Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/street-fighter-6-ot-round-4-once-more-with-healing-switch-2-version-season-3-launch.1206345/page-197#post-144628788

Put in my ticket for account deletion earlier today. The staff says the process takes 30 days, but I'll be banned pending deletion soon. I suppose whenever they get back around to it.

Before that happens, I just want to say this ain't some self-righteous "fuck all y'all." I value this community. I think y'all are—hands down—the best people to talk fighting games with on the internet. I've been chatting, arguing, and making unwise avatar bets with y'all for years because y'all cool people that I genuinely respect.

And I don't necessarily think boycotting Evo or fighting games is the right move. This is not some grand sacrificial statement on my behalf. SonicFox made a beautiful vow to keep being the best fighting game player on the planet and wave their Pride flag at Evo in MBS' fucking face. To which I say hell yeah. That's the energy the community needs going forward.

I just don't know if I have that energy, you feel me? I think about our friend lucebuce, who was one of my favorite folks here and funnier than most of us combined. And how she felt less welcome in this space with SNK games being openly discussed. Games owned by the de facto leader of a country that imposes capital punishment on people like her. She felt she had to leave, but my ass stuck around and kept enjoying these games and this scene that I have the privilege to enjoy without persecution. And I guess there's only so much cognitive dissonance I can handle.

I'm passionate about this scene because as a Black man I feel like I belong in it, which is extremely rare for a gaming community. I want the FGC to grow, but not just to see the pot sizes get larger. I want more people to feel like they belong too. So I can buss they ass online.

Anyways, I appreciate y'all.

Thank fucking God he is gone. One of the most stupid hypocritical posters of the forum.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Wait:

The staff says the process takes 30 days, but I'll be banned pending deletion soon. I suppose whenever they get back around to it.

Sounds like a subscription account 

[DavidCroquet]

staff are lying their asses off. They’re just trying to hang on to a regular, highly active poster.

[JoeBoy101]

No shit, how can it take that long to delete an account. Fucks sake the cable company isn’t that bad.

[Boredfrom]

Before that happens, I just want to say this ain't some self-righteous "fuck all y'all." I value this community. I think y'all are—hands down—the best people to talk fighting games with on the internet.

Man, are things that bad for you? 

*ERA is the only place where I can sperg on useless shit without people mocking me.*

And I don't necessarily think boycotting Evo or fighting games is the right move. This is not some grand sacrificial statement on my behalf. SonicFox made a beautiful vow to keep being the best fighting game player on the planet and wave their Pride flag at Evo in MBS' fucking face. To which I say hell yeah. That's the energy the community needs going forward.

[Jansen]

Wait:

The staff says the process takes 30 days, but I'll be banned pending deletion soon. I suppose whenever they get back around to it.

Sounds like a subscription account 

That account deletion isn't happening. They will be back.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

May these misguided individuals have the veil of degeneracy lift from their eyes. May the "pride" flag be banned from EVO. May these "eggs" never crack and instead find their way to Allah. Inshallah, please let all these come to be.

Saudi Arabia be the guiding light to these misguided people. 

Ameen.

jeff dabbing on that drama baiting streamer trash

[simiansmarts]

The FGC needs Saudi Arabia to cleans things up more than anything lest they turn into the Smash community (basically what Guilty Gear is now)  

This picture is from a Smash tournament that happened a month ago, Supernova. They haven't change at all since 2020.

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[malfoyking]

When Nintendo descends on them, they'll complain. "How dare Nintendo!"

They repeatedly behave like fucking deviants.

[nachobro]

staff are lying their asses off. They’re just trying to hang on to a regular, highly active poster.

exactly, they know this dude got no self control and will be back begging them not to delete it within a week

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-gaza-family-torn-apart-by-idf-snipers-from-chicago-and-munich.1293096/
Come get your warcriminals borians

[HaughtyFrank]

[Boredfrom]

Yes, the Resetera VtUber thread is as commenting about it: 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/virtual-youtuber-ot3-im-getting-too-old-for-this.812841/page-726

IIRC, the EN manager "suggest" that they shouldn't stream that game, which was what Gura said back when it came out and people asked her.

So Cover probably know, but it's a sponsor and the brand is basically god in JP, next to Disney stuff.

So basically they don't care if it gets their JP talent some trouble internationally. I would assume they at least warned the talent that are streaming that they might get some pushback?

 

Except that Pekora did a year ago with little backlash . Almost like is performative BS as they know Korone interacts more regularly with her western audience.

[Boredfrom]

“It is honestly pretty telling how the indie VTuber scene is like 45% trans women…”

Dude saying this like is a good thing.

