Poll of the Day > EGM says some Gamefaqs DYING BOARDS are a REFUGE for some CREEPY LONELY PEOPLE!

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Elizabeth Henges, an EGM Games Journalist has highlighted the SECRET SIDE of Gamefaqs where she details the sites DYING BOARDS where users have tried to find refuge in to create off topic posts and create a community in it as she names one board in example on the "Mad Stalker" gaming board that she found "creepy" considering it's title, where gamers would create posts on DATING ADVICE as users would go back and forth on their failed relationships

She also detailed how there's thousands of unused message boards that go unused and have now been revived for secret users to build their community on, much like reddit and said those topics have gone untouched because moderators and admins aren't alerted and generally don't know about it as they talk about whatever they want without the risk of a ban

Mad Stalker was singled out as one in particular as the game has no bearing to anything romantic but threads were popping up from people who talked about PHONE SEX and other girl issues and when users failed to get a love/dating relationship/advice board because Gamefaqs does not host that type of stuff, these users decided to take matters in their own hands by forming a secret community board elsewhere on the site and used games that have romantic like names to find refuge in..

Although a lot of the content is just hopeless romantics and users who just looking for advice, some of the lines were troubling as users were posting fierce debate such as one with a woman arguing with a male dominant userbase on the validity of pick up lines and pick artist culture that is now regarded as toxic

Although the board is now dead, she predicts other users will eventually go to secret boards to build up another community on off topic posts and even says some users would go on the reddit gamefaqs forum to cry about their suspension/bans and until Gamefaqs "eventually" shutters, the site will continue to host strange internet behaviour of its users.

Do you agree that there's probably users going on secret message boards and breaking the TOS?

https://i.imgur.com/IQQaTLH.png

https://i.imgur.com/x5coCO4.png

https://egmnow.com/how-a-gamefaqs-board-became-a-refuge-for-the-brokenhearted/
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...EGM still exists? If anybody should be throwing stones, it ain't them.
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Oh, there are definitely creepy lonely people on GameFAQs.
Source: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/78153378
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Caroniver posted...

Oh, there are definitely creepy lonely people on GameFAQs.
Source: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/78153378

You didn't have to link to that one specific thread, you could've just linked to this sub.

Zeus posted...

...EGM still exists? If anybody should be throwing stones, it ain't them.

i was literally going to post this.

also the last time i bought an egm magazine was late 90's
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PKMNsony posted...

Caroniver posted...

Oh, there are definitely creepy lonely people on GameFAQs.
Source: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/78153378

You didn't have to link to that one specific thread, you could've just linked to this sub.

This shit ain't Reddit thank God for that
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I havent gone board hunting in a long time, but it used to be fun to click on random games on obscure systems to see what was out there. Used to be, back in the day, if you wanted your own board you could find an obscure, unused one and claim it. This did nothing officially, but people did have boards to themselves/with friends that way. I remember some of the "cool" kids on the first board I was a regular on(FF9 social board for ps1) had a second board they posted on, and I searched for it and actually stumbled upon it fairly easily, though I have long forgotten what it was called. The only name(Outside of a handful of FF9 SB regulars) I can recall from it was Scum. Does anybody else recall a user named Scum?

with thousands and thousands of games, i am pretty much going to assume some weird stuff happens in the depths of this website.

EGM is irrelevant and what "Dying Boards".
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I am not creepy!
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Doesn't seem that unreasonable especially with the way SBAllen and the other higher ups keep making this dying site increasing more hostile to its own userbase.
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aHappySacka posted...

Doesn't seem that unreasonable especially with the way SBAllen and the other higher ups keep making this dying site increasing more hostile to its own userbase.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/211368-monster-hunter-world/77951763

And then post 9 of https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/211368-monster-hunter-world/77951768, where he says they're "planning to make fewer boards down the road" instead of just... not making separate boards for expansions anymore.
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Caroniver posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/211368-monster-hunter-world/77951763

And then post 9 of https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/211368-monster-hunter-world/77951768, where he says they're "planning to make fewer boards down the road" instead of just... not making separate boards for expansions anymore.

He meant not making a new board for different versions of the same game.
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EGM was great. I miss John Ds (angry) reviews.
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this website doesn't have the population to support secret boards anymore
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EGM *IS* a dying board
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Lol at EGM saying that something is dying that's the pot calling the kettle black

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keyblader1985 posted...

I am not creepy!

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Just look at PotD.

If it wasn't for Plebbit cannibalizing everything, we would still be strong. Unfortunately, the only thing that GameFAQs tries to copy from it are it's perpetually offended SJW moderators.

mrduckbear posted...

Do you agree that there's probably users going on secret message boards and breaking the TOS?

I don't see a problem.
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Zeus posted...

...EGM still exists? If anybody should be throwing stones, it ain't them.

Not in its true form.

Also, imagine getting your thread deleted because of some lefties, eh?
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Something wrong with your SHIFT KEY, bro?
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We can make a our own boards now so Mad Stalker is obsolete.
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Oh no people are having discussions, in text, where anyone can see it or even... join in.
Seriously though, what is the objection?
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Hey man, I'm not lonely. And I'm only creepy here.
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Caroniver posted...

Oh, there are definitely creepy lonely people on GameFAQs.
Source: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/78153378

Hey, I made a board.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1503-missed-connections
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Cotton_Eye_Joe posted...

Caroniver posted...

Oh, there are definitely creepy lonely people on GameFAQs.
Source: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/78153378

Hey, I made a board.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1503-missed-connections

No.
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Oh sweet; we can make our own boards?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-dominion-of-the-omnipotemt-keyblader
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