Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[cRumB]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-instead-of-addressing-the-disturbing-number-of-suicidal-posts-the-mods-just-lock-threads-that-try-to-address-the-topic.795567/

[kaleidoscopium]

Another suicide reaction thread, locked with no message lol 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-instead-of-addressing-the-disturbing-number-of-suicidal-posts-the-mods-just-lock-threads-that-try-to-address-the-topic.795567/?post=116342037#post-116342037

please do not make reactionary threads"

as somebody who has been hospitalized three times due to attempts, has lost people to suicide, and has a partner that lost a sibling to suicide, it is extremely triggering and sad to see how often suicidal posts are made

I report them every time asking the mods to address this and never get a response

Somebody made an actually well thought out thread where discussion was happening on possible solutions and a mod locked it (you know who you are)

if all y'all have time for is locking every thread about cyberpunk and won't even address this topic go ahead and ban me

Deuces era, I had a blast here, and some of y'all have gotten me through some real tough times 🐎

Follow up thread
https://www.resetera.com/threads/mods-locked-my-thread-in-seconds-without-comment.795570/

Kyuuji there in the trenches

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-instead-of-addressing-the-disturbing-number-of-suicidal-posts-the-mods-just-lock-threads-that-try-to-address-the-topic.795567/

User banned (1 month): inflammatory insinuations and thread creation

[Jansen]

I miss the days when people would suicide their accounts by posting BBC

[kaleidoscopium]

Never get a response? Every single time we send the user in question the information for their local suicide emergency hotline, then we sit around watching the thread, sometimes for hours, while we attempt to gather enough information in order to call the local authorities if the thread makes that specific turn. All of this, and often more, at the direct detriment to our own mental health.

We do not appreciate the insinuation that we have done nothing or do not care.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-instead-of-addressing-the-disturbing-number-of-suicidal-posts-the-mods-just-lock-threads-that-try-to-address-the-topic.795567/?post=116342178#post-116342178

[Echelon]

That is it! The Suicide community is leaving Era!

[kaleidoscopium]

Can just imagine their discord mod chat “ugh gotta go back on suicide watch, another Hogwarts legacy sales record got broken”

[Jansen]

Never get a response? Every single time we send the user in question the information for their local suicide emergency hotline, then we sit around watching the thread, sometimes for hours, while we attempt to gather enough information in order to call the local authorities if the thread makes that specific turn. All of this, and often more, at the direct detriment to our own mental health.

We do not appreciate the insinuation that we have done nothing or do not care.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-instead-of-addressing-the-disturbing-number-of-suicidal-posts-the-mods-just-lock-threads-that-try-to-address-the-topic.795567/?post=116342178#post-116342178

You know they don't do this

[kaleidoscopium]

Hey they saved clickycals life you know, by sending their phone number to a crisis line.

[books]

Don't forget asking what the troubled persons favorite game is. God forbid the person's favorite game could be Hogwarts.

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvel-games-have-really-been-stepping-it-up-recently.793374/

 

In excited about Blade… but Marvel has been horrible with their licensing a this past years outside Guardians and SpiderMan. 

It's wild that went from licensed games being almost universally shit cash grabs to being some of the best and most hyped games across the industry. My have things changed.

 

You have SpiderMan ( a Sony joint) and Guardians (that bombed hard) and Snap (mobile shit). WHAT FUCKING HYPE?

Avengers got a super deep firesale discount then delisted?

[Eric Cartman]

I'll just leave. It's just such an immature way to approach these discussions, but it's the law of the land so I'll leave it alone since I'll get banned for even talking about it.

If you want to be 'mature' about it, sure, let's be mature. I'm currently reading and writing notes on the ongoing court case regarding the murder of a 16yo trans girl who was stabbed to death and left to die in the middle of a park in broad daylight. During this period of time two government officials have come out with the intent of making it illegal for trans women to exist here, and to suggest that trans-affirming healthcare is actually a form of conversion therapy for gay children and should therefore be banned as part of a long-delayed ban on conversion therapy, itself only delayed because it would have included conversion therapy for trans children. The talking point that trans care is a form of conversion therapy comes directly from Rowling in 2020.

Is that what you needed to read, because honestly getting in your feelings because someone called Hogwarts Legacy 'TERF Simulator' while knowing the context behind why they would do so is infinitely more immature than someone throwing a minor amount of shade at it.

 

You are such a vile cunt, Kyuuji.

[Eric Cartman]

Never get a response? Every single time we send the user in question the information for their local suicide emergency hotline, then we sit around watching the thread, sometimes for hours, while we attempt to gather enough information in order to call the local authorities if the thread makes that specific turn. All of this, and often more, at the direct detriment to our own mental health.

