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-ZIO-
04/15/24 1:29:00 PM
#198:


Uta posted...
Depends. Political discussion as it relates directly to gaming is still allowed. A lot of things also still aren't technically a political issue even if politicians like to make it that way. For example, I certainly wouldn't be moderating posts talking about the BLM stuff in Spider Man games. For one, when I was in the military we were explicitly told that BLM is not a political statement, and that soldiers were allowed to participate. And for two, it's in the game itself. People can totally talk about that.

But yes anything outside of that scope has to go. If NGS has a handful of extremely politically charged topics those probably need to go. The board itself should be fine though. It's just a social board for general gaming right? Hope that clears some stuff up.

Hmm. Alright. Thanks for the clarification.

I understand this is a gaming website first and foremost.

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Tyranthraxus
04/15/24 1:29:01 PM
#199:


FurryPhilosifer posted...
Also! I can't see how CE really impacts anything else on the site. You need to go looking for it.

I wonder if they'll try and shutter the boards entirely. Maybe have the answers section only. A quora of gaming.

Tons of search results go to gameFAQs message boards so that's not going to happen. If there's one thing Fandom is good at, it's SEO

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CyborgSage00x0
04/15/24 1:29:31 PM
#200:


My prior snarky post aside, for real, why not revive 261 and just give it the same constraints? High karma limit to join it, and/or private, Purg leads to being banned forever? It's what 261 members wanted for forever, and plenty of CE posters don't care so much about politics talk.

Killing 261 was always dumb. It kept the bulk of political discussions in a box for the site, and users wanted simply a harder barrier to entry to combat the trolls. Deleting it opened that box and allowed it to scatter to the other boards, where it naturally started to take root.

So why not just bring it back and impose these strict limits? Same idea, but without getting CE involved.

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Sad_Face
04/15/24 1:29:43 PM
#201:


What exactly is the vision for the GameFAQs community? Do they want a community to work with or do they want people to upload guides and content and that's it?

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St0rmFury
04/15/24 1:29:52 PM
#202:


You may pay your respects here...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/568115-death-knights-of-krynn/80747479

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voldothegr8
04/15/24 1:30:22 PM
#203:


Aloc posted...
Rip gamefaqs boards.

It was nice knowing this board.


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Uta
04/15/24 1:30:32 PM
#204:


FurryPhilosifer posted...
Also! I can't see how CE really impacts anything else on the site. You need to go looking for it.

I wonder if they'll try and shutter the boards entirely. Maybe have the answers section only. A quora of gaming.
As a Guide Writer I can say that they do want the answers section to be a bigger part of the site. Bounties now require a certain number of Q&A to be filled out by the author of the guide. I highly doubt they're planning on tossing out the boards. Even just from like, a pure practicality standpoint. A lot of information on this site is contained in random posts on random boards or stickies. That's basically free SEO.

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SHRlKE
04/15/24 1:30:33 PM
#205:


I have an old reddit sub I created. I've just cleaned out all the posts and people are welcome to join and I'm happy to accept applications for respected to be a mod.

On the proviso that...

Can error1355 let me know if advertising this would be moddable?

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Foppe
04/15/24 1:30:46 PM
#206:


Fuck the purge rule.

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K181
04/15/24 1:30:52 PM
#207:


In order words, they turned the site to shit and are all out of ideas.

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UnfairRepresent
04/15/24 1:30:57 PM
#208:


DKBananaSlamma posted...
CE is already gated behind 50 karma. You literally gotta spend nearly 2 months on the site AND poke around in the social boards corner to even find it. It's not like CE is out front for the masses.
Getting those excuses in early

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rynobot
04/15/24 1:30:59 PM
#209:


CyborgSage00x0 posted...
My prior snarky post aside, for real, why not revive 261 and just give it the same constraints? High karma limit to join it, and/or private, Purg leads to being banned forever? It's what 261 members wanted for forever, and plenty of CE posters don't care so much about politics talk.

Killing 261 was always dumb. It kept the bulk of political discussions in a box for the site, and users wanted simply a harder barrier to entry to combat the trolls. Deleting it opened that box and allowed it to scatter to the other boards, where it naturally started to take root.

So why not just bring it back and impose these strict limits? Same idea, but without getting CE involved.
That would be admitting a mistake.

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Thompson
04/15/24 1:31:37 PM
#211:


FurryPhilosifer posted...
I wonder if they'll try and shutter the boards entirely. Maybe have the answers section only. A quora of gaming.
And then they'll purge the FAQs and replace them with of their own notorious ChatGPT copycat.

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Solar_Crimson
04/15/24 1:31:45 PM
#212:


Tanthalas posted...
Lol, the chuds must have kept complaining.
Yeah, this is my impression of it.

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kirbymuncher
04/15/24 1:32:03 PM
#213:


CyricZ posted...
I don't... really see *new* people coming to CE at all these days. The vast majority of us are old hands of at least five years, and over ten years is still a majority.
I think the big thing it does really is that it makes banned people actually stay banned. which seems to me like it would have a pretty positive effect overall tbh

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hockeybabe89
04/15/24 1:32:06 PM
#214:


Are the psychos on Reddit running victory laps yet? Or are they crying because it keeps them out?

