Denis Dyack: "ForumZ iz Serious Bidness, NeoGAF iz Goin Down!"

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Lookie what Mr. Dyack had to say about NeoGAF:

The thread they are talking about is a thread Dyack started about Too Human. The game has received a lot of flack, so Denis thought he would do a thread counting all those who are for Too Human and all those against Too Human. It was eventually locked.

According to Dyack, the infamous NeoGAF thread was started as an experiment to expose the lack of accountability in online forums. "I was basically calling out people who had no way of assessing the game," Dyack says, adding, "All I wanted to point out to people is that this is so ridiculous." Near the end of the segment, he lays out exactly why he made the post:

"I went through all of this for two reasons.... If you're going to look at the NeoGAF forum as a non-profit organization, if it does not reform itself, it's eventually going to crumble. There's going to be a point where they step over the line where someone's going to shut them down. That would be a loss for everyone.... The question I have to ask the moderators of GAF: Are you going to follow your own rules? With people making GIFs of myself that are, I would say, attacking me.... Why haven't 180 people been banned now? If I wanted to move in and shut that place down, do I have grounds under their own forum policy?"

Dyack concludes, "NeoGAF and other forums like this that don't have good management are not only hurting society and hurting the videogame industry, they're in decline, and they need to reform quickly before people stop listening to them.... If the moderators and people who run the site think they aren't doing any damage, they are sorely mistaken, and it's only a matter of time before something bad happens."

Full article and video at link: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3168552

NeoGaf hurts society! Their population needs more PS3's to cure cancer and find oil!