We do not appreciate the insinuation that we have done nothing or do not care.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-instead-of-addressing-the-disturbing-number-of-suicidal-posts-the-mods-just-lock-threads-that-try-to-address-the-topic.795567/?post=116342178#post-116342178

[Eric Cartman]

I'm extremely disappointed you guys diminished TheGummyBears totally hecking valid mental health crisis by implying it was something to do with South Park still existing.

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

It's because new Doctor Who was good

[Eric Cartman]

era: I just think 14 years old is too young to have to face the realities of life by having to work for a living. Can't kids just be kids?

Also era: STOP GENOCIDING PEOPLE BY DENYING THEM LARGELY UNTESTED MEDICAL TREATMENTS THAT HAVE PROVEN NEGATIVE LONG TERM SIDE EFFECTS

[Nintex]

All of this, and often more, at the direct detriment to our own mental health.

Right, we are such hard working people and the people don't appreciate all we do for them.

It can never be about something fun with these suicidal maniacs, like the other day I did my tax return for my charity slushfund and guess what the final number was? 

80085! 

And Zelensky was like "boohoo my people are dying" the prick

Surely everyone can enjoy a little banter and not kill themselves all the time. 

Did you try the new Harry Potter game?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Suicide threads should an insta-lock and permanent ban to discourage them. Neither Melody Shreds nor TheGummyBear would be seeking attention that way if their account was on the line, and a video game forum is not qualified or equipped to help someone genuinely in need.

[Potato]

Before anyone gets the wrong ideas, I'm a transwoman and a lesbian.

Cool. What will you decide to be tomorrow?

[Boredfrom]

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Suicide threads should an insta-lock and permanent ban to discourage them. Neither Melody Shreds nor TheGummyBear would be seeking attention that way if their account was on the line, and a video game forum is not qualified or equipped to help someone genuinely in need.

I think RE is lucky that most people doing the suicidal threads are attention whores. Dunno if an instant ban would be a good idea, but an instant lock should be the default rule. GummyBear is a prick, though, he made the thread partially to shit on the mods because his constant bans.

[Uncle]

I miss the days when people would suicide their accounts by posting BBC

I mean it makes sense they would ban for posting blatant transphobia

https://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/55468/1/the-bbc-has-been-called-out-for-transphobia-by-a-human-rights-group

[Uncle]

That is it! The Suicide community is leaving Era!

oh god what will their spinoff forum be called 

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/any-drawbacks-for-having-a-kid-get-a-job-at-14-during-the-summer.794805/page-7?post=116303637#post-116303637

Gotta say as an autistic person who struggled big time in the work force starting out, alarm bells go off in my head when I hear about "work ethic" considering how many times I got yelled at starting out in a job when I was younger because I was being given unrealistic expectations and not properly accommodated. That was a term I heard a lot to describe my shortcomings.

As someone with severe ADHD, the terms "lazy" and "not applying yourself" got thrown around a lot around me.

Interesting.

They do really use self-diagnosed autism as a shield for their lack of usefulness, don't they?

I love it in particular because these are two of the biggest "anti-capitalist" whiners on the forum. Under socialism they would be thrown in a prison camp for malingering since the state couldn't afford the bullets to shoot them as an example to others.

[benji]

Meanwhile the "yes it's a trans genocide" thread hasn't been updated in forever. That's the calmest fucking genocide ever.

all this crazy shit started about 2013 and this is from 2015, almost 10 years ago

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/muhammad-cartoon-controversy-transgender-genocide-and-tobogganing-bans-1.2906924/the-quiet-genocide-against-the-transgender-community-1.2906927

Activists looking at deaths of transgender people around the world, say that there could be a modern-day genocide unfolding all around us.

A death last month, in Ohio, has been a recent rallying cry inside the community to consider this idea more seriously. Leelah Alcorn was 17. She was born as Joshua Alcorn, but in her suicide note she wrote that society and parents would not accept her true gender identity. Her last words before saying goodbye were "fix society please."

This person walked in front of a truck and has been praised as a brave hero ever since. Nobody ever mentions the truck driver.

[benji]

Never get a response? Every single time we send the user in question the information for their local suicide emergency hotline, then we sit around watching the thread, sometimes for hours, while we attempt to gather enough information in order to call the local authorities if the thread makes that specific turn. All of this, and often more, at the direct detriment to our own mental health.

We do not appreciate the insinuation that we have done nothing or do not care.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-instead-of-addressing-the-disturbing-number-of-suicidal-posts-the-mods-just-lock-threads-that-try-to-address-the-topic.795567/?post=116342178#post-116342178

You know they don't do this

"Yes, hello, Boston? I believe there is a suicidal person who has taken the 'specific turn' in your general area. No, I don't know their name or address."

