Man, what the hell 
I’ve been lurking there for years. I’m glad mods are taking a stand. there’s no excuse for this kind of behavior.
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The BCT on GAF had been under threat and pressure for so long, like many of the other minority community threads, it’s almost like we got to come up for air. Most groups that were under pressure had a second stop, or a third ready to roll when whatever hit the fan first, or whoever attempted to dismantle us again.
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Canada PoliGAF was nice. Not many places to talk about Canadian politics online without some unsavory stuff.
So I’ve gone ahead and made a thread here for Canadian politics.
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I’m going to miss the B/S/T thread, was looking to sell my games to some mostly trustworty people and this happens. Ouch. I was rrs/thecharrr there, much of a background poster but this place looks good for a place to talk games without the jerks
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Might as well make an account here. Gaf had some good people on it. Sad to see it go. Oh well.
Wow. I’m feeling kinda speechless this morning.
I’ve been a member of NeoGAF since 2000, back when it was “Gaming-Age Forums”. I went by a few different user names over the years, but I was largely a lurker for the whole time, often preferring to read rather than contribute. The gaming side of things always entertained with the latest news and discussions. For me and perhaps many others, I often found myself being more interesting in reading discussions about games rather than actually playing them. As I got older though, I became more engaged in the off-topic community. I found most people there were largely reasonable and rational(with exceptions), and reading became a near daily ritual for me.
Its meaning for me has changed over the years. Some of the communities and posts have really enriched my life in positive ways, and made me feel like I had a spot where many people understood the world in the same way I had, while at the same time challenging me to expand my views in different ways.
Since I moved to Japan seven years ago, the forum had been my main link to the goings on of Western-culture. It’s strange for me to even be admitting that it’s been a static part of my life for nearly two decades, always there in the background when I wanted to know a bit about what’s up. It’s a large shock to realize that the community that has been a part of me might be gone for good.
I’ve been listening to Waypoint podcasts for almost a year now with a lot of interest, and so I wonder if I might find a place here. If you’ve been here a while already, I hope you’ll welcome one more casual poster but active reader. For my NeoGAF brothers, I look forward to reading about what that community meant for you.
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This was just posted in the Discord server:
“Hello everyone, as Dopus just mentioned I’m presently organizing an effort to create a successor forum. We have a lot of talented people on board and we’re aiming to get something up and running as soon as possible. We want to make sure it’s built to last so that when we make the move it doesn’t crash immediately, but rest assured that a solution is on the way. If you have any web development expertise or experience managing a high volume site, feel free to contact me if you’d like to help out!”
Wonder how that’ll work out.
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Well, shit. Hell of a way for it to crash and burn. Do we have an active Indie Dev community around here for me to crash in now that the GAF Indie Devs thread probably isn’t going to be worthwhile to visit much longer?
Not well. It’s going to be hard for any new forum to match that kind of traffic, even as a replacement. The community was the only reason to stick around.
I won’t go back (even if it does come back) unless Malka steps down and/or sells, but GAF has as long as I’ve been around pretty intolerant of people being overt shitheads and/or bigots and that is hard to find in video games, especially one of that size.
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Well I found all of this news quite shocking. I found out about it this morning and coupled with like half of the mod team leaving or getting banned and the fact that you can’t reach the site anymore, it doesn’t look good for the site. Obviously, what tyler is being accussed of way more serious than a gaming forum but I was a member of the site for 5 years and lurked for 2 years prior. That’s a large portion of my life dedicated to one site. All the wonderful people, the communities I was apart of, posts, silly threads, and inside jokes are all gone now. I’d be lying if I said that wasn’t affecting me.
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Honestly, I don’t think GAF is going away. I kind of feel like GAF as a site is too big to fail. I think that’s part of the reason the site struggles to be up right now – it’s getting so hammered by traffic from people waiting to see what’s going to happen.
I’ll admit, though, I don’t know how it will recover. Even if Evilore stepped down, he built a moderator staff of people who supported him. There’s been shenanigans behind the scenes for years if you know where to look, specifically regarding guys like Amir0x (who was arrested earlier this year for possession of child pornography). That’s not to say I think all GAF mods were corrupt; I know there were some good people, and I think those first few names that quit the moderator team earlier today reflect that.
But there were too many people who relied on GAF for news, for communication, etc. It’s not just going to dissolve in to nothing, nor is it going to result in Waypoint (or anywhere else, for that matter) becoming the new GAF.
I think a lot of people still want to go to GAF and use GAF, just… minus the bad stuff, I guess.
I dunno. It’s all weird. It’s all crazy. It’s wild how this all came crashing down so hard.
What’s the Neogaf discord? Just waiting kinda sucks.
At any rate, the mod/admin team left. Without them, Neogaf is what it’s been over the past few hours - nothing but trolls making non-funny threads.
Best case scenario is that, somehow, Tyler steps down, and the mod/admin team steps back in. But I don’t see that happening, personally. I think we just witnessed the end. Came fast and swift though, weird stuff.
For those of you not familiar with the place, do note that even if it gets burned down for good reason, the people that hate NeoGAF the most are the Colin Moriarty’s and the AoS’s of the world.
So don’t celebrate it too much. Even if the right thing is done, it’d be a loss of a place where hate speech was actively stamped out on a regular basis, and that is way too rare in games 
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Dang, this all happened so fast. Definitely going to miss the small communities that popped up on that site like the indie game development thread, hopefully that successor site people have been talking about can bring stuff like that back.
Kudos to Neogaf mods. That was quick and decisive. F*ck Evilore for what he did.
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NeoGAF (former?) member here. I’m still catching up on what happened today; I only managed to get an inkling of the sexual assault allegations before I left the internet for a while, and managed to miss everything that’s happened since.
It’s hard to imagine the site returning from this; moderation is the backbone of any community, and all the mods just walked out the door. Replacing them all with other trustworthy people would be very difficult to do quickly, and that’s not even touching on the people who won’t ever come back because of the allegations and the general feeling that everything is tainted over there now. Honestly, NeoGAF probably deserves to disappear because of all this.
I don’t know what happens to the community, though. In my time there I got involved in so many discussions that felt like micro-communities of their own. There was the group of people who’d accepted the 52-games-in-a-year challenge every year, and turned that thread into their own personal play logs with capsule reviews and impressions. There was the group of people who would talk about Japanese pop music all the time. There was the Canadian GAF deals group and our shared memories of E3 pre-order discounts and Boxing Day disappointments. There was the Star Trek: Discovery crew. YakuzaGAF. The handful of people who discussed how awesome A-Train 3DS was. The Steam indie community, always finding interesting new games for people to play. And so on and so forth. I don’t know how you replace all that. It’s probably impossible.
Still thinking through all of this. In the back of my mind there remains the idea that the damage to the community and whatnot doesn’t really matter compared to the allegations of sexual assault. If the allegations and whispers are indeed true, their justice and their safety comes first. Full stop. I don’t know how that happens from here, but if it requires the community to be broken up and scattered to the winds for that to happen, then so be it.
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I get how people don’t want to put the sexual assault allegations up against the loss of a community… But it sure would be a damn shame for the thousands upon thousands of people to lose what could be to some a second home just because the guy at the top’s a weird guy.
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yeah, I was searching for Neogaf news on twitter (I have to stop doing that…), and a large number of people elated and celebratory don’t seem like good people.
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I think the picture of the GG mascot cheering over NEOGAF logo burning is a pretty good summation of it, yes.
It should be noted that despite its’ political bent it also hosted a lot of shitty people and had a lot of shitty threads even in the present day. OT tended to be way less bad than Gaming side for this.
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