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wackyteen
04/15/24 6:42:12 PM
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Do you agree?

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SHRlKE
04/15/24 6:46:12 PM
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If they really want to do this. They should keep politics off all social boards and create a dedicated politics board.

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PMarth2002
04/15/24 6:48:12 PM
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No, and I didn't agree with shutting down the politics board either.

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Crimson_Corsair
04/15/24 6:48:15 PM
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Making CE the defacto politics board was a dumb move. They should have reopened 261 and contained all the politcal shitposting to there instead.

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ButteryMales
04/15/24 6:53:30 PM
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If they go really strictly with the rule you couldn't even talk about Metal Gear Solid's story in any of the MGS boards.
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Baphometa
04/15/24 6:54:07 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


See:

Uta posted...
I brought this up on CE, but I can answer this here too. If a game has political theming it's of course fine to talk about that. I don't think anyone is going to be moderated for talking about the anti-capitalist themes of Final Fantasy VII. I don't think anyone is going to get moderated for talking about Wolfenstein either. As for that second comment. Anything that's say, a basic human right or even just a basic fact about reality? That's not political. Just because one particular group likes to make science and social denial their political points doesn't mean those things actually are politics. We're not going to go around moderating people for being Trans or talking about Trans issues just because right-wingers are trying to spin being trans into a political statement.

As for toxicity in general. I've been pushing for some new tools on our end to help. Beyond that, all we can ask is that you report posts you see which break the rules and ignore/block people you don't like to cut down on arguments.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/11-team-gamefaqs/80747428#33

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BigMikeyEvans
04/15/24 6:55:23 PM
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Don't care. :3

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Giacomo_Hawkins
04/15/24 6:58:18 PM
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Banning discussion that is "political" is too broad. If that's going to happen they need to be real explicit about what's political, otherwise you open yourself up to being modded for nearly any discussion because -

There are two genders: Male and political
There are two races: White and political
There are two religions: Christian and political
There are two sexual orientations: Straight and political

And pointing out that fact is definitely political.

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Turbam
04/15/24 6:59:10 PM
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I think it's strange that they got rid of the politics board, and effectively made CE the politics board instead.

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notforremnant
04/15/24 7:00:21 PM
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Literally everything in life is politics. People who complain about politics existing are the people who don't want you to be able to speak about them, lest you say a bad word about what's happening in the world somewhere & you get moderated for it.
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Unknown5uspect
04/15/24 7:00:56 PM
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Turbam posted...
I think it's strange that they got rid of the politics board, and effectively made CE the politics board instead.
This. They should have just made 261 private.

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notforremnant
04/15/24 7:01:49 PM
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Baphometa posted...
See:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/11-team-gamefaqs/80747428#33
Bullshit, I pointed out how someone's behavior in a previous thread was agreeing with & defending someone's genocide denial when talking about Israel & got moderated for announcing that I knew about it.
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TheFalseDeity
04/15/24 7:02:25 PM
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The banning of politics altogether would be no loss to me but they shouldve just kept a politics board to start with.

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thronedfire2
04/15/24 7:02:54 PM
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should be all social boards, not just CE

a few mods have said that if a political topic is relevant to a game then talking about it will be allowed. I actually think that will be a good thing, because there are plenty of games that can benefit from political discussion without getting into specific stuff that's happening today. like, if you're talking about Fallout, then discussing the negatives of capitalism should obviously be allowed. especially after the show. but the people who call everything woke and shit will get modded when they're obviously just baiting and not having real discussion. *

*this is what's been said, we'll have to see what really happens

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STEROLIZER
04/15/24 7:03:06 PM
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I voted yes GameFaqs needs to get back to talking about gaming and nerd culture. Get rid of the toxicity and weird internet culture stuff.

Back in 2010 nobody cared who voted for who, we bonded over a common interest of whatever game we were playing at the time.
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ButteryMales
04/15/24 7:03:36 PM
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Turbam posted...
I think it's strange that they got rid of the politics board, and effectively made CE the politics board instead.
Seems like they wanted politics gone entirely back then but SBAllen was the only reason why talking politics stayed for a little bit.
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deoxxys
04/15/24 7:04:59 PM
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Crimson_Corsair posted...
Making CE the defacto politics board was a dumb move. They should have reopened 261 and contained all the politcal shitposting to there instead.


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Trumble
04/15/24 7:06:24 PM
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Crimson_Corsair posted...
Making CE the defacto politics board was a dumb move. They should have reopened 261 and contained all the politcal shitposting to there instead.


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Umbreon
04/15/24 7:06:37 PM
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Seems like an unreasonable ban for the communities that can keep things civil. Not every board is as... volatile as CE.

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trappedunderice
04/15/24 7:17:26 PM
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That humble novice guy is probably having a breakdown right now
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Punished_Blinx
04/15/24 7:20:51 PM
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Baphometa posted...
See:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/11-team-gamefaqs/80747428#33

Is it 'political' if users are complaining about ugly female game characters being woke?

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thronedfire2
04/15/24 7:25:20 PM
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Punished_Blinx posted...
Is it 'political' if users are complaining about ugly female game characters being woke?

