Each time I see the title of this thread I think that yes, an updated forum would rule.

Yes, chandra is who I contact when I encounter a violation of the forum rules. (I think there might be someone else who handles such things as well, maybe it's Konrad?)

Thank you all very much for your reply. I will may be contact the staff later, if I still can't post a topic. I will wait rep 7 or 8.
Thank too

Some help for newbi. When you create a topic if you want to disable recaptcha. Just go in the store take what you want which is free and then when you 'bough' it, you will no longer have recaptcha for new threads.

Sorry to ask this but could someone log in my account with my password to see if he can post a topic. Because I still can not post any topic whatever browser or setting it just don't want to work.

So if someone could try for me I it could help me to know if it's a problem with my account or else ?

Why do moderators lock threads for going off-topic instead of banning the people who take them off-topic in the first place?

It's always, always, ALWAYS, without fail the same select handful of posters.

If you're having trouble weeding out the worst offenders, just check the thread again. Pretty much every single low rated post has zero to contribute to the discussion and is merely there to start shit. Closing a legit thread is getting it upside down: It punishes people who want to actually discuss a topic and rewards the trolls.

My experience would beg to differ. I had a post where I talked a bit about Final Fantasy 2's mechanics (nothing there that would even be *remotely* political), and the post ended up being "low rated" for some reason.

It's completly broken, support is absent, mods sleep and when they wake up it's to censore good dudes, and the forum didn't get update for 200 years.

Forum rules are totaly wrong, auto moderation is badly down. What is funny is that when you are rep 1 you can not post links but you can low rate post lol.

Do GOG pay is staff or not ? They even reject games wich are DRM free.

They are not going to increase their reputation like this.

So are we no longer allowed to use four letter words period?

I just got an email warning for using the word "fuck" one time in a post.
I used to only get those for using it several times.

If so, can I get a list of what words I can and can no longer say?
That is a totally serious request.

Yeah, my understanding was that swearing was ok if it wasn't attacking a person/group. I too need a list of what I'm allowed to say as I tend to swear quite freely (but without malice) unless I'm specifically watching myself.

effen in the CAPS with bull's manure sprinkle?


Learn to fucken swear.....

MY MAN! +1

Yes, hopefully when you spam or insult you get warn and then ban.
I'm happy that the mod do their job.

LOL.....wait, you were being serious?

There have been at least a handful of cases where a transgender person has been caught "manipulating themselves" in a shared bathroom because/when a cisgender person was in it as well, or where transgender individuals have assaulted(sexually/etc) cisgender people(or flashed them) in shared bathrooms(victims included MINORS, ffs).

Now MSM won't report on it, but local/independent sites/etc report on the matter, and the records(if not sealed) are available.

(Addition: I hold no ill will to most trans people.....just the ones causing problems and abusing their protected status.)

They don't have to, but pleasing your consumer base(in good/egal ways, and to the right extent) is one of the keys to a thriving business model. That is part of why such laws on site forums exist......to draw in and maintain a userbase/profits from said userbase.
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Since when does what a site/thing is define the only thing such a site/thing can be used for? I have old coffee cans made for holding coffee, which I washed out & now use to hold odds and ends. Yes, the site's main focus should be gaming, but that doesn't mean that should be all it should be about.

Heck, niche sites/thingswith only one/few purposes only serve to make life overly complicated(juggling multiple sites/things to get through life).
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And some have been here so long they develop the classic "my house my rules" mindset some get(example: older/long settled tenants trying to lord over less settled tenants in apt buildings) from time to time. Both are equally bad, imo.
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Sounds fair, but what happens when there is no place that suits said needs? Should you make your own then? What if banks.payment processors/gov'ts don't like your ideas(even if legal) and say no to you anyways? What then?

Imo, free speech laws should be one regulation the net should have(barring threats/viruses spread online, etc).

It does, though, for the most part. Also it might be giving trolls a platform, but it also allows good users a place to say whatever is on their minds(within reason) and allows for the spreading of ideas/growing of a community. If I had to choose between this and a twitter/facebook/youtube style censorship platform, i'd pick something like GOG has every time.
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It also stifles creativity, talking outside the box(slight offtopic is good from time to time), and community growth. It also funnels everyone along the same ideological/belief system track.
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Clearly there is, or you wouldn't be able to post posts like you just did with this one.

1.a. And moving all discussion into subforums doesn't solve anything either. It just forces trolls to troll in the subforums/PMs instead(basically just hiding the problem/moving it to a different location). A better solution would be to ignore(IRL) trolls and spammers, and report the more problematic ones.
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2.a. No, remove the general forum and you just HIDE the problem until it blows up in another subforum(s)(see answer 1.a.) I also respectfully disagree...the site was always(imo) about games and building a community of like-minded gamers(for profit and fellowship between GOG/the userbase...as seen with some of the more helpful/kind staffers).

And yes, this is a place to socialize(even if you don't think so)...with or without trolls.
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3.a. Again, we must agree to disagree. The forums has spam issues and trolls, but it is still a nice place to visit(mafia game threads, giveaways by kind souls, movie/game review threads/helpful advice in game specific threads, users answering questions from others, etc). And even if(as you suggested) they moved everything into the subforums they'd still need a manager to police those subforums(maybe even more than one, as there are MANY subforums...which USUALLY get little traffic & are easy to police UNTIL everyone would be moved into them as per your idea).
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4.a. And that clean talk/non-trolling nature would likely evaporate quickly when people riushed into those sub forums to keep up the community aspect of the site.
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5.a. They should go the steam route and squash all freedom of creative discussion? Lol...good one.

The idea to possibly create a subforum for political talk(or a thread or two for just politics(as a containment) night be a good idea, though.


The issues you discussed earlier(iirc) were about people arguing about the latest EEs and addons for games with heavy political bias to them. As such, people are justified in arguing about such(within reason). I don't see that as trolling(if done civilly) or as bad as what is done in general from time to time.