Current Events > The MAGA board is now closed down

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We had a MAGA board?

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Yes baby we won

Oh no

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That place was a shithole from what I had seen of it.

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Whats sad is the massive amount of complaining we had to do to get it shut down. Ask The Mods, Site Suggestions, Hellhole, and CE basically all had to be flooded with requests just to make Allen listen.

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Were_Wyrm posted...

We had a MAGA board?

FlameTurtle posted...

It doesnt look like the real problem users on there are even getting banned, Allen is just putting them in purg

That is disappointing. Well... i know who they are in the event their names show up on this board...
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yusiko posted...

troll implies that he is just kidding and not really this delusional

That's precisely who he is. There are some legit Trump supporters around here, but he is not one of them. He's more or less the "what about the meme's?!" guy.

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Were_Wyrm posted...

We had a MAGA board?

yes it was a glorious place where you could point and laugh at trumps cult members

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onedarksoul posted...

Thats right. Censor everyone.

this is the kind of scaremongering trumpers use to recruit more idiots who don't understand the rights they think they're fighting for.

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Why the fuck was there a MAGA board here at all?

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onedarksoul posted...

Anyway, enjoy the censorship. The internet in general will only become more restricted from here

If you mean holding terrorists bent on overthrowing our democracy accountable for their actions then... Im cool with it.

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WrenchNinja posted...

Why the fuck was there a MAGA board here at all?

That question has been asked A LOT in the official forums. The mod reply has been, Dont blame us. Theres nothing we can do. It was an admin decision. But thats certainly a different tune then they were singing when they closed down Tails82s board that was dedicated to pointing out mod mistakes.


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BeyondWalls posted...

That question has been asked A LOT in the official forums. The mod reply has been, Dont blame us. Theres nothing we can do. It was an admin decision. But thats certainly a different tune then they were singing when they closed down Tails82s board that was dedicated to pointing out mod mistakes.

What the fuck

I guess it's good to know the Admin team has been fine having a place for these treasonous white supremacist fucks

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WrenchNinja posted...

Why the fuck was there a MAGA board here at all?

because gamefaqs desperately needs the traffic from anyone they can get, similar to how our mod team was formed.

WrenchNinja posted...

I guess it's good to know the Admin team has been fine having a place for these treasonous white supremacist fucks

The GameFAQs staff was the only part of GameSpot that didnt put out a BLM statement. Its time people did the math there.

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Endgame levels of all of gamefaqs coming together to tell Gwwak and his minions to fuck the fuck off.

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BeyondWalls posted...

The GameFAQs staff was the only part of GameSpot that didnt put out a BLM statement. Its time people did the math there.

Yeah, okay, this is fucking suspect as hell

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Makes sense now that the monster it supported is going bye bye, now if only his supporters would follow.

@ChopinList posted...

Are they still going to ban the users that posted there?

According to Allen in the site suggestions topic they're combing through the board on a post by post basis and are handling the users accordingly, take that however you like.

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So is that where all these new shitposters on CE came from?

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Human_Username posted...

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According to Allen in the site suggestions topic they're combing through the board on a post by post basis and are handling the users accordingly, take that however you like.

Which amounted to a whole total of about ten purgatory visits. Very little if any bans.

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Cowthief posted...

Which amounted to a whole total of about ten purgatory visits. Very little if any bans.

theyre not done yet

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onedarksoul posted...

Your folks were the people mass marking, and invading our space to censor, and harass. Funny shit man.

Funny AND fun!

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Cowthief posted...

Which amounted to a whole total of about ten purgatory visits. Very little if any bans.

Most likely, bit I'm trying to stay optimistic


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nice

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Ving_Rhames posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KntnrMLDLA

Nailed it

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onedarksoul posted...

I ran crying? Your folks were the people mass marking, and invading our space to censor, and harass. Funny s*** man. Alternate reality takes.

"our space"

It isn't your space

I'm really not sure where this delusion comes from that a social media platform or a message board on the internet belongs to people who post on it.

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Maga board was 75% leftists there to troll the few altright goofs that remained.

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A curious way to shut it down, but hey, a win's a win.
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-Unowninator- posted...

A curious way to shut it down, but hey, a win's a win.

The name of the board is now literally "..." lmao

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nfearurspecimn posted...

The name of the board is now literally "..." lmao

I remember an empty private board, I think it was called "Hyrule", that got changed to "No you can't have it."
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nfearurspecimn posted...

The name of the board is now literally "..." lmao

Ironic that the board is now an NPC

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It was never a good board.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsS_VMzY10I

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Where will the president post about games now?

As it should be.

onedarksoul posted...

With all the of the bias leftist mods and userbase on this board? Good one.

So, you don't have any proof but the ramblings of an orange crybaby.

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-Unowninator- posted...

