I do not care about Twitter and the hissy fits thrown there. In here, the GOG forums, as far as I can tell he did a good job moderating.

How about someone from Gog,confirming whether he is gone or not before you get carried away with your thread.

Linko did a great job here and current events should not have been enough to terminate employment.

I'd subscribe to this. Can't say much to what Tauto's brought up, but on the surface the guy seemed to be doing a commendable job.

I do find it curious that someone who so dilligently moderated political topics here should now have stumbled (again) over abusing political causes. Doesn't make sense. Gog, I am sure you don't just put someone in front of your official account with no further directive than "surprise me!", so maybe it's time to have a long reflective look at yourself, because this isn't going to get better just by letting one person go.

I'd also be very much in favour of this. Though, to be fair, open communication is like getting blood from a stone these days.

No, not really.
He said it was OK to use bad grammar and spelling mistakes *on purpose* excessively, which I think is a sure way to ruin any forum.

God I hope they don't lift the bans he made.

If you don't know what happened for sure then stop making predictions. Gog's internal policies don't concern me because I am not head of its human resources department. STOP MAKING DRAMA.

Tauto- I think you have things you can contribute to the forum but at -1732 rep. your obviously not behaving very well and a number of people have a problem with your posts, so stop trying to play the victim and abide by the forum guidelines. The forum is run by a private company, no one has a 'right' to be here and to be able to type what they want.

TBH, I don't k is linko or particularly this matter. That being said I do see the irrevocable damage that social media is don't to society, fuelled by the greed of tech companies and media outlets (including BBC and others). It's about time governments stepped in and took control of the internet away from investor (only) focused tech companies. Like anything, tech is great in moderation, but when it is used as a tool to enforce groups views it becomes far more. For instance if that resetera (and thankfully that seems to be a us thing) are responsible for publishing individuals information then that should be a police matter as data can have far reaching damadging affects to individuals lives. Sure you may be sitting there thinking "well that individual deserved it", until of course it is your turn. Start locking some of the leaders up, and the tech firm owners would be a great step towards making a happy place.
I sincerely hope that GOG are following up legal avenues on this.

Goot, dhad me Inglish is berfekt!

Oh, man... what a sad thing. I really liked Linko90, and it's incredibly awful to lose him over a few tweets, of all things.

Farewell to our resident ED209! May the future bring him great opportunities and victories.

GOG, when you really fired Linko90 please reconsider. The tweet in question might really have been distasteful (and it is a bad idea to use hashtags without checking them first), but it was just one tweet. On the other hand Linko90 was/is a very capable forum moderator and this place became much better and more civilized with him around. And he didn't only act as a moderator, but also became part of the community, paricipated in forum games and fun threads and gave your company a human face.

So please don't take away our community manager over a Twitter drama! If you really have to remove him from his Twitter duty, but let him stay as a moderator.

@Linko90: No matter what really happened, my best wishes for you. Hope you are well!

I'd also like to subscribe to this thread/letter of support for Linko.

Unless there's an official communicate that says otherwise, most points lead to the most glaring conclusion that by now regular forum dwellers assumed.

If that is the case, it sounds like a pretty high tier fuck up to show the door to someone that was appointed as some tenuous figure of order (compared to the magnitudes this place needs to recover some resemblance of a decent forum...) and so far was getting things sorted out in a civil way. Slowly, maybe, but progress was being made.

It is time to get a proper answer about what is actualy happening: else you'll be having people chasing ghosts over the situation.

Do as you said: acknowledge that you're a store, a good one despite some mistakes, and act accordingly by not commiting to social media more than the absolute necessary, by now this should be an already learned lesson when one takes into account those many backfires on Twitter. Backtrack and set the course again as it was before.

It is not too late: stop this nonsense. Now of all times is not the best time to add yet another poorly handled mess to the long list that you've pulled in such a short time.

Do not try people and their leniency, GOG.