Are you OK, I hate hospitals.

It's likely the forum trolls with their bots and too much time on their hands(they seem to often be the same types who like to "minimod" and think they know what's best for the forums). My advice is to just ignore them. :)

I'm alright thanks for asking, it's just a fracture. Thank goodness for free healthcare in Canada

Ah yes why Europe does require to post your ID on for watching youtube videos that are age restricted?

My first account on youtube was banned back 2012 or 13 but my second account never had any strikes.
The reason it was banned was that they never respected fair use. Only one video was legit for copyright strike since i didn't know the music from the video and that got copyright striked.
The rest were anime otomads which should have been fair use and the first video that got striked i actually won and the copyright strike was removed.
Now my second account doesn't use my real age and the first account only used data was for winning that strike was real in the counter claim, but the rest i didn't bother to counter claim them and then i went using my second account. Now i wonder i still have my first email for everything except youtube and my second email only for youtube.
Now i really don't know what would happen if i would post my ID
Oh you can still download the videos from youtube from some site though

That sounds like a scam or if it was real ,against EU rules unless they've changed something.

Don't think it's a scam.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10070779?hl=en&ref_topic=9387060
Now i wonder since on my tablet i am actually using original account even for youtube not long ago made and the second pc only account for youtube which has more subscriptions to the things i watch.
Seems tablet still works with age restricted videos.

So, there I am again. After a two months ban from gog. Why two month? Because it was the forth time and the ban period doubles every time and starts with one week at your first ban. Why was I banned?

Did I post pornographic pictures?
No.
Did I post racist jokes?
No.
Did I deny the holocaust?
Definitely no.
Did I insult a mod?
I don't think so.

I did just link videos and articles in the "What are you listening to at present?" and the "What are you Reading?" threads which had not seldom political or scientific topics. In other words I only shared what I listened to and read. I didn't break gogs code of conduct. No, according to Beaubergine posting links about "political matters into the Forum could be an opening for a discussion of said topics and we do not believe this is an appropriate place to discuss complex issues."
So I was banned because someone else could break the code of conduct by replying to me. That means I am now responsible for the potential reaction of others before they happened.
Really, gog? You got to be kidding me.
If this is your new moderation policy than you are definitely not "the good guys" that you claim to be!
And just to make this clear: While I'm banned, I will not spent any money here because I will not also reward this kind of bullshit.
I already stopped using Galaxy and kicked it of my system, turned off store notifications and stopped mentioning you, gog, in any conversation, whether in a positive or negative way.
You really do your best - or should I rather say worst - to make your forum unbearable. But I guess you don't care about that anymore or the old forum members who can still remember how it was before.

btw.:
My very first ban was only last year when I posted in the release thread of "Tonight We Riot". A game with political content. Was the writer of the news also banned for provoking posts about politics?

If i go to the site next to your avatar i would ban you too.
Spreading false/dangerous information about covid.

Nothing more to add.

Belief what you want. But your lack of understanding of the idea of differing opinions in a democracy rather shows what sort of man your are. And I'm not surprised that you are from Germany.

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/implement_proper_accountability_for_community_staff

Thanks and voted.

Other staff have said the same thing.....essentially it seems staff(or their bosses) just want fluff style talk(weather, how was your day, etc) and games talk, and super clean like this is some sort of ultra-SFW sub-reddit.

Which is odd, seeing as the forums don't get much traffic these days.

(my theory is they maybe are being made to make the forums unbearable so that eventually hardly no one uses them, so that HQ has a reason to close them...or at least remake them into something more akin to social media)

Yeah, I miss the "good old days" here...it was a bit more chaotic, but more fun and busier(as people were more free to talk about whatever).

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A shame that only has 6 votes.
(I am guessing many sadly either don't care anymore or benefit from the forums being the way they are)

Imo GOG should just keep the CMs & maybe one HQ staffer for stuff they cannot handle.....and only for spam cleanup and removal of serious forum tos violations.....and elsewise they should remain hands off with regards to the forums.
(edit: and maybe put a report post button that actually reports posts....so users can report posts to staff/CMs for them to moderate)

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My contribution:

Don't use the "wrong social media site"...they could get you fired JUST FOR USING THEM
(woman fired for using parler and gab....not making "bad" posts on them....just using them)

There is *plenty* of games-related stuff to talk about, and said topics are not, in any way, fluff.

It's just that, for some reason, a portion of the userbase seems to have a problem with game-related discussions on this forum, which is clearly a gaming forum. (There've been game-related posts that shouldn't have been controversial that have been "low rated", and I've seen a post that was questioning the existence of the topic (rather than contributing to the discussion) get "high rated" before a mod had to step in and delete the post.)

And sadly the staff seems to have deemed some of that stuff "too complex to talk about on these forums"(including game related topics).....leaving just the fluff stuff for the most part.

I don't....in fact I welcome such.

But some here seem to dislike more "serious" talk on gaming(beyond forum games and the aforementioned "fluff talk")....or at least such posted by newcomers.....as some of them seem to down rate threads that are more than "fluff" almost on sight.

(such as thread started by the one user geralt...that seem to get low rated almost on sight...despite being on gaming usually[if albeit a bit "oddly" worded at times])

Well, the topic weather can also become political very fast nowadays If you know what I mean.

Life is chaotic. ;)