NeoGAF Controversy: Navigating Turbulent Times in an Online Gaming Community

NeoGAF, once a prominent online gaming community known for its lively discussions and industry insights, has faced its fair share of controversies. In this article, we delve into the NeoGAF controversy, examining its impact on the community, the issues that arose, and the lessons learned from this tumultuous period.

1. Understanding the Controversy​

The NeoGAF controversy stemmed from allegations of misconduct and abuse against the forum's founder and administrator. These accusations sparked a wave of unrest within the community, leading to a significant number of members voicing their concerns, questioning the integrity of the platform, and ultimately seeking alternative communities to engage with.

2. Community Response and Fragmentation​

The controversy triggered a division within the NeoGAF community. While some members chose to distance themselves from the platform, others remained loyal, advocating for change from within. The fallout resulted in the creation of splinter communities and the migration of users to other forums, further fragmenting the once-unified NeoGAF community.

3. Reflection and Accountability​

The NeoGAF controversy prompted a larger conversation about accountability and the role of community leaders in ensuring a safe and inclusive environment. It highlighted the importance of transparency, ethical practices, and fostering a culture of respect within online communities. It serves as a reminder that no community is immune to issues of misconduct and that constant vigilance is necessary to maintain trust and integrity.

4. Rebuilding and Learning from Mistakes​

Following the controversy, NeoGAF underwent significant changes, including a new ownership structure and revised moderation policies. These steps aimed to regain the community's trust and create a more inclusive and accountable platform. The rebuilding process requires active participation from both the administrators and the community members, emphasizing the need for open communication, community feedback, and ongoing self-reflection.

5. Lessons for Online Gaming Communities​

The NeoGAF controversy serves as a cautionary tale for online gaming communities, highlighting the importance of proactive measures to prevent and address issues of misconduct. It emphasizes the need for clear community guidelines, effective moderation, and mechanisms for reporting and addressing concerns. Additionally, fostering an environment where all members feel heard, respected, and safe is essential to prevent similar controversies from arising.

Conclusion​

The NeoGAF controversy had a profound impact on the community, challenging its very foundations and forcing a reevaluation of its principles. While the controversy brought to light serious concerns, it also created an opportunity for growth and positive change. By learning from past mistakes, implementing stricter policies, promoting transparency, and embracing inclusivity, NeoGAF has the potential to rebuild and regain the trust of its community. The path to recovery requires a commitment to accountability, empathy, and the shared goal of fostering a vibrant and respectful online gaming community.

 

[Dakota]

EvilElf is actually a Libtard and NeoGaf is not right (Hillary fans check Wiki)
Free speech does not exist there and users are shit sacred of Masters belt
He removed a political thread to push a history lesson not like it could be fucking Googled is it

As for Big Footy it's like tourettes
Chiefs Moderation is improving unlike his posts, baby steps...

 

[Rashid2511]

It's really shocking

 

[Dakota]

Strict moderation/censorship is not popular and adding to that forums are a collective, troll one troll all
New people see new people go
Yes shocking how the old relics are dying off, its good a thing....

 

[Gametrek]

Neogaf is a publication. No different then any magazine. They call themselves a forum and many people mistake them for the Neo-geo forums ( which is a real forums ). If anything it is more or less what any other forum was at it's prime. However..

Neogaf operates as a registered business at 10 Rockefeller Plz, New York City, New York, 10020. With two officers on file and supposive twenty-five employees. The owner is known for him exposing himself to some actress while in her apartment. I mean seriously, whatever happen to just going for the $#@$@. Nope your going to get stark naked and then leave. They do not like when you mention Pizzagate. Where these morons took sexual favors from another moron, to give her good reviews about her game. It is like if somebody asked to write articles about them.

Restart-era does not fall far from the tree of this stupidity. It is like why are worshiping these morons who clearly are not about making videogames but talking bs about videogames???

We take Restart-Era, Neogaf, and any other so called "Gamer event organizer" and throw them off a cliff. because these people are the reason why videogames sucks. They are not real VG people and in fact makes it more depressing to own or play videogames.

These are the same kind of losers who prevented "Phantasy Star II" from being a mega-hit, or bringing RPG to the western shores.

 

[Dakota]

Neogaf is a publication. No different then any magazine. They call themselves a forum and many people mistake them for the Neo-geo forums ( which is a real forums ). If anything it is more or less what any other forum was at it's prime. However..

Neogaf operates as a registered business at 10 Rockefeller Plz, New York City, New York, 10020. With two officers on file and supposive twenty-five employees. The owner is known for him exposing himself to some actress while in her apartment. I mean seriously, whatever happen to just going for the $#@$@. Nope your going to get stark naked and then leave. They do not like when you mention Pizzagate. Where these morons took sexual favors from another moron, to give her good reviews about her game. It is like if somebody asked to write articles about them.

