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

[Greatness Gone]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pc-gamer-star-wars-zero-company-hands-on-impressions-digital-coverage-releasing-25-3-%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%99s-way-more-than-just-x-com%E2%80%9D.1471042/

the more mandalorian helmets I see, the less interested I am


hopefully they aren't a big part of the game

...it's a fucking star wars strategy game, who else would be in it?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/leonid-radvinsky-who-changed-porn-with-onlyfans-is-dead-at-43.1470418/#post-152925250

So young. Onlyfans has helped out so many sex workers be self-employed.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/leonid-radvinsky-who-changed-porn-with-onlyfans-is-dead-at-43.1470418/#post-152925376

He was also one of the largest, if not the largest, donor to AIPAC during the Gaza genocide. Rest in piss.

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/leonid-radvinsky-who-changed-porn-with-onlyfans-is-dead-at-43.1470418/#post-152925250

So young. Onlyfans has helped out so many sex workers be self-employed.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/leonid-radvinsky-who-changed-porn-with-onlyfans-is-dead-at-43.1470418/#post-152925376

He was also one of the largest, if not the largest, donor to AIPAC during the Gaza genocide. Rest in piss.

inside you there are two wolves

[Nintex]

Zionist scum

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/leonid-radvinsky-who-changed-porn-with-onlyfans-is-dead-at-43.1470418/#post-152925250

So young. Onlyfans has helped out so many sex workers be self-employed.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/leonid-radvinsky-who-changed-porn-with-onlyfans-is-dead-at-43.1470418/#post-152925376

He was also one of the largest, if not the largest, donor to AIPAC during the Gaza genocide. Rest in piss.

The duality of retardera

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ai-art-found-in-crimson-desert-update-multiple-images-found.1469002/page-17#post-152913097

 User banned (1 week): Inflammatory rhetoric

still don't get why this even matters .. its a giant game ... does every single blade of grass need to be hand crafted by a human? insane.

on the other hand if there are rules where they need to make public they use AI art (again why? to be lynched? ) then fair enough ..stick to the agreed rules , be called out if you break them.

[davepoobond]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ai-art-found-in-crimson-desert-update-multiple-images-found.1469002/page-17#post-152913097

 User banned (1 week): Inflammatory rhetoric

still don't get why this even matters .. its a giant game ... does every single blade of grass need to be hand crafted by a human? insane.

on the other hand if there are rules where they need to make public they use AI art (again why? to be lynched? ) then fair enough ..stick to the agreed rules , be called out if you break them.

should have been banned for "milquetoast rhetoric" instead

[Chumbawumbafan69]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ozempic-is-about-to-go-generic-for-billions-of-people.1470343/page-2#post-152933620

As a physician this is fantastic

Can't believe how many people in there are cheering on the plus sized genocide.

[Polident]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ozempic-is-about-to-go-generic-for-billions-of-people.1470343/page-2#post-152933620

As a physician this is fantastic

Can't believe how many people in there are cheering on the plus sized genocide.

The people of fat need to go on a hunger strike to raise awareness.

[Uncle]

could they go on an eating strike to consume all the food that others might want and prevent them from having any

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/welcome-new-members-introduce-yourself-here.119184/page-48#post-152950726

Hello all! My name is Bret and I am new to ResetEra.

Just dropping by this thread to introduce myself.

I hope to see you around the forums.

https://bretbernhoft.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernhoftbret

https://www.youtube.com/@bretbernhoft

https://soundcloud.com/bretbernhoft

https://bretbernhoft.bandcamp.com/

https://hackaday.io/bretbernhoft

https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/bretbernhoft/summary

https://br.pinterest.com/bernhoftbret/

https://medium.com/@bernhoftbret/launching-my-journey-as-an-author-in-public-a5ba86dc1d57

etc.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-248#post-152868616

Americans have effectively lost the propaganda war in incredible time. Hilarious really.

