Wow, just wow... how far can GOG still fall? I mean, they broken all of their promises and banned any non-gaming related topic and now that? What's left? At some point it will be only random threads from dtgreene and Geralt/Irenicus_pl.

It is sad to see that GOG hates the forum and its users.

In that case the "great and wise mind" behind your new CoC obviously want this to be a very different place than your actual customers do.

By all means, neuter every discussion. The regular forum posters will love it. Don't forget to also close every forum game thread, every poll, every thread not related to a game release, essentially every thread that wasn't opened by a blue. And then mod away every post that strays from the pre-approved Gog stance™ for being offtopic.

It's a pity that we can't even click up or down rep on closed threads. You'd be collecting very direct feedback on how popular your closing posts on those threads are.

my guess something like this: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_norco_aeb44/post3 who got a smack on the fingers for it, and then said "but all those threads X,Y and Z are also advertising with links, why are you going after my post? double standards?", which then leaves gOg in a twist, either accept that users can do this, or close the mentioned threads.

It probably would be, since if the new thread received a lot of attention, then most likely, GOG would have another meeting and at which they would then decide that the principle for why they locked the previous threads --- namely, informing people about the sales of non-GOG games --- were still being revived, even if the exact delivery system used previously was not.

But Smollest, is not more convinient to make a wrning on an useful thred than just close it? The thread was created before this was an issue, it's like punish somebody for something they did before it was a crime. Why don't reopen the tred with a "no links allowed" in the title? That is a good option that will keep everybody happy, because the feedback is also against the current decision.

I read that " forum posers " . =)

Quick question to verify my last thread isn't against the new Forum Code of Conduct (which does appear to be buried a bit, but I managed to find it), would linking to a Kickstarter about digitizing VHS tapes of Phantasmagoria 2 videos count as advertising? On one hand, Kickstarter is not a store, on the other hand, I am saying "See if you want to give your money to this project".

Edit: Hah, what do you know, there's a link in the stickies. I always believed that the best way to hide something is to stick it, seems I'm not immune to that.

Is this a delayed April Fools joke?

Then this problem indicates that the CoC needs to be re-worked again, so as it stops being overly draconian.

GOG could, for example, rewrite the CoC to define "advertising" in a much more reasonable way, and in a way that causes GOG to be lenient against posts that are not made by blatant spammers who sign up to GOG solely to promote links.

Doing that would place GOG in a much more favorable light in the eyes of GOG's customers.

In contrast, GOG maintaining its current draconian stance against anything that could remotely be considered to be "advertising" is only going to harm GOG's reputation and discourage GOG customers from buying games on GOG, which is counterproductive towards what I presume to be GOG's intention for it's "advertising" CoC policies in the first place, which seem to be intending to encourage more sales on GOG, not less.

But this draconian policy, if it stays as-is, will lead to less sales for GOG, not more.

If you've reworked the rules in such a way that a 13 year old thread now breaks them... maybe you've reworked them wrong.

sorry i ment this one
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/epic_store_games_you_can_play_without_the_epic_launcher