Furthermore, while we understand the passion surrounding political discussions, we believe it is essential to maintain a focus on gaming-related content.Tmmy, I don't come here to talk about video games. A lot of grown adults have a variety of interests and find talking about video games all the time mundane. A lot of people want to have arguments. I don't want to live in corporate pillow world. I'm already annoyed enough that GameFAQs started banning all conservative posters (I know they are a legal nuclear waste hazard but idc)
Additionally, political topics outside of CE will be banned.I hate you. I hate trust and safety.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/11-team-gamefaqs/80747428?page=1I will be posting here
if I win the lotto Ima just buy gamefaqsit really can't be worth much either
Wait, what? That's actually terrible. They're shutting down Current Events?
Um, no?That's even more cruel because they didn't kill it, they just gave it a terminal illness, lol. Now the room is slowly losing oxygen and random people will be excommunicated.
"As such, we are implementing a measure to turn the Current Events private. Every user who has visited GameFAQs in the last year and who currently has access to the board will retain access to the board. No additional users will be allowed to view or post on the board going forward. Additionally, any user who is placed in Purgatory (which is always an administrator/staff decision) will permanently lose access to the board. Additionally, political topics outside of CE will be banned."
Just no new people will be able to join, kinda like how they shut off access to LUE.
hornypostingSo does that mean I can't do my regular nightly posts?
So does that mean I can't do my regular nightly posts?I say just do it until they actually enforce it. The response is very negative and it might not fall through like they say.
Lmaooo we can't post about politics here anymore
And nothing of value was lost
This site can't even crack 1100 users at any given time.That's what makes this funny. Like who the hell is even on this site that's getting scared away from posting by the hot political takes of a bunch of 40 year-old weirdos that haven't just migrated to reddit or whatever?
Frankly I think GameFAQs just needs to close the boards at this point.
That's what makes this funny. Like who the hell is even on this site that's getting scared away from posting by the hot political takes of a bunch of 40 year-old weirdos that haven't just migrated to reddit or whatever?
That's what makes this funny. Like who the hell is even on this site that's getting scared away from posting by the hot political takes of a bunch of 40 year-old weirdos that haven't just migrated to reddit or whatever?*30 year old weirdo, thank you
I almost feel like they're trying to kill the sitethey bought it as a package deal with cnet so it's not implausible they literally do not care about gamefaqs at all or they want to actively kill it off because there's no foreseeable revenue source for the site
Personally, though, I'd be more put off by the aggressive ads than by any off-topic discussion or trolling that might be happening on the game board I was looking at. This site is honestly half the reason I use uBlock, and my understanding is that it's only gotten worse in the years since I swore off browsing it unprotected.
I almost feel like they're trying to kill the site... like they're just saying go away so we can shut it down lol.
they bought it as a package deal with cnet so it's not implausible they literally do not care about gamefaqs at all or they want to actively kill it off because there's no foreseeable revenue source for the site
They don't really need to drive people off for that. If they wanted to shut the site down they could do it tomorrow and it wouldn't really matter in any meaningful way.
They could also easily just shut down every social board and only keep the game boards, or shut down all forum activity and just keep the FAQs (sort of like IMDB did years ago), or otherwise try to keep the site as a monetizable resource without having to deal with all the pesky annoying users .
They obviously dont care about the site, and want it to fail. So, why havent they just shut it down already?
They don't really need to drive people off for that. If they wanted to shut the site down they could do it tomorrow and it wouldn't really matter in any meaningful way.it'll still be a stain to be used against them for a website to fail within two years of their acquisition, so I think they want to draw it out. make it an inevitable "gamefaqs wasn't going to last forever" thing but a little faster
it just isn't necessary to discuss politics online IMO. It's important stuff to pay attention to but your chances of actually changing people's minds are very low.
it'll still be a stain to be used against them for a website to fail within two years of their acquisition, so I think they want to draw it out. make it an inevitable "gamefaqs wasn't going to last forever" thing but a little faster
That brings up the question that if Jan 6 happened again, are we not allowed to talk about it? Cuz that was definitely a event to talk aboutI could see one arguing that discussing something on the news isn't in of itself political, which obviously puts the onus on the mods to evenly apply what is "political".
That RFK Jr. topic that was created 6 fucking days before the dumb fuck announcement is closed and TC is "not an active member".
The draconian crackdown on politics and even more so "horny posting" (which apparently means, "anything that a single person reports as such") is so god damned extreme, it's like they're trying to speed run a tumblr-fication of this site's user numbers.