Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[Nintex]

It depends on the game actually. When it's an RPG party I'd rather have a supportive healer that wants to gaze at the stars with me and has useful skills that complement my own.


If there is a character creator I default to female redheads.

If it's a shooter with a lot of gore or souls game or whatever, I don't want my waifu to get hurt or eaten by bugs so I'd rather play as a guy.

There is a difference between 'strong women' and 'strong women'. The type of strong women in media I like are sassy, can hold their own but still see the benefit of working together. Like Ilsa Faust in Mission Impossible or Susie Glass from The Gentlemen but they are still women in terms of how stylish they are and how they act. Some games manage this quite well and  Kassandra in Assassins Creed: Odyssey, Jill/Ada/Claire in Resident Evil and Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider reboot trilogy are some good examples how to create fun strong women characters.

However the modern type of 'strong women' characters they create for some of these games don't appeal to me at all and are either depressing or act as dull as the average HR department.
So yes, I guess the reason I'm not going to play Intergalactic is partially because of the protagonist.

[Besticus Maximus]

Just give me interesting characters and good stories, genuinely do not give a fuck beyond that.

I have played a billion games, I've seen all the tricks, you have to be interesting and not shit as a price of entry, beyond that I don't care.

[Snoopy]

Jeff Marvel isn't happy

It sucks that we've reached such a weird (if not straight up creepy) level of discourse in MCU threads. This is actually a fun topic to discuss but then it gets taken over with troll posts about dead grandmothers and "lol MCU dead" posts.

Anyway, I'm going with $650m if it receives solid reviews.

[Daffy Duck]

Never had a problem playing as a female character (loved Tomb Raider) because I’m normal

[BIONIC]

I've been meaning to drop this for a min so I'm just gonna let it out… god bless, fingers crossed, etc..

When somebody gets clipped for like the 10th time, WHY are they allowed back in here? I remember reading that posters who contribute a lot get more rope, but there's gotta be a limit to this shit right? Like how many fucking bans does it take before it hits that hey maybe this place would be better off without this person, know what I'm saying? Being a power poster that drops 50 a day or having some weird cult of personality shouldn't mean you get more rope than the next guy. Like that's ridiculous and that's what it feels like

This sounds like you have some specific in mind.

I don't know who you mean at this moment, but I've for sure gone "oh god they are back" then within a few days... banned again. Sometimes for a month or more. But they are always back.

Please allow us the ability to add moderators to the ignore list. Or at least to ignore threads/posts made outside of a moderator capacity.

Any thoughts, mods?

Embiid crusin' for a bruisin' in the Constructively Ignore Users Community Discussion thread.

Also, bonus whine at the end for yet another round of "I'm fucking tired of Slayven's threads, please when can we ignore mods?"

I'll try to present a counterargument, because I think banning a poster who has invested a lot of time in this community should always be done with a great deal of care. I dunno if I should say all this, but it's been on my mind lately too.

I have been posting in this community for twenty years. It is part of my life, and there are people I know on this board, who I have known for a very long time, who I only talk to here. I am comfortable saying that I don't believe I am in any danger of being permanently banned from ResetEra anytime soon, but if I was, it would deeply affect me. Like I would be crushed. And I like to think my absence would be felt by at least a couple of people.

I think posters who are putting the time into being part of the character of the board should get special consideration. There is nothing wrong with mostly lurking, remaining pretty anonymous, but I don't believe banning that person has the same level of impact on that person, or the board. It's also harder for the mod team to know the motives behind a bannable post if nobody on the team is familiar with the member's posts. There aren't a lot of objective ways to measure this, but post count is one of the least worst ones.

This is also a natural extension of a long-existing policy I think most would agree with: that it is much easier to be permabanned when your account is in junior status.

One last thing to bear in mind is the massive headache for the mod team involved in banning a prominent poster. It always kicks off a shitstorm of drama, posters storming off the board, bad feelings towards the team, etc. The only two era permabans I ever think about is two longtime members I have known for many years who were banned for trolling. While I respect the team's right to make the decision, they still sting. I would not want to deal with all that either.

Now. All that said.

I understand that my part of the deal in remaining here, and being a part of this place, is following the damn rules. It's really not that hard, and I think it's destructive and selfish for these same posters to knowingly post bannable things that are designed to antagonize the mod team and create problems, especially on a regular basis. It is particularly embarrassing when it's an attack on the team itself. I truly cannot fathom why anyone thinks it's okay to speak to the team as though they have anything but the best intentions, or like what they do here is anything but a labor of love. It frustrates me to no end. Like I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you don't like how this place is run to such a degree that you are leaving bitter, bannable comments in threads every few weeks, you can just go. You don't need to leave a crater on your way out.

