Poll of the Day > Looks like I got out of the mod game at the right time...

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Dikitain
04/15/24 1:34:58 PM
#1:


https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/6-gamefaqs-announcements/80747432

Well shit. Looking forward to the backlash this causes.

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Lokarin
04/15/24 1:37:59 PM
#2:


ya that's dumb, politics are universal

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SinisterSlay
04/15/24 1:38:46 PM
#3:


So they want to kill the current events board. Weird but ok.

I guess when everyone is ad blocking, it's better to remove regular users and hope for random drive by traffic instead.

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JoanOfArcade
04/15/24 1:42:33 PM
#4:


PotD will rise again

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adjl
04/15/24 1:43:43 PM
#5:


What could possibly go wrong?

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Kimbos_Egg
04/15/24 1:53:13 PM
#6:


thank fuck this website is dying

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SinisterSlay
04/15/24 1:54:23 PM
#7:


Kimbos_Egg posted...
thank fuck this website is dying
No then I would have no where else to hang out

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LordHayati
04/15/24 1:54:56 PM
#8:


on one hand, CE was a cesspool.

on the other hand, Fandom is continuing its slow process of stripping the soul out of the site.


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keyblader1985
04/15/24 1:59:44 PM
#9:


It's uncanny how dying companies will go out of their way to make things worse for everyone.

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Time
04/15/24 2:04:13 PM
#10:


No more politics discussion outside of ce is terrible

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argonautweakend
04/15/24 2:05:52 PM
#11:


On one hand fuck trolls and any effort to curb them appearing on boards like CE is welcome. People tag "chuds" but then argue with them every chance they get which is stupid.

But I don't know if these changes are it. I haven't been moderated in any way outside of simply a deleted post in ages so I'll be fine I guess.

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ConfusedTorchic
04/15/24 2:08:55 PM
#12:




Through these efforts, we are dedicated to upholding the integrity and trust of GameFAQs as a leading destination for gamers worldwide,

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/40f55669.jpg

good luck there

we have less users active than the people currently browsing the subreddit for one single specific game

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/3293e98a.jpg

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adjl
04/15/24 2:08:59 PM
#13:


The whole post reeks of an executive who understands nothing about the site and its problems and therefore doesn't realize that CE isn't the only social board.

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ConfusedTorchic
04/15/24 2:11:16 PM
#14:


are you saying this board is just as bad as ce?

i would disagree, majority of users here are fairly chill

yeah, we have like 2 or 3 losers, but they do get taken care of pretty quickly

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ConfusedTorchic
04/15/24 2:13:40 PM
#15:


Additionally, political topics outside of CE will be banned.

this is kinda funny though

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NemesisOgreKing
04/15/24 2:15:59 PM
#16:


JoanOfArcade posted...
PotD will rise again
and gets closed in the future.

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Nichtcrawler-X
04/15/24 2:30:04 PM
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Kinda late for a 1 April joke.

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adjl
04/15/24 3:00:41 PM
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ConfusedTorchic posted...
are you saying this board is just as bad as ce?

No, I'm saying that there's considerable middle ground between "we don't want political discussion on game boards because it interferes with game discussion" and "we only want political discussion on CE." Any social board should be fair game for political discussion, given that it won't interfere with game discussion.

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ItIsSoOver
04/15/24 3:01:38 PM
#19:


Good. Politically obsessed people are giga cringe

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FrozenBananas
04/15/24 3:08:20 PM
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adjl posted...
The whole post reeks of an executive who understands nothing about the site and its problems and therefore doesn't realize that CE isn't the only social board.

I was thinking the same thing. Hes been here for just about a year and has 80- something karma. He probably never views this site.

Luckily PotD is so dead that nobody notices us. He probably thinks we talk about the poll here

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Dikitain
04/15/24 3:10:49 PM
#21:


adjl posted...
The whole post reeks of an executive who understands nothing about the site and its problems and therefore doesn't realize that CE isn't the only social board.

I know exactly what they are doing. Want to know what the top 3 boards were for marked messages?

1). Politics
2). Current Events
3). PS4 (or whatever the top system board is at the time, probably PS5 now)

They killed Politics, they just "killed" CE. They are basically trying to reduce moderations by killing the boards where the trolls go. Completely forgetting that just getting rid of the troll boards is going to make those trolls go to other boards.

Even as a person who doesn't talk about politics on public forums, even I know that the solution isn't "ban all political discussion and delete any place where people could potentially do it".

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bruplex
04/15/24 3:34:17 PM
#22:


As one of the original mods on this site, it's a shame we couldn't have stuck to the original ToS (or something close to it).

The corporate twist on a community site like this doesn't surprise me, though.

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adjl
04/15/24 3:38:09 PM
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bruplex posted...
As one of the original mods on this site, it's a shame we couldn't have stuck to the original ToS (or something close to it).

What's changed? I know there was the general loosening of some of the more stick-in-ass interpretations of the rules a few years back (like no more automatic banhammers for "I'm 12 and what is this" and significantly less strict autoflag rules), but I don't really remember any changes much further back than that because that was like 20+ years ago now and 13-year-old me likely wouldn't have been aware of any changes that happened before I created an account.

Dikitain posted...
I know exactly what they are doing. Want to know what the top 3 boards were for marked messages?

