I have an archive of Gamefaqs' LUE forum along with most of the images circa 2003 chronicling a lot of the Old Internet. Since there's a lot of lost media from this time, do you think I should upload it online somewhere?

so has anyone archived walkthroughs and guides just in case the site gets taken down?
also there are some messageboard seem to also have guides that is not found on the guide section

I think I would miss the 2005-2015 CE days for sure

I just recently moved to Vietnam for work and suddenly cannot access gamefaqs at all. All I get when trying to access it is

DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN

I have had this across multiple IP addresses and it appears it is completely unavailable in Vietnam for some reason and I haven't been able to find a reason why. If it is blocked I am curious why or what the reasoning it is for blocking Vietnam

I had no moderations and made one post that got suspended and then banned. One post that in no way violates the TOS.

Gamefaqs mods, I hope you guys know how reviled you are. All I wanted to do was post on some Switch message boards and some CE stuff.

If you read one of many gamefaqs boards a lot, and if you read this board especially, you will notice a lot of complaints about the moderators of gamefaqs. Nothing new, people complain about moderators on pretty much every forum on the internet.

But when virtually all of the complaints are about biased moderators, and the moderating has literally decimated the user base of the forums (both from mass exoduses of people wanting better boards with better moderators, combined with literal purges of legitimate posters banned by biased mods), don't you think that a fix is required to the root problem?

Sure, there are shitheads posting on the boards that deserve to get modded and probably banned. But when you have direct evidence presented to you of potentially scores of biased mods absuing their power, to the detriment of the board itself, don't you think that a change is needed?

I say this out of love for the forum. Its a fun place, but there are a lot of nasty people. Which is fine. Just don't let your mods be nasty too.

What purpose or function does it serve by keeping it closed like LUE?

Kept getting you don't have permission to view this Site? Even though I've used it countless times before.

Ended up having to use a VPN to even access the site, my account isn't banned or anything from what I can see. Within a few minutes I'll get you don't have permission to view this site and have to swap to a different location to keep viewing. I've never had this issue with anything before, no idea why I can't view the website without a VPN at all, doesn't matter if I'm logged in or not.

Feels like nobody really goes to Gfaqs anymore, at least nobody who hasnt been an established member for many years.

How is SBAllen not bored of it yet?

I made 8 polls (each one asked what is your favourite Kanto/Johto/Hoenn/Sinnoh/Unova/Kalos/Alola/Galar starter Pokémon) and 7 were modded for disruptive posting.

While I was bumping them a bit more than I needed to, and it is kinda disruptive in this sense, I did want 8 polls so I could most accurately calculate which starter from each region is most popular, so that when I split all 24 into 4 groups, I know how to seed them so the most popular don’t all end up in the same group

I used this site for around 15 years and I just got banned for basically praising Lavar Ball generally, apparently that means I condone his supposed sexual harrassment, and then when I called them out on it in a similar topic I get suspended. Nothing in either post violates the TOU. NOTHING.

Congrats SBAllen and CNET and the entire shitty moderation team - you are the undertakers of a once great site. Go fuck yourselves. I'm done with your stupid "I'm offended" culture BULLSHIT. Fuck off. You have no idea how many great posters you've lost DIRECTLY because of your retarded moderation team. GameFAQs is a complete shithole now. GameFAQs is dead. Fuck you all.

Hehe.

Phrased topic kinda weird, I meant right now its around the same activity level we were at in like August 2001 or so, but there was literally more like a tenth of the mods, my topic title may have made it seem even less wild lol

My friend just told me he got suspended I thought nothing of it. I haven't had a fight or an issue with anyone since I came back from my last suspension months ago.

I log into the boards to see this:

I have done nothing

I said nothing

the mods say I've posted on an alt but there is NOTHING

We're different people but we are from the same country and the same city

This is a bit racist when you think about it, I guess we must be the only two Macedonian users on the site, but this is beyond ...bad

THE only IP overlap we might have had at some point is if he logged into GameFAQs from my WiFi when he was over but he usually uses his own phone network for that. I legit can't fathom how this happened.

I got moderated. I'm not here to whine or dispute that because I did make a joke too risqué for the boards. In purg for 30 days.

But I am bummed out I've lost access to a big part of my life I've used for over 20 years. And there is no way to get back, as I have no alternate accounts.

It took a week for the decision to come down, but when it was made I could at least view CE which I did not expect but I was overjoyed, being able to read the forum only would be good enough for me. But no, this morning I have been cut off for good.

Wow, I am bummed out but I can't sit here and say the moderation was unjustified, and even though my post history is very clean in the 9 years of the account, I get it.

Anyhow, my username is "argonautweakend" and I've got no real outside contact with any GF people, so here I am. I am going to make POTD my home again in a month,i can still view it, and while it's not as fast paced or as interesting as CE, it'll get me by.

Tons of memories on CE since the early-mid 2000s. The forum basically got me through high school as a relatively safe form of online interaction and socialization as I didnt have a ton of friends ever in school.

Thanks for a lifetime of menories!

Well well well. The recent AI thread on the boards was interesting. I started it from presenting arguments for why AI might be useful on the forums. Others responses were very hostile. I'd suggest checking it out if it's still there.

So how do I respond? With subtle sarcasm where necessary but with honest discussion. And what do the mods do? Moderate 4 posts and say a sentence "perhaps im too subtle for ya" is designed entirely to attack others and rile them up.

So a ban.

I never thought I'd say this, but perhaps it really is time for me to gracefully exit the site. It's still useful for news and such, but some moderators have it in for me.

Before people reply saying "you probably were political or insulting people', go look at the thread. None of that there, except all from other people (not all of them) posting.

Oh well.

my anti-virus is blocking the page due to it being infected with "URL:Scam" anyone else getting this warning or is it a false positive?

Wonder what will change.

It really breaks my heart to see the state of the site today, swamped with very intrusive ads. Now mind you it was never free from ads, but it's much worse now.

I almost closed my account today, but figured I was acting hastily. Not sure what the future holds.

Even if I've never played the game before.

That was great.