Edit: [USER=92190]Embiid[/USER] I had you tagged in this but I'm editing it out based on your last post

This isn't super far off, but I do want to say that we do have a few metrics for determining when to perm someone:

• The severity of their infractions
  
• The distribution of those infractions over a length of time
  
• How active the user is in the community vs how many infractions they have
  

So, we'll look at all of these things when figuring it out. Generally in that order. If someone has really severe infractions we'll perm them regardless of the other two criteria. You might be beloved, but if you go around saying racist, hateful, and physically harmful stuff we'll just perm you outright and take the heat.

You, personally, don't have a history of problem posts, but if you went and threatened to physically hurt another member, for example, you're done. Don't care how many posts you have or the sort of shitstorm that might pop up, that's it. Our primary job is to maintain people's safety and if you threaten someone we don't have much of a choice. Now there might be extenuating circumstances and we might be willing to take that under consideration if you realize how bad you fucked up and if those circumstances are extreme enough, but that's what tickets are for. That said, you really gotta have a good explanation. It's happened before, but most people either just double down or play denialism and pretend they did nothing wrong (which is par for the course when it comes to the tickets we get).

Beyond that, infractions over a length of time is something important to consider. Someone who gets banned once or twice a year for minor things is in a totally different situation than someone who gets banned multiple times a year. Say two posters both have ten bans. The poster who got them all in one year is probably about to get permed, while the one who got them over five years is probably going to be ok. We look at someone constantly causing trouble a lot differently than someone who needs to get tapped on the shoulder every now and again.

There's also the length between infractions to consider when looking at that second point. If you got banned nine times and then didn't get in any trouble, while still being active, for, say, three years, that's something we'll take into consideration. We might not hold a ban from 2018 against you in 2024 unless it's a part of a blatant pattern of behavior. Sometimes people got shit going on in their lives and they just change their posting style or habits for whatever reason. We want to at least try and take that sort of thing into account. People say we don't listen, but we really do try to. The issue tends to be, like I mentioned earlier, tickets tend to consist of people doubling down or blaming us for their ban. I mean, I've caught strays for bans I didn't even have a hand in.

The last bullet point is a lot like the second, now that I'm writing it out. Someone with ten infractions over 30,000 posts is a different kind of poster than someone with ten infractions over 700 posts. Assuming all the infractions are minor, one of these posters is obviously causing more problems than the other poster relative to how often they interact with the community. The former maybe loses their head sometimes, while the latter causes problems almost every single time they post. I can't imagine anyone would want us to consider both of those posters to be equally problematic, assuming their infractions are of the same severity.

I also want to note, for the record, we've permed some high volume posters in the past and will do so in the future if the situation calls for it. At the end of the day, nobody is asking for anything impossible from everyone. Just, you know, don't be a dick when talking with each other and you'll be fine.

All that said, the new year is coming and there's a few changes we're going to be implementing early on that are tangentially related to all this. I've talked about it before in here and it should dovetail nicely with some of the complaints we've gotten regarding the Switch 2 thirst threads.

Thanks for posting such a comprehensive explanation, makes perfect sense to me

I mean, there's other stuff to consider when making a perm that I'm not really at liberty to talk about, but it's not like we fly by the seat of our pants on this stuff. I've been working on trying to update our internal documentation for most of the year and it's a pretty huge undertaking. It's like a freaking book and every time something changes I get set back. The last time someone did it, they had to take a month off and focus on just doing that.

Can’t really ask for a better explanation, appreciate it.

What are the complaints in the Switch 2 threads if you don’t mind me asking?

[HaughtyFrank]

I also want to note, for the record, we've permed some high volume posters in the past and will do so in the future if the situation calls for it. At the end of the day, nobody is asking for anything impossible from everyone. Just, you know, don't be a dick when talking with each other and you'll be fine.

That's how it maybe should be but that's far from the actual moderation on the forum. People get banned for the most harmless shit while others are allowed to behave like absolute assholes

Eat my whole ass

[kaleidoscopium]

Anyone know what the last highlighted post was? Is it yet another failed b-dubs feature like tournaments and the “headlines” channel?

[HaughtyFrank]

Anyone know what the last highlighted post was? Is it yet another failed b-dubs feature like tournaments and the “headlines” channel?

Last one in November. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-just-got-invited-to-a-thanksgiving-dinner-on-the-grounds-that-i-not-wear-any-cologne-acqua-di-gio-absolu.777548/post-132123813

The last three are also just jokes or memes

[kaleidoscopium]

Yep a dead feature as expected, guessing MOBA told them to think of things to increase community engagement and these were their ideas  

————

I'd be enjoying all this infighting if hating Trans people wasn't the one thing the factions seem to be united by.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-ot-4-5-intermission-keys-more-like-uhhmmm-i-got-nothing-today.962805/page-1638#post-133577280

“Non binary” prison employee that’s been on hormones for a year and looks no different

[Jansen]

Whatever happiness Melody Shreds got from getting their hentai animu has dissipated and now they are spiraling on blue sky. I don't feel like screenshotting all that shit so maybe someone else will do it

[Venice]

I'll try to present a counterargument, because I think banning a poster who has invested a lot of time in this community should always be done with a great deal of care. I dunno if I should say all this, but it's been on my mind lately too.

