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[ThatStupidLion]

what happened to Beard of the Forest?

does he still work for gaf? or did he leave? staff page still lists him...but his name doesnt exist anymore and he wasnt banned...

 

[slugbahr]

How are you tracking that?

It's not just a cum closet. It's more like a batcave.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

https://www.neogaf.com/members/

this is neat, never knew about it.

god damn cant believe 10k likes. dudes notifications must be going wild. i'm not even at 1k, but soon! congrats DeepEnigma . shows you don't need gafgold to be popular in this world. an inspiration to us poor folk.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

The ignore function should work like Twitter blocking. One side initiates it, it applies to both parties. I don’t see them, they don’t see me.

Better that way, imo

 

[Nymphae]

what happened to Beard of the Forest?

does he still work for gaf? or did he leave? staff page still lists him...but his name doesnt exist anymore and he wasnt banned...

Huh. Last I heard from him he was arguing with me about an image I posted in the funny pics thread about trans people. The entire conversation was deleted from the thread and the image not allowed, even though the content of the image was not any more offensive than many of the anti-trans opinions stated here in relevant threads. Evilore stepped in and deemed it inappropriate and deleted the whole argument about it.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

while im here in this thread, since i dont visit it often, ill just say - maybe we don't need welcome back threads????........

 

[ThatStupidLion]

Huh. Last I heard from him he was arguing with me about an image I posted in the funny pics thread about trans people. The entire conversation was deleted from the thread and the image not allowed, even though the content of the image was not any more offensive than many of the anti-trans opinions stated here in relevant threads. Evilore stepped in and deemed it inappropriate and deleted the whole argument about it.

interesting. thanks for the insider information. explains why not listed on ban page - he was either terminated or went into gaf witness protection service and got a new account secretly.

 

[Nymphae]

The ignore function should work like Twitter blocking. One side initiates it, it applies to both parties. I don’t see them, they don’t see me.

Better that way, imo

How would this be better? If you want to close your mind to what other people are saying on this discussion board, have at it. But that decision shouldn't affect other user's experience with the site. It's a discussion board, not twitter.

 

[Dr. Claus]

The ignore function should work like Twitter blocking. One side initiates it, it applies to both parties. I don’t see them, they don’t see me.

Better that way, imo

Or you can deal with people having different opinions and not running to block people after a disagreement (or threatening to do so).

 

[brap]

https://www.neogaf.com/members/

lmao slayven with all those messages

 

[Papa]

https://www.neogaf.com/members/

Oh shit I had no idea about this. I think this is just a list of the biggest no life nerds.

Also I would like to know what happened to Beard too. I liked that guy.

 

[Papa]

The ignore function should work like Twitter blocking. One side initiates it, it applies to both parties. I don’t see them, they don’t see me.

Better that way, imo

Jare, I say this with love.

Harden the fuck up, cunt.




Edit: I also just noticed that you are 13th on the list of all time likes and I've only noticed you posting here for less than 6 months (post-purge anyway). Why the hell have you been complaining about likes?

 

[Shifty]

https://www.neogaf.com/members/

Oh shit I had no idea about this. I think this is just a list of the biggest no life nerds.

...GAF has a high score board?

Probably all cheating bots anyway. Harrumph.

Jare, I say this with love.

Harden the fuck up, cunt.

If I come away from this thread having learned one thing, it's that I need to watch some more Ronnie Johns

 

[DeepEnigma]

I'm subscribed to this thread but when I went on GAF this afternoon I had over 60 notifications so I guess it got buried and I never got updated since, lol. So I am LTTP!

 

[5secondrulesucks]

gaf on gaf? what you mean like me sucking my own dick

 

[AV]

Okay Tyler, I've paid my fifty buck premium but I still can't see a link to the NSFW staff photoshoots. What gives?

 

[Mod of War]

Okay Tyler, I've paid my fifty buck premium but I still can't see a link to the NSFW staff photoshoots. What gives?

NSFMortals

Spoiler

 

[EviLore]

Okay Tyler, I've paid my fifty buck premium but I still can't see a link to the NSFW staff photoshoots. What gives?

I'd post my nudes but I don't want any of our more insecure members to off themselves in the heat of the moment.

 

[kbear]

The last post on the first page of the gaming side was four hours ago. I’ve got no proof but I remember it being not even close to that last year.

The gaming side is the absolute core of neogaf, and if they focus on increasing activity and posting up-to-minute neckbeard gaming news, everything else (OT, et al) will fall into place.

Personally, I’d like to see the OTs of big releases have those monster threads again so I can lurk and read impressions. Same with movies and TV shows on this side.

