Blows my mind. I bet all these people live perfect lives of their own. Toxicity is an internet problem, not a GAF problem.
NeoGaf on Life Support, and all Mods quit!
- Thread starter Mike O'War
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So this http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1452808
So this film maker chick who made the accusations admits to having consensual sex with Evilore at a later date. Which I find odd. Googled her pics and ummm.... yeah definitely not the smoking hot girls Evilore would try to have you believe hes tapping. Oh hell I'll just outright say it, shes f***ing nasty looking.
So this film maker chick who made the accusations admits to having consensual sex with Evilore at a later date. Which I find odd. Googled her pics and ummm.... yeah definitely not the smoking hot girls Evilore would try to have you believe hes tapping. Oh hell I'll just outright say it, shes f***ing nasty looking.
Yeah, I think we should wait to hear more information. No charges have been filed. We haven't got all the facts.
On the big scale of sexual offenses, grabbing someone's ass in a bar and going into a shower naked rank kinda low. I've heard people call him a rapist, and that's unfair. No one has accused him of that. She didn't say he forced himself on her.
And she had sex with him a couple weeks later! If she was so offended, why did she have sex with him? That doesn't make sense.
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You'd think this guy was Brock Turner himself or something. Whole lotta outrage with little to go on.
Um well.....
Hi.
An allegation of sexual misconduct has been made against me by an ex. It's not true, the individual making the accusation isn't credible, the story doesn't reconcile logically with the facts, and there's plenty of evidence and witnesses to corroborate that. It'll be a process.
All allegations of this nature are serious, of course. I first got word of it on Wednesday when a screenshot of a Facebook post was handed to Voat. I immediately talked with my mod team about the contents of the screenshot and clarified that it was baseless and explained some of the details concerning my former associations with her, and tried to ensure any concerns from the team were addressed fully and transparently to everyone's satisfaction. On Thursday I heard that she had deleted the accusation from Facebook, and wasn't entirely sure how to proceed from there or how this would all play out in the public space at that point. Then, Friday morning, the screenshot made its way to NeoGAF and chaos ensued.
I was in the process of writing a statement that entire day to address formally address the allegation, but the community had erupted in a flash that morning. While the moderation team was trying to restore the peace, accusations and threats concerning the screenshot started shifting to them as well by association with me, and I was asked by my team to do something to fix things and get the heat off of all of them at least. I was beyond exhausted by that point, though, stretched too thin in the time since the post had first appeared and seeing unprecedented events unfold on NeoGAF. I was slow and weak. I failed to handle it quickly enough and let the team down. Before I could finish a statement and get it out there, understandably some mods hit their emotional limit, expressed concerns about the community coming after them, and decided to leave. A few people resigned, and many more quickly followed for similar reasons, citing stress and harassment. The site started breaking under load spikes leading up to the first resignations, too, and then flatlined altogether, so issuing a statement at that time on NeoGAF itself became impossible for the time being, and my attention shifted toward the moderation team's future.
Since that whole mess, lasting from Friday morning through Saturday, before we formally went offline for maintenance and repair and restructure, we've just been trying to figure out the best course of action for NeoGAF going forward. And as stories began being published by various outlets, I issued some comments to the press, since everything coming out was proving to be sensationalized, opportunist, and unprofessional.
We've all become increasingly stressed and weary this year in ways even I'm not accustomed to by now, and discussions on heated news, political issues, and social issues on the off-topic side of the site have become areas no one has wanted to moderate in the open for fear of backlash or just general exposure to the inevitable toxicity. I've gone in there myself to take the heat, since it's very much my responsibility to do so before anyone else's, but there's been little headway, mostly just more anger and resentment and a lot of bans. I don't think this necessarily reflects on our community; more so the tone of the entire internet this year with regards to heated issues.
That's all going to inform the way forward for NeoGAF as we refocus on what the main goals are supposed to be for the site. The mod team will talk about more specifics on what that will entail below.
One last thing. The NeoGAF mod team is here for this community; all of you. You have no obligations to respect me or believe anything I say about my personal life one way or another, but if you're going to be here and participate on NeoGAF, respect the mod team by following the rules and behaving. The team is diminished at the moment and the folks who stuck around care very much about this community and its future. Be considerate of them. That's non-negotiable.
Thanks
Hi.
