Highly doubt it.
Oh, you mean a different protocol for Galaxy, not changing how it works on the site? In that case, don't care for the client. Do care for resources to not keep being taken away from the site, or from fixing older games, or from testing dev submissions, or from communication, or from negotiating better terms, for it, however.

Wow, I wonder why no one has thought of doing that before? :P

(It's already been done.)

Awww, that makes me sad, cat. Guess I missed it.

I'd probably have done most of the important stuff on the forums with very few changes. And probably free of charge too...

hmm , can u make a bot to remove the - spam?

Most of the spam that i've seen seems to have the same general format or a bunch of similar things. Adding a rule to purge recent new threads following a pattern (especially anything containing say 10 digits) would be an easy enough thing. Also having it do a dry run via select and see if it matches them before running them, as well as capturing the username/id and banning (probably including all their posts/threads) them wouldn't be hard.

Though i wouldn't want to run it all the time, more when it shows it's ugly head. They seemed to come in spurts.

If you're referring to the 'spam reporting button' i wouldn't probably do that. Instead i'd remove any automated delete message/thread from a fixed number reports and instead all 'marked spam' could be identified in a simple select query. If posts were identified not as spam, you'd instead probably mark it 'butthurt' or something, so it doesn't show up in the next select check. Having people reporting what could be spam and sifting through them to better purge real spam is useful.

I've meant the downvote spam(- like its button) :P but the regular babaji potion spam remover is fine too

I think removing the - wouldn't do much.

How much weight the - has on the other hand would be very different. If the weight of someone who has fewer than 2 purchased games has the weight of oh i don't know, 0.0001 then it doesn't matter if they have hundreds of bots, it only takes 1 user to counter all that. (and large influxes of downvotes on a few select posts from all the same users in a short period of time would make identifying bots fairly easily)

As for the weight afterwards, probably equal to log10 of how many games they have in their library (that weren't free). Example, if you have 10 games that weren't free, it would be worth 1, if you have 100 it's worth 2, 125 worth 2.09, etc. (having excess of 700 games myself, that's only 2.84-3.00)

If we're to weigh someone's opinion of what goes on on the forum in that manner, shouldn't the weight be dictated by their community involvement and not their purchases?

Maybe. SJW mod infiltration in enforcement of rules and actions suggest it wouldn't matter much. And you'd need a giant number of purchases to make a larger and larger difference in your vote.

So what should it be based on? Your score when someone up/down votes you? Sounds like a catch-22. Also bots upvoting other bots to upvote other bots so their values can go up... Just find some out of the way thread no one looks at and they all post once and upvote eachother to get enormous voting as well as value in their rep.

So based on comments? Based on requests for features and games? I really don't see it as anything more than GoG getting spammed with useless crap so their numbers would go up, seems like another dead end.

How many hours you played games in Galaxy? Those likely can be hacked and cheated, or just leave a game on 24/7 that uses a DosBox game and let your hours/score rack up over a year.

Based on how many threads you get the 'answer' tag. Again, dozens of threads with false questions and voting bots to answer would likely happen.

Links to youtube? Pictures uploaded? What would be a way to somehow automatically be tracked that wouldn't be gamed?

Plain number of posts and maybe a bonus for those marked as solution, probably not counting game forums and counting each general forum separately, so it'll all be very visible, not hidden away in some dead game forum or different language general one.

As you are likely to have the posts in the thousands, at that point you'd probably log10 and square root that result. so

0/1 = 0 = 0
2 log10 = .3 √ = .54
5 log10 = .69 √ = .83
10 log10 = 2 √ = 1
100 log10 = 3 √ = 1.41
1,000 log10 = 3 √ = 1.73
5,000 log10 = 3.69 √ = 1.92
20,000 log10 = 4.3 √ = 2.07
75,000 log10 = 4.87 √ = 2.2

Every post would eventually lead to a higher value, albeit it gets very slowly. Painfully slow. But every bot just doing 2 innocuous posts gives them half their power back, and isn't hard at all with the 1/3 words at a time or some other random thread.

I fear the "update" will be to remove it.
I like this idea. :)

The beauty of this solution is that it is directly relevant to Gog. It's like a sharemarket for Gog-game owners to vote on comments.

If someone wants to buy a thousand games to have a bigger impact when they vote, let them! With a logarithmic function to ameliorate the value, it will be far too expensive to engage in for all practical purposes. It will also disincline people from having multiple accounts.

GOG is not going to bother updating the forums, unless they break down completely. Wouldn't actually surprise me if they couldn't update it even if they wanted. Are the people who coded the forum in the company anymore? https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/featured-tech-news/damien-cox/gog-lays-off-a-dozen-workers-as-it-reportedly-buckles-under-financial-pressure/

They clearly don't have the staff for it anyway, they can't even handle the refunds in timely manner.

If the forums break, replacing them with some ready made forum system is likely. Unless they outsource it entirely (to China, so that we would get the Social Credit monitoring Many Gamers have been asking).

You have absolutely no clue if you truly believe that. They are nothing alike. The differences go way beyond the User Interface, which is essentially an embedded web browser for Galaxy. They are not even made with the same coding language.

Maybe it was shitty and broken for you, but that was not the case for most of us. I suspect it was due to some issue with your PC.