 

[Shifty]

Watchu doin' with that avatar of yours JareBear: Remastered

Choppin' and changin' it like it's a pair of socks, gatdang. How am I meant to know who anybody is anymore?

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Watchu doin' with that avatar of yours JareBear: Remastered

Choppin' and changin' it like it's a pair of socks, gatdang. How am I meant to know who anybody is anymore?

 

[Shifty]

Spotted this on one of the messages on the ban history page:

Light theme also removed.

Truly, the moderation team wields great power

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

How does one go about requesting a name change? Is that an option?

 

[Shifty]

How does one go about requesting a name change? Is that an option?

Looking to go incognito eh?

The mods have that power. You just gotta PM one and try to convince them.

 

[Helios]

Truly, the moderation team wields great power

They should use that power more often. Light theme is for heretics.

 

[Shifty]

I see H Hobbesian copped a perm for insulting the community as a whole after the broken TV / apex legends overscan thread backfired.

I feel like maybe that was a tad heavy-handed. Granted, the guy dipped into using insulting and/or superior language more often than he should, but the rest of his posting had some decent discourse and argumentation to it outside of that.
It just seems a bit much given that some recently-temped shitposters (who shall remain nameless) earned their 1-2 week bans for, in my opinion, more egregious stuff. They get to come back and have another go with their low-tier discourse, whereas H Hobbesian got the hard boot and no second chance to shore up his attitude.

Now granted, I think I've been on his ignore list since a run-in a week or two back, which makes me an unlikely candidate for the defense. I could also be missing reams of context that fed into the perm, but it nonetheless strikes me as something worth speaking up about.

 

[Nymphae]

I think he was making a great point, only to be met with "lol your TV is broken buy a new one", and somehow gets a ban for telling the shitty people they're shitty. The mods/Evilore seem to have a thin skin at times, I feel like I've seen a few people get the boot for pretty basic negative comments about the forum/members.

 

[Dr. Claus]

I think he was making a great point, only to be met with "lol your TV is broken buy a new one", and somehow gets a ban for telling the shitty people they're shitty.

The dude was throwing a hissy fit and calling an entire forum "unsympathetic" for not caring that his 10 year old TV isn't working as well as a modern TV for modern games. People weren't being shitty, they just weren't coddling him. Not to mention the myriad of other posts of his that were both thinly veiled and completely blatant personal attacks.

 

[Nymphae]

The dude was throwing a hissy fit and calling an entire forum "unsympathetic" for not caring that his 10 year old TV isn't working as well as a modern TV for modern games. People weren't being shitty, they just weren't coddling him. Not to mention the myriad of other posts of his that were both thinly veiled and completely blatant personal attacks.

I'm not seeing a hissy fit in that thread, he made a legitimate point and a detailed OP, and no one would back him on it, first post did say email them, which is good advice. Then everyone wanted to shove the broken TV in his face and call it a day.

Quite sure none of them lurk here. But you should email them

Good advice, 1 like.

You want them to change the game because your TV is broken?

Snide comment that misses OP's point? 13 likes

If my TV broke, I would look into buying a new TV instead of asking the devs to change a game to work on my broken TV.

Another snide comment not addressing OP's point, 4 likes

My old ass TV is broken! I demand you patch your game ASAP!

I know GAF has a bit of a reputation for being tight with cash but come on! You could probably get a newer TV for free, that works on a site like freecycle or similar.

More snide comments! More likes!

He then calls the community unsympathetic. I only read a bit on the first page to get a feel for why he was banned, but it felt like a dogpile on a poster who was making a valid point and who dared to speak ill of the community.

 

[hariseldon]

I agree the ban seems a bit harsh, unless there's stuff that happened behind the scenes we aren't privy to.

 

[ReBurn]

I'm not seeing a hissy fit in that thread, he made a legitimate point and a detailed OP, and no one would back him on it, first post did say email them, which is good advice. Then everyone wanted to shove the broken TV in his face and call it a day.



Good advice, 1 like.



Snide comment that misses OP's point? 13 likes



Another snide comment not addressing OP's point, 4 likes



More snide comments! More likes!

He then calls the community unsympathetic. I only read a bit on the first page to get a feel for why he was banned, but it felt like a dogpile on a poster who was making a valid point and who dared to speak ill of the community.

My comment didn't miss OP's point. OP's point was that the bottom part of his TV was broken and he expected the developer to release a feature to allow him to resize the display area so that a game would fit his broken screen. Because naturally developers should design games with broken displays in mind.

 

[Nymphae]

he expected the developer to release a feature to allow him to resize the display area so that a game would fit his broken screen.

