lol, wut? link?

He did. It was taken down about five minutes after he posted it.

It was a description of beating up a young gay boy and then proceeding to shame him into suicide.

"My buddy NES"? That could very well be referring to his favourite games console, for all a random visitor would know. It doesn't mean jack by now. Hell, the only reason I have any idea what it refers to is due to people throwing around "NES" as if they were kids learning a new swear word.

While I have no respect for any scamming allegedly going on, I simultaneously have none for "downvote this post just because it's made by a person who has previously done stuff we don't like". Necro posts with no contribution or relevant content whatsoever, yeah, I agree, it should be shown that that's not good behaviour. But simply commenting on the fact that a thread was quickly derailed? I really can't see a reason to downrate that.

Anyway. My idea is to judge posts on their own merit, if a post is valid, there's no reason to downrate it, regardless of who made it. But that's likely just me.

So, yeah, I thought Tauto's post was valid, as well as funny,, so I hit the + button. I also thought his earlier posts necroing two-year-old threads with merely ";)" as their content were completely unnecessary, so I down-rated those.

Don't know why people turned this thread into such a troll-fest. I think it's good to show GOG's team a little respect for the work they do, every now and then. People tend to take positive experiences for granted, and only post when they have complaints.

My own experience with GOG ( and its staff, when needed ) has been almost entirely positive as well. Of course there's always something which could be added, improved or fixed, but for the most they are doing a good job.
No, I think you got the right idea. I mean, in theory that's the whole point of the rating system, isn't it? To mark helpful or interesting posts ( as well as not so helpful ones ), regardless of who made them.

Oh, I had no doubt he posted it. I'm just saying I'd like to see him try and attack me, for simply being in a same sex relationship. I've dealt with worse people in my life, and let's just say I'm no small fish ;)

Fair enough. I can dig that.

I agree.

I encountered a problem with my credit card in this sale and contacted GOG about it.
They were not only fast to respond, but fast to identify the problem and to solve it.

I was afraid I was going to lose the whole sale cause of that, but ended losing not even a day.
Thanks GOG.

Oh not this again -_-

Summary: I personally don't downrep harmless posts, but Tauto is a non-repented constant harasser, so let's not defend him on every one of his good 10\200 posts, thanks.

EDIT: also, great job suggesting him an excuse he has never used before.

There are plenty points what's GOG doing or did isn't good :

1 - The infamous unbundling , was just a terrible execution : it's not even finished yet : they didn't splllted bonus content for games in bundles (trust me i know what i'm talking about) . Some games in bundles got scattered accross the whole library (ie : Battle isle Platinium), some titles waste a lot storage space (ie : Heroes Chronicles).....

2 - Titles are still badly sorted some start with the , some others not : just 2 examples to illustrate this : The Void, 7 Guest, The....

3 - Positive side of the new user library : now it's displayed accross pages.... and also the changelogs. But honestly the design is awkward.

4 - Forum suffers too many problems : technical (you don't want i list all of them here ?) & also scammers , abuses & trolllings

4a - Updating system isn't reliable, MaGOG is way better, and it's not something created by GOG... sic .

5 - Support is good for trying to fix an issue with a game, order issue etc...but when you ask some help about their forums abuse -> the support suffers an apathy syndrome......they absoluty do nothing to fix this problem.

I can't speak of Galaxy, i don't use it.

So i have mixed filling about GOG, it's fine if you find them fantastic, but please don't tell to someone to not post because it's not positive points........

Also GOG has a major issue to communicate with their users in the forum....

If 90 percent of a user's posts are horse manure, then, if only those posts are down rated, his rep will take a heavy beating and he'll hopefully learn to not post horse manure because he may realise that -apparently- some posts are not down rated so the content and behaviour may make a difference.

If, on the other hand, ALL his posts are down rated, including non-shit ones, then he'll stop caring because it doesn't matter what he posts. Even if the last ten percent of his posts also being downrated likely don't make much difference in rep, they do make some.

Care about rep.. since when you haven't been checking the forums?
Don't you know that the system is KO?
Also, Tauto isn't here to be nice, he just wants to ruin the community.

I'm fairly certain no people are here to be nice, but that the primary reason for most of us is to buy games. Being nice, or even just respectful, is mostly a side effect of other people showing respect to us. The opposite is equally true, when people continue to not show respect, they generally don't get respect back. In order to decrease hostility, one side have to take the first step - it doesn't much matter which side starts, but it does require patience.

Sigh... I'm probably getting too worked-up over this. I just want the forum I've been part of for 7 years to be a nice place. Not a "child-friendly" or "politically correct" one, but a nice one where people can have disagreements and scream obscenities at each other, and later laugh together about what happened.

You took that sentence quite literally..
I meant that we're here in the forums to talk about gaming and to enjoy the discussions.
Tauto is here to troll.
Anyway, we both expressed our opinions on the matter, let's move on.

to the staff of BOTS i declare war !

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