icarus_improviser: I come from steam, and I am thinking of switching to GOG for they have a more attractive service.

icarus_improviser: I come from steam, and I am thinking of switching to GOG for they have a more attractive service.

one thing that has always annoyed me on steam is the abusive forum managers, and the lack of initiative/care from steam to do anything about it, I will point out the problems I see there and would like to know if they repeat over here.

1.you can get banned/perma banned for any or no reason, and the only way to dispute it is to send an email to the game's dev companies, which mostly doesn't care/is afraid to worsen their relations with their forum managers, so they don't do anything, and you have to cower yourself before empowering admins, which is very, very obnoxious.

2.when a thread gets deleted steam doesn't say what was deleted, you will receive a new message(or not), and when you see the message's panel, there is a link saying "this item has been removed/deleted", but it doesn't say what was deleted, many important threads warning of a game's possible crappiness, or about distressing actions made by shady companies, or just plain exposing admin abuse gets deleted by scummy devs/admins without warning/reason, how is that managed here?

3.can we slur like a sailor with broken legs?

4.are the admin's good judges of an ongoing dispute(argumental or not) in a thread?as being emotionally detached from the dispute, being impartial, being patient, not being enraged by silly provocations etc... I consider this important when you are a forum judge, how is that executed here?

5.is the quoting system in a thread a clusterfuck here like it is on steam?When you have to reply to many people on the steam forums, it just becomes such a mess, how is that feature executed here?

6. do the game developers have the ability to mass flag review here?that happens on steam sometimes, I am curious if that happens here as well.

that's it, thank you in advance!

icarus_improviser: I come from steam, and I am thinking of switching to GOG for they have a more attractive service.

one thing that has always annoyed me on steam is the abusive forum managers, and the lack of initiative/care from steam to do anything about it, I will point out the problems I see there and would like to know if they repeat over here.

1.you can get banned/perma banned for any or no reason, and the only way to dispute it is to send an email to the game's dev companies, which mostly doesn't care/is afraid to worsen their relations with their forum managers, so they don't do anything, and you have to cower yourself before empowering admins, which is very, very obnoxious.

2.when a thread gets deleted steam doesn't say what was deleted, you will receive a new message(or not), and when you see the message's panel, there is a link saying "this item has been removed/deleted", but it doesn't say what was deleted, many important threads warning of a game's possible crappiness, or about distressing actions made by shady companies, or just plain exposing admin abuse gets deleted by scummy devs/admins without warning/reason, how is that managed here?

3.can we slur like a sailor with broken legs?

4.are the admin's good judges of an ongoing dispute(argumental or not) in a thread?as being emotionally detached from the dispute, being impartial, being patient, not being enraged by silly provocations etc... I consider this important when you are a forum judge, how is that executed here?

5.is the quoting system in a thread a clusterfuck here like it is on steam?When you have to reply to many people on the steam forums, it just becomes such a mess, how is that feature executed here?

6. do the game developers have the ability to mass flag review here?that happens on steam sometimes, I am curious if that happens here as well.

that's it, thank you in advance!

kohlrak: They only ever show up if you're really, really unlucky. If there are rules, i've long forgotten what they are since they aren't enforced.

timppu: Well, talking about and promoting piracy is one thing that may get your messages removed or a thread locked, and in general if some (political) discussion gets far too heated.

Anyway, I was even accused of making an indirect death threat, yet I got away with it! Unbelievable! You just need to be sneaky about them, like saying "I hope you die of an old age!".

icarus_improviser: 1.you can get banned/perma banned for any or no reason

icarus_improviser: 2.when a thread gets deleted steam doesn't say what was deleted
[...]
how is that managed here?

icarus_improviser: 3.can we slur like a sailor with broken legs?

icarus_improviser: 4.are the admin's good judges of an ongoing dispute(argumental or not) in a thread?

icarus_improviser: 5.is the quoting system in a thread a clusterfuck here like it is on steam?When you have to reply to many people on the steam forums, it just becomes such a mess, how is that feature executed here?

icarus_improviser: 6. do the game developers have the ability to mass flag review here?that happens on steam sometimes, I am curious if that happens here as well.

icarus_improviser: that's it, thank you in advance!

tinyE: I've been banned three times for swearing

Telika: I'd say the old and/or regular users are also curious about how the forums are managed. Good luck investigating that.

Seriously, the answer would be : discreetely. At the expense of exemplarity, you never really know what is, has been, isn't being moderated, who got or didn't get chastized for what, who got a temp ban or not. We're sometimes told to not assume anything. And to not "self-moderate" the forums (to not react to abject pieces of neonazi propaganda, for instance, or to let various minorities getting singled out and deshumanized in the forum). But given the much worse shape of the forums some months ago, before the arrival of the now (sadly) gone moderator, I'd say that stuff do happen. Silently. Discreetely. Nobody knows what or how.

real.geizterfahr: Not even kleetus or KiNgBrOkEnKeYbOaRdBrAdLeY managed to get banned.