His point was about it being a standard feature that is absent from this game. He's not asking for it because his TV is broken, his tv is broken and he wonders why this near ubiquitous feature isn't in this game.

I would have expected more "Good point about the feature, but maybe it's also time for a new TV?", less, "Entitled manbaby wants developers to cater to his broken ass setup"

 

[Shifty]

Yeah, that thread went south pretty hard. Visual safe zones are a standardized feature in the TRCs of both console manufacturers, and one that's been around since the CRT era, so it's not an entirely unreasonable expectation to have.

That said, there does appear to be a system-level option in the PS4's settings for exactly that- what we don't know is whether he had already set it only to have the game ignore it, or didn't know about it and assumed there would be a game-side implementation as with certain other titles.

 

[hariseldon]

I'm beginning to suspect the purge of the lefties a while back has emboldened the more mad right-wing nutjobs. It's obviously hard to strike a balance but really, just as the SJWs need to be kept in their box, so the right equivalent (tax-is-theft, crazy racists, etc) need the same.

 

[YayNJ]

I'm not seeing a hissy fit in that thread, he made a legitimate point and a detailed OP, and no one would back him on it, first post did say email them, which is good advice. Then everyone wanted to shove the broken TV in his face and call it a day.



Good advice, 1 like.



Snide comment that misses OP's point? 13 likes



Another snide comment not addressing OP's point, 4 likes



More snide comments! More likes!

He then calls the community unsympathetic. I only read a bit on the first page to get a feel for why he was banned, but it felt like a dogpile on a poster who was making a valid point and who dared to speak ill of the community.

Dude if you wanted some likes you should have just said. Liked.

 

[Nymphae]

Dude if you wanted some likes you should have just said. Liked.

I was just illustrating how good advice seems to get less attention than snide remarks.

 

[Deleted member 77995]

I was just illustrating how good advice seems to get less attention than snide remarks.

It's how nearly all online interaction works unfortunately.

 

[AV]

His point was about it being a standard feature that is absent from this game. He's not asking for it because his TV is broken, his tv is broken and he wonders why this near ubiquitous feature isn't in this game.

Except it isn't nearly ubiquitous by a long stretch, sure it's in a lot of games, mostly AAA ones, but it's missing from plenty of others. Does OP make a new thread with the same complaint for each of those games? Or just the ones he wants to play? Or does he solve the root issue by replacing the broken thing he owns?

Now, I thought the perm was harsh, but I don't know what else has gone on with him in the past or behind the scenes. But there's a good reason the majority of people were ribbing on him in that thread. There's plenty of examples of sensible questions asked elsewhere on this forum with sensible answers and this was definitely not one of them.

 

[Papa]

I think he was a Ree poster too which was probably a factor.

 

[brap]

That feel when you get a message but it's just from somebody shilling their stupid picross game on steam

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

GAF used to have a rule (still has a rule?) that if someone made a thread about unconfirmed rumors and/or propped themselves up as an "insider" and the news turned out to be fake, they would receive a ban. Sometimes it was a temp ban and sometimes it was permanent, depending on the situation.

GAF members from every notch on the political spectrum agree that the drive-by reporting is bad, that leaping to conclusions is bad, and participating in a dog-pile based on false information is bad. So why do we tolerate it when it takes place in our own back yard on the Political board?

In light of the recent thread by a known troll, are we going to ban people who peddle this kind of tabloid nonsense? There was also another thread (user walked back and changed their OP after listening to some counterpoints) where a video was posted that "needed to be spread". I would hate to see GAF turn into some kind of political battleground where people feel the need to post certain viewpoints or certain hot-take news stories because they feel it affirms their own beliefs/narrative.

News needs to slow down, and I petition the mod team to please warn and ban according to that principle.

My intention here isn't to restrict conversation on a particular topic. Rather, there should be consequences for pushing stories or for pushing a story with a misleading interpretation. GAF already fell prey to political and corporate astroturfing in the past, and I would hate to see this place used as a "mirror server" (to cop a webhosting term) for false information.

 

[Nymphae]

GAF used to have a rule (still has a rule?) that if someone made a thread about unconfirmed rumors and/or propped themselves up as an "insider" and the news turned out to be fake, they would receive a ban. Sometimes it was a temp ban and sometimes it was permanent, depending on the situation.

GAF members from every notch on the political spectrum agree that the drive-by reporting is bad, that leaping to conclusions is bad, and participating in a dog-pile based on false information is bad. So why do we tolerate it when it takes place in our own back yard on the Political board?