And Zelensky allying himself with the perpetrators of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians and the on and off ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon will not go well for him. At least so publicly anyway. The racist apartheid colonial outpost in occupied Palestine needs to be utterly isolated and destroyed. That "project" is simply unsalvageable.

Example of correct think on absolutely not ghoulish forum resetera.com llc.  Where you at blueball?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-263#post-152937355

 User banned (2 weeks): conspiracy theories

The ambulance arson is probably one of the more flagrant and lazy false flags in recent memory. And the response again just highlights the appallingly racist double standard from the western hegemony given how they've repeatedly ignored all war crimes against health care workers in Gaza and Lebanon.

https://www.resetera.com/search/38993032/?t=post&c[thread]=1449391&c[users]=NefariousDragon&o=date

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bill-cosby-hit-with-59-million-verdict-in-1972-sex-assault-case.1471180/#post-152950108

People trying to Mandela effect Cosby into being dead. I'm here for it.

Maybe it's a Berenstain Bears effect. I was quite sure I was living in the Crosby is dead timeline.

EDIT: Oh I'm an idiot, it's the same thing.

The Mengele effect.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

that's insane.

lmaoooo capitalism literally ruins everything. your pro-sex worker pro-feminist ostensibly progressive, pro-lgbtq platform is exploiting low paid workers in foreign markets, underpaying them to exploit people who think they're interacting with the content creators, to upsell and make tons of money on media, and you can bet it's all handled by some scummy netbiz mba.

holy based

you described resetera and its continued support of Microsoft.  

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-248#post-152868616

Americans have effectively lost the propaganda war in incredible time. Hilarious really.

And Zelensky allying himself with the perpetrators of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians and the on and off ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon will not go well for him. At least so publicly anyway. The racist apartheid colonial outpost in occupied Palestine needs to be utterly isolated and destroyed. That "project" is simply unsalvageable.

Example of correct think on absolutely not ghoulish forum resetera.com llc.  Where you at blueball?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-263#post-152937355

 User banned (2 weeks): conspiracy theories

The ambulance arson is probably one of the more flagrant and lazy false flags in recent memory. And the response again just highlights the appallingly racist double standard from the western hegemony given how they've repeatedly ignored all war crimes against health care workers in Gaza and Lebanon.

https://www.resetera.com/search/38993032/?t=post&c[thread]=1449391&c[users]=NefariousDragon&o=date

Merely 2 weeks for that? Amazing forum b-dubs

[wsippel]

The stark contrast between ftm and mtf has always been funny and quite noticeable. Also funny how I've never heard a trans men talk about their crazy sexual kinks online

One of the recurring cast in Netflix’ One Piece show, the actor playing Coby, is a trans man IIRC. Nobody is talking about it, nobody cares.

[jooseloose]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pc-gamer-star-wars-zero-company-hands-on-impressions-digital-coverage-releasing-25-3-%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%99s-way-more-than-just-x-com%E2%80%9D.1471042/

the more mandalorian helmets I see, the less interested I am


hopefully they aren't a big part of the game

...it's a fucking star wars strategy game, who else would be in it?

This miserable cunt MUST let it be known in every game thread how uninterested in it he is

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pc-gamer-star-wars-zero-company-hands-on-impressions-digital-coverage-releasing-25-3-%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%99s-way-more-than-just-x-com%E2%80%9D.1471042/

the more mandalorian helmets I see, the less interested I am


hopefully they aren't a big part of the game

...it's a fucking star wars strategy game, who else would be in it?

This miserable cunt MUST let it be known in every game thread how uninterested in it he is

And then he’ll be there day one spamming and shitting up the OT because of how badly designed the tutorial boss is because he can’t get past them anyways

[Nintex]

The ambulance arson is probably one of the more flagrant and lazy false flags in recent memory. And the response again just highlights the appallingly racist double standard from the western hegemony given how they've repeatedly ignored all war crimes against health care workers in Gaza and Lebanon.

[Daffy Duck]

Oh no!

