What is the worst community you ever joined?

[Kioku]

Well... Considering GBAtemp is the only community I've actually joined? There's your answer..

 

[wormdood]

i vote for miiverse

 

[D34DL1N3R]

Official Motorola forum, ZoneLabs/ZoneAlarm forum, pretty much every dating app/group/forum.

 

[Viri]

NeoGAF was probably even worse. Their moderation would delete anything that didn't buffer the same beliefs they had. You could see accounts being deleted by the bucketfull over someone disagreeing over female playable main characters in games. I think they banned discussion about Naughty Dog in its entirety because they didn't want anyone saying anything negative about their workers there, because they provide the world with such pure, great games. There used to be a hilarious ban bot where you could see every ridiculous ban they'd apply, but it's gone now.

I think last week Todd Howard was calling them "Hostile and unwelcoming", it was funny. He was arguing with them in a thread for a while. I don't understand why he goes there. And honestly, it makes me sad that some game devs believe that places like Resetera and Neo Gaf speak for what gamers want in games.
https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2018/...come-a-hostile-unwelcoming-environment/64923/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/eras-woman-problem-read-op.57534/page-41
I'm surprised they didn't ban him.

 

[Chary]

I think last week Todd Howard was calling them "Hostile and unwelcoming", it was funny. He was arguing with them in a thread for a while. I don't understand why he goes there.

Probably good to keep up with fans, even just to troll or post information. ResetERA has a lot of sway, despite their trashiness. They also lock it down to "business" users or press/industry only. I remember signing up to neoGAF and getting denied cuz my @ gbatemp email made them say "ew romsite". At least resetERA isn't that stupid.

By technicality, they're not that much larger than gbatemp in numbers afaik, but they're trusted by a ridiculous amount of people in the industry. After the whole rapey neogaf owner thing, I can't understand why that's/its successor is the "bastion" of gaming news/discussion forums, either.

 

[Viri]

Probably good to keep up with fans, even just to troll or post information. ResetERA has a lot of sway, despite their trashiness. They also lock it down to "business" users or press/industry only. I remember signing up to neoGAF and getting denied cuz my @ gbatemp email made them say "ew romsite". At least resetERA isn't that stupid.

By technicality, they're not that much larger than gbatemp in numbers afaik, but they're trusted by a ridiculous amount of people in the industry. After the whole rapey neogaf owner thing, I can't understand why that's/its successor is the "bastion" of gaming news/discussion forums, either.

I can understand the industry not coming to this forum, because 95% of the people on this forum pirate their games. But if NeoGaf/Resetera truly isn't much bigger than this forum, why do they even go there? I think they'd be better off focusing on subreddits. It puzzles me why those two forums have so much sway. If North Korea was a video game forum, they'd be Resetera.

But, I will admit, reading their ban reasoning is pretty funny. Also, one thing, when Resetera doesn't like a forum post, they don't delete it, unlike some other forum I can think of....

 

[THYPLEX]

The gaming groups in Facebook, especially the souls ones , full of the worst people ( imho)

 

[PrincessLillie]

ReSwitched on Discord, for fairly obvious reasons. Glad I'm banned from there.

 

[Carnelian]

Gbatemp...

 

[Depravo]

Humanity. But at times it's also the best.

 

[8BitWonder]

Probably either the Reswitched Discord or gbatemp.

Both have their fair share of toxic users and topics, though I lean towards temp being the better of the two. I have fond memories here and people I enjoy seeing. I also wouldn't have gained as much interest in CS without it.

Whereas Reswitched, while it does have some talented people there, just carries an air of snobbiness.
While I was there I would almost never ask any of the questions I wanted to, simply because I figured it'd be "too simple" a question, or be mocked for it.

 

[Subtle Demise]

This one's pretty toxic.

As I don't join a lot of different communities, sadly GBAtemp is the worst. Don't get me wrong, I love GBAtemp, but I'm not a fan of all the toxicity, I've just learned to ignore it. I've seen the impact it's had on other people who haven't learned how to ignore it though. Many great members have left (and many not so great)
But I think that the staff here does a good job, and with any big site, there's bound to be a lot of toxicity. Just look at YouTube or even Twitch. Of course GBAtemp is tiny compared to those, but even they haven't been able to get rid of toxicity.

