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

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I would say I feel bad for B-dubs because it's almost as if every day there is a new fire for his moderation team to deal with

But then I remember he fostered this kind of community and laugh instead. 

[TylenolJones]

lol, if you go through a thread from more than 6 months ago, half the posters are banned anyway so who cares if twitter embeds stop working.

[kaleidoscopium]

That mod team is deeply deeply addicted to Twitter, as well as the ad traffic revenue MOBA generates

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sports-subreddits-lead-a-charge-to-ban-x-links-after-elon-musks-nazi-salute.1088235/page-6#post-134674038

r/pcgaming did it.

With the proviso that screenshots of tweets are allowed. Which is probably more useful to post on reddit tbh.

So not really banned then? 

Y'all weak. Ban it all together or not at all. Screenshots show you still support Elon. 

[railGUN]

"We can't ban twitter, it's technically impossible"

Everyone else bans twitter.

"Maybe we can ban twitter, we're looking into it".

[Averon]

B-Dumbs should just say "fuck it" and admit Twitter won't ever be banned because ResetERA owner MOBA don't want it banned. He should also throw in that MOBA is also why the banning of "chud" games like KCD2 is no longer allowed.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sports-subreddits-lead-a-charge-to-ban-x-links-after-elon-musks-nazi-salute.1088235/page-6#post-134674059

I definitely care.

Searching back through the Ukraine thread for old info has been vitally useful at times.

I think if a technical solution can't be found, the mod team should consider just putting it into the ToS that nobody should use it and give out warnings for a while if people continue to do it

Uhm, chuddie? Maybe your ukraine friends should stop using twitter. 

[benji]

"We can't ban twitter, it's technically impossible"

Everyone else bans twitter.

"Maybe we can ban twitter, we're looking into it".

Look, he's only been lying to them about this for over a year. I'm sure they'll take him to task about that like they do for him sexually assaulting Nepenthe.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sports-subreddits-lead-a-charge-to-ban-x-links-after-elon-musks-nazi-salute.1088235/page-6#post-134674146

User banned (2 weeks): conspiracy theories

I bet for the site it's a top down decision by Raptive as content from there is a primary revenue generator

REAL quick on that one, mods. 

[benji]

Uhm, chuddie? Maybe your ukraine friends should stop using twitter. 

It's only trustworthy info if from TikTok anyway. Or at least, was, before they went full mask off fash too.

Why no embeds for RedNote?!?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

The Ukraine and Gaza threads are definitely big considerations here, especially since most of the sourcing in the Gaza thread is still from Twitter. If we do it, they'll have to swap over overnight.

And, for real, can we seriously not make up a bunch of conspiracy theories? Thank you.

Uhm.. What about the Ukraine and Gaza thread? Most news is from that!

B-dubs? I thought randoms on Twitter weren't verified sources and shouldn't be posted?

[benji]

The Ukraine and Gaza threads are definitely big considerations here, especially since most of the sourcing in the Gaza thread is still from Twitter. If we do it, they'll have to swap over overnight.

 How? Only TikTok was pro-Palestine?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Guy can't even stick to his own damn story. People got banned for posting random tweets for news but now it's most of the sourcing in the thread?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-love-my-people-lord-knows-i-do-but-if-you-going-to-be-a-content-creator-and-post-internet-vids-please-black-people-do-this.1088313/

While the site discusses a twitter ban it's Slayven who comes in with the real talk.

Change the battery on your smoke detector. You can get a fatpack at dollar tree for 5 dollars, or steal one out a kid's remote control car. But please just do it. They last for years, and can save your life. It is starting to be a stereotype

[benji]

I don't really see the need to preserve old embeds, it's no different than content breaking due to sites like abload going offline. Keeping them around also gives people an off ramp towards a nazi sponsored media, at the very least any old embed should be presented with a warning.

The ideal end-state for twitter is it's dead and offline, which would break all of those embeds anyway.

Yeah I'd be so mad I couldn't find twitter embeds to continue to support Nazis.

BAN 👏 THE 👏 URLS 👏 TOO 👏

[kaleidoscopium]

Could we make it site policy that the use of x/twitter links is heavily frowned upon for political and technical reasons (clicking through when not signed in is awful), and encourage the use of alternative news sources or screenshots if needed. Important news sourcing could still be allowed.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sports-subreddits-lead-a-charge-to-ban-x-links-after-elon-musks-nazi-salute.1088235/page-7#post-134674482

Looking forward to the time someone gets banned for posting “important news” and people argue over whether it was important enough or not

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

If it's not important enough to be posted on a news website it's not important enough for Era. 

Uzzy just wants to continue posting their footy tweets.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

What you guys are describing would be the single biggest undertaking we've ever done. It would constitute an insane amount of work.

I've asked to see if we can break future embeds while preserving older ones, pretty sure we can swing that.

Oh so NOW it's possible?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sports-subreddits-lead-a-charge-to-ban-x-links-after-elon-musks-nazi-salute.1088235/page-7#post-134674629
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/1i6nwji/proposal_to_ban_xcom_direct_links_on_this/

I know this post is doing the rounds on other subreddits today, but I think its worth discussing for r/Ireland. Simple enough, suggestion is to ban x/twitter links. Users can post screenshots if they need to

edit-
As pointed out in the comments, screenshots are easily manipulated, so the ban should include screenshots as well

Uhoh don't tell Uzzy..

[benji]

I'm giving the mods the benefit of the doubt here and appreciate you being communicative B-Dubs, but I am gonna need to know what happened with that poll. What's that about.

Conspiracy theorizing.

[DocWager]

Why can’t we ban Melody Bluesky E-begging posts?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I'm giving the mods the benefit of the doubt here and appreciate you being communicative B-Dubs, but I am gonna need to know what happened with that poll. What's that about.

Conspiracy theorizing.

We're not putting important shit like this up to a vote. Especially when most of the people voting don't know the details.

So moderation DID tell them to take it down. 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Why can’t we ban Melody Bluesky E-begging posts?

Time to make a new thread called: A Beggin' We Will Go!

[benji]

If we stop sharing those links then they will have to move to where the audience for their content is. Is their job to keep your engagement, not yours to suffer the environment to edit their content

So... Twitter?

[kaleidoscopium]

It’s funny because Uzzy is correct, sports news basically only exists on Twitter at this point. Going to be fun seeing them dance around this for all the sports topics, wrestling topics, and especially anime/japanese gaming. 

Lots of fun this new season already 

[Pwnz]

Kind of pointless to lie about software options in 2025. No only would there be public documentation but you probably could ask copilot to generate steps and links to documentation on how to do it.

[benji]

I think some of them really believe that people will notice ResetERA.com no longer embedding their tweets.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I'm waiting for the Pwnz exclusive interview of the PoliEra diaspora's take on the banning of Twitter embeds. 

[Averon]

B-Dumbs is lying because he can never admit MOBA got their hand firmly stuck up his ass. He's probably a paid employee of MOBA at that. Imagine the shit storm on ERA that gets out.

[benji]

Jeff posts way more on Twitter than Bluesky even still, but there is some Bluesky exclusive content actually. Here he is conspiracy theorizing that Biden and the Democrats banned TikTok to help Donald Trump: