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JakobFel: This is the ethos of the internet itself!
I don't know where you're getting that from because the internet is not The United States. Any typical forum will have rules and stuff saying what you can and can't do. If you break these rules, it's very normal to get kicked out of the forums. Nothing political about that. It's only recently some internet trolls have decided to brand it "censorship" cause "they banned me for saying vile shit!!" isn't something that garners sympathy, is it?

On a very milquetoast forum, linking to a mod that removes "unhistorical characters", renames the spelling of a city to one that an aggressor nation is forcing on it, and removing gay dating options, etc... well, sorry to say it but YOU BROKE RULES banning among other things: racism, inciting genocide, homophobia - not to mention the classic "Don't Be A Dick".

Just stop bringing The First Amendment to the internet. Its jurisdiction starts at the US border with Canada and ends at the US border with Mexico, and it only means that the US government (specifically the US government) can't stop you from speaking out your mind *with exceptions*. It does not protect you from breaking forum rules and codes of conduct online and being shown the door by the moderators and community (see, they're not the US government) as a consequence.
Post edited April 02, 2025 by PookaMustard
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botan9386: people had no problem dismissing the counter because "that doesn't count, it's not an agenda or hateful when we do it".
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PookaMustard: Dude, it's been explained to YOU specifically a billion times already, from myself, Catventurer, and others. You're just burying your head in the sand at that point.
The explanation: These mods are an agenda but these other mods aren't so these mods are fine and these other mods aren't. Sharing these mods is akin to telling women, black people, and gay people they're not allowed to be here. Nazi this, white supremacy that, @Gog please ban these people they're breaking the rules!.

Just because you think you're making a strong appeal-to-emotion argument doesn't mean it's a strong argument. As you will have seen in the replies, quite a few of us aren't swayed by that and, no, it's not because were unempathetic stones as some of you suggest, it's because we're talking about videogame mods here and the notion that they're problematic is such a 90s "video-games are bad for you" religious take. I'm not diving back into this though, my argument has not changed and it will not changed, simply refer to any one of my previous posts for my position.
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PookaMustard: Dude, it's been explained to YOU specifically a billion times already, from myself, Catventurer, and others. You're just burying your head in the sand at that point.
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botan9386: "No sentence starting with "all you've done here" or "so you're saying that" on the internet ever ends with a sensible summary of the preceding argument." -Vainamoinen
Again, it has been explained to you ad nauseam, so again, you're burying your head in the sand. I'm not repeating what has been repeated to you before.
Post edited April 02, 2025 by PookaMustard
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PookaMustard: Dude, it's been explained to YOU specifically a billion times already, from myself, Catventurer, and others. You're just burying your head in the sand at that point.
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botan9386: The explanation: These mods are an agenda but these other mods aren't so these mods are fine and these other mods aren't. Sharing these mods is akin to telling women, black people, and gay people they're not allowed to be here. Nazi this, white supremacy that, @Gog please ban these people they're breaking the rules!.

Just because you think you're making a strong appeal-to-emotion argument doesn't mean it's a strong argument. As you will have seen in the replies, quite a few of us aren't swayed by that and, no, it's not because were unempathetic stones as some of you suggest, it's because we're talking about videogame mods here and the notion that they're problematic is such a 90s "video-games are bad for you" religious take. I'm not diving back into this though, my argument has not changed and it will not changed, simply refer to any one of my previous posts for my position.
You still don't get it? These mods are breaking the GOG CoC. That's it. People can bring up freedom of speech, laws, their opinions as much as they want. These mods are simply breaking the GOG CoC. Everyone here has agreed to follow them.

The same can be said about this thread. It also breaks the GOG CoC starting with the OP. You aren't supposed to discuss the moderation in the forums.

Everyone in this thread has broke the GOG CoC just by posting in this thread.
Post edited April 02, 2025 by foad01
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Wonder how long it's going to take people to realize that no minds will be changed in either direction.

Makes for a great shitshow though. So by all means, keep going.

