NEOGaf
 

What's the deal with this site?

I've visited it a few times in the past and decided to try to create an account so that I could post if I wanted to.

Submitted my information to register and got an email today, which was about a month since I registered, that said "Unfortunately your registration at NeoGAF did not meet our membership requirements. Therefore your registration was deleted."


Ummm.. the basic info they collect on the registration screen basically asks for your username, password, email address, timezone, and XBox gamertag. What about that didn't meet their membership requirements?

:headshake:

Re: NEOGaf
 

You have to have a non-free email account (like a work, school or other email) and have to hate Microsoft REALLY REALLY hard. Then a year later they'll approve your account.

Re: NEOGaf
 

I have my own domain for email... so I didn't use a yahoo or gmail account. Maybe I shouldn't have put in my XBox gamer tag? Or put in M$ $ucks! ?

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Maybe they search and make sure you have a history of posting stupid gifs at other forums?

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Hmmm.. in that I think I am lacking.. I don't go around posting stupid gifs or bash any certain console.. honestly, they should put that as requirements on the registration page so I'd know. ;)

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The responses thus far say more about this forum than they do about NeoGAF IMO.

GAF is a diverse forum where tons of industry guys participate, including guys from MS. I know at a minimum that Major Nelson, Albert Penello and Chris Charla post there occasionally, and I actually had a friendly PM discussion with Chris Charla a few months back. There's a reason so much gaming news starts as "leaks on GAF".

They are also much less tolerant of intellectually dishonest posting than most other forums, or at least that's been my observation watching fanboys of all varieties get banned. Whatever perceived "Sony-bias" GAF currently has is a direct reflection of the relative appeal of the three consoles on the market and is the same bias consumers worldwide have shown in hardware sales to date. They were no doubt "MS-biased" in the same way in 2007-2008.

On the downside, they do tend to get up their own asses from time to time, and they sometimes overreact to seemingly trivial news, but that comes with the territory of talking with people who are passionate about anything.

As to the original question, it was most likely your email address. They mandate "real" email addresses to minimize spammers, duplicate accounts, shills, etc.

Re: NEOGaf
 

Thank you for the post. My replies here have been in a joking manner.. not sure of the others.. but I assume that perhaps they are.

I planned on lurking there a bit reading stuff, once I have the ability to log in, to get a feel for the place. I do like that there is often industry people posting there.

I suspect that the issue may be with the email address. It is a real email address that I used, as I have my own domain for email.. Perhaps they didn't like the front portion? I just tried again using a different email address available on my domain. I got the verification email rather quickly.. just now waiting in the moderation queue again.

Re: NEOGaf
 

And another Registration deleted message.

Seriously?

Re: NEOGaf
 

It almost has to be the domain on your email, and it's almost certainly automated. What's the domain, if you don't mind sharing it?

It's probably just as well to lurk there anyway. The hot threads move faster than you can read them and usually result in a few people getting banned, including one of the people above, but the forum overall is very informative and will generally keep you at least a day or two ahead of the gaming news cycle.

I use GAF mostly like I used to use the gaming blogs, for information, but I don't post there more than a few times a week.

Re: NEOGaf
 

I applied there with two addresses way back in the day. I'm pretty sure the one from my isp is the one that made it through, and the one from my own domain never got approved.

I hardly ever post there anymore. As chess said, the threads tend to move way too fast for anyone to really hold a real conversation. Some of the community threads are nice though. I mainly use my account for subscriptions now. It's way easier to keep track of some key threads that way than to wade through pages and pages of stuff as the stuff I'm interested in drops back.

Also, I've met quite a few lifelong friends that from the Rock Band community (which had a hilarious downfall quite a few years back) (not the game, but the actual community on GAF). There's good people on there, but there are more than a few trolls and console warriors you'll have to learn to ignore.

Re: NEOGaf
 

Absolutely true. The "news" threads move so fast your input hardly matters unless you're being purposefully controversial.

But the OT threads for specific games are awesome. The GAF Warframe clan on PS4, as an example, is super active, and they also regularly go back and play/discuss older games.

I meant to add above that it's also a more international forum than most others, so you get a much different perspective than you do if you're only watching NA.

Re: NEOGaf
 

Yes, this forum can take a joke.

Re: NEOGaf
 

Agreed, I like reading some technical threads on there on occasion and there's some smart people on there with good analysis. But there's lots of blatent trolls and console bashing and I wish they were far stricter on it; this forum does a far better job with that.

Re: NEOGaf
 

Their registration process is completely haphazard. My first account took 364 days to be approved.

Re: NEOGaf
 

:lol:

Re: NEOGaf
 

Well, most of it.

Re: NEOGaf
 

Trying once more using my actual ISP email address. I didn't want to use that one, but it should hopefully let them authorize the account. That or I'll find myself banned because I tried to register a username 3 times. and all 3 were rejected.