..yes?

that's literally one of the specific things she addressed in that post

or maybe not political, but still moddable for trolling

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Baphometa
04/15/24 7:28:49 PM
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Punished_Blinx posted...
Is it 'political' if users are complaining about ugly female game characters being woke?
That's answered there, too:

Uta posted...
CrimsonGear80 posted...

So i can now mark people complaining about "woke" content in video games and they will be modded? outside of the CE board, of course.

That's been the case for a while. People complaining about wokeness are typically just dogwhistling for some racist / sexist viewpoint.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/11-team-gamefaqs/ 80747428?page=1#52
As mentioned a big issue, especially with system boards, is simply people not marking offending posts.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

I'm not sure what you mean.

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STEROLIZER
04/15/24 10:59:37 PM
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I feel this should have more votes
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Board_hunter567
04/15/24 11:12:57 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Also, mods regularly commented about how much work it was to moderate 261

Baphometa posted...
As mentioned a big issue, especially with system boards, is simply people not marking offending posts.
I wonder why
For many years it didn't seem to make a difference. Offending users would just come back over and over and over and over and over again. The band-aid solution you provided was "just ignore it bro." Of course people would stop bothering to report after a certain point, because it didn't do anything, and attempt to take matters into their own hands.

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ForsakenHermit
04/15/24 11:17:49 PM
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Discussing politics was never a problem until Fandom conjured it into being one.

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Umbreon
04/15/24 11:18:06 PM
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If 261 had like a 1000 karma entry requirement, it probably wouldn't be nearly as hostile. A lot of it was trolls coming in on alts and starting shit.

How many times would someone walk into a fairly calm topic and intentionally say the most vile shit, and it turns out to be some punk with 5 karma?

Course there were also the career trolls that kept coming back because surely second chance #48 will convince someone to finally clean up thei- and they posted another topic about "black on black" crime. Oh boy.

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Glob
04/15/24 11:21:43 PM
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I think it should be an instant ban if somebody writes website incorrectly.
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FL81
04/16/24 1:30:23 AM
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Turbam posted...
I think it's strange that they got rid of the politics board, and effectively made CE the politics board instead.
This, I don't like us being the designated containment board

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CountCorvinus
04/16/24 2:13:07 AM
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No.

Everything is political.

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myusernameislame
04/16/24 2:15:09 AM
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The problem with banning or even discouraging "political" discussion, is that nowadays one side can just take anything they don't want discussed and make it part of their "politics." Human rights, science, basic decency, etc. are all spun as "political" in certain contexts.
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LeoRavus
04/16/24 2:20:42 AM
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They're only leaving political discussion here to kill the board faster. More people will get purgatory arguing over that than anything else.

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CountCorvinus
04/16/24 2:25:19 AM
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LeoRavus posted...
They're only leaving political discussion here to kill the board faster. More people will get purgatory arguing over that than anything else.

That's the vibe I'm getting too. It's a trap.

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Gobstoppers12
04/16/24 2:26:55 AM
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Political discussion online is basically the worst kind of discussion.

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Punished_Blinx
04/16/24 2:33:50 AM
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myusernameislame posted...
The problem with banning or even discouraging "political" discussion, is that nowadays one side can just take anything they don't want discussed and make it part of their "politics." Human rights, science, basic decency, etc. are all spun as "political" in certain contexts.

I don't think they care. They want all of it banned from here.

If they want the boards to stick around (and that's a big if) they want them to be a place where people will ask a question about a game and get an answer. No arguments. No debates. Nothing. That's likely all they care about and if the message boards die then ah well.

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RndmNmber1
04/16/24 2:34:32 AM
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No
Political topics should've stayed in politic board

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Trumble
04/16/24 3:20:10 AM
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RndmNmber1 posted...
No
Political topics should've stayed in politic board
Sure, if the politics board itself stayed, this would be a valid response.

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SHRlKE
04/16/24 3:26:33 AM
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LeoRavus posted...
They're only leaving political discussion here to kill the board faster. More people will get purgatory arguing over that than anything else.

good point

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deoxxys
04/16/24 3:26:53 AM
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No I and I hate this board became the dumping ground for it

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SuperVegitoFAN
04/16/24 3:31:54 AM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Doesnt even have to be that

Game comes out that has a business owner become dictator, or just ANY game that has you overthrowing a tyrannical ruler (which im pretty sure includes most if not all of Assassins Creed)

Edit: Do that in an rpg that has choices for who to pick (Orzammar in Dragon Age Origins for example) and its even more prominent.

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ai123
04/16/24 3:32:43 AM
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Fandom's vision seems to be for a messageboard where people just post the most anodyne responses to videogames.

It's their site, to do with as they please.

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Umbreon
04/16/24 3:41:22 AM
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ai123 posted...
Fandom's vision seems to be for a messageboard where people just post the most anodyne responses to videogames.

It's their site, to do with as they please.

No.

There vision is for there to be no fourm at all. Instead click on their wikis and read while being bombarded with ads and having an autoplaying video follow you around.

That way they can have like one dude look out for random vandalism, as opposed to having active moderators and admins.

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