A curious way to shut it down, but hey, a win's a win.

This is kind of suspect to me, really. I pointed out in the other topic that Taiis' board url still displays its name despite having the same message.

Cowthief posted...

Endgame levels of all of gamefaqs coming together to tell Gwwak and his minions to fuck the fuck off.

Nothing is going to happen to Gwwak unfortunately for the rest of us
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Celestial_Red posted...

So, you don't have any proof but the ramblings of an orange crybaby.

Another trait of the pro trump users there... literally not even one of them knows english well enough to be aware that bias and biased are two separate words and to know when each is appropriate and correct...
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The board was locked down relatively quickly after the terrorist attack on the Capitol. We didn't wipe out the board completely because it would make moderation of posts on the board impossible. The board was first simply locked down to keep the content accessible for the moderation staff. Since we didn't really have a protocol for such things, our tools to lock it down weren't perfect, so users could still be invited in. We'll be working on our CB tools in case something like this ever happens again in the future.

Today, we've made manual edits to the board to keep all users out so we can still see the posts for moderation purposes but for all intents and purposes, it's all gone.

To answer a few questions I saw while skimming the topic.

Why did we allow a MAGA board in the first place? When the board was first created, the group and name were certainly different than they are today. We also generally try to stay politically neutral when possible, so it seemed fitting to allow a pro-Trump/conservative board at the time. As things escalated over the years, we did have to step in a few times and get the board back in line, but there weren't any more posts on that board in particular vs the rest of the site that were inciting violence or celebrating it, and those users were handled unilaterally. After the terrorist attack on the Capitol and the fact that there were celebratory posts about it (all users of which were indeed banned), the board could no longer be justified.

Is it fair to ban a conservative board? Is that GameFAQs taking a political stand? It is not. Our political beliefs are never taken into account when handling site moderation. When a group is tied to terrorism, regardless of political spectrum, we aren't going to allow there to be a board for that group.

Why didn't GameFAQs post a BLM statement when the other ViacomCBS sites did? We were told not to, and that a post would be made on all sites. For reasons unknown to me, that message was not pushed to GameFAQs. I don't know if there was a technical error or if they just forgot to include us since we're on a sub-domain, but the fact of the matter is that I was explicitly told to let the company make the statement and they failed to do so. I'm not sure how political RV wants its product managers to be, but to be brief and upfront about it, I have been and always will be very pro-BLM. I'm leaving it at that.

If you have any other questions, I can try to answer them quickly, but I have a lot on my plate today so I can't monitor this topic all day and reply to it.

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woah

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Cowthief posted...

Which amounted to a whole total of about ten purgatory visits. Very little if any bans.

I'm sure that that's going to fix the problem!

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SBAllen posted...

When the board was first created, the group and name were certainly different than they are today.

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LilChugguh posted...

Eat my ass Allen.

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SBAllen posted...

The board was locked down relatively quickly after the terrorist attack on the Capitol. We didn't wipe out the board completely because it would make moderation of posts on the board impossible. The board was first simply locked down to keep the content accessible for the moderation staff. Since we didn't really have a protocol for such things, our tools to lock it down weren't perfect, so users could still be invited in. We'll be working on our CB tools in case something like this ever happens again in the future.

Today, we've made manual edits to the board to keep all users out so we can still see the posts for moderation purposes but for all intents and purposes, it's all gone.

To answer a few questions I saw while skimming the topic.

Why did we allow a MAGA board in the first place? When the board was first created, the group and name were certainly different than they are today. We also generally try to stay politically neutral when possible, so it seemed fitting to allow a pro-Trump/conservative board at the time. As things escalated over the years, we did have to step in a few times and get the board back in line, but there weren't any more posts on that board in particular vs the rest of the site that were inciting violence or celebrating it, and those users were handled unilaterally. After the terrorist attack on the Capitol and the fact that there were celebratory posts about it (all users of which were indeed banned), the board could no longer be justified.

Is it fair to ban a conservative board? Is that GameFAQs taking a political stand? It is not. Our political beliefs are never taken into account when handling site moderation. When a group is tied to terrorism, regardless of political spectrum, we aren't going to allow there to be a board for that group.

Why didn't GameFAQs post a BLM statement when the other ViacomCBS sites did? We were told not to, and that a post would be made on all sites. For reasons unknown to me, that message was not pushed to GameFAQs. I don't know if there was a technical error or if they just forgot to include us since we're on a sub-domain, but the fact of the matter is that I was explicitly told to let the company make the statement and they failed to do so. I'm not sure how political RV wants its product managers to be, but to be brief and upfront about it, I have been and always will be very pro-BLM. I'm leaving it at that.

If you have any other questions, I can try to answer them quickly, but I have a lot on my plate today so I can't monitor this topic all day and reply to it.

Wait, are you actually the second coming of Ceejus?

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