[Uncle]

Oh no!

   

friendly bunch

[Jansen]

From constructive 

re: negativity



Forums have always had a notable share of posters who want to take the most uncharitable read of a post and attack it. Social media and the attention economy has only exacerbated that impulse in folks. "Don't feed the trolls" is the Golden Rule of internet interactions for a reason.



But this is where you turn things back on yourself. If you post in good faith, you should engage with posts made in good faith. Discipline is necessary on the individual posters' behalf, the staff cannot enforce and adjudicate every annoying or negative post. Quite frankly, I think the entire forum can do better about this.



The Costco CEO was brought up as an example of this, and why should anybody be surprised? "Fuck billionaires" is the second core identity of Era after "fuck AI." Why should any billionaire be spared from that rhetoric just because they post a quirky video and head up a well liked company? In order for mod staff to maintain any consistency, they have to allow those kinds of posts, because "eat the rich" and "bring back the guillotines" have no carve outs. Line the glizzy warrior up right next to Elon Musk. At that point, it's incumbent upon individual users how much they want to engage with that topic thread line, discretion we all reserve at all times.

So, just to be clear, the guillotine stuff is an actionable offense and has been for the life of the forum. Any sort of "let's murder people we don't like" is right out. Allowing that sort of shit will cause huge problems that would put the whole community at risk.

To me, posters defining Resetera's core identity as "Fuck X" and "Fuck Y" is a quite succinct summary of the negativity problem we're discussing. I really hope it's obvious what a clear devolution that is for a community, and to be honest and personally speaking, a general sad state for progressivism.

The context here being negative responses and drivebys. And I think the most powerful driving force to changing the culture is being the change you want to see on this forum. It can be annoying and exhausting to see negative posts, but you always have the choice to contribute to positive and constructive dialogue. Or even challenging the negativity in good faith.



Wanting the staff to pull the lever of punishment is perhaps the exact opposite way to handle the community meta, because negative opinions should not inherently be suppressed. We all grown and should be able to handle a range of human emotion.

Challenging the negativity every time you see negativity is just further derailment of the thread, as we've seen extensively with the threads that were given as examples. At the same time, trying to 'read around it' is depressing and frustrating without maxing out your ignore list, and honestly a whole group of people with maxed out ignore lists also isn't exactly the hallmark of a great community.



Being the change you want to see is all nice and I'm sure something everyone strives towards, but it also feels like a drop in the ocean and if it were up to each individual poster, sure, but the reason why it's being brought up here in this thread is because I, and maybe others, also feel the mods can play an active role in this. You call it the lever of punishment, but that's a very specific lens you're looking through. To make a gardening analogy, are the mods here only to pull out the weeds, or are they here to help shape the garden? It's a genuine question I don't expect an answer to but do hope they reflect on.

Their best tool in this matter is engaging through conversation, which is largely how the mod staff has been engaging negativity. Tone policing through bans and threadbans is playing with fire, because again going back to the Costco CEO a baseline accepted maxim on Era is that there's no ethical billionaires. To use your framing, ideal moderation would largely let the garden do whatever it does, weeds and all, but make sure plant killing mold didn't spread throughout. The vast majority of community shaping should be left up to the users.

This is a great post and I agree with my whole heart

This is such a thankless task that I'm not surprised that people just refrain from posting about certain topics or games altogether. I just don't think it works, especially when the topic is one that already has a popular consensus built up around it.



Case in point, the latest Shenmue 3 thread. I'm not saying that everybody has to like a game that I enjoyed and goodness knows that it had flaws, yet I often think about ignoring anything to do that game on here because seeing the same low effort "it's shit" and "polishing a turd" drivebys over and over again is genuinely exhausting. Thankfully there are usually a few people engaging in good faith but the noise from people treating it as another opportunity to repeatedly stick the boot tends to drown out any attempt at constructive conversation.

