Maybe you should read the terms of service and privacy policy. It's quite interesting...
SPOILER"B. Registration must be performed with an Internet Service Provider, education, or workplace email address. No other types of email addresses will be accepted,"
So you have to use a personal email address.
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Third parties outside of NeoGAF may receive aggregated non-personal information. Under limited circumstances (please elaborate...) we may share personal information with third parties as well, including when complying with legal matters and also when ensuring the security of our site and related services."
"D. We reserve the right to reveal your identity (or whatever information we know about you), typically in (but not limited to) the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by you."
So they can do whatever they want with your information and give it out to whoever they want.
C. By registering an account at NeoGAF.com and participating (including but not limited to submitting posts or private messages on NeoGAF.com), you hereby grant NeoGAF LLC and our licensees, distributors, agents, representatives and other authorized users, a perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevocable, fully-paid, royalty-free, sub-licensable and transferable (in whole or part) worldwide license under all copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, privacy and publicity rights and other intellectual property rights you own or control to use, reproduce, transmit, display, exhibit, distribute, index, comment on, modify, create derivative works based upon, perform and otherwise exploit the messages posted or private messages sent on NeoGAF.com, in whole or in part, in all media formats and channels now known or hereafter devised, for any and all purposes including entertainment, news, advertising, promotional, marketing, publicity, trade or commercial purposes, all without further notice to you, with or without attribution, and without the requirement of any permission from or payment to you or to any other person or entity.
TL:DRv: anything you say belongs to them. On top of that, they can see all of your private messages as well.
A. Moderation of NeoGAF is not by democracy. All decisions with regards to thread closure and movement, permanent and temporary bans, membership, and any other relevant issues are made by the NeoGAF administration alone and are final.
Seems like a lovely place.
I haven't seen that type of bigoted behaviour here anywhere close to that degree. Could you link that thread? I want to read it fully.