Yep, that's about right.

Sadly some still see that red mark and think "this user likely is not worth talking to" by default.

There is...and many are too busy to use such or don't know how to use such, and new users likely wouldn't know to use such things.

They usually tie it to old posts(I noticed old users who did such had old posts/threads show their new names as well), and even if they didn't there are certain tells(in posting style) that are hard for me to change and would be big flags to those doing such on who to hit with low ratings.

If I could uprate this post twice just for this I would...+1.

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You are to be commended *salute*

Certainly that makes sense... Except when 2/3rds of all posts are 'low rated' and you read a couple and there's nothing wrong with them, you realize it's incorrect. Low/High rated should likely be 1 in 30 posts.

Some likely have that setting to hide low rated posts by others to hidden automatically, and might not even read the hidden ones for whatever reason...plus some likely don't want to reply to low rated users and attract the ire/eye of those doing such and get low rated themselves.

Wow, that's a lot of replies! I didn't expect this much in such a short time!

Ok, so let me get this straight. Certain people are being low rated, due to a "vendetta" or other post made years ago, and their posts may be hidden.

Also, I get that GOG staff is more focused on the store and Galaxy (which is great, btw), and don't have the resources or manpower to fix the forums.

Why, not solve the bot problem, or make the rep obsolete? In my opinion a lot of new users will go to the forums, and what if they get low rated on some stupid posts? This can create a bad image for GOG, as a toxic place, when it isn't.

I've joined recently and the community is great, generous and helpful. In my opinion it should stay that way, and GOG should either fix or upgrade the forums, as soon as possible.

I only want to talk about games, and not get into arguments over possible low rated posts.

Rep system abusers feel particularly threatened when they read threads about rep system abusers (like this one) so this thread is not representative of the whole. And in a similar fashion if you want to find mods just look at threads discussing mods. And if you missed it - they fired the last engaged moderator which I remember - some "Linko-sth" person for some PC reason. You can probably find it per Internet search. And some other useful "blue Linux person" left or was fired too.

IMO yes.

They have been doing this for a long time now. If you dont use Galaxy you always need to check if "offline installers" are up to date and complain to support if they are not.
They do - like (some) scientists care for their lab rats. See this thread: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/why_are_mods_locking_so_many_threads_because_of_offtopic_why_not_deleteedit_the_offending_posts
They let users believe it was ok to post there and then they shut it down for their own convenience.

You mean the serial key for multiplayer or something else?

Its more than that. They also down rate everyone in certain threads like this one.

IMO they better stay away from "fixing and upgrading" it like they did with the rest of the site... I used to look at the "News" section regularly but after the "upgrade" I almost never look at the front page. And nowadays if I want to click through images for some game I go to the Steam site - it actually works without having to wait several seconds per individual image to load. And that latest site "upgrade" killed GOG Mixes too.

The rep system abusers are unlikely to engage in arguments but rather engage in pressing that "-" button - either personally or per programmed bot or maybe they pay somebody or sth.

Yeah, the same thread I had to move offsite because it was ok for 4 months then they told me "oops, no it isn't....we made an exception in your case" and they locked it....after telling me once(when banned) that they couldn't make ANY exceptions to the rules.

They only downrated to remove the high rates from all people's posts....the ones they truly dislike got low rated until red marked.

They likely k*lled off mixes due to dev and ip holder complaints about mixes critical of certain companies.

Most of them won't admit even downrating one post because they know other's would do it back to them(not me, but others would, most likely).

I think its more general in that there were a lot of "negative list" GOG Mixes and they didnt like that. But the end result is the same whatever the reason/s.

At least we still got Games that treat GOG customers as 2nd Class v2

Actually, the rep is not important. The system is glitchy and open to all sorts of abuse. Half of my negative rep is because of some sort of bug (at least I hope it's a bug and not someone's hack of the forum) that lowers it 1 point per day (a year ago it was 2-3 points) regardless if I'm on the forum or not.

Also, as others pointed out, this forum (as pretty much all of the Internet nowdays) crawls with people who just like to downrep others to make themselves feel validated. The guy, who hosted giveaway you mentioned, in particular said many things that don't sit well with certain people's opinions and thus he is downrepped constantly.

Except, you know, when some game has something to do with politics or DRM.

I can't imagine why. *cough* Linko *cough*

Lol, I must have the same "bug" then...as mine goes down 5 per day even if i'm not here.

Also there is a glitch where if someone uprates a low rated post and that post doesn't go normal rated by that uprating, the person uprated will end up losing a point of rep.

As I've said, I'm not sure of anything. Except that it's far too easy to lose the rep on GOG forum over some relatively small issue.

Did you report this? Can they really not fix sth as simple as that?

I once asked them to fix a forum code bug that displayed stuff incorrectly once, and when I told them I use Chromium their reply wasn't "we will try to fix it for your browser", it was essentially "use another browser we do support"...even though chromium is essentially chrome with some changes.

Also I have asked them to fix the rep system and keep getting the "it's being talked about/nothing we can do" reply over and over.

At this point I don't think they care much about the forums and site for non-galaxy users.