Can I just point out that last time I was on the IRC, If GOG got mods most of you would be the first to get modded.

SCREW THAT! :P I'm still trying to get used to having a 3rd star in here. I'm tempted to give it to someone more responsible.

Sure, if you want the community to be reminiscient of Arstotzka I'll gladly take up the modding broom.

I don't think they'd offer me the position. It'd actually look bad because it'd kind of look like I was begging for it. I'm also not sure I'd accept.

But then of course there's no need for mods right? You guys are completely self-moderating and there are absolutely no poisonous threads about religion or politics in this gaming-orientated forum anywhere, right? There's certainly no quasi-spammy brainfarts from anyone in every other thread at all.

Well I like to think I'm good at my job. :D

I meant you on the receiving end, Last time I was in the IRC i left after the anime porn pictures started getting linked this granted was about 2 years ago.

That's... also a way to describe it.

Oh gosh, I feel awful and self-indulgent now for misinterpreting you :<. Oops.

So I don't post porn on forums and I can't remember posting any anime porn in the IRC. Someone probably did. There are an awful amount of penises hidden amongst the imgur links dropped in there for whatever reason. There is a reason I keep my old name on the forums.

We're probably bad people for calling it #gog, still. I think it started sincerely enough and we de-evolved into a fraternity of internet people. We're not really a carrier of the GOG community as we used to be, although of course we haven't forgotten about it. I think maybe extraneous GOG 'colonies' died when we stopped playing TF2.

It never truly really was a homogenous GOG community, though. #gog actually was a mixture of 2 or 3 communities with other people stopping through, too. Of course the biggest well it drew from was here. The mutual togetherness was always a fascination and appreciation for GOG's work - we're losing that now because GOG as a values-based service is slowly dying, so maybe the IRC might be barren some day.

tl;dr online communities are fucking weird and it's best not to think about them too much. i have a headache now oh god this is really bad actually

I get 300 inches of snow every year and yet I'm not allowed to join #snow. XD

Jesus, I'm probably not allowed in #dork #tasteless or #needsahaircut either.