Can you please check your rep again? Because I upvoted some of your posts. Does that have any immediate effect?

If this issue is related to spammers, it would seem to me to be a rather easy fix. Instead of blocking accounts with a zero or below "reputation" just block those with with a "reputation" of EXACTLY 0. This would block new accounts but not block those long time customers who fell victim to all that downvoting.

Nah -110... this will take a while.

Yea, gog should just "fix" the issue.

Speaking of taking a while, with a "reputation" of -110, it would take 111 days to get it to positive if you posted a once a day and nothing else. ("reputation" goes up by one every day you make a post here, I think).

"Should"...

Actually i may care lesser than the users trying to check the links...

Okay that didn't work out so great... Then I suggest you ask a blue one for a reputation reset.
As OldFatGuy explained, negative rep doesn't make sense anymore anyways.

voted +

oops, never mind, my mistake.

Oh, downvoting is possible, just that they hid the button instead of removing the code entirely. Even a simple # negativereputation.js would have done more work than they didn't manage. (By literally commenting it out of the code.)

Ok, what does that mean exactly? That some shady bots are still able to vote me down somehow?

There is probably even some AI bot around somewhere, able to automatically vote down random or picked users all the time... funny idea and it could even be true. I think, the creators are having a fun time using it.

Yet, the forum has been spammed by bots all the time, but Virustotal got in mind "everything clean"... thats how you can even fool a lake of scanners.

In lay terms: Imagine a doorbell someone can ring by applying current to the wire stub that they didn't even tape over or clip.

OK, but who got the required power-current? It is clear to me that it can malfunction by a forum working unstable by near endless possible odds... so it simply is glitchy and even some bots can maybe activate it.

The other matter, the game who apparently got a duplicated wrong file entry: I dont know is it right or wrong, in very rare cases they produce a weird unusual thing. So i still do not know if i should inform someone responsible about this possible error.

I will just make 2 separate installs...one to the backup drive and one to the gamer drive, but this workaround is as well "more than weird". Of course the OS can not work with 2 of the exact same installs, so i simply have to overwrite the old path to the new path.

I had around 4 TB of backed up games, there is not any other game with this issue.