Vainamoinen: Of course it's harmful; and of course "spamming" or "trolling" are too cute words for deliberately harmful actions. It's xenophobic political propaganda. This kind of relentless, purposeful dumbing-down of the political discourse was the reason the US now have a Trump. And we've seen there well enough that peddlers of an evasive instead of a confrontational strategy, the "ignore it and it'll go away" folks, could not have been more wrong. Of course, today these peddlers are crying "Had you ignored them, it wouldn't have turned out this bad". Suuuure.

The same kind of argument is going on in this forum, and evidently the new Community Manager has explicit orders from the higher ups to under no circumstances come to the very obvious conclusion that this sick shit had been against forum guidelines all along.

Remember your school bullies? Remember how your parents told you to "just ignore them and they won't hurt you"? Remember how that strategy turned out? It's a disaster. These conspiracy theories deserve to be confronted with facts, a whole lot of xenophobic attitudes on this forum deserve to be treated as wildly inacceptable and punishable by GOG officials, and far too many goglins have sadly chosen to try and avoid i.e. just live alongside these posts and threads as if they didn't exist, like some kind of background radiation — that will undoubtedly yank the perceived middle or 'balance' of any other discussion on here ever more deeply within the territory of blind hate, demonisation and dehumanisation.

"Just ignore them" was the strategy that brought the GOG forum to where it is now, and budejovice up there is unfortunately rather correct in his assessment. If I were a game developer, one look into the GOG forums would have scared me off establishing any kind of business ties forever.

Regals: I am offended

Emob78: It's amazing how intolerable I find your intolerance of intolerance. Now if only someone could post after me and find me even more intolerable.

Vainamoinen: If you can't understand that certain hateful communicative strategies and attitudes can overwhelm, pervade and eventually destroy a community – and are, for this reason, prohibited in many forums, just as they are prohibited in this one upon closer inspection – even though you've been a witness to exactly that process for a few years now, I don't actually find you intolerable as much as worthy of my pity.

Regals: Says tard called out more often than me as trolling and baiting.

Emob78: Is self deprecating humor still allowed?

Regals: To much information.

Vainamoinen: 99% of that is done by rwarehall, but he has troll tourettes sadly. And other kinds too, I tell ya.

How's it feel having driven a respected member off this forum, by the way? Is there some kind of a trollish pride involved? Because, seriously, I wouldn't know and whoooohoooo you do.

Vainamoinen: As long as you don't dehumanize yourself, sure, go ahead. I promise you, I have an eye on that. As soon as you start wildly screaming "SJW" at your mirror, I'll be there for you.

RWarehall:

Fairfox: Honest Lee, teh scammin' got too-much. Fo' sho' even I was scammed out of a gaem 'n' Imma, like, book-smart 'n' everything.

Fairfox: Weee-eeell, I mean... teh verrr end, obvs. Not teh other at all.

MaGo72: in my opinion Infowars is not that bad when you do look at the topic or presented fact alone, without paying attention to the ramblings and tantrums of Alex Jones or the other presenters around them. They do deliver topics which other "news" often do not touch.