[Taco Bell Tower]

[Taco Bell Tower]

Why are trans people upset?  The Wizard Game has a trans character ffs

[wsippel]

I feel like everyone has been saying "haha wow ok yeah they started this game around the time covid started and are only just now releasing it" for 5 years now, and will keep saying it for the next 5...and 10...and 20...

they're not giving it up

we already had some internal documentation that various studios were gonna keep doing "woke" but just change all the terminology and hide it better deep within the game so you keep getting exposed to Good Boy Concepts, you just don't know until you've already bought it and you're 3 hours in

Garbage like Dustloop, Relooted or Go North is different. Those projects are just grant money syphons, usually paid for by European taxpayers. Everybody knows that trash is going to crash and burn, but nobody cares. Entirely reactionary with zero cultural impact. It's just a grift.

I didn't write that.

You didn't, I was quoting Uncle. Sorry. I have no idea how that even happened. Some weird fuckery with MyBB I guess?

[Nintex]

"They're thinking: 'Oh I don't think [I'll get shot] because I'm wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon and all that, but they were wrong," said Raab, who majored in biology at the University of Illinois before joining the Israel Defense Forces. "That's what you have snipers for."

 not all heroes wear capes

[Boredfrom]

I'm not going to message anyone about it, but I'm also not going to watch or support anyone who accepts a sponsorship for that game.

“How this Japanese streamer dares to accept a sponsorship without knowing a niche issue involving politics from Anglo countries?”

[Boredfrom]

If Instagram and Youtube Shorts are any indication, the algorithm still wants me to watch multi-millionaires like Brad Pitt or Seth Rogen doing press tours for their latest $100 million movie laughing their asses off as they do quirky puff piece interviews talking about how awesome their lives are. Not the movies themselves, but the marketing around them. We all need escapism but maybe we could do with less of the ultra-rich who have zero cares in their lives juxtaposed with Gaza, mass layoffs, impending totalitarianism, Ukraine etc.

Brad Pitt reportedly got paid $30 million for F1.
Like, just do your movie and enjoy your millions in private and fuck off.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/it’s-increasingly-harder-to-not-be-immediately-resentful-of-celebrities-celebrating-their-careers-considering-the-state-of-the-world.1293117/

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Yes, the Resetera VtUber thread is as commenting about it: 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/virtual-youtuber-ot3-im-getting-too-old-for-this.812841/page-726

IIRC, the EN manager "suggest" that they shouldn't stream that game, which was what Gura said back when it came out and people asked her.

So Cover probably know, but it's a sponsor and the brand is basically god in JP, next to Disney stuff.

So basically they don't care if it gets their JP talent some trouble internationally. I would assume they at least warned the talent that are streaming that they might get some pushback?

 

Except that Pekora did a year ago with little backlash . Almost like is performative BS as they know Korone interacts more regularly with her western audience.

uhm HP is banned from being discussed on era no matter the context. 

[BIONIC]

Garbage like Dustloop, Relooted or Go North is different. Those projects are just grant money syphons, usually paid for by European taxpayers. Everybody knows that trash is going to crash and burn, but nobody cares. Entirely reactionary with zero cultural impact. It's just a grift.

I didn't write that.

You didn't, I was quoting Uncle. Sorry. I have no idea how that even happened. Some weird fuckery with MyBB I guess?

Post hog to atone

[BIONIC]

Speaking of ban records, I got a question about that. Let’s say I’m a model citizen for the next I dunno 12 months and somehow avoid droppin my hat. Does that get you like a point off your record? Does it get taken into account for the next ban or do the ban lengths have a linear upward kinda path where there’s not much you can do?

Tldr, how many more I got in me?

IIRC the context of each ban plays a big part in how future bans will be implemented (i.e. if you've already been banned once for discriminatory language, staff will be less gracious if you ever do it again). This does seem like something you could try to submit a ticket for if you want a more specific answer, though.

But just showing actual remorse and changed behavior will probably weight heavier than time passed, I'd wager.

If you mean the Tldr line, that was a joke. My point was about how getting clarification on how the ban battlepass progression system works here would benefit A LOT of folks — it would go a long way in addressing the consistency issue. There’s people here that been capped 10+ times and still around… when you see that all you think is why are they playing favorites? And more importantly, what does it take to get on that A-list? Because sign me tf up. I’ve been posting way less the past few months, on straight eggshells, because I’m not sure if the next time I get clipped sends my ass home or not. How is that healthy?