An allegation of sexual misconduct has been made against me by an ex. It's not true, the individual making the accusation isn't credible, the story doesn't reconcile logically with the facts, and there's plenty of evidence and witnesses to corroborate that. It'll be a process.
All allegations of this nature are serious, of course. I first got word of it on Wednesday when a screenshot of a Facebook post was handed to Voat. I immediately talked with my mod team about the contents of the screenshot and clarified that it was baseless and explained some of the details concerning my former associations with her, and tried to ensure any concerns from the team were addressed fully and transparently to everyone's satisfaction. On Thursday I heard that she had deleted the accusation from Facebook, and wasn't entirely sure how to proceed from there or how this would all play out in the public space at that point. Then, Friday morning, the screenshot made its way to NeoGAF and chaos ensued.
I was in the process of writing a statement that entire day to address formally address the allegation, but the community had erupted in a flash that morning. While the moderation team was trying to restore the peace, accusations and threats concerning the screenshot started shifting to them as well by association with me, and I was asked by my team to do something to fix things and get the heat off of all of them at least. I was beyond exhausted by that point, though, stretched too thin in the time since the post had first appeared and seeing unprecedented events unfold on NeoGAF. I was slow and weak. I failed to handle it quickly enough and let the team down. Before I could finish a statement and get it out there, understandably some mods hit their emotional limit, expressed concerns about the community coming after them, and decided to leave. A few people resigned, and many more quickly followed for similar reasons, citing stress and harassment. The site started breaking under load spikes leading up to the first resignations, too, and then flatlined altogether, so issuing a statement at that time on NeoGAF itself became impossible for the time being, and my attention shifted toward the moderation team's future.
Since that whole mess, lasting from Friday morning through Saturday, before we formally went offline for maintenance and repair and restructure, we've just been trying to figure out the best course of action for NeoGAF going forward. And as stories began being published by various outlets, I issued some comments to the press, since everything coming out was proving to be sensationalized, opportunist, and unprofessional.
We've all become increasingly stressed and weary this year in ways even I'm not accustomed to by now, and discussions on heated news, political issues, and social issues on the off-topic side of the site have become areas no one has wanted to moderate in the open for fear of backlash or just general exposure to the inevitable toxicity. I've gone in there myself to take the heat, since it's very much my responsibility to do so before anyone else's, but there's been little headway, mostly just more anger and resentment and a lot of bans. I don't think this necessarily reflects on our community; more so the tone of the entire internet this year with regards to heated issues.
That's all going to inform the way forward for NeoGAF as we refocus on what the main goals are supposed to be for the site. The mod team will talk about more specifics on what that will entail below.
One last thing. The NeoGAF mod team is here for this community; all of you. You have no obligations to respect me or believe anything I say about my personal life one way or another, but if you're going to be here and participate on NeoGAF, respect the mod team by following the rules and behaving. The team is diminished at the moment and the folks who stuck around care very much about this community and its future. Be considerate of them. That's non-negotiable.
Thanks
Regardless... It will never have the same game industry support ever again, and maybe that's a good thing due to the B.S. they had to deal with.
I know it's one of the main reasons why I have way less interest to go back to read the threads... The industry insiders who were apart of the good info there will be no more, & now Gaf offers very little to me as a gamer.
I know it's one of the main reasons why I have way less interest to go back to read the threads... The industry insiders who were apart of the good info there will be no more, & now Gaf offers very little to me as a gamer.
What a coward. Anyone who sticks around is condoning sex crimes and an accessory by default.
The sheer nerve of being concerned with mods wellbeing. THEY'RE THE PROBLEM YOU DUMB s***!!!
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Yep but a video shows how they supported a mod who admitted to being a paedophiles and supported him over someone who had been raped as a child.
Its been toxic since 2008/2009. People are pissed that even in the wake of condoned paedophillia and sexual harassment, all Tyler can say is "Guys the abuse has to stop".
The biggest abuser is GAF and its corrupt infrastructure.
Man,what a mess...I lurked over there late last night on my phone,because I am auto logged in over there on my PC and was reading all kinds of warning about people inserting awful gifs and screenshot in some threads and all...not sure what to think anymore,it certainly wont be the same,especially with some of the OT stuff gone...they could of kept the Sports threads up and TV stuff...sad to see it go down like this for now anyway and getting tired/stressed out a bit by all this internet drama,something I certainly dont need right now.