Hey everybody I'm back..Banned from NeoGaf

So......
I used to post quite a lot here on GBATemp just a couple of years ago, and I like to think that I've been sometime helpful to newcomers in need, however I've been playing less and less lately, concentrating my ever shrinking gaming time on PC, therefore I barely post anymore.
However I've been lurking around here and NeoGaf just to " keep in the loop " and still keep informed on what's going on in the industry.

Last night I got fed up with NeoGaf because apparently, if you don't hate Trump and Trump supporters ( either of which I don't care about ) you are inherently evil and deserved to be banned !

Like on most gaming forums there is an OFF-Topic subforum on NeoGaf, which is constantly spammed by anti-Trump threads.
Fine, I never posted there, I don't care, I never revealed my political affiliation ( if any ) and so generally I just avoid the off-topic subforum since the stupidity and bias can sometime be overwhelming.
I stick to the "gaming news" forum.

So yesterday somebody posts http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1339269 about Insomniac Games releasing a video in protest of Trump's temporary immigration ban right there in the gaming forum.

I politely stated that such a discussion belongs to the off-topic section. No more, no less.
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Needless to say, I've been immediately assaulted by several "members " till I decided to once again "politely " reply the following :
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Then I started to wonder how long would it take for the moderators to ban me, and surely enough, as soon I refreshed the page, I got this :

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Now, good riddance, I actually couldn't stand some of the whiners there anymore, however being BANNED just for this on a forum that prouds itself for being against oppression, Nazis, censorship and ( ironically ) a BAN on immigration to/from lands that I've never been in and I don't care for and what a President does in his country for which I have no rights to judge, is definitely unjust and highly hypocritical .

So, the hell with the hypocrites NeoGaf elites, I'm back here and I hope we can have some civil discussion in the future.

P.S. Sorry for the wall of text ;)
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sarkwalvein
Welcome back to the temps, where we may throw each other stones from time to time but we become friends again in the end. And up to now I haven't seen any kind of senseless bans. Kiss bye-bye to those SJW on NeoGAF.
 
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Chary
Ew, neogaf. Be happy, you were cured from a cancerous userbase. GBAtemp is quite honestly the most friendly gaming forum I've seen. There might be heated debates, but people surely don't get banned for not being part of an echochamber
 
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zoogie
The mods there are very extreme and will quickly ban you for posting an opinion outside their echo chamber.
You may not realize it, but they interpreted your post as politically charged even if you didn't intend it that way ("how dare you not be enthused about an anti-trump thread on the gaming section"). Politics frequently spills over to the Gaming side and they actively look for evidence of wrongthink there as well and seek to purge it quickly.

I almost signed up there back in 2013 and I'm glad I didn't hit the submit button, I was litterally about to do it but got distracted by a phone call or something and didn't get around to finish the registration. That's about when the time the place really started taking a nosedive.
 
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Sonic Angel Knight
Just like chary said, no bans but she does threaten to alter ratings on games if you bash the reviews. :P

Besides that there is haters everywhere, i have them here too. Better to just chat with the people you find cool, and are cool with you. Like Chary, and umm.... The next person to post after this. :D
 
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Arm73
Cheers guys,
I quickly ( and for the last time ) went back to check if I had any more replies, and I discovered that in the very same thread another 4 -5 people were banned for no apparent reason other then forgetting to say F U Trump and Trump supporters.
The moderators there are literally NAZIS, if you beg to differ on their stance, they brutally kick you out. And then they brag that we should accept diversity...Oh the iron !
 
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enarky
So, thanks for bringing your pro-Trump off topic rants to GBATemp, I guess? And making a big fuzz about it in the blog section?
 
Arm73
Hey, take it easy, I've never said I'm pro or against Trump.
I just pointed out that such a thread belongs in the off-topic, not the gaming forum. And obviously I'm following my own advice.
 
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Chary
Don't worry. Some people just think if you're not against Trump, then you're a neo nazi fascist.
 
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BlueFox gui
I can be honest, this type of person does not deserve to have an opinion, they are arrogant and ignorant, assholes and scrouds, in literally throwing themselves on someone speaking badly just because he has a different opinion.

This kind of person who destroys the world
 
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BobDoleOwndU
That's a ridiculous reason to ban someone (if you even call that a reason). If the moderators there are that controlling, you're better off leaving there anyway in my opinion.
 
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Issac
Neogaf "the largest gaming forum" with it's 179k members... compared to little GBATemp with only 357k members... oh, wait. ^_^
 
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