Re: NEOGaf
 

These two comments and the inconsistency between them tell you everything you need to know about why this forum is and always will be a ghost town...sadly.

And this brilliant insight always follows.

Re: NEOGaf
 

It will likely work this time, but like I said, being able to post there is actually of marginal utility because the traffic moves so fast.

Re: NEOGaf
 

It's not inconsistent at all, there's jokes and there's straight up console bashing and it was pretty clear who was guilty of which. The moderators have done a good job seeing that.

And it's obvious how this thread is going to devolve the way you keep steering it that way, which seems completely unnecessary.

Re: NEOGaf
 

if it is such a ghost town, chess, why don't you leave? i'm not going to derail this thread, but you constantly complain about this place. just leave and do yourself a favor.

Re: NEOGaf
 

I love DVDtalk, that is why i have been here since 1999. 90% of the members are mature decent human beings.

Re: NEOGaf
 

Yeah!

And if you don't like it, you can go to Blu-ray.com or Home Theater Forum! :lol:

Re: NEOGaf
 

This forum is a ghost town because the name on the website is about a basically dead media format. I stick around because I like the people here, and since the upheaval, I also like the moderation again.

The reason this forum can deal with trolls better is because there's not that much to read. This forum is dying, but I haven't found a good replacement, and no one mention reddit to me.

Re: NEOGaf
 

can someone explain to me in 1 sentence, what the fuck is reddit?

Re: NEOGaf
 

the front page of the internet.

Or some bullshit.

I don't get it either.

Re: NEOGaf
 

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/7d/7dd7...3fcc18d755.jpg

Two sentences, I guess. Pick either one.

Re: NEOGaf
 

...and it's sort of just limping along from where it was 10 years or so ago. I think the site's successful enough to let it keep doing what it's doing, but there's not enough potential to warrant any real investment / development. That's why we're running such an ancient version of vBulletin, why the layout hasn't changed in forever, why columns haven't been updated in years, etc. I'd love to overhaul the reviews section, but I'm not really allowed to do anything like that.

Re: NEOGaf
 

G! betrayed us all.

Re: NEOGaf
 

Reddit is actually great if you remove most of the default subreddits and subscribe to subreddits that interest you.

In regards to gaming, I dig the subreddits to specific games and franchises (e.g. r/codghosts, r/codaw, r/tf2, r/titanfall, etc). The platform specific subreddits are okay, but they're too much of a circle jerk at times (ahem, r/ps4 and r/xboxone, ahem).

Make an account, remove the defaults, and find specific subreddits and you'll have a blast. If you have an iPhone or iPad, I highly recommend the Alien Blue app. If not, make sure you use RES in your browser.

Since I usually ignore chess (his last post is a good reason why), r/askreddit is actually a goldmine due to the users' responses and is one of the few default subreddits I still subscribe to. It's not 4chan for Christ's sake. :lol:

Re: NEOGaf
 

I have nothing against Reddit. I just don't understand how it works. Everything I click on that I think is going to lead to a thread of information seems to do the opposite. I'm old.

Re: NEOGaf
 

I never really understood reddit either; I get that its a quick way to get information and "news", but the threads just look so ugly and a mess to read, like something out of the early 90's.

Re: NEOGaf
 

Again, Alien Blue or RES make it a lot more palatable. If neither existed, I would probably not utilize Reddit.

Re: NEOGaf
 

The one thing I like about reddit being so lo-fi is that everything loads instantly. But yeah, it's somewhat difficult to navigate.

I've checked out the neogaf forums, but with the sheer amount of posts, it's easy to miss stuff. They could use a couple more sub forums, methinks.

Re: NEOGaf
 

I think that's my biggest problem with it. I tried to read through kvrdave's tax thread and I had no idea what was happening.

Re: NEOGaf
 

Yeah, don't care enough.

Re: NEOGaf
 

Well.. this thread has certainly taken a strange and unexpected turn..

Re: NEOGaf
 

:up: I'm a NeoGAF member, but the last year has certainly been trying. Blatant troll threads get through all the time (there have been at least 2 daily "Is Xbox DOOMED?!" threads over the past year), but then you see people get banned for the slightest joking in other threads. I also despise the user hierarchy which leads to predictable snobbishness and long-term members getting away with things they shouldn't.

My account was approved almost immediately, by the way. I used a .edu address when I originally signed up. What I really don't get is that you can't change your registered email address after the fact. I lost access to that university account several years ago.

Yep. Reddit is a place where you can find discussion about anything, and I do mean anything.

Re: NEOGaf
 

Someone needs to post a tutorial thread for Reddit.. I have an account.. unsubscribed from all the default /r and subscribed to ones I want.. I have the Blue Alien iPhone app.. But I'm still lost.

Re: NEOGaf
 

I love Reddit but sometimes they can get a little carried away. Recently they had a crapload of "Look how pretty Skyrim Grahics Mods look" threads. We get it PC is Master Race.

Not gaming related, but the "History What If's" subreddit has some great stuff.