its a part of the forum:

Community / General discussion

in dutch that might be named as' Community / Algemene Discussie

general will mean that almost all if not everything might be discussed about.

As for people leaving, i am a member in some forums (english) for > 12 years and yes many left but many are still present and new members do sign up every day, nothing we can do about.
So i dont see the point in all this x number of reasons to leave (to leave any forum)
I never leave any forum as long as the forum is up, i only leave when the forum is closed for good or when i am closed and gone to play games way up there :D in the big skies.

Been mod in small forum for 12 years now, and yes, they come and go, nothing we can do about other then to accept and continue doing things we are used to do everyday.

So: enjoy... cause life is already short , enjoy and have fun.

so release threads for new games should be moved to the game's forum? magog changelog thread should be split up and moved to the individual forum? The whole current Baldur's Gate Definitive Edition discussion should be moved to the baldur's gate forum ?

absolute rules never really work out well :)

If you can't decide whether it's a gaming topic or off-topic, just pick one - or throw a coin.
The forums work generally quite well with the laisser-faire attitude, no reason why that can't continue here as well.
No one wants to turn this into a new religion ...
But I'd say there are enough topics where you can make that distinction quite easily.

I don't see how the last 3 reasons you wrote have anything to do with the forum. I don't think that everyone who decides to leave the forum, leave GOG.com altogether and stop buying games. Unless of course the reasons for which they leave, have to do with GOG.com (loss of core features for example) or loss of interest about gaming in general.

Exactly. So General Discussion should be for all threads, no need to split "Gaming Related" and "Not Gaming Related".

Though I'll once again say that I'd love for the forum to have tags for threads, so one can apply as many (or as few) as a thread requires (Gaming, Console, Non-GOG, Giveaway for example).

Perfect idea for a userscript (with an optional server component for crowdsourcing the tags). I'll start sketching on a solution, can't promise anything though.

don't know if that will work.
People who click on the Erdogan thread in the General Forum because they are interested in the topic, will still click on the topic if it is in another forum. no?
All that toxic trolling/insults/hate is going to annoy/hurt users regardless of where you put the thread.
so you'd want all threads from the game-specific forums here in the general forum as well ? :p

I think at some point you need some categorization (regardless of how imperfect it is), just to make the huge number of threads manageable.

Though I like your idea of forum tags even better than seperate forums. Combined with a nice filter/search system that would be really nice.

Didn't I already answer that? All threads about a game sold on GOG should be in the game's forum, all other in General.
The release threads (and rest of blue threads) are a possible exception.
The MaGoG updates and the "What did just update" could possibly be split in the sub forums, though I think there's already a changelog in each one. So those threads are basically a collection of GOG related data, not game specific ones.

This point in particular is hilarious: "atmosphere rather lacking in manners and good will"

Practically every time someone disagreed with him he thought it was a personal attack and launched straight into frothing political diatribes and personal insults. I can totally believe he found GOG's 'atmosphere' lacking. He caused a significant part of that.

As for the rest, they are BS reasons that don't make GOG any better or worse than other stores. Is he just going to stop buying games, or is he holding other stores to lower standards (i.e. being a hypocrite)?

Regional pricing? Everyone does it.
Linux gamers aren't an important market? Everyone does that too.
Russian discounts are absurd? Yes, but all the other large stores do that.
'Great ones have already left'? Eh. People come and go on boards. Is this the first forum he's ever been on long-term? That's just a natural part of forums.

The real reason is doubtless time, and the rest added to make him feel like GOG isn't worth it anymore and also drum up attention so that he gets a good sendoff thread.

TL;DR Perpetually angry fan loses interest but instead of going quietly like a grownup tries to drum up drama with BS 'reasons' when the real reason is just changing time/tastes. I've seen umpteen people do this over the years.

+Infinity

Klumpen even basically said he'd lost interest (not enough time - if something keeps your interest, you make the time).


Oh for crying out loud, political threads don't poison anything. People who can't handle disagreements do, and they'll do that regardless of the thread subject.
What is inappropriate about discussing politics? Gamers care about politics and things besides video games.