Hey there Niche Gamer Nation! After lots of deliberation and feedback from the community, we’ve added a few clauses to our Terms of Service.

You’ll notice we now exclude racial / ethnic slurs from both the site and the forums. This is both due to us losing advertising deals and fans.

We don’t want to tone police and we will continue to focus on promoting an open discussion (swearing is still OK), however we want basic rules. We’re even ok with you shitposting and basically doing whatever, we just had a small but noticeable group of users repeatedly dumping slurs.

This caused us to lose advertising deals and even fans who simply couldn’t deal with continual use of slurs in lots of threads. We are by no means perfect and admit the handling of this could have been better, and for that we apologize to any fans miffed by the entire situation.

We’re comfortable with the basic, basic rules we have now and see no need to really go any further as we really don’t care beyond that. Our goal is to provide you an open, fun, place to discuss and be yourselves to the furthest extent of the law – while also continuing to function as a business.

On that note – expect new features coming alongside our new redesign, very soon! These will come at no cost to fans, but have been made possible from those who have generously and selflessly donated to our Patreon, which we try to not hit you over the head with asking for donations.

If it were up to us and we made enough money independently we would have essentially no rules like before (we rarely enforced them), however we’re trying to make everyone happy – both fans and advertisers.

-The Niche Gamer Staff