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Posted November 12, 2018
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Fonzer: So deleted account means he is fired fully? I don't see anywhere that would confirm him being fired for real, he could be on another position but i am doing all the same everyone does now without official confirmination, i am just assuming it.
The journalist claims to have a source inside GoG who confirmed it. The deleted account was not confirmation of it.
Posted November 12, 2018
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HereForTheBeer: A person isn't entitled to their privacy?

Let it go. If he wants it known, he'll put it out there. Until then, let's respect the privacy.

Edited out irrelevant statement.
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Fenixblade33: This is about his relation to GoG's community. Yes, when something happens to an employee who usually handles public affairs, its not wrong to expect *some* kind of answer instead of literally nothing. We don't know any circumstances of the situation whatsoever besides what people can piece together, and what people can piece together is not positive.
Clearly we disagree on this, and I will nearly always choose the side of privacy in cases likes this. I don't feel the desire for information outweighs his desire to talk about it on his own terms. I would want the same thing were I in that situation.
Posted November 12, 2018
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Fenixblade33: This is about his relation to GoG's community. Yes, when something happens to an employee who usually handles public affairs, its not wrong to expect *some* kind of answer instead of literally nothing. We don't know any circumstances of the situation whatsoever besides what people can piece together, and what people can piece together is not positive.
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HereForTheBeer: Clearly we disagree on this, and I will nearly always choose the side of privacy in cases likes this. I don't feel the desire for information outweighs his desire to talk about it on his own terms. I would want the same thing were I in that situation.
Except nobody knows his situation or what he wants to do. Silence is not an answer and leads to many assumptions, and given the highly unusual circumstances of his situation, silence is not proof that he *wants* to be silent. The very least GoG could do is give a PR statement or something, in my opinion. Linko was important enough to the community that it deserves some kind of answer. Maybe not referring to his employment status if they didn't want to give out information like that (though I personally believe they should), but at the very least they could say something like
"Hello, we are aware many of our forumgoers have concerns about one of our moderators and community managers, Linko90,
While we understand your desires to know more about the situation, to respect his privacy and maintain fairness and confidentiality of all GoG employees we cannot give out any information about his current situation or status with GoG. We apologize and hope you understand,
Thank you"
Would've at least been *something*. That's the bare minimum, in my opinion.
Post edited November 12, 2018 by Fenixblade33
Posted November 12, 2018
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Fenixblade33: I really hope this isn't true and that he's just taking a break or hiatus.
I've been working on the assumption he was fired ever since said event, I don't particularly need proof.

Assuming it is true, I don't understand why them firing him is particularly scandalous. While I feel bad for the guy, he repeatedly portrayed GOG in a bad light on social media, which is literally the opposite of what a PR person is meant to do. GOG not making a statement is also nothing unusual.
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Minuteworld: if they keep going down this path, they can say goodbye too my money. i like drm free but if they go woke, I'll buy exclusivley on steam.
You prefer your game companies sleepy?
Post edited November 12, 2018 by SirPrimalform
Posted November 12, 2018
So if Linko is fired( don't reply to me telling that he is fired i get it now) i kinda dissagree with that since the tweet was deleted fast and was seen as something bad. I heard only 1 minute the tweet existed somebody screenshoted it and they couldn't stop doing what they did which made the position worse for everyone where there didn't need to be any outrage anymore because of deletion, even though there was a previous twitter post before but this one got deleted fast. You have seen what happened to the forums after he was gone. Many trolls appeared and you know what was posted.
Anyway i will still keep buying games here since i am more here for games since they are drm-free and i hardly have any good choices for other stores and games on this old pc. Soon it will be the only choice due to steam not working anymore until i get a better pc with supported os.
Posted November 12, 2018
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tremere110: When it comes to Linko90, GoG seems to be deleting anything resembling proof - I expect this thread to disappear.
It's not likely GOG deleting anything. They don't often delete threads.
Posted November 12, 2018
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Linko confirmed to be fired from cannon.
Posted November 12, 2018
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HereForTheBeer: Clearly we disagree on this, and I will nearly always choose the side of privacy in cases likes this. I don't feel the desire for information outweighs his desire to talk about it on his own terms. I would want the same thing were I in that situation.
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Fenixblade33: but at the very least they could say something like

"Hello, we are aware many of our forumgoers have concerns about one of our moderators and community managers, Linko90,
While we understand your desires to know more about the situation, to respect his privacy and maintain fairness and confidentiality of all GoG employees we cannot give out any information about his current situation or status with GoG. We apologize and hope you understand,
Thank you"
Just go with what you wrote, because that's pretty much the case: to respect privacy, fairness, and confidentiality, nobody is talking. Whether or not Linko says anything eventually, that's up to him. I don't think they took him out back and shot him, so I'm sure he'll land on his feet a little bit wiser from the experience.

