears up the worst of it almost overnight. Really, just having a handful of human mods is a big step up from so many communities.
King Tubby
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Those bans were also accrued over the span of like a decade, to be fair.
Forerunner
Member
Being nice doesn't get you anywhere.
I'm absurdly nieve and tend to take people at face value, since I try my best to be as honest and polite as possible online, I assume some others do as well. Yes, this has burned me in the past, and recently (ugh) but I've also made life long friends whom I love with all my heart.
I guess it's worth the risk to me.
Learning to take a chance and trust people is part of building relationships. It's part of growing up and part of being an adult. You choose the people in whom you place your trust and it either works out or it doesn't.
However, with a message board, you don't have to put yourself out there. I'm not an early 1900s Winsor Mckay drawing of Little Nemo. I'm a 34 year old male teacher from Georgia. What I say on this board wouldn't be repeated at my job, and what is said at my job won't be repeated here.
The point is that the people on these forums can be my buddies. Some of my deepest bonds have been formed with people I've never "shaked hands" with once and enclosing yourself off to the prospect of friendship from a source of social interaction where you have literally thousands off posts seems entirely redundant.
I guess we just have different definitions of friendship.
Like in the sense of "Hey I just played a game online with that guy, that was awesome!" yeah, sure.
But in terms of "Would I invite him over to my house?", umm...no.
Solid SOAP
Member
GAF gets pretty close until you voice your negative opinion about anime or Sonic the Hedgehog
I was just googling a member's name here to find out if it was a Splinter Cell reference because I was having trouble understanding a joke, which led me to one of these anti-GAF boards, which I had no idea existed until just now, and while I was still processing that I saw a link there that led me back here with the Amir0x stuff.
So basically I'm just sitting here now wondering wtf just happened.
Well, sure. If it's just some random online dude that I shallowly interacted with, I wouldn't consider him a friend either. But if it's someone online that I've gotten to know, maybe voice or video chatted with, the lines start to blur.
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
I agree, DIY communities are really nice.
SlaughterX
Banned
Wait... so you can make money being an asshole on youtube? Man, I could have been rich by now.
Control of the narrative? Most people weren't online and paying attention when the two threads were up, most people probably don't know about amir0x yet. So right now, the news is disseminating off of site through satellite communities and people with an interest in slanting the story.
Besides, there's no shortage of threads whose general theme is "X is a piece of shit", thats' basically what half of the 'florida man' threads are. Whats the harm in another when the benefit is that it staves off slander that could be directed at the site? People see someones alt account suicide to 'get the news out' and all they know is that a thread was deleted and every other thread closed. Combine that with amir0x's polarizing reputation and people can easily form wrong opinions.
Closing and deleting the first thread made sense at the time, if he pleads guilty at his hearing will you close a thread about that too?
I can see why they just want to distance themselves from him as much as possible and do damage control. He was just an already disgraced mod that lost this position years ago. Making a mega-thread out of this probably does more harm than good to the site
of course, the NeoGAF hate-sites are going to bring this up for all eternity, but there's nothing to be done about it now. GAF's only mistake was to keep him around after he got demodded, but how could anyone have known how this would play out
of course, the NeoGAF hate-sites are going to bring this up for all eternity, but there's nothing to be done about it now. GAF's only mistake was to keep him around after he got demodded, but how could anyone have known how this would play out
SpiceMelange
Member
That shouldn't be a free pass to be such a toxic poster. The amount of bans before perm for a long term poster like him could be fine, but it's the severity of the transgressions that would have perm'd anyone else I have my beef with.
LoveCake
Member
I try to be nice, I am a pretty negative person but try (hard) not to be online.
I think that an issue is that when a celebrity gets hate on Twitter they respond to it or re-tweet it, thus giving the hater the platform and recognition they are after, you send them something nice or relevant to them and you just get ignored (99% of the time).
The best thing to do is just ignore the haters unless and if the need is there to respond then they just need to be corrected and that is it.
I don't post swear words for instance here on GAF or in YT comments etc, I have on occasion on Twitter when in regards to the Government or about something that has got me really angry.
I just think that the nice people just get swept under the carpet.
I agree.
I think that an issue is that when a celebrity gets hate on Twitter they respond to it or re-tweet it, thus giving the hater the platform and recognition they are after, you send them something nice or relevant to them and you just get ignored (99% of the time).
The best thing to do is just ignore the haters unless and if the need is there to respond then they just need to be corrected and that is it.
I don't post swear words for instance here on GAF or in YT comments etc, I have on occasion on Twitter when in regards to the Government or about something that has got me really angry.
I just think that the nice people just get swept under the carpet.
I agree.
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