Currently, this place

Strongly disagree. The worst site I've ever joined is Facepunch when Garry's Mod was still a relevant thing.

 

[DarkFlare69]

In recent years, probably GBAtemp. I've pretty much stopped posting on here because of how rude people on here tend to be. Browsing other forums, I don't see this behavior quite as much.

 

[SuzieJoeBob]

GameFAQs/Gamespot is downright fanservice-ridden and the mods are super judgmental about people with differing opinions. The worst thing GBATemp had was the Margen67 epidemic.

 

[VinsCool]

At every places, really.
Twitter and Facebook are the worst by far.

You really need to learn how to ignore things on a physical level to never get affected, honestly.
A thin skin on internet never lasts for long.

 

[Song of storms]

Reddit during summer.

You start by joining Reddit and you quickly realize how the default subs are quite bad. This is even worse during summer, because of all the kids finishing school and having nothing to do with their time than shitposting everywhere.

Then you look up subs you might enjoy. A lot of them are small but you don't care. They are quality subs and you enjoy them. Until more and more people join them for their quality and then become toxic and stupid again.

You repeat this process. Many, many times actually. You dig the rabbit hole enough until you reach dead subreddits. You make an effort to make them work, because they are the only thing left in the website that doesn't suck. You succeed. People notice and come en masses. Things are bad again. You give up.

But the worst of all, during summer, are the "karma points beggars". Imagine if 30% of all the posts in this forum started with "100 likes and I will _____". Worst of all, they actually reach their goals rather than being ridiculed and then ignored. Disgusting.

 

[yacepi15]

Overwatch/Gbaitemp/Youtube.

 

[Deleted User]

It's not gone, it just got moved, the original bot got hit with a takedown notice (I think for use of the name). It's here now [removed]. Still basically just people being banned for wrongthink.

The fact that this bot is now hosted there takes away all of its credibility. That website is one of the weirdest and creepiest things I've seen outside 4chan. It apparently started as a forum entirely dedicated to making fun of a single person. Incredibly, even Encyclopedia Dramatica, despite its similar obsession with trolling, is very critical of it. I am not mentioning its name because the last time I did (in a tweet), minutes later an anonymous person emailed me threats along with screenshots of my own tweet and Facebook page, even though at the time my Twitter account did not have my real name on it. That should tell you all you need to know.

Regarding my opinion on the actual bans, I am ridiculously liberal and I think 70% of those bans should have either been warnings or could be solved by deleting posts intended to provoke an argument.

The most riduculous one is perhaps this:

Title: Kim-Trump Summit Thread - Fire and Fury Edition
Reason: User Warned: Trolling
It's been a wonderful day though. Best Korea has been positive in the news and it makes me very happy.

Oh come on. How does that even deserve a warning?

 

[grey72]

Dunno if this counts but whatsapp/any large messenger groups. My God. People are DICKS.

Reddit during summer.

You start by joining Reddit and you quickly realize how the default subs are quite bad. This is even worse during summer, because of all the kids finishing school and having nothing to do with their time than shitposting everywhere.

Then you look up subs you might enjoy. A lot of them are small but you don't care. They are quality subs and you enjoy them. Until more and more people join them for their quality and then become toxic and stupid again.

You repeat this process. Many, many times actually. You dig the rabbit hole enough until you reach dead subreddits. You make an effort to make them work, because they are the only thing left in the website that doesn't suck. You succeed. People notice and come en masses. Things are bad again. You give up.

But the worst of all, during summer, are the "karma points beggars". Imagine if 30% of all the posts in this forum started with "100 likes and I will _____". Worst of all, they actually reach their goals rather than being ridiculed and then ignored. Disgusting.

Reddit veteran right there.

 

[juccatan]

My god, poor 2012 me joined the My Little Pony community and regrets it ever since.