Mines Gmail, but I think when the site was first established you could put whatever.
Unfortunately my Gmail account has my details lol
Mines Gmail, but I think when the site was first established you could put whatever.
Why do you pretend that anyone knew the previous owner? How many times has Cerium posted on ERA? What was his engagement with the community? If the site got along find with having an invisible owner for 4 years, why would it suddenly need new owners to show up and say hi?
It's like this announcement is suddenly making people realise how little they actually thought about the true nature of a large internet forum like this.
Cerium invested into the site and assumed all the financial risk that came with starting and maintaining this forum and thus he's the one who gets the return of that investment. That's how these things work.
What exactly did you all think this forum was made for?
Cerium invested into the site and assumed all the financial risk that came with starting and maintaining this forum and thus he's the one who gets the return of that investment. That's how these things work.
What exactly did you all think this forum was made for?
Lmao 😂Surprised by the response here - I thought you guys loved acquisitions
If there is another mass exodus I'd be screwed as discord is somewhat confusing to navigate and I wouldn't be able to find anyone 🥺
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Yeah he did so much hard work over the past couple of years, checking out his brain and foisting the workload on others while he reaped the benefits. Truly a fair system.
Very good example of how capitalism functions by labor exploitation btw - much of the staff who spend "countless hours" keeping the site in order get $0 despite quite literally being staff, the userbase which creates the content that provides value naturally gets nothing in terms of either money or power, but all the posting-labor creates value that the owner gets to benefit from, not only by ad revenue but by cashing out.
Not going to pretend the mods and I saw eye to eye on much, but I do agree wholeheartedly that they deserved some of this ludicrous jackpot. Hell, some is way too conservative. Cerium sat on his duff and collected how much of it? Everything?When you're getting shafted out of a share of 4.5 million dollars for the great benefit of "being an integral part of the community", it sure is.
Says the user who colluded with the mods and staff in order to drive regulars off the site to be an integral part of the community.
Sphag, you and others wanted to get rid of us for a long time but after Super Tuesday, y'all went into overdrive and got rid of us one by one. I know where the bodies are hidden.
Sir, this is Resetfire. We post walkthroughs about how to annoy low-level tech company phone staff and sign petitions on Change.org.Remember when you and others plotted with Brazil to take over the website and install new mods in place? Nice fucking cosplay socialism you got there!
Wait wait. Slow down. Don't do it just yetI can't find the delete account option :/ someone have the same problem?
Cerium invested into the site and assumed all the financial risk that came with starting and maintaining this forum and thus he's the one who gets the return of that investment. That's how these things work.
What exactly did you all think this forum was made for?
Click on Tickets -> New Ticket -> Account Deletion/SuspensionI can't find the delete account option :/ someone have the same problem?
Gottem'Surprised by the response here - I thought you guys loved acquisitions
I'd guess about... December 5, 2019.TBF Cerium also bought out the other owners for the 100% control of the shares:
Wonder when the search for interested buyers started.
Ehhh, that's just going all in on the corporate bullshit. A site like this should ideally be run not for profit, by the users for the users, sorta like seemingly a lot of people in here naively assumed it already was. Adding money into the mix is guaranteed to over-complicate and fuck everything up. I bet a good number of mods wouldn't even want the extra pressure, demands, tax hassles, whatever, being paid some bullshit amount would invite. You often get a pass when you do what you do 'cause you enjoy it and 'cause not other fucker wants to, but when you make that role a paid job there's a whole lot of expectation that comes with it form the user side, and rightly so.So you made $700k a year (I'm not even gonna mention the 4.5 mil) and you didn't give a single cent to the moderation team? Yeah, that's fucking disgusting.
Pay👏the👏mods👏.
I kinda remeber having to agree to new terms/conditions maybe even a number of times over recently years (forgive me if I misremember, it might just have been some cookie permissions thing or something). But if that was the case, were those terms updated to facilitate the sale? If there were new terms/conditions I obvs didn't read them and just clicked to agree 'cause I'm as lazy/ignorant as the next person.Since it's come up a lot, I just wanted to mention that we did discuss this with MOBA Network and they were emphatic that they are not in the user data business and never will be. They're not going to sell your data. Nothing is going to change about how your data is handled and protected.
I can Knackdance to this.Surprised by the response here - I thought you guys loved acquisitions
Ya quite a bit of naivete. Though I'm kinda surprised at the sell, I thought they'd quietly ride the cash cow into the ground.
not the casual sinophobiaI guess it could be worse, it could be a chinese company. A swedish company at least has to follow EU law, right? RIGHT?
Evidently considering he got 4.5 million and the mods are still "volunteers".Not going to pretend the mods and I saw eye to eye on much, but I do agree wholeheartedly that they deserved some of this ludicrous jackpot. Hell, some is way too conservative. Cerium sat on his duff and collected how much of it? Everything?
Yeah I'm not deleting mine yet I want to know if a new forum is made. What a shame this is all happening I hate Discord.I think some people are over reacting.
At least wait till the new owners fuck up the first time before nuking your accounts or going on account suicides or making new lifeboat forums.
I'd rather not have some corporate dude come in here to "how do you do fellow kids" us
Whatever, complain to the unpaid mods.
i for one welcome our swedish overlords
maybe these swedish delicacies will win you over as well
smorgastarta (also known as mayonaise cake)
kebab pizza
As opposed to the woman owner of resetera.com (?)metacouncil? ain't that the one who pushed out their only women founder?
If there's a whole slew of anti-left posters dominating these forums I'm not seeing them. Many of the trending threads I see here are talking about racism, sexism, how women and minorities aren't respresented in games, TERF/homophobic celebrities, the list goes on.I'm surprised with all that has happened over the last year-ish or so that there are people who still think this site is progressive lol. Most progressive communities have been pushed out and Ect has aggressively anti-left posters that have shifted the conversations and opinions here close to moderate at best and punch left basically at every reasonable opportunity
Not sure how I feel about the sale, but I mostly come here for game news and chat due to the above, so I doubt a lot will change
For a site all about "transparency". Wonder why he wasn't transparent about the sale until the deal was done?Evidently considering he got 4.5 million and the mods are still "volunteers".
I guess it could be worse, it could be a chinese company. A swedish company at least has to follow EU law, right? RIGHT?
i for one welcome our swedish overlords
maybe these swedish delicacies will win you over as well
smorgastarta (also known as mayonaise cake)
kebab pizza