| mountaindewslave said: seems like a lot of immature people reacting sensitively if you ask me. There's no proof either way, and in the end the odds are that the majority of forums and websites have owners and moderators who are ass holes in their personal lives. Supposedly the guy who runs GAF seemed like a dick in the past too, yet that didn't effect people then? People will get offended about anything these days. Sexual harassment is no joke, but if you look at the scenario worded by the girl herself it appears to be an awkward drunk night misunderstanding which resulted in a rejection. However after that it appears the two were involved romantically, so it is indeed a complicated affair overall. Its hardly black and white and frankly in the end the answers probably won't come out entirely because at worst it seems like possibly a night of an unwelcome 'come on' that was stopped as soon as the party made that aware People suicide posting threads for attention of "OMG Neogaf is gross now, BAN ME" is just so gross and in bad taste. And the reality is who do people think will be running ResetEra? it will be the same old mods who were extremely sensitive before and pushed the herd mentality of attacking anyone who dared not to be insanely politically correct. I mean for gods sake it probably will be an unknown factor of who technically owns and runs ResetEra, and at least somewhat unknown of if the people in charge have done fucked up things in their past. Which is why it's silly to me. Neogaf isn't a community that's ever worshipped the guy who owns it. Just like VGChartz isn't a community all about its owner. So why on the Earth is it so relevant? it's a discussion forum about games. And, again, the odds are there are mods and owners at the majority of websites who aren't the sweetest slices of pie, but you'll never know that.
Just seems like a lot of immature actions lately and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of mods who resented things about GAF (in general) have been just waiting for an opportunity to jump ship and make their own site. It comes off as kind of tacky to jump on a unsubstantiated claim and run with it with extremes to build your own community. And the irony is that the very same people who seem to be jumping ship on GAF appear to be the same ones who made it a nightmare for new members (i.e. social justice warrior attacks on any edge comments whatsoever).
It didn't really matter who the owner of Neogaf was before, and it doesn't really now because nothing pertains to that as far as chatting games. The odds are the CEO's/boards of Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Amazon, etc. etc. etc. are involved in terrible practices that rely on foreign slave work (practically), yet I highly doubt the whiners asking for bans on GAF are going to refuse to ever go to those stores. Just like I highly doubt they're going to VET every movie director, every author, every musician, for ANY previous hiccups or accusations of harrassment, or just claims of harassment
Long story short: the fact that ResetEra (and others?) are bloating up an unsubtantiated accusation and going to an extreme with it to prop up their new community, where presumably a number of the former GAF mods will have power and even ownership (?) sort of is not a good look. The way people the people who are leaving that community are acting seems to suggest that they potentially weren't a great part of it to begin with for the record: people are inoccent until proven guilty and in the end no one determines if they're going to use a website based on the owner because 99.9% of the time people have no fucking clue who the owners really are. if ResetEra is truly full of old members of GAF who constantly seemed to go on witchhunts against any slight offense someone made in the industry, and whom tried to ban anyone who wasn't extremely liberal- it'll be a nightmare to post on the forum. I don't have high expectations for it.
and frankly GAF changing their rules up recently to not have so much politics on the site seems like a good direction. NEOGAF has almost been ruined in recent years by the insane political direction of everything in practically all threads. It stopped being about video games and talking about passions (or arguing about passions). That's one thing that's nice about this forum, there's a nice emphasis on the games and every single thread doesn't turn into a witchhunt |
Too much "guilty until proven innocent" going on nowadays.