Meanwhile, there are 2,000+ games in the catalog to market, sell, and support. gOg are probably concentrating on that, and putting the other matter behind them. Dwelling on it does nothing to further the goals of the store.
Posted November 12, 2018
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HereForTheBeer: Clearly we disagree on this, and I will nearly always choose the side of privacy in cases likes this. I don't feel the desire for information outweighs his desire to talk about it on his own terms. I would want the same thing were I in that situation.
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Fenixblade33: Except nobody knows his situation or what he wants to do. Silence is not an answer and leads to many assumptions, and given the highly unusual circumstances of his situation, silence is not proof that he *wants* to be silent. The very least GoG could do is give a PR statement or something, in my opinion. Linko was important enough to the community that it deserves some kind of answer. Maybe not referring to his employment status if they didn't want to give out information like that (though I personally believe they should), but at the very least they could say something like
"Hello, we are aware many of our forumgoers have concerns about one of our moderators and community managers, Linko90,
While we understand your desires to know more about the situation, to respect his privacy and maintain fairness and confidentiality of all GoG employees we cannot give out any information about his current situation or status with GoG. We apologize and hope you understand,
Thank you"
Would've at least been *something*. That's the bare minimum, in my opinion.
And you'd feel the same way if he'd been fired for insensitive tweets about Trump and game "journalism" tended to be Republican?
Posted November 12, 2018
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Posted November 12, 2018
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richlind33: And you'd feel the same way if he'd been fired for insensitive tweets about Trump and game "journalism" tended to be Republican?
It's funny, no one gave a shit when Ceris (I think that was her username) or fables just disappeared off the forum, so to say it's just because a GOG community manager has disappeared is clearly bullshit.

The fact is Linko made some bad tweets and may (we don't even know for certain) have been fired for it, if not he presumably resigned because of the response he received.
Either way he brought it on himself through his own actions. Whether his tweets (and there were more than one with the same 'target') were intended to be offensive or just misjudged we'll probably never know but after causing a number of negative PR situations for GOG there really was no other way it was going to go.
Posted November 12, 2018
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adaliabooks: It's funny, no one gave a shit when Ceris (I think that was her username) or fables just disappeared off the forum, so to say it's just because a GOG community manager has disappeared is clearly bullshit.
To be honest, it was rather obvious why Fables left. I mean GoG made her deliver the news about mandatory Galaxy bundling and it was poorly received (understatement I know). She was crucified and she didn't deserve it. That said, GoG should have known how badly that would have gone.
Posted November 12, 2018
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adaliabooks: It's funny, no one gave a shit when Ceris (I think that was her username) or fables just disappeared off the forum, so to say it's just because a GOG community manager has disappeared is clearly bullshit.
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tremere110: To be honest, it was rather obvious why Fables left. I mean GoG made her deliver the news about mandatory Galaxy bundling and it was poorly received (understatement I know). She was crucified and she didn't deserve it. That said, GoG should have known how badly that would have gone.
I don't think it was any more obvious then what's happened now.
But no one cared then because it couldn't be used to further anyone's agenda, which is the only reason all of these posts are suddenly popping up now.
Posted November 12, 2018
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adaliabooks: Either way he brought it on himself through his own actions.
He certainly didn't deserve doxxing. He wasn't a shady politician or criminal, he didn't deserve to get harassed by a worthless mob. And that's coming from someone who had "differences" with him.
Posted November 12, 2018
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adaliabooks: or fables just disappeared off the forum
People did question about fables. But difference being it wasn't such on a scale as fable didn't get as big of a media output as this has.

We still don't know what happened to fables. And we will never know, neither will we know about Linko. But people are questioning more about Linko due to the Twitter choices made by GOG surrounding Linko's dissapearence.
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