Restart-era does not fall far from the tree of this stupidity. It is like why are worshiping these morons who clearly are not about making videogames but talking bs about videogames???

We take Restart-Era, Neogaf, and any other so called "Gamer event organizer" and throw them off a cliff. because these people are the reason why videogames sucks. They are not real VG people and in fact makes it more depressing to own or play videogames.

These are the same kind of losers who prevented "Phantasy Star II" from being a mega-hit, or bringing RPG to the western shores.

Resetera I have not tried, would be wrong of me to say anything bad
Neogaf has some good people on there and yes i like some of the humour, moderation is something else and a shame because it won't go anywhere

The people are there and have always been there just poorly managed!

 

[Gametrek]

They are not "good people". The moment I mentioned anything relating to "Five guys", being a fake out. They just deleted my post. I never even went deep into the subject at all.

I respond in a thread. This person just took issue with me. I know what goes on behind the scenes. Person-A will go bananers silently, constantly harassing a moderator. The moderator will be like "Whatever", so the Person-A will constantly find something wrong, to complain about. During this cycle, person-A stayed silent and made no responses to my comments. Until I was pushed out. This also happen on DeviantArt, where people would make thread mocking religion, guys in general, and even mocking having any career in art. The moment I clap back via the same kinds of threads or made responses that make people think, it was over. Those same people are still there today ( which I guess are related to the moderators ). Specific few persons remade the same thread because they wanted to have discussion but just not with me. Newgrounds the moment you mention any information relating to the mods religion, zap... but you could find tons of threads bashing any other religion, and mocking people across the board.

That is the kind of "Community" they are fostering, in terms of videogames, comics, or any kind of media. People are willing to find something or anything against you to remove you. They are so insane, and think low of others, are willing to attempt to even get them to do something illegal, or have them commit suicide. That is the "community".

NeoGaf has no affect on any part of "The Community". Asides idiots who think they are great. The founder is not a regular person. Even CheapyD and Wombat are normal people, and there business model makes more more sense. Neogaf is a rich silver-spoon-fed brat, who purchase an apartment/office/loft ( or an entire building ) located in Manhattan, not too far from Rockerfella centre. If you actually look at the location of the business, and look for rentals it is actually affordable. He is literally the kid from "Kick-ass" who father is a corrupted organize crime leader, The kid not the father. Or another "Oriental-Middle-Easterner" ( Given the ethnicity of NYC ) that was given a choice of business. Like Jew-Wario killed himself ( despite having a nice family and home, which many of us would not mind having ). The sad part is that I share part of this mentality given the area.

...........

He exposed himself to some associate of his that was an actress. He did not even make any moves on her, he just got naked. Like if I had a college friend over and one of us stripped naked, and the other one was upset. In fact it is like that movie "Bowfinger" - 1999 ( exactly like the movie ), where the actor exposed himself to a famous cheerleader squad. It would be funny if somebody on Neogaf was a part of "mind-head" ( Church of Scientology ).

Yes it is most likely these people had porn sex with that predatory p-ugly witch "Zoey Quiin" ( I could throw up thinking about her ), just so he would mention her game she was making.

That is all it was about. Nothing else. A girl got on her knees to get a publication to write a couple of articles to promote her project and make it seem like it was going to be the next big thing. I played the game, it is fun but basic python programming and usage of the mouse, basically a "ClockTower" or "Slenderman" or ( Digital Devil horror action game on the PSX ) clone.

These people are a waste of human space, and everything they contributed was pathetic. It made no changes in this world at all, and literally brought gamers down to a lower level, then "1984". That is how pathetic NeoGaf is.

Take the "metoo" movement. Everybody wants to be apart of it. Blazes a girl being taken advantage for sex is not conversation to talk about at all, because that is the story of every single couple on the planet. Now Hollywood can dodge the "L"GBTbos, and keep the real women around. That is all that accomplished. It is a way to brainwash people, thus forming "public opinion".

Just like how when you watch the news and it talks about possible blah blah, then you go to that area and discover there is a film-crew, free food, and nice looking people. Or they only report the cases featuring people of African-decent and barely any European people.

Propaganda, brainwashing, public-opinion forming, media garbage.
I take a leak on NeoGaf, not for there "normal" behavior, but the flat fact
they know what kind of community they are about. Brainwashing and mislead, creating false hype.

You want a real person who plays videogames and is actually fun, then checkout "Geltonz", "MetalJesusRocks", "MrwhiteFolks", and I am sure there are more.

