Why Don't You Like Neogaf? (Or why do you?)

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Aquamarine said:

chocoloco said:

I consider myself moderately liberal and I agree on this perspective. You go into certain threads and see a gang of the same liberal users that have been on there for years posting on the same subjects. This usually means, why bother posting at all because a throng of people will attack any views that might only mildly disagree with the majority consensus. Granted, I do agree with a lot of the views, but certain issues are out of control: Gun control, race issues, women, sexuallity, and anime!

There is definitely a cult of personality on the forum around certain "celebrity" users who can pretty much get away with anything scot-free.

The most direct evidence is a short-lived topic where the banned user Jado screenshotted a private-message conversation that showed how a NeoGAF mod basically admitted to promoting favoritism, elitism, and banning disliked users for petty reasons:

http://abload.de/img/modbiash7knh.png

 

The elitism is ultimately toxic as it has led to a growing opposition against NeoGAF...and a whole bunch of cynics who would like nothing more than to give them the finger.

...which in turn makes NeoGAF more insular and elite. It's a vicious downward spiral that they could ameliorate if they didn't have such ridiculous account-approval times and stringent, one-sided moderation.

If vgchartz required a paid email and mod approval, see how many of us would start acting superior to the lowly presantry of other game fora.

But I agree with everything you said, if you were one of the more calm and rational posters, I wonder how many people there are discontent yet afraid to speak their mind directly, I bet there's quite a few if an old time poster like Jado would ban his account like that. I reckon if there was an alternative people would flock over.