bluedanieru

In response to post #10257006. #10257265, #10258033, #10270191, #10271410, #10282507 are all replies on the same post. Okay, fair enough. Let's give it a whirl. I am just curious how you intend to measure if this results in fewer bug reports, constructive feedback, helpful suggestions, etc? I've brought it up several times and none of the cheerleaders for this have addressed that part at all. It doesn't seem like the sort of thing where you can just say "this change has had an impact on constructive posts of 20%" or something like that. If you do end up reverting this I hope you consider banning from threads instead of files and implementing a blacklist/reputation system as well.

In response to post #10295608. Not all mod authors. I am a mod author, and I have been given the ability to use this feature, and I don't want it, for the reasons I have put down.

There is? As in, that and nothing more? I don't see that anywhere. You can block users from your file, which apparently will also block them from posting in your comments, but that's different. And, you can delete comments, but only after they've posted them. I don't see any option anywhere to ban users from a thread. And as I pointed out, with something like this it's hard to judge side effects. Yes, it will cut down on trolling which is great, but if it also cuts down on constructive posts, are you going to notice?

Banning users from ever posting in the comment section for a particular mod again, or in the comment section of any of your mods, seems 100x better than this. To be clear, I don't really care what happens to the trolls either. I am concerned that ordinary users will be less likely to post constructive, critical feedback, as a result. The potential negatives are just too great now. If you post constructive criticism now, the best case is the author will implement your suggestion and that's that. The worst case? They ban you from downloading any of their files ever again. So why bother? It's too much risk. And probably some users will try to be clever and create an alt account - getting both their accounts banned from Nexus completely. But just getting banned from commenting on one mod, or one author's mods? Not really a big deal, since if the mod author does that he clearly wasn't going to listen to you anyway - for better or for worse.

So, I originally put this in another thread for discussion, but it's the wrong one so moving it here. I'm a bit confused. How do you figure? People will still post constructive criticism, this isn't going to stop them from doing so. A few heavy handed modders may push some people away, but I do feel that most of our modders that are worth anything will have enough restraint to not abuse the feature(s). I don't really want to derail this often-funny thread with things that should be discussed elsewhere though, so... Sorry, I thought this was the place to comment about it. If there is another thread link to it and I'll take it there. Even if I don't use this feature (and I never will), I will still be negatively affected by it. It's not as though users are going to think "oh, well this author won't arbitrarily ban me for petty reasons, but this one will, so I'll only post in the comments for his mod, but not the other". They'll just realize they can be banned from accessing certain files for any reason once they post in a comment thread, with no apparent recourse, and they're not going to distinguish between who will or won't do that - they'll just stop commenting altogether, anywhere. I have a real problem with that. The worst part is the negative effects are hard to quantify. It's just less informative, more content-free posts. A lot of posts are like that already :smile: You won't be able to attribute the loss in quality back to this decision directly, so it won't seem like there is really a problem. But there is. I also assume that if I make it clear on each of my mod pages that I will never ban users from downloading my files, no matter what they post in the comments, that will be frowned upon? I just don't see what this accomplishes that wouldn't be equally served by allowing us to ban users from posting in the threads in the first place. In fact that's even better since it appears even if we ban them from the file they can still post in the thread. So what's the point?