Most of everyone else is just spewing mindless propaganda in an attempt to keep audience. It is tiring and not good.

 

[Dakota]

They are not "good people". The moment I mentioned anything relating to "Five guys", being a fake out. They just deleted my post. I never even went deep into the subject at all.

I respond in a thread. This person just took issue with me. I know what goes on behind the scenes. Person-A will go bananers silently, constantly harassing a moderator. The moderator will be like "Whatever", so the Person-A will constantly find something wrong, to complain about. During this cycle, person-A stayed silent and made no responses to my comments. Until I was pushed out. This also happen on DeviantArt, where people would make thread mocking religion, guys in general, and even mocking having any career in art. The moment I clap back via the same kinds of threads or made responses that make people think, it was over. Those same people are still there today ( which I guess are related to the moderators ). Specific few persons remade the same thread because they wanted to have discussion but just not with me. Newgrounds the moment you mention any information relating to the mods religion, zap... but you could find tons of threads bashing any other religion, and mocking people across the board.

That is the kind of "Community" they are fostering, in terms of videogames, comics, or any kind of media. People are willing to find something or anything against you to remove you. They are so insane, and think low of others, are willing to attempt to even get them to do something illegal, or have them commit suicide. That is the "community".

NeoGaf has no affect on any part of "The Community". Asides idiots who think they are great. The founder is not a regular person. Even CheapyD and Wombat are normal people, and there business model makes more more sense. Neogaf is a rich silver-spoon-fed brat, who purchase an apartment/office/loft ( or an entire building ) located in Manhattan, not too far from Rockerfella centre. If you actually look at the location of the business, and look for rentals it is actually affordable. He is literally the kid from "Kick-ass" who father is a corrupted organize crime leader, The kid not the father. Or another "Oriental-Middle-Easterner" ( Given the ethnicity of NYC ) that was given a choice of business. Like Jew-Wario killed himself ( despite having a nice family and home, which many of us would not mind having ). The sad part is that I share part of this mentality given the area.

...........

He exposed himself to some associate of his that was an actress. He did not even make any moves on her, he just got naked. Like if I had a college friend over and one of us stripped naked, and the other one was upset. In fact it is like that movie "Bowfinger" - 1999 ( exactly like the movie ), where the actor exposed himself to a famous cheerleader squad. It would be funny if somebody on Neogaf was a part of "mind-head" ( Church of Scientology ).

Yes it is most likely these people had porn sex with that predatory p-ugly witch "Zoey Quiin" ( I could throw up thinking about her ), just so he would mention her game she was making.

That is all it was about. Nothing else. A girl got on her knees to get a publication to write a couple of articles to promote her project and make it seem like it was going to be the next big thing. I played the game, it is fun but basic python programming and usage of the mouse, basically a "ClockTower" or "Slenderman" or ( Digital Devil horror action game on the PSX ) clone.

These people are a waste of human space, and everything they contributed was pathetic. It made no changes in this world at all, and literally brought gamers down to a lower level, then "1984". That is how pathetic NeoGaf is.

Take the "metoo" movement. Everybody wants to be apart of it. Blazes a girl being taken advantage for sex is not conversation to talk about at all, because that is the story of every single couple on the planet. Now Hollywood can dodge the "L"GBTbos, and keep the real women around. That is all that accomplished. It is a way to brainwash people, thus forming "public opinion".

Just like how when you watch the news and it talks about possible blah blah, then you go to that area and discover there is a film-crew, free food, and nice looking people. Or they only report the cases featuring people of African-decent and barely any European people.

Propaganda, brainwashing, public-opinion forming, media garbage.
I take a leak on NeoGaf, not for there "normal" behavior, but the flat fact
they know what kind of community they are about. Brainwashing and mislead, creating false hype.

You want a real person who plays videogames and is actually fun, then checkout "Geltonz", "MetalJesusRocks", "MrwhiteFolks", and I am sure there are more.

Most of everyone else is just spewing mindless propaganda in an attempt to keep audience. It is tiring and not good.

Can always help with Joyfreak
We need more people and more conversations with a emphasis on free speech and no censorship.....

 

[Gametrek]

You want freedom of speech then go find "MrWhiteFolks", "Geltonz", and "Ultima", and "DYLE". They would make great writers and reporters in videogame industry.

 

[Dakota]

You want freedom of speech then go find "MrWhiteFolks", "Geltonz", and "Ultima", and "DYLE". They would make great writers and reporters in videogame industry.

I use Twitter
Please extend a invite to them if you know them

 

[Gametrek]

You can do a search yourself.

 

[Dakota]

You can do a search yourself.

I did the marketing thing before anyway this is your idea