To expand on
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/attention_please_updated_forum_rules/post387 :
lazydog: Let us hope so. However, If Fables gets enough complaints every time rtcvb32 deems it fit to use this thread as a link drop then there is a serious question to be raised- namely are forum rules being broken.
The very hypocritical forum rules
are being broken, the question is not there. This thread is a collection of "knowingly false" statements from the very outlets that the notion of "fake news" is defined around. And hate speech is the underlying discourse tying it all together (at least, the creep was asked to remove a too explicit metaphorical poem which, in context, was designing muslims/arabs/refugees as obvious "snakes" which very nature is to eventually murder those who show humanity and compassion to them, letting them near despite the fact that, hey, they're snakes, what would you expect lolz). So, yes, falsehood with a straightforward racist agenda. A whole thread of it. Taken seriously, the rules would forbid it.
But, and that's my own way of seeing it I suppose, I disagree with the idea of harrassing the gog staff about it. Pointing it out, bringing attention to it, sure. We all do that, thinking we're the only one. Beyond this, it's redundant. This thread, deemed as acceptable by the staff, defines the place whether it is present or removed solely under mob pressure. What is interesting is merely to see what the gog staff spontaneously means, in practice (in its application), with this vague "code of conduct". And the answer is "infowars, alex jones, etc? perfectly okay, guys - we see no hate speech here, no deliberate falsehood". You will not change their perspective by bending their arm. Even if, through whatever symbolic violence (spamming, report-spanning, boycotting, whatever) you did manage to have this thread closed, you'd be having it closed
against their own original will. In my eyes, it's pointless. In terms of extreme-right propaganda, this thread is one tiny outlet amongst many major ones, its closure wouldn't make a dent. The only stake here is what their forums management say of gog's standards.
Whine collectively until it's closed, if you want. Even if it got closed, you wouldn't change the fact that
it would have taken collective whining. If that's what it takes, then, truly, this place is worthless anyway. I don't see what sort of temporary satisfaction you'd get out of it. Again, you wouldn't have changed the staff's opinions, you wouldn't have re-defined the place. It's defined by its owners, not by you, no matter potential surface impacts. As you people say to those who complain about the idea of moderation : this is not a public zone, this is not a country. The choice is to peruse it or not. It's not about voting to shape it.
Also even if it's a mere lack of intelligence on gog's side, be amused to see the staff policies here, along with this thread, strongly supported by Tauto and Kleetus, whose exclusive full time activity on the forums had openly been to turn every different aspect of the forums to shit, through relentless disruption, playful bad faith and general trolling. The fact that their predictability doesn't work as an alarming compass for the staff is objectively funny, and you have to concede this to them. I suggest we all enjoy the gag in common, but also accept the implications about this place. Adjust your expectations, instead of freaking out in denial, trying to "force" gog to match them. There's nothing to win, here.
In short : You're in a shop/forum that considers this thread okay. End of line. No reluctant paint job would alter this underlying reality.