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Posted January 30, 2023
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Darvond: I think one problem with recruting potental moderators is that anyone who potentally would be a mod tends to have extreme ideas towards moderations.
Yeh, I suspect the most likely people to volunteer are also the most overzealous ones. Reddit seems to be full of power tripping mods.

It shouldn't be impossible to accept volunteers to only clean up the obvious spam, but then you need oversight. Someone to oversee the mods.. knowing GOG, they probably have no moderation log of any sort so it'd be impossible to keep watch.
Posted January 30, 2023
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ppavee: I'm a pretty new user on the forums.
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JeniSkunk: Stop lying to yourself, and everyone else on here, about being a newbie on the forums.
Your account was registered back in December 2013. That's MORE THAN 2 YEARS before I created my account on GOG.
He has an old account, but he may have started only recently to write on the forum. I myself have started since mid-'22 to write.
Posted January 30, 2023
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ppavee: I'm a pretty new user on the forums.
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JeniSkunk: Stop lying to yourself, and everyone else on here, about being a newbie on the forums.
Your account was registered back in December 2013. That's MORE THAN 2 YEARS before I created my account on GOG.

For me definitely biggest hurdle when entering is the unintuitive structure and layout. Odd notifications, hard to follow attended threads and all seems just to be dumped into general discussion without any categorization.
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JeniSkunk: The Community General Discussion area is where all the threads that are NOT about specific games/series, go.
To see all the games GOG has forums for, page top bar -> COMMUNITY -> All forums
On the all forums page, scroll down till you see "show all 3380 forums" click that, and wait for the full list of forums about specific games/series, to load.
Haha :D Thanks making me feel older than before :K
As others already pointed out, the registeretation date has nothing to do with posting/following the forums.

Actually checked and according to my game library, my first game is WARSOW, which isn't available on GOG anymore.
Post edited January 30, 2023 by ppavee
Posted January 30, 2023
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clarry: Yeh, I suspect the most likely people to volunteer are also the most overzealous ones. Reddit seems to be full of power tripping mods.

It shouldn't be impossible to accept volunteers to only clean up the obvious spam, but then you need oversight. Someone to oversee the mods.. knowing GOG, they probably have no moderation log of any sort so it'd be impossible to keep watch.
Well said and indeed. Which is another thing mysteriously missing from this forum, even a private rap sheet.
Posted January 30, 2023
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Darvond: I think one problem with recruting potental moderators is that anyone who potentally would be a mod tends to have extreme ideas towards moderations.
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clarry: Yeh, I suspect the most likely people to volunteer are also the most overzealous ones. Reddit seems to be full of power tripping mods.

It shouldn't be impossible to accept volunteers to only clean up the obvious spam, but then you need oversight. Someone to oversee the mods.. knowing GOG, they probably have no moderation log of any sort so it'd be impossible to keep watch.
Reddit is HQ in SF, where the sidewalks are ankle-deep in feces, of the 2-legged variety. Need one say more?
Posted January 30, 2023
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NuffCatnip: Restrict access to the forum with a minimum amount of purchases or something else like that. Anything that needs manual input from a human being.
The spam is getting worse and worse.
I am against it because some have a gog account with only free games offered by gog for different reasons such as financial. And just because they spent 0 euros they will be censored on the forum, I find it shameful.
Posted January 30, 2023
It also would lock out first timers or people who have a question about how to purhase or something similar.
Posted January 30, 2023
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Lukin86: I am against it because some have a gog account with only free games offered by gog for different reasons such as financial. And just because they spent 0 euros they will be censored on the forum, I find it shameful.
What about having to have at least claimed one of the free games as a baseline? Surely the spam accounts aren't actually doing that.

I lost my initial account with Zoom because I didn't log in for over a month without so much as claiming a freebie, my account was flagged as possible spam.
Post edited January 30, 2023 by ReynardFox
Posted January 30, 2023
I remember GOG introducing a posting restriction years ago. New accounts could not create a topic until they bought a game. I have no idea though, if:

1) The restriction could be bypassed by a giveaway (not just a free game, but a paid game made free). It's an interesting coincidence that bot spam happens during a giveaway period.
2) It is still in effect. GOG never announced a rollback of the policy, so who knows?
Posted January 30, 2023
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NuffCatnip: Restrict access to the forum with a minimum amount of purchases or something else like that. Anything that needs manual input from a human being.
The spam is getting worse and worse.
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Lukin86: I am against it because some have a gog account with only free games offered by gog for different reasons such as financial. And just because they spent 0 euros they will be censored on the forum, I find it shameful.
That is why I said anything that needs manual input would be good enough.
It doesn't have to be a purchase, that was nothing but an example.
Posted January 30, 2023
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Darvond: I think one problem with recruting potental moderators is that anyone who potentally would [want to] be a mod tends to have extreme ideas towards moderations.
Pretty much this.
People who are keen to do that kind of job, are probably not the right people to do the job.

Good moderators need to be 100% impartial.
Hard to find such people.
Especially, when they are part of the "community" they're supposed to keep "clean and orderly".
It's probably a little easier to find them "out of house" - but not by much.

In the end it all comes down to "who watches the watchmen?"
Posted January 30, 2023
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BreOl72: Pretty much this.
People who are keen to do that kind of job, are probably not the right people to do the job.

Good moderators need to be 100% impartial.
Hard to find such people.
Especially, when they are part of the "community" they're supposed to keep "clean and orderly".
It's probably a little easier to find them "out of house" - but not by much.

In the end it all comes down to "who watches the watchmen?"
Especially when said community has contradictory or outdated guidelines. (No NSFW topics, makes actively NSFW forum topics about racy games...)
Post edited January 30, 2023 by Darvond
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