ZFR: You really shouldn't take it personally. No one is voting you because they personally don't like you or your style; quite the opposite: you get much more leniency "That's just GR and it's his usual style - not alignment indicative". Had it been anyone else they'd have been lynched pretty much immediately.
I was actually talking not so much about that, but about the few comments(by one player) about my play style that seemed to be fully or mostly criticism of such....although looking back it seems it was likely just that user's way of playing and I took it too much to heart/too personally, so sorry for that.
(I just wish that one user could've maybe given me a few kind words on my play style now and then, is all)
ZFR: This community is very casual. A lot of things that would be an immediate policy lynch on other sites are overlooked here. Calling them '"by the book" town gotta "by the book"' is unfair to the people here.
Clarification: That was actually a side issue and not tied to the main issue(listed above).
Still, point taken. I was a bit grumpy at the time, and could've expressed my stances and feelings on the matter a bit better. So apologies all around, everyone.
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JoeSapphire: They've learned from past experience that starting off conversation on topics such as government policy, international relations, race and gender issues, human rights, tends to ignite inflammatory and distressing dialogue which is difficult to contain once it's started. So it's a 'ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure' type thing.
To be fair, I believe that policy went into effect back when we had no community moderators and less forum moderation staff to handle such things. Also from what i've heard the forum was much busier at that time and thus would have been much harder to moderate.
It is more likely they could handle such now(especially if contained to one forum section or even one thread), but with GOG being slow to move(if at all) or unwilling to change much, the chances of change on that front are rather unlikely I am guessing.