I'm not the one clamoring for strict speech standards. That was a reply to a rude person who has been rude to multiple people in multiple threads, literally while at the same time telling people they should behave. Very ironic. You would think that the authoritarian crybullies who demand more and more oppressive speech standards would hold themselves to a higher standards, but nearly universally the opposite appears to be the case. Instead they are the most quick to insult, the most passive-aggressive, the most smug and most gaslighting people in any community.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

When the sarcasm has more intelligence than the wit.

Which one just curious. Also I should point out the reason I was pointing out all the rule violations was highlight how difficult it is to follow the rules as written. We've all broken the rules at some point; which is why the risk of losing games should concern us all. Only a fool thinks they can use the forums without breaking any rules.

I thought you have at least read the current forum rules now. This small example shows what kind of user you are though.

I've not broken any rules since I was last warned 2-3 years ago and even then, it was my judgement to go into a thread that devolved into quasi-politics.

It's not hard to follow rules unless you've got Antarctica temperature IQ.

Dude aren't you going around advocating for free speech. Aren't see on the same side?
Yeah right, mr perfect.

The commandments are rules easy to understand, hard to obey, and seemingly impossible to keep. CoC and ToS are complex sets of rules, not clearly defined, and thus easy to violate. That's why I would argue that even members with an above average or very high IQ can slip up and take a fall on those rules. ;-)

Is there any real proof that people are really using scripts? Or is it simply a case where you've basically got the same 3-4 overly-vocal people going "full on" with this across multiple threads (count their posts and they almost outnumber everyone else's combined) who don't want to admit constant political views ("North Korea", "1st Amendment should apply to Polish companies", etc) and over the top paranoia aren't as popular as they want to believe and are blaming 'script downvoting' as a coping mechanism?...

Quite honestly everything that needed to be said has been said:-

1. GOG changed some things but they always had the ability to ban accounts no different to Steam (see TinyE's temporary ban on the OLD ToS)

2. No store in its right mind is going to put itself out of business by wiping the accounts of half its customers on every triviality and losing trust in the other half via bad press, you'd REALLY have to 'work hard' to get your whole account banned here. Chill out, just use the forum normally and there is no problem. The rest is manufactured paranoia vs common sense.

3. Out of all the stores that have the same "Cover Your Ass" EULA disclaimers (which is all of them), GOG is still the most user friendly in letting you backup your games offline. If you can spend +200 hrs in the forum arguing over 'not having the time' to backup your games, then you have enough spare time to start backing up your games...

Oh yes, thank you for reminding me of the other possibility:
other gog shil.....defenders uprating their fellow gog defender's posts every time they see one
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Agreed on the first bit: a company like Gog wouldn't be that stupid
As for the bit about working hard: you seem to forget/be unaware that mod actions here are treated as cumulative....this means that you could've had mod actions in the distant past, cleaned up your act for awhile, and then still get a mod action down the line that could get you 'let go' permanently.

Well said and agree 100%

It is as I said before. It is very clear now what kind of user you are.

And for the other user here we have to search deep in Mr. Krabs wallet to find the answer why they are so vocal in these threads.

You've got your answer up there. He was banned before for bad behaviour and doesn't want to lose his games because he can't regulate his own behaviour after multiple warnings. Even I can do this and I'm dumber than a sack of bricks. Of course, that doesn't sound good, so we have romantic arguments of rule ambiguity, censorship, American first amendments, pushing a woke agenda, etc.

They will not ban on ambiguity and they will clearly take action if it's absolutely explicit and repetitive behaviour. I can't wait to be proven right. Of course it won't mean anything because these people who unfairly criticize GOG will conveniently ignore this ruckus they've raised for the past 3 weeks and will jump on something else to unfairly criticize GOG about - moving goalposts. And then the cycle repeats.

The best way to deal with this is to let them complain because when Feb 17 hits and they're still moaning about the rules here, they'll automatically confirm their agreement to the new terms of service. If anyone here was serious about leaving GOG because of this, they'll either have finished backing up their games or wise up, realize they're not forced to use the general discussion forums here, and stay quiet to keep their games.

As for me, I'm convinced many of the criticizers are not worth wasting my time. So I won't be participating in these polarizing topics anymore since no one is set on changing their minds anyway.

Aaaaaand what kind of user is that, mr private profile with no avatar who joined in 2021
Another user with a private profile and a recent join date. Anyway, the rules as they are written may not even be legal is most western countries. But you're right that I'll keep complaining it, got Hitman off the store it may just this off as well. You are quite naive if you honestly think rules like this won't affect you as well.

I see. You continue with this nonsense.

As I said in the other thread I removed my avatar and my forum title.