I have been posting in this community for twenty years. It is part of my life, and there are people I know on this board, who I have known for a very long time, who I only talk to here. I am comfortable saying that I don't believe I am in any danger of being permanently banned from ResetEra anytime soon, but if I was, it would deeply affect me. Like I would be crushed. And I like to think my absence would be felt by at least a couple of people.

I think posters who are putting the time into being part of the character of the board should get special consideration.

There's so much to unpack about echoshiftings post. He's always been one of the worst, shit-stirring, ban-baiting assholes on ResetEra. It's clear from the 'some posters should get special consideration' that he puts himself into that category. It's why he's gotten away with being a colossal prick for so long.

But the line 'I like to think my absence would be felt by at least a couple of people' made me chuckle.

Absolutely NO ONE gives a fuck when someone stops posting. No one. And that applies to every single forum ever since the Internet was created, decades and decades ago.

Even on Era, when someone 'prominent' like 'TheHunter' from PoliEra gets banned, the members throw their toys out of the pram for a few hours, the Mods come in and tell them to shut their mouths or they'll be banned too, those full of rage suddenly remember they value their accounts more than loyalty to their e-friend, and by the next day everything is back to normal. No one cares when someone is banned or stops posting.

That doesn't mean people on forums don't have sympathy or empathy. 

It just means we're on the internet. This isn't the real world with real, inter-personal relationships. It means we are nothing more than words on a screen. Rather than mourning the disappearance of an e-friend, people will be watching a video on YouTube or jerkin' the sausage to porn, 5 seconds later.

The same is true, even here on TheBore. I like everyone here. Yet, as I type this post, I vaguely remember there was someone posting 20-30 times a day, who then suddenly stopped. I had to check. It's 'TheAnnoyedCanadian'. He hasn't posted since the beginning of December. I liked his posts, but I don't miss him. I haven't met him, I don't know a single thing about the man behind the username. But, I do hope he's out there, living his best life.

Same applies to everyone here. If Benji suddenly decided to shut down this forum, fly to Cuba and spend the rest of his life snorting cocaine of hookers tits, I wouldn't be weepy and devastated over the loss of this forum. I would hope everyone else here would also be snorting cocaine of hookers tits in your own cities and countries too and living your best life. 

It's absolutely dangerous to anchor your entire life and personality to a forum like echoshifting does. And ridiculous. A forum isn't something you base your existence and identity around. A forum is just a playground, somewhere to chill, blow off some steam, laugh a little, and that's it. On an insane nuthouse like Era, you're always only one post away from being hit with a perma from a Mod or Admin who has a grudge against you for unknown reasons.

Fingers crossed echoshifting gets perma-banned early in 2025  

[Boredfrom]

Absolutely NO ONE gives a fuck when someone stops posting. No one. And that applies to every single forum ever since the Internet was created, decades and decades ago.

Untrue, I seen some forum communities so tight that pulls Gaf/Era to shame. I cannot say they were totally healthy or that didn’t devolve in the same problems like GAF/ERA but they were genuine. 

I know for a fact that I affected somebody for stop posting.   

Then again, I also needed the break from that kind of online social interaction.

[Bootsthecat]

Whatever happiness Melody Shreds got from getting their hentai animu has dissipated and now they are spiraling on blue sky. I don't feel like screenshotting all that shit so maybe someone else will do it

It's just BS to elicit more donations. If there's anything this fuckin mongolid has figured out about the real world, it's that.

[Propagandhim]

if i stopped posting at least half of you fuckers would be inconsolable and move to the drink, jerking off punks (not the ramones kind, the gay kind) under the brooklyn bridge for $5 a head to get your next fix.  I'm stuck here.

[kaleidoscopium]

Seems like more kofi posting about their dead roommate, probably to buy more anime disks or some shit

Edit: with how much Malds is talking about sex workers today… have to wonder if this kofi fund is going towards some trans onlyfans gooning too

[kaleidoscopium]

Please do not make jokes about superhero movies, I find them very vexing! Unless they are jokes about how correct and good I am for liking them, of course.