MORE! ESCALATE! HARDER!
Post edited April 02, 2025 by idbeholdME
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botan9386: The explanation: These mods are an agenda but these other mods aren't so these mods are fine and these other mods aren't. Sharing these mods is akin to telling women, black people, and gay people they're not allowed to be here. Nazi this, white supremacy that, @Gog please ban these people they're breaking the rules!.

Just because you think you're making a strong appeal-to-emotion argument doesn't mean it's a strong argument. As you will have seen in the replies, quite a few of us aren't swayed by that and, no, it's not because were unempathetic stones as some of you suggest, it's because we're talking about videogame mods here and the notion that they're problematic is such a 90s "video-games are bad for you" religious take. I'm not diving back into this though, my argument has not changed and it will not changed, simply refer to any one of my previous posts for my position.
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foad01: You still don't get it? These mods are breaking the GOG CoC. That's it. People can bring up freedom of speech, laws, their opinions as much as they want. These mods are simply breaking the GOG CoC. Everyone here has agreed to follow them.

The same can be said about this thread. It also breaks the GOG CoC starting with the OP. You aren't supposed to discuss the moderation in the forums.

Everyone in this thread has broke the GOG CoC just by posting in this thread.
Who would have ever thought that the GOG CoCk could be broken? The mighty CoCk that it is. Thank you, Hall Monitor. Better wipe that brown spot off your nose, fella. ROTFLMAO This is better than Amazon Prime+HBOMAX, guy. Let them continue.
Post edited April 02, 2025 by RizzoCuoco
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RizzoCuoco: Who would have ever thought that the GOG CoCk could be broken? The mighty CoCk that it is. Thank you, Hall Monitor. Better wipe that brown spot off your nose, fella. ROTFLMAO This is better than Amazon Prime+HBOMAX, guy. Let them continue.
Who would have ever thought that JoaoPauloZA is using an alt account to continue posting?

Another chicken in the coop. :D
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foad01: You still don't get it? These mods are breaking the GOG CoC. That's it. People can bring up freedom of speech, laws, their opinions as much as they want. These mods are simply breaking the GOG CoC. Everyone here has agreed to follow them.

The same can be said about this thread. It also breaks the GOG CoC starting with the OP. You aren't supposed to discuss the moderation in the forums.

Everyone in this thread has broke the GOG CoC just by posting in this thread.
Can we stop this virtue signal of appeal to authority? You did not even bring this up in your first couple of comments, except to refer it directly as an argument against "the other political side". Only after a while did this turn into a general point about how everything has broken GOG CoC after someone pointed out how it was not a one-sided thing. And before that, you happily engaged with the subject matter. You obviously don't respect the authority here either, so stop this argument. It looks silly.
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Pssshaw... You know that Foad loves the CoC! Ebraces, supports and even upholds the CoC at all costs! Give that man his due credit! He will never abandon the Coc.
Post edited April 02, 2025 by RizzoCuoco
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botan9386: You did not even bring this up in your first couple of comments, except to refer it directly as an argument against "the other political side".
Wrong.
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foad01: You can try to report the specific post, but it will probably take weeks until you see an effect. Here is the link:
https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?product=gog&form=report
I pointed out the direction what to do.
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RizzoCuoco: Pssshaw... You know that Foad loves the CoC! Ebraces, supports and even upholds the CoC at all costs! Give that man his due credit! He will never abandon the Coc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msSc7Mv0QHY
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foad01: Wrong.
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foad01: You can try to report the specific post, but it will probably take weeks until you see an effect. Here is the link:
https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?product=gog&form=report
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foad01: I pointed out the direction what to do.
That's you telling OP to try and resolve their problem with the post by reporting it. No mention of the CoC.

It wasn't until 4 pagers later where I explicitly asked, "how do these political points justify censoring mods", only then did you refer to the CoC and explicitly centred it around the talking points of hate speech and how posting the mods breaks the rules, focusing particularly on "one political side" and the history of the user who posted them. This is not you referencing the CoC generally to address the entire thread. Again, at this point you've already been engaging with the drama and conversation, and carried on to do so happily.

