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This weekend NeoGAF had a lot of downtime, related to allegations of sexual misconduct regarding it's owner, resulting in moderators mass resigning from the site leaving it in chaos.
NeoGAF is (or was) the most influential gaming forum on the net. Everyone from game developers to industry insiders to marketing shills used the forum to spread information usually related to the gaming industry. Quite a few big name publishers had staff who had direct contact with influential members there, for purposes anywhere from information sharing, marketing, (or allegedly bribery and astroturfing).
While NeoGAF was an excellent place for information and news related to the gaming industry, in recent years however it began to get more and more politicized, to the point where censorship and mass bannings were a regular event. Anyone not agreeing with the 'SJW' line of thinking tended to be ostracized from the community. I never had an account there but used to read that forum a lot, and while it was great for gaming news it got more and more annoying in recent years the way the SJW nonsense seeped into every part of the site, no matter if its gaming, movies, off topic, whatever - there were always some people in there posting SJW politics, and moderators banning anyone who disagreed with them.
The site has had a long history of controversy, but it seems recent allegations broke the camel's back. From wikipedia "In 2017, following a sexual harassment scandal involving Tyler Malka, most of its moderation staff resigned. Notably, many prominent users posted "suicide threads" wherein they demanded to be banned from the forum. After news of the scandal spread widely, many of its users fled to Reddit and 4chan's /v/ board. [5] As of Oct. 21 2017, 8 moderators and 1 administrator has resigned/been banned."
NeoGaf Mods Resign Amid Claims Of Sexual Misconduct Committed By Owner
"NeoGaf owner Tyler Malka has a sordid history of being a sexual harasser. These claims were oftentimes buried or squashed by the moderators on the popular gaming forum in order to protect Malka. Well, additional claims of sexual misconduct have surfaced." (full article)
More articles:
USGamer: Video Game Forum NeoGAF Goes Dark After Sexual Assault Allegations Against Site Owner [Update]
AttackOfTheFanboy: NeoGAF Currently Imploding Amid Accusations of Sexual Harassment by Owner
Comicbook.com: Gaming Forum NeoGAF Imploding as Owner Faces Accusations of Sexual Harrassment (Again)
More information on some of the shady stuff that went on behind the scenes can be found in this article on Nick Monroe's 5 part article NeoGAF's Shadows, encyclopediadramatica's entry on it's owner, and the twitter hashtag.
Anyone familiar with the history of NeoGAF and some of it's admins/moderators will find some of this news quite ironic. But that's a long story to get into. Even if that forum does survive this incident, some serious damage has been done, and some of the articles on this state that they expect other gaming communities to see a surge in their userbase from people migrating away from the site.
NeoGAF is (or was) the most influential gaming forum on the net. Everyone from game developers to industry insiders to marketing shills used the forum to spread information usually related to the gaming industry. Quite a few big name publishers had staff who had direct contact with influential members there, for purposes anywhere from information sharing, marketing, (or allegedly bribery and astroturfing).
While NeoGAF was an excellent place for information and news related to the gaming industry, in recent years however it began to get more and more politicized, to the point where censorship and mass bannings were a regular event. Anyone not agreeing with the 'SJW' line of thinking tended to be ostracized from the community. I never had an account there but used to read that forum a lot, and while it was great for gaming news it got more and more annoying in recent years the way the SJW nonsense seeped into every part of the site, no matter if its gaming, movies, off topic, whatever - there were always some people in there posting SJW politics, and moderators banning anyone who disagreed with them.
The site has had a long history of controversy, but it seems recent allegations broke the camel's back. From wikipedia "In 2017, following a sexual harassment scandal involving Tyler Malka, most of its moderation staff resigned. Notably, many prominent users posted "suicide threads" wherein they demanded to be banned from the forum. After news of the scandal spread widely, many of its users fled to Reddit and 4chan's /v/ board. [5] As of Oct. 21 2017, 8 moderators and 1 administrator has resigned/been banned."
NeoGaf Mods Resign Amid Claims Of Sexual Misconduct Committed By Owner
"NeoGaf owner Tyler Malka has a sordid history of being a sexual harasser. These claims were oftentimes buried or squashed by the moderators on the popular gaming forum in order to protect Malka. Well, additional claims of sexual misconduct have surfaced." (full article)
More articles:
USGamer: Video Game Forum NeoGAF Goes Dark After Sexual Assault Allegations Against Site Owner [Update]
AttackOfTheFanboy: NeoGAF Currently Imploding Amid Accusations of Sexual Harassment by Owner
Comicbook.com: Gaming Forum NeoGAF Imploding as Owner Faces Accusations of Sexual Harrassment (Again)
More information on some of the shady stuff that went on behind the scenes can be found in this article on Nick Monroe's 5 part article NeoGAF's Shadows, encyclopediadramatica's entry on it's owner, and the twitter hashtag.
Anyone familiar with the history of NeoGAF and some of it's admins/moderators will find some of this news quite ironic. But that's a long story to get into. Even if that forum does survive this incident, some serious damage has been done, and some of the articles on this state that they expect other gaming communities to see a surge in their userbase from people migrating away from the site.
