LeonardoCornejo: *worrisomeness*

noncompliantgame: I don't really know the story behind all of this. All things being equal (or not) I was under the impression that deletion is for the usual reasons. Extremely offensive and insulting material, libel, copyright violations, spam, posting links to porn etc. Obviously the both of you have a very different take on events?

zeogold: Opinions are fine, so long as you're not name-calling/threatening/otherwise abusing somebody.

LeonardoCornejo: You know. I noticed something that worried me. The terms and conditions regarding the forum states that we are not allowed to post "sexist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, or otherwise inflamatory" remarks. Well, that is by itself not a rela reason of worry. But there are persons who belive, citing Anita Sarkeesian, that "Everything is sexist, everything is racist, everything is homophobic, and you got to point it all out." And that means something terrible. If anyone with that mentality would become a moderator in GOG forums it would lead to censorship and this place would become a new NeoGAF. Fortunatelly it seems the current mods are quite relaxed and don't seem to make a big deal over anything at all.

zeogold: Opinions are fine, so long as you're not name-calling/threatening/otherwise abusing somebody.

Aha, see what I meant? My rep just dropped by about 6 points, as did tinyE's. The dude and his bots just randomly downvote our posts every so often in an attempt to "punish" us somehow, or in hopes of putting us in the negative like they did pimpmonkey and try to convince people that these guys are untrustworthy (most folks usually don't fall for this unless they're new). If you see somebody's tagline say "-300 club!" or something similar, typically it means that they frequently call out scammers and have lost 300 or more rep points as a result.
Sachys and tinyE are among the best of the "watchdogs" of the forum from what I've seen, and I'm assuming pimpmonkey must be as well in order to lose that much rep. Me, I'm probably the calmest and stupidest of the bunch, a trollbaiter who simply can't resist engaging them in....eheheh...light conversation.

Klumpen0815: In this day and age, opinions seem to be the worst things you can have, if they aren't canon.
Outright harrassment often gets punished less (=is more likely to be just ignored) than politely stated opinions.
I'd probably have about 1400 rep by now if this wasn't the case and if we'd get new mods, real discussions probably wouldn't be happening anymore at all thanks to the phasing outrage culture.

Try it! Go into threads and just say "I think that Islam and neo-feminism are problematic" (with or without further reasoning, doesn't make any difference) and boy, you're in for a treat.

noncompliantgame: They make those things very broad and general and open to interpretation just for that reason. So if at some point it becomes expedient to "clean up" a given thread or forum they can just go right ahead and vacuum up all the "undesirables".

noncompliantgame: I've been a GOG member for almost 3 1/2 years and a (semi-)regular here on the forums for about 1 1/2 - 2 years and I didn't know that. But I don't really participate in give aways or trades or competitions etc and I tend to skim threads rather than go into depth so there's prolly a lot I've missed. :^/

To be fair, it works in reverse too.That is if you say "some of my best friends are Muslims" or unleash a pro-neofem diatribe you're likely to get dog piled too.

zeogold: Opinions are fine, so long as you're not name-calling/threatening/otherwise abusing somebody.

Aha, see what I meant? My rep just dropped by about 6 points, as did tinyE's. The dude and his bots just randomly downvote our posts every so often in an attempt to "punish" us somehow, or in hopes of putting us in the negative like they did pimpmonkey and try to convince people that these guys are untrustworthy (most folks usually don't fall for this unless they're new). If you see somebody's tagline say "-300 club!" or something similar, typically it means that they frequently call out scammers and have lost 300 or more rep points as a result.
Sachys and tinyE are among the best of the "watchdogs" of the forum from what I've seen, and I'm assuming pimpmonkey must be as well in order to lose that much rep. Me, I'm probably the calmest and stupidest of the bunch, a trollbaiter who simply can't resist engaging them in....eheheh...light conversation.

tinyE: swatkat is on line. Feel free to pm the shit out of him and let him know how much we appreciate his efforts. :P

Klumpen0815: Try it! Go into threads and just say "I think that Islam and neo-feminism are problematic" (with or without further reasoning, doesn't make any difference) and boy, you're in for a treat.

Breja: Yes! Open some thread that has nothing to do with the subject and try to cause a flamewar, and then be surprised people think you're a troll. Bunch of censorship happy nazis!

noncompliantgame: To be fair, it works in reverse too.That is if you say "some of my best friends are Muslims" or unleash a pro-neofem diatribe you're likely to get dog piled too.

Klumpen0815: I wasn't talking about off-topic.

Yep, that's true and talking positively about vegetarianism or veganism does the same job too.