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pepper2012
04/15/24 1:32:16 PM
#216:


posting for history

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Ratchetrockon
04/15/24 1:32:26 PM
#217:


Woah

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Westernwolf4
04/15/24 1:32:38 PM
#218:


I will write a version of what I did when 261 got shut down: I don't think that public discussion forums are well served by limiting discussion of basic topics. Any topic where people gather to discuss something can turn toxic if the folks involved are not approaching it in good faith-it is the unfortunate part of the internet and always has been. Dealing with that is the cost of doing business if you are operating a series of discussion forums. Special rules for politics or any other topic won't solve the toxicity problem. It just means that you won't get any engagement on your site during an election year when politics is what people want to gather to discuss.

There have been many toxic political discussions at this site over the years, and I am certainly not volunteering for the difficult job of moderating those discussions. But if the goal is to make rules that eventually eliminate all possible disagreement and controversy, then I just don't see the point of the discussion forums at all. When we are finally left with boards for the five games that everybody likes, that will be fine, but also pointless to engage with.

My humble opinion is they should either run actual discussion boards, with all the headaches the internet has always had, or just be done with it. Because the final product of excising all topics that could lead to an actual conversation won't be something people want to spend time with anyway.

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Crimsoness
04/15/24 1:32:42 PM
#219:


Solar_Crimson posted...
Yeah, this is my impression of it.
I mean literally every major decision he's made has been something they sought so...

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MarthGoomba
04/15/24 1:32:42 PM
#220:


Oh geez

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yusiko
04/15/24 1:32:48 PM
#221:


Yeah this is probably the start of CEs slow death
But honestly I mainly use reddit, discord and twitch these days

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Tyranthraxus
04/15/24 1:33:00 PM
#222:


RIP Mabus. You'll be remembered. For like five minutes.

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voldothegr8
04/15/24 1:33:09 PM
#223:


Oh my...

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Resident_Hill
04/15/24 1:33:10 PM
#224:


RIP GFAQs

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Northlane
04/15/24 1:33:22 PM
#226:


RIP Mabus

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Prestoff
04/15/24 1:33:27 PM
#227:


Oh no

anyways

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Solar_Crimson
04/15/24 1:33:49 PM
#228:


radical_rhino posted...
This is the beginning of them closing down all the social boards for good, isnt it?
Probably, yeah. Community boards as well.

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thronedfire2
04/15/24 1:34:08 PM
#229:


RIP Mabus

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CyborgSage00x0
04/15/24 1:34:19 PM
#230:


rynobot posted...
That would be admitting a mistake.
This change already means they are, just with extra window dressing. But I'll grant that my example would be a more blunt admission of a fuck up.

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Malenia
04/15/24 1:34:24 PM
#231:


lol
lmao even
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Warutrid
04/15/24 1:34:31 PM
#232:


Congrats

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TheMikh
04/15/24 1:35:02 PM
#233:


jesus christ

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ai123
04/15/24 1:35:12 PM
#234:


I found CE (and even 261) to be a lot less toxic than the game boards, which is why I stopped posting there.

Only death threat I ever got was on the fucking Pokemon board.

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FurryPhilosifer
04/15/24 1:35:31 PM
#235:


They already had a solution to toxicity. It's called moderation.

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SquantoZ
04/15/24 1:35:52 PM
#236:


Ceejus save us!

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Turbam
04/15/24 1:36:07 PM
#237:


Calwings posted...
Welp, I guess this means my sexy anime women topic is done for. I'm gonna keep posting pics until either the current one hits 500 or they start deleting posts from it, but the current one will be the last one either way.
I got a spot
If you're interested :V

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Karovorak
04/15/24 1:37:16 PM
#238:


_Valigarmanda_ posted...
I think the jist is, just don't "be weird" about it, so to speak

That's worthless when the potential punishment is now "insta ban from CE".

maybe it's weird, maybe not, and it ask 10 mods and users, you may get 11 different answers.

Mods can tell you 100 times "it's fine", no one will risk it to stumple upon the 101th case that's not.

So, yeah, good luck.


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GranAures
04/15/24 1:37:31 PM
#239:


rynobot posted...
Like we could trust you not to lie about them.
Like he isn't previously going on about the "bullying of people that don't lean far left."

In short "Oh, you know the ones."

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viewmaster_pi
04/15/24 1:37:50 PM
#240:


why, mabus...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5613ca84.jpg

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DKBananaSlamma
04/15/24 1:37:57 PM
#241:


Well, that was a post >_>

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Turbam
04/15/24 1:39:08 PM
#242:


I must have missed something :V

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s0nicfan
04/15/24 1:39:10 PM
#243:


DKBananaSlamma posted...
Well, that was a post >_>

At nearly 250 posts, I guess you can say we're all milking this topic one way or another.

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Humble_Novice
04/15/24 1:39:26 PM
#244:


Here's a link to the CE Discord server: https://discord.gg/sCRhf5Xw

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NeoBasilisk
04/15/24 1:39:29 PM
#245:


so who is creating CELinks?

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K181
04/15/24 1:39:40 PM
#246:


Seriously, they invented a problem, exacerbated said problem by closing the board dedicated to it, and now are privating the social board where those topics, of course, went to.

Next year, they'll private another board in response to the CEmen that can't post here anymore and post elsewhere.

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UndefeatedGOAT
04/15/24 1:40:00 PM
#247:


[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


CELinks boards probably being created as we speak
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kurdt032
04/15/24 1:40:14 PM
#248:


Why are they so concerned about this? They've got a team of hypernerd mods who pounce on anything minutes after it's posted, so it's not like they are struggling to run the site.

They've literally banned people from talking about UK politics on the UK board (one of the more popular boards).

Have they gone insane or something

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