In fact, I told a slight lie, I thought someone had brought up the fact the entire thread was against CoC earlier but I was imagining things slightly wrongly. What actually happened is idbeholdME asked if you'd also reported this thread for breaking the rules and you said you hadn't because you thought it would be best to preserve it. It wasn't until the reply you just sent me above that you seem to acknowledge this entire thread is breaking the rules.

Though, I don't personally care about whether or not this thread breaks CoC. I just I roll my eyes given the fact you're defying the CoC as you reference it.
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foad01: Wrong.

I pointed out the direction what to do.
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botan9386: That's you telling OP to try and resolve their problem with the post by reporting it. No mention of the CoC.
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The act of reporting content has nothing to do with the CoC?

"4. MODERATION PROCEDURE:
4.1. More information on how moderation flow looks like in GOG can be found in GOG can be found in the Infringing Content and Copyright Policy. Crucial points are:

a) you will be informed about every moderation applied to the content you posted,
b) you can report violating content via this form,
c) you will be informed about the course of action taken in relation to the content you’ve reported,
d) every moderation decision you receive will be accompanied by a statement of reasons and information on how you can ask for a re-evaluation (you will have 6 months to do it)."

Are we going to win the world championship in hairsplitting?

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botan9386: In fact, I told a slight lie, I thought someone had brought up the fact the entire thread was against CoC earlier but I was imagining things slightly wrongly. What actually happened is idbeholdME asked if you'd also reported this thread for breaking the rules and you said you hadn't because you thought it would be best to preserve it. It wasn't until the reply you just sent me above that you seem to acknowledge this entire thread is breaking the rules.
Though, I don't personally care about whether or not this thread breaks CoC. I just I roll my eyes given the fact you're defying the CoC as you reference it.
To be honest, I am surprised that this thread is still open. In the past this thread would have just survived the weekend and be closed on Monday.

I mentioned why reporting the mods is probably futile. After this thread and after this much attention someone will repost the mods if the posts and the thread get deleted. As you can see in this very thread, there are two users evading their bans with alt accounts. The whole debate here has been done in the past with no results. This thread has no results. Basically, what you, me and the rest here are doing is pointless. I also mentioned why I am here. Boredom. You can stop trying to argue against my person and posts. :D
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foad01: This thread has no results. Basically, what you, me and the rest here are doing is pointless. I also mentioned why I am here. Boredom. You can stop trying to argue against my person and posts.
Sure, I don't intend to go down this rabbit hole again anyways.

Such inaction here tells me GOG mods are either on holiday or whoever is monitoring this thread is using us as entertainment.
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foad01: This thread has no results. Basically, what you, me and the rest here are doing is pointless. I also mentioned why I am here. Boredom. You can stop trying to argue against my person and posts.
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botan9386: Sure, I don't intend to go down this rabbit hole again anyways.

Such inaction here tells me GOG mods are either on holiday or whoever is monitoring this thread is using us as entertainment.
It usually takes 2-6 weeks until something happens. :D

In the meantime we can listen to a song. It was dedicated to the forum police. :D
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Pooks: On a very milquetoast forum, linking to a mod that removes "unhistorical characters", renames the spelling of a city to one that an aggressor nation is forcing on it, and removing gay dating options, etc... well, sorry to say it but YOU BROKE RULES banning among other things: racism, inciting genocide, homophobia - not to mention the classic "Don't Be A Dick"
The Irony!
Did you pick up a brain amoeba or did someone buy your account in the last few years? Cuz you haven't been yourself m80.

Foads: Everyone in this thread has broke the GOG CoC just by posting in this thread.
Oh no...anywyays...

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idbeholdME: Wonder how long it's going to take people to realize that no minds will be changed in either direction.
Dunno about the rest but i'm not trying to change any minds. Just bored posting while I game.

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botan9386: I just I roll my eyes given the fact you're defying the CoC as you reference it.
Query: how can stealth gog staffers defy their own CoC? ;)
Post edited April 02, 2025 by FarkOfDoge