In fairness, I'm 40, I've already lost all my hair, had cataracts, and am missing several front teeth.

Yeah, but blame that on the meth.

True, but I know some of the early joiners did leave -- or at least severely decrease their forum presence -- due to the place becoming less friendly, or even toxic.
Indeed. In order for peace to take root, one of the parties have to take the initiative to stop throwing shit at the other, yet if A doesn't stop, one can't really blame B for not doing so either.

GoG Staff has been hit and miss with me. They helped me with an issue I had once, and never responded to me multiple times after that. So my issues continue to be unresolved, likely because the solutions are not simple. I am a technician by trade and do troubleshooting for a living. I basically eliminated all the easy answers and no one will respond on what's next, probably because they don't know.

Seriously, stop fussing over your Forum Rep, it's meaningless and useless, has no bearing on the content of your posts, it males no difference at all.

@ TinyE not picking on you, yours is just only name I recognise having debated with.
I don't know most of you, I don't know TinyE, but he's criticised my posts a few times, and I've criticised his. So what, it's called a debate, and in debates, people have opposite opinions.

I don't "like" some of TinyE's posts, but if i liked them, it would be a boring debate.
I don't base my opinion of your worthiness, on how much you agree with me.
I base it on how well you debate your position, and respect you for arguing your point without disrespecting me.

Rep is an opinion about an opinion, no-one should take notice of such a system.
The real debate, is why such a system exists at all, what purpose does it serve, on any site, but especially here and particularly in a Forum setting.
I only look at your join date and post numbers to form a quick assessment of how much you post., nothing more can be assumed from numbers, but frequency of posts.

Such a system shouldn't even exist on forums, those that use it to sort the posts, like Steam (even worse to rank reviews by likes), are forums I don't go to at all.

I expect all forums to present the posts in the order written, by default. without any judgement of a posts worthiness to exist. I expect to see every post made, removal of the content for rule breaking is expected, but nothing else should be altered and even the removed contents post should remain, with Moderating reason for missing content explained.

The entire idea of a popularity contest, as your forum reputation, is an abomination.

As for saying Negative criticism of GOG in this thread, is bad, because this is a "Positive" thread.
No it damn well isn't, negative responses to a positive opening post, are just as valid as positive responses to a negative OP. To imply they are somehow excluded, is the twisted logic of the like system, I don't accept your twisting of logic. All opinions are equally Valid, without evidence, they are all just hot air, including my own.

So to TinyE and all the others who've lost "Rep", I say it's worthless, thus you lost nothing in my eyes.
I find your opinions, whether right or wrong, in my opinion, of worth, because you make them well and with the same conviction as myself, we can be opposed on one subject, yet agree on the next one.
Your rep with me is high, whether I agree with your opinion or not, this time, you will argue your point well.
That's your rep with me, not worthless opinions, yours, mine or the faceless like/dislikes crowd.

So if you do like/dislike what I say, don't Rep it or do, I don't care. Just say why or don't, but put it in a post, it's still just your worthless opinion, of my worthless opinion, but I will see it, and read it.
I don't even see that rep number, I ignore it.

I have no clue what my rep number is, it's just worthless opinion, good or bad.

The curse of the techie. I know it all too well. When the support people I talk to on the phone have less of an idea about how to solve the problem than I do, but my account isn't authorised to do it.
It does though, somewhat. You lose the possibility to post links when you get below 10 or so (and some good people are far below 0).

There's a simple workaround for that.

And this is what i hate, people focus about the rep, it's not about the rep, it's about gog.

-> Rep system is being abused and it doesn't get solved;
-> Less than 10 rep and you can post links due to the anti-bot/spam measure and gog doesn't removes it;
-> Contacting Gog for anything related to gog can go from 1 week to months and no solution;
-> People that participated in GOG contests didn't recieve the prize and gog doesn't say anything about it;
-> Gog staff promises Q&A's and solutions but never delivers;

And so on. People only tend to focus on what they see and not what is happening around them, hell, i've been on my "crusade for months and one person here assumes that i've become a troll because i lost my rep.

Yeah, don't use url tags, or something like that, if I remember correctly. But you're then limited to using the URL as link text rather than using any text you wish.

It does but why do i (and others) have to write extra stuff (the quotes) to be able to post links?

You can quote someone or fake a quote (quote tag without anything written) in order to post links.

Right, still makes it harder to read.

Bit confused here, makes what harder to read? I'm assuming that it's what you said about not be able to write anything i like on the link? I can.

Text 1 2 3 z x y

I want to say to the staff a warm Hello !
Great site ! Just joined ;)

Oh, I misread the one-line post and understood it as "links within quotes are not checked". How awesome of me.

Well that just shows how worthless such a system, is.
However I get your point, but I did say the real debate should be about it's existence on GOG, in any form.

The Wish list is all well and good, but it's another popularity contest, so that's not the solution to removing it either.

How we can persuade GOG to remove it, is the real issue, I don't have an easy answer.

Ideas that spring to mind (no eureka amongst them though)

The only idea I can think of other than keeping a thread demanding it at the top of the Forum.
Organise a co-ordinated support request demanding the removal on mass

The other option, is stop posting, maybe the Forum thread can be bumped by all who want it gone.
Adding users in a co-ordinated manner to keep it at the top of the forum.

I've never concerned myself with that system at all, but links after a number of posts are made, 10 would suffice, is much better, in my opinion. Does anyone know of any official responses to the Subject.

Unfortunately the fact this is GOG's site gives there opinion more weight, it's still as worthless as ours, just heavier, if you get my meaning.
To change another opinion, first you must know what it is now, i have no idea, what GOG's stance is.
I do believe we can change it, though changing it, is never an easy thing to do.