This is sort of getting sidetracked into a lot of weird places. Saying GD is or was a cesspool is wrong. I’ve heard plenty of stories of people being blown up. To be honest most of the people thinking this place was troll heaven probably weren’t reading GD in the last 12 years.
In GD's Defense
Because this is the subforum that gave a home to a pretty decent chunk of gay and trans folks to be gay and trans. This is also the place where people’s dumb shit was routinely blown up.
The amount of legit troll threads were like BeGuiled’s dumb shit, which happened about once every two months, and then Magnetix. If you clicked on a Magnetix thread thinking you were going to get something other than a dick story, you’re messed out.
I’d really need to be pointed to what was these “rage threads” and other random stuff. There was some silly ass behavior like making puns on news stories. But a lot of heated arguments in one thread from two users usually lead to chill behavior between the same two in a different one.
People take way too much of the clowning here in some goofy way. Yeah dudes get heated but this place would also help you lose weight, get financial advice, help white people and black people get to know each other and all sorts of other hilariously silly threads (like the one made by a kid detailing his different adventures getting random jobs).
If I’d had my way, I would’ve put a 6 month time limit on GD. You can’t post in GD unless you’ve been a forum member for 6 months. That’s long enough to show that you actually care about fighting games before posting here.
Yeah though, not gonna start saying the subforum taht’s helped out multiple members financial with their struggles is a piece of shit. If you got trolled well fuck you and I can’t help you. Not gonna go ban people because you thought somebody was a cab driver.
As a matter of fact, the amount of great threads on random subjects is really high. When GD was popping you had body transformation threads, workout thread, a very active music producer threads, threads on multiple consoles, various anime threads…You can’t take random human interactions and say its a negative of this place. GD basically functions as a breakpad for people that get tired of the grind of the subforums.
Think Chris G is a good example of stuff people blamed SRK for when it was just some dudes in the FGC are wild. Chris G stated in either twitter or facebook, on multiple occasions, random terrible hot takes on black women. Had this happened on SRK, a lot of people would’ve been blaming the site even though that user would’ve gotten clowned to high heaven.
Instead he says that shit on facebook but nobody is mad at the platform for what he said.
Either way:
SRK went to shit when people pretend the Front Page was the whole website. The Front Page gets to be the whole website when its helping build a community. Front Page also spent time focusing on dumb shit that didn’t help people get better. SRK was here to help people get better at games. Get Good or Get Got should always be the SRK way. Either the site goes back to essence of being a repository of people who want to get good at games or it continues having an identity crisis.
Writers don’t get paid to be good at fighting games, they get paid to write. Let them write actual articles about getting good at fighting games. If you don’t actively play fighting games or are working on getting good at any of them, you probably shouldn’t write for the front page though.
Also just saying but 30th anniversary sucks balls for streaming. Literally the worst.
