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clarry: How about a milder proposal: don't let accounts that haven't bought any games (or received a legitimately purchased game as a gift; not counting freebies) use the downvote feature.

While we're at it, let's disable downvotes..
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darktjm: I guess I can agree with the first to a lesser extent, and the second to a greater extent if there is still a spam reporting facility. Downvoting does not add to the discussion. I don't downvote (except spam) for that reason. I do upvote rather than cluttering the forum with "I agree" posts. There is no need to add any more.

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richlind33: Forum/account administration involves groups, and policies. Changing policy for "users" has no bearing on admins, mods, devs/pubs, etc.
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darktjm: Nice of you to ignore potential customers, press, and other people who might have useful things to say,. Gog has 3 groups: employees, devs/publishers, and everyone else. Everything you lump under "etc" is users. Don't reply with "GOG needs to create more groups" because it's not possible to classify some people (in particular, potential customers or people who want to discuss a game they own elsewhere that doesn't have a forum).

As to "duplicate" accounts: that's an entirely separate issue for gog to decide on. In general, I prefer a more inclusive policy, even though I have no need or desire for multiple accounts myself. One thing to keep in mind is that people can create more email addresses pretty easily, so limiting to one gog account per email is not sufficient.
I'm not ignoring anything, we just have different priorities; yes, I think paying customers should take precedence over "potential" customers. But if a miracle were to happen and GOG upgraded to something that isn't from prehistoric times, we could all be happy -- mostly. ;p
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real.geizterfahr: It's "harassment" to click the "Invite to friends" button? Wow!
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dtgreene: When you do it to someone who:
* Has already declined friend request from you
* Who has blocked you in chat

And when you do it repeatedly, then yes, it is harassment at that point.
Just ignore it as the person said.....if you don't decline it they can't resend it.

Also report them perhaps?

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JudasIscariot: Hi guys,

It has come to my attention that there are a few issues that may need to be looked at and ironed out with the forum. I am basing this statement on my experience from PMs from forum members concerned with their rep and your experiences that I read about here on the forum itself.

So let's talk:

What would you like to see in the GOG forum?

What would you change, what would you keep the same?

In short, feel free to express your opinion on your experience with the forum in general and what you think can be done to improve or enhance the experience :)
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richlind33: You think it might be possible for GOG to delete accounts that aren't used for buying games?

Since you haven't followed through on getting rid of the rep system, getting rid of duplicate accounts would help to achieve a modicum of fairness.

Thanks!
I think 1 alt is fair as a backup in case one needs it for some reason(loss of access perhaps)....others should be cut off, though, if they have no bought games.

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PookaMustard: To Dear JudasIscariot from Five Years Ago:

Please tell GOG to axe the rep system. I can tell you that five years later, it's worthless, except it looks awful and is mighty annoying when posting links!

Also, make a subforum for Mafia. No, not the Mafia game series (and GOG will receive them later, don't worry), but rather a subforum for forum Mafia.

Thank you!
PookaMustard from Five Years Into the Future
And perhaps a subforum for hot topics some dislike on GOG...that way they can ignore them and not feel the need to downrate them....posting to such would be optional of course, in my ideal version of such.
Post edited June 30, 2019 by GameRager
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richlind33: You think it might be possible for GOG to delete accounts that aren't used for buying games?

Since you haven't followed through on getting rid of the rep system, getting rid of duplicate accounts would help to achieve a modicum of fairness.

Thanks!
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GameRager: I think 1 alt is fair as a backup in case one needs it for some reason(loss of access perhaps)....others should be cut off, though, if they have no bought games.
I'm fine with that as long as the site admin approves.
Post edited June 30, 2019 by richlind33
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richlind33: You think it might be possible for GOG to delete accounts that aren't used for buying games?
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darktjm: I strongly disagree with this proposal. I want devs, publishers, staff, potential customers, potential publishers/devs, press, etc. to be able to post freely on the forum if they have an account and have something useful to say (and the latter can't be enforced even for users who do buy games).

I'd rather have the "duplicate accounts" than poorly thought out arbitrary account holder restrictions. How do you detect duplicates, anyway? I can see legitimate uses (although very few) for multiple accounts on a single email address, and definitely do not want site blocking, allowing 21 fake/spam email accounts to block access for 1 legitimate user on the same server.
1. Devs/etc should be able to bypass the game buying condition and perhaps newcomers as well, but even newcomers should be limited to 1 alt and no more.

2. They could detect them through IP address(even VPN users would likely sign into all of them via one IP, but I might be wrong on this), most likely.

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GameRager: Just ignore it as the person said.....if you don't decline it they can't resend it.

Also report them perhaps?

I think 1 alt is fair as a backup in case one needs it for some reason(loss of access perhaps)....others should be cut off, though, if they have no bought games.
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richlind33: I'm fine with that as long as the site admin approves.
Afaik they silently support it as some other users seemingly have alts(some are changed alts of their primary names) already for such purposes.
Post edited June 30, 2019 by GameRager
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richlind33: I'm fine with that as long as the site admin approves.
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GameRager: Afaik they silently support it as some other users seemingly have alts(some are changed alts of their primary names) already for such purposes.
I think it's more a case of having higher priorities.
Post edited June 30, 2019 by richlind33
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PookaMustard: To Dear JudasIscariot from Five Years Ago:

Please tell GOG to axe the rep system. I can tell you that five years later, it's worthless, except it looks awful and is mighty annoying when posting links!

Also, make a subforum for Mafia. No, not the Mafia game series (and GOG will receive them later, don't worry), but rather a subforum for forum Mafia.

Thank you!
PookaMustard from Five Years Into the Future
Maybe Forum Mafia needs to reappropriate the Mafia Forum.