Why would someone go through a thread and systematically low-vote every post? Very strange.

is it? Well the rules made to be bendable into whatever they want

Very few people do. The people doing it are using userscripts in their browsers. It's alot easier: you simply target a thread or a user, and bam it does all the work for you.
Yeah, it was the excuse for my first ban. Someone asked me to mention they got banned, and then i got a ban for "questioning mod actions" or something like that. Of course, i did more in the reply, but it was specifically the questioning that got me a ban. Of course, this just causes me to refer to the blues as Karens, because the analogy fits: A series of rules that are impractical, they go with "society" to a tee, they break their own rules, and you're not to question their authority. There's a few other things, as well, but i think that's plenty to see where it's going. And i've recently been informed that the mod staff is entirely female, too, which is unintentional, but just adds more fuel to those flames. Of course the one thing you should be able to do publicly, if you're going to censor anything and still expect respect, is question moderation. That mentality that you can't question moderation manages to be even more impractical than the no-politcs rule, and i've gone on numerous times about why that rule is impractical.

That's how, but I'm wondering why? What could they possibly have to gain except perhaps trying to break the rep system.

The worst part of the drama surrounding this, is the harsment and threats thrown at people playing Activision-Blizzard games on Tube and Twitch. They now have to defend and justitify themselves, for simply enjoying a game.

In the ulttra bizzare world of the modern moral mob, playing the games makes you just as bad as the alleged offenders at the company. That's the level of intellect this mob has.

The mob can be as upset with the company as they want, it's their choice to be that kind of people, but don't go after the players, that's monstrously disgusting. They are simply playing a game they enjoy, which should not have to be justified to anyone, something that used to be common sense.

This thread is a v. good example of why the forum rep system here is completely ridiculous.

This forum has attracted its fair share of "special" (read: mentally ill) characters over the years. We've had doxxings and nutjobs who kept pdf dossiers on users they disliked. Mass-downrepping via script ranks comparatively low on the lunacy scale.

Yes, it doesn't reward helpful comments, it rewards "saying things that others want to hear", a popularity contest.

Since when? It's innocent if I support them and guilty if I don't. If the courts decide the wrong way, then the trial was rigged.The whole point of public trials is to provide entertainment to the public and allow us to send threatening letters to the defendant and the plaintiff. After all, if the law was actually about justice then the public would never be informed ab out these affairs until guilt / innocence was actually established.

To them, they're not breaking it. They think they're using it appropriately, but with cheat codes. It's powre. Once you go below 0, links are herd to use and you stop showing up normally to people. In way, they're actually using it as intended. Supposedly this was to allow the forums to self-moderate. Surprise, 1 that doesn't work 'cause no on respects rep, and 2 that doesn't work 'cause abusive people will abuse it. You know, the same people whom you should be banning. The challenge is, the people whom they should be banning are the ones they like having at GOG the most. In other words, the mods would likely be abusing it if they weren't mods. This being the challenge of power: those who are anxious to have it are usually anxious to wield it and that's now who we want to have it.

It's not even a mob. They're the majority. But, you see, this is what happened when gamers retreated to games: it drew games as the line in the sand, which meant games were the new battlefield. Power seekers don't leave you alone when you retreat, they just progress further into your territory.

A few people pointed out the certain people who do this stuff tend to do it when their team looks bad. Which means our counter-arguments about how activision likely won't loose this case has gotten to them.

Except it's not: because the people doing this are using alts, not actually high in number. It works the other way, too. Look for posts that are uprated for no reason, users with high rep in a short account life (apparently people tell me it only goes up or down by 5 a day at max, so start looking to see who was able to get close to that average most of the time) and you'll have a rough idea, 'cause some people could actually be earning that attention, but we do know how likely that really is. You'll definitely start seeing a pattern.

Well, we were supposed to have transparency with all this which would've shown otherwise. Transparency allows us to see for ourselves what was or wasn't wrong. The problem is, we're at the point in tmie where people believe that 4 cops in broad daylight, with witnesses, in a city, strangled a black man to death, rather than drugs in his system. Even worse, You have "experts" (and i mean professionals, not keyboard warrirors) on both sides of the argument who all saw the same evidence and came to opposite conclusions. Society has broken down.

Here's another example, society belives that abuse of children is wrong, but we're not allowed to srutinize the institution that has demonstrated the greatest sexual and physical abuse of children in any country: public education. Healthcare is really important, we need a single payer system incase someone needs surgery, like to remove cancer, that is until a pandemic comes along and for about a year there was no healthcare system for anyone with cancer, kidney disease (except for people in nursing homes, which surprisingly aspread the disease), etc. And about that pandemic, keeping that disease away from people is of utmost emportance, as long as we don't look racist for blocking travel from China and no other asian country. Hey, while we're at it, politics is bad in gming, until we partner with the companies selling the game, then only criticizing the game is bad. Oh, and here's one that pokes at this case quite obviously, so I can actually be semi-on-topic at this point: racism is bad, unless we're going after "white men."

Why do you say that or did you quote the wrong person?

No, i didn't say anything, i was asking if the corruption supporters here made you feel more at home. I noticed the people least likely to see corruption authority figures are themselves corrupt. And GOG staff has certainly demonstrated corruption. Or, i don't know, maybe you've been away for a while and forgot what it's like, here with the rep, the authoritarians, etc.

Just wanted to point out: I notice that you and others keep saying this re this case......as if it means anything.....and as if the state of California(and other states) can't(and don't) ever put on "circus events" in the guise of trials.

But that's exactly what this is....except in this case the state is handling the case.

Decent good people have gotten accused of this sort of stuff all the time on social media and in court over the last few decades....where have you been?

For starters: some of them likely do it to give a "stigma" to those they dislike/disagree with(as some won't have anything to do with those who are low rated and/or have negative rep), while giving themselves a more virtuous/good appearance(as some associate high rep with a good/wise user).

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Reminds me of how I heard some tell me awhile back that others had shared dossiers on me(all false info and stretched truths, from what I heard)with them. Didn't know some were/are using PDFs, though.....that just makes it even more silly/lulzy/sad, tbh.