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[–] ThreeTimesFaster 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

The mods can ban anyone they want at any time for any reason. Not sure who they think they're fooling if they feel the need to use an alt to gin up a "reason" to ban someone.

GAF would be improved dramatically if they went through the post history of both their highest profile members and their most prolific posters and banned anyone who didn't post about games at all. If they didn't want to waste time doing that then straight up closing the Off-Topic section would accomplish the same result. Race hustlers, anti-cop activists, con artists, and sex criminals have no business on a videogame fan forum.

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[–] GAFequalsGameFAQs 0 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Because other members get off on seeing people banned over "the cause" flavor of the day. How else are they going to get their mod worship? bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif bish.gif

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[–] laloodoo 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Gaming side is just as pozzed. I was going to say that they should really close Gaming side and just rebrand the forum as an extreme leftist hive, but then I realized they need Gaming side as the "hook."

The GAF hivemind constantly needs an influx of new members to feel empowered and to replace the scheduled daily bannings that placate the masses with spectacle, much like the ancient Romans and their Colisseum. We know that the mods actively enforce leftist group-think on the forum. However I'm convinced that they see their duty as not merely creating a hugbox, but that they have ambitions of influencing real world politics via their positions on the forum and installing narratives in the minds of the posters. If there's anything we know about those faggots on GAF, it's that they're grandiose.

First, unassuming young people are excited over some game they played and search for a gaming forum on the web to discuss it. NeoGAF comes up on Jewgle. They click to find a clean layout and a high-activity discussion board with mostly unintrusive advertising. Great site right? But as you and I know, this is only the beginning. The true goal of GAF is for them to eventually ,out of boredom or curiosity or whatever, click Off-Topic and be inculcated into the great hive.

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[–] Statutory_Ray [S] 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

You barely have to even go into OT at this point to get the same type of trash that you get there. Look at that thread Lime made the other day about how to deal with "problematic issues in the gaming industry". The only place that doesn't have that sort of trash are a very select few community threads. Even those get purged sometimes if they aren't toeing the line, as we have seen with the Futbol OT, NBA OT, and Halo OT.

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[–] ThisIsWhoWeR 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

However I'm convinced that they see their duty as not merely creating a hugbox, but that they have ambitions of influencing real world politics via their positions on the forum and installing narratives in the minds of the posters.

This is exactly why leftists police language. They believe doing so will affect sociopolitical change.

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[–] Statutory_Ray [S] 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago  (edited ago)

The mods can ban anyone they want at any time for any reason.

There's nothing stopping them from doing so, but looking back at the besada PMs that Jado leaked, it seems they don't do that. Besada said that he thought Shattenjager was a racist and that he hated him, yet he couldn't just ban him for nothing.

Shattenjager is still an active member to this day, despite the mods wanting him gone. He just hasn't slipped up yet for them to ban him.

I think mod alts ike Enzom are used to bait people they don't like into bans by being overly hostile towards them, and if the hostility is reciprocated, the user gets banned.

Octoman in that thread is a definite shitlord and there is no doubt the mods would want someone like him gone, but he's clever enough to not break clear rules and get riled up by their bullshit.