Look, even if you're doxing your users because they're dumb enough to give you their info, you're sending COPS to a MARGINALIZED PERSON? What if they were Black and/or trans? That's murder and you've made Nepenthe complicit in her people's genocide. Think about what you'd have to do to make restitution with her. You can't, it's impossible. She already has all the Lucio skins so there's nothing you can give her.

[Uncle]

Meanwhile the "yes it's a trans genocide" thread hasn't been updated in forever. That's the calmest fucking genocide ever.

all this crazy shit started about 2013 and this is from 2015, almost 10 years ago
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/muhammad-cartoon-controversy-transgender-genocide-and-tobogganing-bans-1.2906924/the-quiet-genocide-against-the-transgender-community-1.2906927

Activists looking at deaths of transgender people around the world, say that there could be a modern-day genocide unfolding all around us.
A death last month, in Ohio, has been a recent rallying cry inside the community to consider this idea more seriously. Leelah Alcorn was 17. She was born as Joshua Alcorn, but in her suicide note she wrote that society and parents would not accept her true gender identity. Her last words before saying goodbye were "fix society please."

This person walked in front of a truck and has been praised as a brave hero ever since. Nobody ever mentions the truck driver.

is it a rumination on the troubling fact that the poor truck driver was forced against his will to deal with lifelong trauma selfishly inflicted by the suicider, or is it a dark joke that we must also appreciate the truck driver as a hero for their valuable part in the death that brought to light society's ills

[Boredfrom]

What is the preferred way of responding openly to personal harassment over their role in a video game? This is a genuine question, but the only thing offered by anyone(if I missed someones I'm sorry, but takes have been wild over all these pages) in this thread has been to be quiet and take it.

responding back openly, but in a friendly way. Not playing the victim card, not trying to downplay criticism, explaining the situation instead of immediately going "you all have no clue", especially after the industry does nothing but purposefully keeping everything under wraps. Maybe even apologizing, depending on how sincere you want to be, but that's not even a must.

The content of what he said is perfectly fine, at least for the most part, but the way it's been communicated would have gotten some people I worked with into some serious talks with myself :p

I'm not even joking, that's literally the reason why companies should invest in good community management. There's a reason we exist, and there's a bigger reason we don't like devs, marketing and heads or leads on anything resembling an open mic

Let me be your Mouth of Sauron.  

https://www.resetera.com/threads/starfield-design-lead-says-players-are-disconnected-from-how-games-are-actually-made-dont-fool-yourself-into-thinking-you-know-why-it-is-that-way.795270/page-16?post=116347122#post-116347122

[TylenolJones]

Never get a response? Every single time we send the user in question the information for their local suicide emergency hotline, then we sit around watching the thread, sometimes for hours, while we attempt to gather enough information in order to call the local authorities if the thread makes that specific turn. All of this, and often more, at the direct detriment to our own mental health.

We do not appreciate the insinuation that we have done nothing or do not care.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-instead-of-addressing-the-disturbing-number-of-suicidal-posts-the-mods-just-lock-threads-that-try-to-address-the-topic.795567/?post=116342178#post-116342178

So you’re telling me I can give Era staff mental breakdowns by making a bunch of suicide threads?!?

Thanks for the advise bdumbs.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvel-cinematic-universe-ot3-is-this-canon-lgbtqia-lives-matter.523146/page-129?post=116288217#post-116288217

Gonna be honest, if Majors is acquitted somehow and kept in the MCU as is, it's going to make me very uncomfortable to watch.

But you're still going to watch, huh. 

What an "Ally" you are to domestic abuse victims.

I mean, it's not like he beat up a TRANS woman. It was just a regular white woman, and we know they're the reason Trump got voted in!

[Potato]

Interesting.

They do really use self-diagnosed autism as a shield for their lack of usefulness, don't they?

I love it in particular because these are two of the biggest "anti-capitalist" whiners on the forum. Under socialism they would be thrown in a prison camp for malingering since the state couldn't afford the bullets to shoot them as an example to others.

My personal theory is that they believe that once the struggle is ended and the carrot theory of economic development has rendered society a trans utopia, they will just while away their waking hours posting brilliant and insightful 4-hour YouTube essay videos about politics that will be earth shattering and immediately influence all of society to move on from capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy much like Locke and Demosthenes from Ender's Game.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

That is it! The Suicide community is leaving Era!

  BY GOD ECHELON COMES OUT OF NO WHERE WITH A POST THAT GAINS 19 USER LIKES