1). Politics
2). Current Events
3). PS4 (or whatever the top system board is at the time, probably PS5 now)

They killed Politics, they just "killed" CE. They are basically trying to reduce moderations by killing the boards where the trolls go. Completely forgetting that just getting rid of the troll boards is going to make those trolls go to other boards.

Even as a person who doesn't talk about politics on public forums, even I know that the solution isn't "ban all political discussion and delete any place where people could potentially do it".

Should be interesting to see what happens when the PS5 board remains a problem. They can't lock down that board like they have CE while still maintaining any pretense of being a place to discuss games, since that would destroy any chance of getting real new users in (what little is left), but at some point it's going to be the worst one.

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Colonel_Lingus
04/15/24 3:41:50 PM
#24:


Literally anything can be considered political or touch on politics in some way... I'm curious how they plan to enforce this.

Might as well ban opinions while they're at it
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adjl
04/15/24 3:42:43 PM
#25:


Colonel_Lingus posted...
Literally anything can be considered political or touch on politics in some way...

That kind of political statement is not welcome here. Please take your rabble-rousing elsewhere.

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ConfusedTorchic
04/15/24 4:20:21 PM
#26:


https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80747693/979922936

the shade

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/90166feb.jpg

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Colonel_Lingus
04/15/24 4:21:43 PM
#27:


lmao
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adjl
04/15/24 4:28:12 PM
#28:


Nice.

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SinisterSlay
04/15/24 4:59:04 PM
#29:


ConfusedTorchic posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80747693/979922936

the shade

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/90166feb.jpg
Epic

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ConfusedTorchic
04/15/24 6:27:21 PM
#30:


adjl posted...
What's changed? I know there was the general loosening of some of the more stick-in-ass interpretations of the rules a few years back (like no more automatic banhammers for "I'm 12 and what is this" and significantly less strict autoflag rules), but I don't really remember any changes much further back than that because that was like 20+ years ago now and 13-year-old me likely wouldn't have been aware of any changes that happened before I created an account.

Should be interesting to see what happens when the PS5 board remains a problem. They can't lock down that board like they have CE while still maintaining any pretense of being a place to discuss games, since that would destroy any chance of getting real new users in (what little is left), but at some point it's going to be the worst one.

politics havent been allowed on game and system boards for a few years now

the console system boards are chock full of trolls though

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josh
04/15/24 6:35:47 PM
#31:


SinisterSlay posted...
Epic

Damn lol

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Sufferedphoenix
04/22/24 2:22:31 AM
#32:


ConfusedTorchic posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80747693/979922936

the shade

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/90166feb.jpg

I never had a problem with him and never knew people disliked him

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ConfusedTorchic
04/22/24 2:24:12 AM
#33:


shit, people hated him for even trying to make the website a better place

did you know he got hate for enabling post editing?

wild shit

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Sufferedphoenix
04/22/24 2:32:21 AM
#34:


ConfusedTorchic posted...
shit, people hated him for even trying to make the website a better place

did you know he got hate for enabling post editing?

wild shit

I could see someone getting upset at it. Reply to someone then they edit their message. But still I like it cause I make typos or remember something I wanted to add.

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ConfusedTorchic
04/22/24 2:34:48 AM
#35:


the say one thing edit to another just never worked

if quoted, the quote wont reflect the edit after the fact, and you can see edit history by hitting the post number


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Sufferedphoenix
04/22/24 2:55:47 AM
#36:


ConfusedTorchic posted...
the say one thing edit to another just never worked

if quoted, the quote wont reflect the edit after the fact, and you can see edit history by hitting the post number

Yeah I didn't know that for the longest time

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Entity13
04/22/24 3:11:05 AM
#37:


Someday we will figure out the lifelong mystery of why the higher up someone is, the dumber and less grounded in reality their decisions become.Truly, such a timeless marvel; we'll never know.

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Foppe
04/22/24 5:50:05 AM
#38:


Haters will always hate, but at least he listened to the users, made positive changes and could have a normal conversation with the community off-work.
He got some shit thrown at him, but he cared about this place.

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SinisterSlay
04/22/24 7:30:56 AM
#39:


Whatever happened to that site UI update?

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adjl
04/22/24 9:26:53 AM
#40:


Sufferedphoenix posted...
I could see someone getting upset at it. Reply to someone then they edit their message.

That was the rationale used for years to justify not offering an edit feature, despite the fact that literally every other forum on the Internet was able to include one without running into serious issues in that regard. CJayC insisted that the risk of edit trolling was too great and that double posting was an adequate solution, even as the site was hemorrhaging users to other forums that weren't stuck in 1996.

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LinkPizza
04/22/24 10:41:41 AM
#41:


Sufferedphoenix posted...
I never had a problem with him and never knew people disliked him

While I never had a problem with him, I did know some people didnt like him

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Blue_Thunder
04/22/24 11:38:30 AM
#42:


ConfusedTorchic posted...
did you know he got hate for enabling post editing?

wild shit

I edit my posts all the time lol

I'm glad it's a thing.

LinkPizza posted...
While I never had a problem with him, I did know some people didnt like him

Never had a problem with him either.

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Entity13
04/22/24 1:28:40 PM
#43:


I didn't mind throwing the occasional joke at Sailor Bacon's expense, but I never once disliked the guy. A few of his ideas I don't recall? Maybe. But never the guy.

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