What hard questions?

Zorg? Is that you?

I'm bummed out by the trigger-happiness of the downvoters.
It's kind of hard to figure out what exactly Tarm is saying in his OP, but I think that whatever it is, downvoting it kind of proves the point in it.

/edit: Mysteries of youth. It's not downvoted anymore. Perchance I'm just tripping on this date cake.

I'm too lazy to downvote anyone :P

Tarm joined a long time ago, think he is just playing the fool with us.

Tarm, in all honesty this seems like a troll bait thread; not sure if it's intentional or not, but that's the vibe I get from it. Now, in one community I'm a member of you'd get a warning after the 5-6th post, because there's no content and have your thread closed, in another it would be let to go on and on until it dies off because of the lack of attention.

Thing is, why don't you start one of those threads? I mean, this clearly isn't one of them, because the premise isn't a good one. If you want to make us be jerks and jump at your throat you need to start something more controversial, perhaps a Steam related thread? Or how new games are better in every way than old ones? Or that story doesn't really matter in a game? You know, stuff like that.

Or join IRC, we're more than happy to give people a smack-down there.

But isn't that what agitators do? Talk about things they know will be unpopular and likely get them downvoted?

The OP says something similar with how the people here are somehow pushing the agitators away. But if a bunch of fairly well mannered people downvoting a few posts is enough to scare these people off then I have to say they make very poor agitators.

I'll just disregard the earlier posts I haven't answered yet and say you're partly right.
I just got sick off all the talk about how great the GOG forum and community is while I think it isn't any more so I thought I'd make a post for people to think about it. Everyone got defensive so it turned out that I might have been playing the fool with you. Or not.

I think there are enough crap holes on the internet, don't see why this one has to be like everywhere else

Nobody got defensive, they just told you that they like the community like this.

I don't think that the OP is necessarily objecting to how things are discussed, but rather which things are discussed. From what I gather, OP thinks that the GOG code of conduct (or whatever one wants to call it) limits the amount of topics available for discussion because some topics are considered to be too un-nice to even be talked about on GOG.

I might of course have gotten it all wrong, and OP is free to correct me.

What do you expect of us? To fuck you in the ass? :P

Personally, I was more curious than anything else, as I don't really get his point. But I'll let it rest.

I agree in that people here are quite trigger happy on the - button, but I find that more funny than anything else. I mean, seriously, who cares? Other than rep obsessed teenagers, that is.

Yeah, true, but the point that the act of downvoting agitating but relatively neutral posts isn't really constructive. That's where the discussion part would fit nicely. Sometimes it's important to shake things up, and if the original master mind always gets shunned, it'll happen less often.

I dislike downvoting as a means to show discontent because if there's no clear offense, you won't have any idea why you were downvoted. Kind of like if someone suddenly gets angry at you and you're not sure why. It isn't nice. It's much easier to deal with negativity if you know the cause.

I'm talking about light agitation here. I don't think "Kill all the humans who have been cursed by the moon's sadness" kind of agitation is acceptable, but there needs to be room for some sudden movement.