Having read and posted on both ResetEra and NeoGAF, I would hope NeoGAF would be better than this.
Before I get people jumping down my throat and stating I'm being a ResetEra defender (or at worse saying I'm excusing behavior), the shit in this thread is the reason why I started posting on ResetEra and posted less or not at all on NeoGAF. Since people have left for ResetEra, those remaining on NeoGAF have developed a 'us vs them' mentality and it's constant trashing of former members of NeoGAF/current members of ResetEra/ResetEra/etc. on here. It's made reading posts here more insufferable, let alone posting here. This helps no one. This doesn't help NeoGAF. This doesn't help ResetEra. This doesn't help the gaming community as a whole. Someone has already mentioned past indiscretions of people that I will not go there or bring up.
As someone correctly mentioned earlier, this is not a ResetEra problem or a NeoGAF problem. Pedophilia is everywhere on the internet and in every community on the internet. That is shameful and disgraceful that it happens. It happened here long ago. That the original poster stated I find interesting that the person was given enough confidence to get invited to a discord, had gathered information, saw what she percevied as actual misdeeds, took screenshots and reported it here. It doesn't make the person seem trustworthy and completely derails her argument, even if what she said is happening and even though it was wrong. The proper thing would have been to report this to the proper authorities if the person felt she was not being believed sufficiently by the person she contacted and NOT to a rival message board or better yet not posted online at all. If she has already done that, then fine. It makes me suspect that it was done on purpose. Again, Celine B Sykes is not in the right either based on my perception of this thread so far.
Dice's post more eloquently summarizes my views as well on this. The posts after his post questioning his loyalty is a perfect example of what my issue is.
EviLore's actions in this thread doesn't help either, but essentially it's his site, his rules. What I think or believe about this is immaterial. The proper thing would be to close this thread. I could have sworn that it was mentioned not to engage in battles between ResetEra and NeoGAF back when the split happened and that NeoGAF would be moving on, but what do I know and why should I be listened to anyway? The amount of posts I've seen in this thread talking about ResetEra proves otherwise.
If you think or believe I should be mocked or ridiculed and my argument picked apart, then so be it. I would hope this site would do better now that the supposed "bad elements of NeoGAF are gone," but I was wrong.
Hello, Apdiddy. I understand your points, but here's some of the things I disagree with.
Accusation threads that attract mob behavior are far more common in Era than Gaf since the split (it's almost a daily occurence there, while this one is a notable exception here). I'm not trying to pick a "Us vs Them" fight here, my point is that if this is your reason for why you stopped posting on gaf, it doesn't makes much sense to me. In fact, if this news were about any other place on the internet other than themselves, you can bet that Era would have created
and not locked threads about this sooner than gaf did, and with a lot more activity. Would you then make a post there stating the same things as the one you did now?
To move on the main point. I don't think this thread should be deleted, and I'm going to use your own words to back it up: 'Pedophilia is everywhere on the internet and in every community on the internet.
That is shameful and disgraceful that it happens.' I agree that this should be reported to the authorities (and I suppose it already was), but it's still worth discussing about and bringing self-awareness. ResetEra, either we like it or not, is a prominient gaming forum. It seems obvious, to me, that gamers would want to be well-informed on this. If we hide theses things and pretend they don't happen, we can never learn from them, be it related to era, gaf, other forum or anything in life.
I don't think you should be mocked or ridiculed, btw. Thanks for sharing your views.