My thoughts on certain things being tied to the identity of the site is that I don't really think this site has a clear cut identity. There isn't really a good way of gauging the opinion of the whole userbase. Heated discussions will naturally attract people with the most extreme opinions, so they don't tell us much about the general userbase.



For example: based on discussions we are generally very anti AI and discussions about it are are very clear that it's never acceptable. But the community as a whole also voted a game that used AI during development and shipped with placeholde AI assets as our GOTY. By an overwhelming amount. And in a poll on how users feel about its AI use, around 75% said they don't care.



Gacha games are a similar example: post about them in general gaming and you will quickly have people flaming them for exploitative monetization practices. But based on OT activity they are some of the most popular games on this site to talk about.



I know this goes against a lot of people's idea of what Era should be, but bear with me: it could conceivably be possible that the majority of users on a video game forum don't really care to discuss political topics 24/7, and do sometimes just want to talk about things they enjoy. But the thing with negativity is that even just 10% of the forum being constantly negative very quickly wears down the other 90%.



Don't get me wrong: it's good to be able to talk about serious topics, and calling out genAI use and wealth inequality is a good thing. But should it happen everywhere, constantly? Or should we be allowed to have silly threads about (not even close to billionare) CEOs eating hot-dogs without them being derailed?



This is a question I can't answer. It needs to be based on what the community as a whole think, and like I said I have no idea what that is. This thread is actually also a really poor baromether, since it primarily attracts those dissatisfied with the current status of this site. Maybe most users are actually okay with the negativity.



But I think it is something we need to decide on. Or rather the staff needs to decide, since they are the only ones who can actually make a decision.

My hot take is that tone policing is not bad. I believe the lack of it has created an environment where posters are permitted to treat eachother terribly and that's okay if you can tie your bad behavior to some moral cause. And while this continues I think you will just see more people shy away from engaging all while this toxic posting style just takes over.



That's not to say the moral cause isn't a worthy one it's just that often people come at eachother with the energy that they are actually speaking to the people responsible for the bad things going on in the world. When in reality we are all rather powerless to effect change, especially on a niche videogame forum like this.

How can this keep happening???

[Uncle]

it isn't said often enough, thanks for diving in and summarizing developments in constructive for those who don't or can't go there themselves

[HaughtyFrank]

From constructive 

bring back the guillotines" have no carve outs. Line the glizzy warrior up right next to Elon Musk. At that point, it's incumbent upon individual users how much they want to engage with that topic thread line, discretion we all reserve at all times.

So, just to be clear, the guillotine stuff is an actionable offense and has been for the life of the forum. Any sort of "let's murder people we don't like" is right out. Allowing that sort of shit will cause huge problems that would put the whole community at risk.

Cunt, your forum admin was arguing that no one should have turned in Luigi Mangione, comparing people who did to slave hunters. You didn't say shit about that.

"oh but she wasn't saying we should murder people, all she was saying is that people who murder others should go unpunished, huge difference" 

[Nintex]

it isn't said often enough, thanks for diving in and summarizing developments in constructive for those who don't or can't go there themselves

Great job everyone. absolutely amazing  

[Mediocre Lager]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ozempic-is-about-to-go-generic-for-billions-of-people.1470343/page-2#post-152933620

As a physician this is fantastic

Can't believe how many people in there are cheering on the plus sized genocide.

That would be a pretty badass name for a metal album.

[Nintex]

I'm sure these pills are as healthy as the gym, regular exercise and a good diet. 

But what about the PAWGs mr President sir

[Alpacx]

Merely 2 weeks for that? Amazing forum b-dubs

How the actual fuck is that not a perm? Say something impolite but truthful about People of Gender and you get nuked but conspiracy theories about Jews get a slap on the wrist.

 Popcorn Sweeney

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[filler]

1000 pages of bitching about other people bitching 

[Boredfrom]

So, just to be clear, the guillotine stuff is an actionable offense and has been for the life of the forum.

Fuck off, I still see people using “guillotines” not being banned. Don’t lie about that.