P.S. This has nothing to do with you, waterpuppy. Just gave me an outlet

Oh I was mostly just saying that because staff has made it pretty clear that any ban inquiries, for yourself or others, should be made through the ticket system. And I think people who have "survived" several bans over the years without a perm at this point aren't given VIP treatment, just that maybe their ban/warning history don't warrant a permaban due to being made up of mostly less severe infractions? Just guessing since I have no idea who you're thinking about here.

And no worries haha I get it. I myself have definitely changed how carefully I express myself over time.

While true, we also do take into account things like time between bans and post count.

So, let's say, for example, that you do some console warring or act like a dick for about 3 months and you get up to a 1 week ban as a result. That's roughly 4 actions against you escalating normally, depending on severity it might be less than 4. If you then stop doing that entirely and are a model poster for the next year but slip up at one point and fall back into your bad habit, depending on how bad the post is, we probably won't escalate on the prior infraction and will just ditto the previous ban duration. So instead of getting a two week ban, as per normal escalation, we'll just give you another one week ban as a reminder not to do that again.

Of course, that assumes you are posting normally. If you just leave the forum for that year instead of posting regularly, we'll just act as if you never took that break because we never saw a change in behavior. The change in behavior being the key that makes this work.

Basically, we do recognize that people change and unless it's a situation where a much older action against you is exactly the same sort of infraction as the post you just made, it might not count toward how we moderate your account. For example, if you only really pop up to be a dick to a poster you don't like and don't really post otherwise, I wouldn't expect us to give you much grace.

We'll also look at post count to a degree, like, for example, if your account has been actioned 11 times. I think everyone can agree that there is probably a difference between someone who has roughly 1,000 posts and 11 actions against them and someone who has 10,000 posts and 11 actions against them. This, of course, ignores severity of infractions. In this example, we're talking about two platform warriors with equivalent infraction histories.

In this way, we'll also consider how quickly infractions get racked up. We can obviously see a difference between someone who has been actioned 11 times in ten years versus someone who has been actioned 11 times in a single year. The one who has racked those infractions up over a decade averages an infraction a year, the yearly tap on the shoulder, whereas the guy who has gotten actioned 11 times in a year is probably running around making life miserable for everyone they encounter.

Like I said, we get that people change. We get that someone might have a bad year. We get that sometimes people get heated and lose their cool at times. We get all that and have tried to build an understanding of that into the system and procedures we use.

Not cops btw

[Potato]

Garbage like Dustloop, Relooted or Go North is different. Those projects are just grant money syphons, usually paid for by European taxpayers. Everybody knows that trash is going to crash and burn, but nobody cares. Entirely reactionary with zero cultural impact. It's just a grift.

I didn't write that.

You didn't, I was quoting Uncle. Sorry. I have no idea how that even happened. Some weird fuckery with MyBB I guess?

Goddamn it Benji!!!!

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

AMAB
AAAB

[Greatness Gone]

Reminder that this is supposed to be a video game forum. Why are they discussing the intricacies behind their nonsensical bans like they’re attending the UN general assembly? 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ryan-reynolds-complains-about-us-vs-them-identity-politics-says-nothing-better-than-working-with-maga-advocates-learning-their-perspective.1290822/page-8#post-144861039

 User banned (1 week): Trolling over a series of posts

You might want to look up the reconstruction era of US history. It'll also highlight why comments such as "both sides just need to stop escalating things" you've made are incredibly dense to say the least.

I'm not saying both sides are escalating things. This is what you understood from what I said. I'm not sure if this is within this thread, but I did say in the past that all the responsibility for change always falls within the Left which is completely stupid. We always complain about how the Left needs to change and adjust but in reality, what needs to change and adjust is the Right. It is the Right's leadership that is problematic. With that being said, it doesn't mean the Left is perfect. It has its fair share of issues; everything that Palestine has exposed. That's my point. With that being said, both sides need to deeply examine their approach to things if they don't want their society to implode.

What's the use of a forum if I can't express my opinion? Report the troll? How about we discuss things? Feel free to strongly disagree, I'm not asking you to. I do find it particularly interesting to block someone who has a different opinion as yours, perhaps communication is the main issue American face.

[Greatness Gone]

This part specifically is insane because what the fuck????  So vindictive and for what?

Of course, that assumes you are posting normally. If you just leave the forum for that year instead of posting regularly, we'll just act as if you never took that break because we never saw a change in behavior. The change in behavior being the key that makes this work.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Reminder that this is supposed to be a video game forum. Why are they discussing the intricacies behind their nonsensical bans like they’re attending the UN general assembly? 

If only there was a set list of rules that everyone could read. 

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Reminder that this is supposed to be a video game forum. Why are they discussing the intricacies behind their nonsensical bans like they’re attending the UN general assembly? 

If only there was a set list of rules that everyone could read. 

stop putting staff in danger