In light of the recent thread by a known troll, are we going to ban people who peddle this kind of tabloid nonsense? There was also another thread (user walked back and changed their OP after listening to some counterpoints) where a video was posted that "needed to be spread". I would hate to see GAF turn into some kind of political battleground where people feel the need to post certain viewpoints or certain hot-take news stories because they feel it affirms their own beliefs/narrative.

News needs to slow down, and I petition the mod team to please warn and ban according to that principle.

My intention here isn't to restrict conversation on a particular topic. Rather, there should be consequences for pushing stories or for pushing a story with a misleading interpretation. GAF already fell prey to political and corporate astroturfing in the past, and I would hate to see this place used as a "mirror server" (to cop a webhosting term) for false information.

I like this idea, but maybe simply prohibiting offenders from creating new threads would be better. Any further craziness can be moderated, but if the problem is someone doing drive by threads, just don't let 'em make any more for a bit.

And should NI really be punished for creating that thread anyway? I've seen far worse drive-by threads, at least he put some effort into his posts and will generally stick around to argue his case.

 

[Yoshi]

In light of the recent thread by a known troll, are we going to ban people who peddle this kind of tabloid nonsense?

1. Nobody_Important is not a troll and I see absolutely no argument from your side here, why he is supposed to be one. Except for the assertion that it is "known" that he is a troll.
2. This was international news, all kinds of outlets reported about it, not some gossip reporting by someone who holds himself in high regard and claims to be an expert. Major news outlets found it to be worth reporting and it was not Nobody who made anything up; he accurately represented what was reported at the time, with no way of knowing how the story would develop. It is not even an article with false reporting, it is reporting on Smollett's police report which is actually factual. That it is likely now that he staged the thing was impossible for Nobody to know in advance and he kept the thread updated.

 

[Papa]

1. Nobody_Important is not a troll and I see absolutely no argument from your side here, why he is supposed to be one. Except for the assertion that it is "known" that he is a troll.
2. This was international news, all kinds of outlets reported about it, not some gossip reporting by someone who holds himself in high regard and claims to be an expert. Major news outlets found it to be worth reporting and it was not Nobody who made anything up; he accurately represented what was reported at the time, with no way of knowing how the story would develop. It is not even an article with false reporting, it is reporting on Smollett's police report which is actually factual. That it is likely now that he staged the thing was impossible for Nobody to know in advance and he kept the thread updated.

I’m not convinced that he’s a troll either. I think he genuinely believes his own bullshit. The narrative that he is a troll is already established though, so there’s not much we can do at this point.

 

[hariseldon]

I’m not convinced that he’s a troll either. I think he genuinely believes his own bullshit. The narrative that he is a troll is already established though, so there’s not much we can do at this point.

To be fair, he's not a troll, he's just an asshole. If I was to picture him.. remember that video that I think Antoon posted, where a woman went to a women's march or feminist event of some kind and there was a bloke there who was male and seemed to genuinely think he was scum because of that, like he had absolutely no self worth, and honestly it made me so sad to watch. That's how I picture him, probably a decent guy driven to self-loathing by his own issues being pounced on by radical feminists to destroy his self-worth.

 

[Yoshi]

To be fair, he's not a troll, he's just an asshole.
(...) probably a decent guy driven to self-loathing by his own issues being pounced on by radical feminists to destroy his self-worth.

An asshole, as in, a decent guy? We must have different definitions either of asshole or decent guy.

Either way, to make it clear, I think Nobody is a good person and a good poster. I also did not see any indication of self-loathing, but if he does, it is, while unfortunate, not something that drags down his character.

 

[hariseldon]

An asshole, as in, a decent guy? We must have different definitions either of asshole or decent guy.

Either way, to make it clear, I think Nobody is a good person and a good poster. I also did not see any indication of self-loathing, but if he does, it is, while unfortunate, not something that drags down his character.

Perhaps I didn't do a good job of making it clear that the asshole bit was gentle ribbing.

 

[Scopa]

I prefer shit-stirrer.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

Yoshi you have a well-catalogued history stretching back to NI's earliest posts where you leap both-feet-first into defending NI's nonsense. I've lost count of the times you've played tag-team and wrung your hands over the "dogpiles". Half the time you don't even argue the topic, you just run interference for NI. Your contrarian shtick is duly noted.

An endorsement from you regarding this user is functionally worthless, but it's nice to see I can still wring paragraphs of unsolicited defense from you with barely a mention of the name.

 

[Papa]

An asshole, as in, a decent guy? We must have different definitions either of asshole or decent guy.

Either way, to make it clear, I think Nobody is a good person and a good poster. I also did not see any indication of self-loathing, but if he does, it is, while unfortunate, not something that drags down his character.

Yeah but I wouldn’t trust Captain Autism to read people very well.