You are objectively correct. Also, She-Hulk was good.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-mcu-back-or-how-much-will-brave-new-world-make.1070514/page-5#post-133580235

Please do not joke about the mcu. It is the greatest thing the world has ever given us and it will defend it to my dying breath

[Uncle]

I mean, there's other stuff to consider when making a perm that I'm not really at liberty to talk about, but it's not like we fly by the seat of our pants on this stuff. I've been working on trying to update our internal documentation for most of the year and it's a pretty huge undertaking. It's like a freaking book and every time something changes I get set back. The last time someone did it, they had to take a month off and focus on just doing that.

you're not clever or mysterious

if it's an account that was registered day one of the forum's existence and they've only ever said minor "haha yeah" type stuff, you're more likely to consider it a long con from a troll and perm them

if someone is a bire member, you perma them over much smaller infractions, and you monitor this thread, reseterainaction, kiwifarms and twitter for anyone saying "lol look what I just said on this shitty forum"

you have access to tools to compare IP addresses used by any given user so you can see if they might have alts

and you've been ordered by your moba masters to lay off the perms because it's not good for user retention and growth

[almostheathen]

All that jizz on her guitar.

[kaleidoscopium]

All that jizz on her guitar.

Zoom in on that switch controller, shits covered in actual filth… wtf

[nachobro]

they in fact did "keep going", if we define that as "posting lewd images of anime children"

[books]

Can’t really ask for a better explanation, appreciate it.

"I ain't reading all that."

[CHOW CHOW]

I hope broccoli of love doesn’t shame us anymore after these Malds revelations. This isn’t a good person, farthest from it.

[CHOW CHOW]

[killamajig]

The gross fingernails......the gross guitar.....



I'm going to go watch The Return to try and forget those pictures. 

Speaking of which, Ulysses. Now that guy had some real problems. 
Now we have "men" bitching about the wrong xmas gifts.

[Jansen]

Dude if you zoom in on that image literally everything is covered in filth.

[Jansen]

Unlikely. Also, swan never existed.

[Boredfrom]

MEDIA LITERACY!!!!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/and-another-thing-that-bothers-me-about-how-justified-villains-are-portrayed.1070955/

[Potato]

There's so much to unpack about echoshiftings post. He's always been one of the worst, shit-stirring, ban-baiting assholes on ResetEra. It's clear from the 'some posters should get special consideration' that he puts himself into that category. It's why he's gotten away with being a colossal prick for so long.

But the line 'I like to think my absence would be felt by at least a couple of people' made me chuckle.

Absolutely NO ONE gives a fuck when someone stops posting. No one. And that applies to every single forum ever since the Internet was created, decades and decades ago.

Even on Era, when someone 'prominent' like 'TheHunter' from PoliEra gets banned, the members throw their toys out of the pram for a few hours, the Mods come in and tell them to shut their mouths or they'll be banned too, those full of rage suddenly remember they value their accounts more than loyalty to their e-friend, and by the next day everything is back to normal. No one cares when someone is banned or stops posting.

That doesn't mean people on forums don't have sympathy or empathy. 

It just means we're on the internet. This isn't the real world with real, inter-personal relationships. It means we are nothing more than words on a screen. Rather than mourning the disappearance of an e-friend, people will be watching a video on YouTube or jerkin' the sausage to porn, 5 seconds later.

The same is true, even here on TheBore. I like everyone here. Yet, as I type this post, I vaguely remember there was someone posting 20-30 times a day, who then suddenly stopped. I had to check. It's 'TheAnnoyedCanadian'. He hasn't posted since the beginning of December. I liked his posts, but I don't miss him. I haven't met him, I don't know a single thing about the man behind the username. But, I do hope he's out there, living his best life.

Same applies to everyone here. If Benji suddenly decided to shut down this forum, fly to Cuba and spend the rest of his life snorting cocaine of hookers tits, I wouldn't be weepy and devastated over the loss of this forum. I would hope everyone else here would also be snorting cocaine of hookers tits in your own cities and countries too and living your best life. 

It's absolutely dangerous to anchor your entire life and personality to a forum like echoshifting does. And ridiculous. A forum isn't something you base your existence and identity around. A forum is just a playground, somewhere to chill, blow off some steam, laugh a little, and that's it. On an insane nuthouse like Era, you're always only one post away from being hit with a perma from a Mod or Admin who has a grudge against you for unknown reasons.

Fingers crossed echoshifting gets perma-banned early in 2025  

Lies. I genuinely miss filler.

Also, when The Great Tumbler tried to ban nintex, we were revolting revolted and made dog mod our bitch.

Also,

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

you're right, now where's my coke and hookers?

[Potato]

All that jizz on her guitar.

Zoom in on that switch controller, shits covered in actual filth… wtf

Pretty sure that's mould on the carpet and controller. Fucking pig is living in filth. No wonder the parents are on its case.

[Potato]

they in fact did "keep going", if we define that as "posting lewd images of anime children"

Melody is just posting depressive suicidal black metal lyrics now. Something to go along with the child exploitation material.