Then I'd be cut off from here. and a forum without Pazzo is no forum at all. /s

Luckily (or unfortunately?) I have more than 200 games, so you won`t get rid of me. :-D
On topic:
I don`t think that threads should be limited, but owning at least one (bought) game might really help in overcoming the spammer crisis.
Hey, that would be a nice movie title: "Spamwars: Crisis in infinite threads"

Shit, okay then we'll just have to raise it to 300 games in your library because you just have to go and fast :p

Ofc i did a bit of light trolling there but tbh i don't really know how to solve it the best way and since GOG barely moderate their forum there need to be some bandaid in the meantime until they start to take their own forums seriously.

- or + 5-20 Rep would be funny too until you can create your own threads since the spammers use clean accounts.

You'll have to raise it a bit above 1100 to get rid of me though.

I propose it not be a requirement of a number of games, but movies. 30 or so should do fine.

I propose 1200, that would give me a good excuse to buy just one more game.

Just read this post.

Also, fuck it, why the hell am I still auto-downrepped? What have I done?

If we go by your (totally made up) example, and we'd follow my proposal, you'd simply need to be a paying(!) customer of GOG for three months.
Then you would be able to open your three threads on a single day.

In your example, you're a paying customer for only two months, so alternatively, you could just open your third thread on the next day...where it would count as the first of two new threads that you can open on this day.

You would then still have one thread left, and hey - tomorrow is a new day which brings two new oppoertunities to open threads. And so on...
See, how easy that is?

Of course, there's some probability that you wouldn't need these three threads in the first place, because for the two questions you have, you might find the answer already in the dedicated games' forums...

I mean, I'm not going to stop buying games until there are no more games to buy. I don't have time to play them (and rather than play game I haven't tried yet, I keep reinstalling and playing ones I've finished long ago), and I have actually slowed down a bit in buying, but I'll be over 1200 soon enough.

GOG already stated that they are not going to do anything about it, and simply remove those post manually.


Back then, I proposed buying one game to be able to post in zee forum. But some people din't like the idea. :(
It's by design!

I responded specifically to what I quoted, which is "why would someone need to create two threads per hour?". Sure, my situation is made up, but it is certainly plausible. Would you feel better if I gave an example that I've actually seen? Here: "I have a bunch of different questions about this game that I want to ask. I'll ask them in different threads so the various answers don't get confused by cross-answering, so I can mark the various questions as answered individually, and so that some questions/answers don't get lost in the shuffle."

I didn't quote your original proposal because I wasn't interested in replying to your original proposal. I think requiring someone to pay some amount of money before being allowed to create threads is a terrible idea, but I'll grant that it is somewhat less terrible than many of the other proposals I'm seeing. The spammer can just wait for one of the sales and spend $10 to buy games for 100 accounts using a $0.10 game (and if one of these games is a loss leader for the sale, then GOG may well be losing money).

This thread creation limit would be horrendously frustrating for users and it is barely a speed bump for spammers. Don't harm legit users, especially impressionable newbies that you're trying to attract, while trying to solve the spammer problem with bad solutions.

Rando newbie might find the answer, or the answer might be buried some unknown number of pages back. That assumes the answer to their specific question exists on the forum at all.

TWO WORDS:

Voight-Kampff

Yes, please link to this example.
Please show these $0.10 games...I must have missed them in the past.

It would not harm legit users. That's just your claim. But it would fend off spammers.
Why don't you give me examples of legit users opening three+ threads/day?
Just use today, or yesterday, or this whole week as an example.

Yes, let's assume the answer exists, many answer to questions that get asked in the general forum actually exist in the dedicated forum for the game in question.
Also: most of the dedicated game forums aren't that long, and despite not being the best search function around, it actually helps, if you search for certain key words.
Newbies can look them up. We all did at some time.

One thing I noticed with every single of your forum replies: you never give any solutions, you only come with "reasons", why the solutions proposed by others wouldn't work - in your eyes.

And to "prove" your points, you always come with made up arguments, that don't occur in real life.

What is it that you fear so much about any change to the existing system and all its flaws?

The steam community isn't a community, it's a toxic spamfest. They hate everyone who has their own views or beliefs and will tear your throat out if you speak up. Either you're with the hive mind or you aren't.

I don't really like your example, but the general issue I see is that most people who use GoG use it because they want games that are going to be supported throughout their entire lifetime. (Can you believe steam is actually selling games like Manhunt that it clearly states requires Windows XP to run BUT steam client doesn't support windows XP. HMM)

If Fallout3 has an issue, GoG would likely fix it. GoG are good guys, unlike Valve who don't actually check to see if anything on their webpage WORKS, they just sell it and tell the customers "Not our issue if it doesn't work, complain to the developer"


GoG forums are rather... just forums. Not where I would go for help, but perhaps where I'd go to talk about the game in a casual setting.

Of course, I really do like being able to delete messages or clean up my own forum history. All the social features of Steam are a major turn off for me. Hence using new accounts to make random posts like these.

New Guy

See what I mean, an obvious steam user who is toxically judging people based on the number of games owned, the number of steam events participated in, all that stuff that no one cares about.