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On GBATemp (and almost every single major platform), you can get banned for perfectly valid reasons that you've done on yourself, starting off with a simple warning and multiple infractions causing you to depart by force since it's a constant strain of attacks that aren't normally wanted into these communities. RetroGameTalk decides that was too much for them to decipher, so they decided to gutter it all out with a "Reader Mode" that basically puts the user in time out since, as quoted by the owner of the forum, moderators "literally lack the ability" to kick/ban its users.
To further add salt to the wound, they decided to create a variant of Reader Mode that users can add to themselves called "Away Mode" that serves as the same functionality because they didn't like how they were losing a surge of members when something major happens to their forum.
I could go on and on about the specific intricacies that I have with RGT especially with knowing another person that's been experienced the ins and puts of the sites poor moderation, but I think its safe for me to stop here since not only I normally don't talk about communities like this to an extent, but bringing other drama from other communities is something that's usually a rule. However, being that I've seen users talk about how bad other platforms are in this forum, I thought it would've been okay for me to notify users that RGT isn't a site that you should be investing your time in. There's so much other places for you to get the contents that they host, and there's other communities that are as great as GBATemp's.
To further add salt to the wound, they decided to create a variant of Reader Mode that users can add to themselves called "Away Mode" that serves as the same functionality because they didn't like how they were losing a surge of members when something major happens to their forum.
I could go on and on about the specific intricacies that I have with RGT especially with knowing another person that's been experienced the ins and puts of the sites poor moderation, but I think its safe for me to stop here since not only I normally don't talk about communities like this to an extent, but bringing other drama from other communities is something that's usually a rule. However, being that I've seen users talk about how bad other platforms are in this forum, I thought it would've been okay for me to notify users that RGT isn't a site that you should be investing your time in. There's so much other places for you to get the contents that they host, and there's other communities that are as great as GBATemp's.
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