Yeah, it's just a shame that GOG made him sound like a pompous ass by changing the topic title.

Or did you not realise that could happen when you change people's words?

yeah well you cant expect them to just sit on their ass all day :p

ah so much discussion about a word.

Can somebody add a feature request: 'Give escapist23 his ass back'?

I'm joking, but this affair has made me uneasy. I'm not going to rant about it or read too much into one single event, but I want to make one comment: What happened here was unGOGly.

I actually think most here conducted themselves rather well in this debate.

(BTW I also extend a warm handshake to OP....welcome to GOG. :)...)
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Cool to know.....I was mostly worried that Judas's action here was the "standard GOG policy" and/or that his actions were indicators of further edits to come on even more innocuous text by him & other staff. This is part of why I responded to it as I did.

It's good to hear that it was a mistake of a sort on his part and not the "official" GOG policy, at any rate.
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I agree it doesn't change much, and is a good policy(If used on the right people, and in the right instances.) but when staff mete out such actions/"punishments" in the wrong instances it makes the other users here think that such instances were justified/due to GOG policy being enforced in earnest. This then leads to people wondering why such actions happened in the first place, and/or questioning said actions(And getting upset if an action done by staff seemed to have been unfair in some way.)

And THIS is why I suggest we have GOG staff training camps every summer, ala football practice, to help new staff learn the ropes. It'll be a brutal two weeks in the mud and sticky heat, but it'll be worth it. :)
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The censorship bit is changing the title words, not in the act of asking the OPs/posters to refrain from certain actions.

http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/site/give_escapist23_his_ass_back

Voted:D

Tits are banned?

Impossible, a lot of the guys here have them

There is a huge difference between a polite request, and enforcing compliance with said request.. where the forced compliance severely undermines the politeness of it.

Kind of like a mugger trying to claim you willingly complied to his polite request for your valuables and that the loaded gun he was waving in your face was irrelevant.

Would you kindly revert this topic back to its original wording?

Do ho ho.....

mm, but it makes sense that gog as a company must minimise the risk of offending its customers as much as possible - this forum is part of their shop after all. they have to try to go for the lowest common denominator.

Ew! Thanks a lot for that image.

That actually is a classic law problem. It doesn't change the legal outcome in the slightest, but books have been written about it. Ah law, I love it ....

As Mr Bumble says in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, the law is an CENSORED BY GOG.COM

Ah yes, Dickens:

"Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard. [...]The learned profession of the law was certainly not behind any other learned profession in its Bacchanalian propensities"

Still valid for today!