I banned him, yeah, and apparently attached a haughty public statement per the quote posted above. :messenger_kissing_smiling:
I don't recall all the details on this one so I can launch a formal inquiry into my own ban (this would be the first one of my own I think btw) if the community prefers, but he definitely did not get banned for being a moderate and I was not down with that ridiculous talking point about moderates actually being duplicitous cowardly Nazis and a Dog Whistle and Imaginary blah blah blah. I'm a political moderate and the head of moderation ffs. The Bish incident and some other problems sent off-topic careening off the deep end post-election particularly, and most of the mods were too scared or exhausted to moderate it anymore after the self-deputized thought police enforcers emerged to stir up dogpiles and shut down any dissent from the Woke Correct Opinion. I fought this stuff and links available upon request, but was labeled a duplicitous racist Nazi and The Enemy. The kool-aid was thick by then. I called out and banned some of the worst of these types who were fomenting this stuff, and they helped blow up NeoGAF in response. Too little, too late, on my part. Coincidentally, some of those folks became Reset mods, hence the general insanity.
Anyhow. This guy.
From what I recall, there was a big thread on Gaming side where he "engaged" with the community, and it was totally pointless and exhausting.
He had two modes:
A) The one empty platitude about everyone getting along and being positive, carefully dodging any question that could result in expressing a position that someone could potentially disagree with, no matter the topic. He did not express moderate positions or exert a moderating influence in a constructive way. He just repeated the same lines.
B) Instant meltdown into victim mode if anyone criticized him or his positions, no matter how gently this was framed, where he'd plea for people to stop being mean to him and continue to do so until any of those lines of questions were dropped and everyone said supportive and positive things to him.
A-B-A-B-A-B-A-B(...)ban
I concluded it was a low effort professional youtube persona, maybe emerging out of any of his actual psychological troubles, but by the point of that NeoGAF incident it did not look sincere at all. He found a formula that worked: sympathy pleas, professional victimhood, platitudes about getting along and being nice, and carefully avoiding any statements that could be disagreed with.
If being asked questions on NeoGAF legitimately triggers a traumatic mental breakdown over and over and you're still posting on NeoGAF for some reason, get off NeoGAF ASAP and into professional psychiatric care. This place is meant to be civil, but challenging and intense at times. Looked more like PR and it's worked out well for him, but either way, if he's still operating in this sort of mode, it doesn't seem prudent to invite him back. *shrug*
