Nuvendile

In response to post #10267393. #10268372, #10270400 are all replies on the same post. Your statements here are true. However, what has to be decided here is do we want Nexus to be a community? If you want a community, you have to have unity. You have to have accountability. Yes, everyone has a right to be a dick. But right now, Authors have the right to be a dick and get away with it. Users don't. Saying you can't moderate dickery is absurd. We do it all the time. It has to be done if you are to have a community. If you want Nexus to be more than a gigantic 4shared-esque site with comments, you must have mod moderation of all features and all actions. Now if a giant file sharing site with comments seems fine to you, then fine. Me, I would hope Nexus could strive for something more. For something better.

In response to post #10252415. #10252846, #10253003, #10253436, #10253494, #10253733, #10254612, #10254935, #10255184, #10255502, #10255579, #10255972, #10257158, #10258026, #10259323, #10259640, #10262998, #10265609, #10267157, #10268517, #10268809, #10269441, #10269916, #10270416, #10271669, #10271691 are all replies on the same post. This is disturbingly lopsided to me. Yes, authors should have a lot of liberty. But this is going to far. Especially since there is no moderation of it at all whatsoever. Why are they moderating deletion of comments but not banning from mod pages. In my opinion, nefarious use of blocking users should result in instant and permanent banning of the author, regardless of popularity, status, number of files, whatever. Get rid of him. If you want this to be a community, you can't have jerks running around. Not jerk authors, not jerk users, not jerk lurkers. Period. This function will only serve to encourage less savory individuals to pirate mods and upload them to unauthorized pages, to spark a war between users and authors. In my opinion, lack of accountability for use of this tool is the primary issue. All people on this site must be equally accountable for their actions and those who have more power must have more accountability, not less. Arthmoor, I respect you. You have a lot of skill and are generally very patient. But please, explain what benefit is gained by this? If you can cut all ties of communication, posts and pms, why do you need to block access? If you wish to justify the use of this, it must have benefits to outweigh the obvious consequences of misuse by others. And at present I see none. Your argument about rights is incorrect in this area. Rights are worth defending because they serve a purpose, because there is an ethical or logical benefit to their existence that balances out the risk of them being abused. So if this is to be a justified feature, a completely un-moderated one at that, there must be a benefit peculiar to its use, that isn't achieved any other way.

In response to post #9781842. They blocked the thread, which is gay. But it was Elder Scrolls that won, just barely. They have a results vid here:

In response to post #9210059. #9232898, #9233462, #9236776, #9252777 are all replies on the same post. @DarkGenius more sales=/= more appreciated. I buy more Lays potato chips than I buy steak. I do not appreciate Lays potato chips more than steak. GTA is a game that's fun and all, but it's like fast food honestly. It's built mostly on ridiculous thrills, absurd and nonsensical violence, and similar craziness. That's just the way that series is. And that will sell you a lot of games. But then again, pointless fun is also the driving force behind Angry Birds; surely you don't think Angry Birds is superior to TES and GTA? Not saying that one is objectively superior between these two, but TES is going to have a slight edge in that it's focus is more..."refined" for lack of a better word. Yes, you can have your absurd GTA-esque fun running around and killing almost everyone. But there are stories and lore everywhere in TES, much more substance to it. And every TES game has always pushed to enhance the illusion of the world being alive; anyone who looks back over the series can see that. TES is more "memorable" in the meaningful sense because of it, I would say. GTA is memorable more or less as "that crazy game where I could run over dozens of civilians after stealing a police car from the local precinct."

In response to post #8294805. Yeah, my main issue was the image was annoying. And it wasn't so much the content as the fact that said content was on the hotfiles with an image there. I personally think that the hotfiles are good in one way, but I do think that a similar system should be implemented for giving spotlight to extraordinary mods on the front page. Not sure how on earth that should work except maybe have it be for the top five files of a given month or file of the month competition.

When it comes to money, why not something like a Kickstarter? Of course make it clear what's going on and what it would be for, but that would allow for generally anonymous investment primarily from the group you already focus on: the users. Might just get what you need for the new hardware ;)

Maybe I missed the memo, but during this time did you also remove the like/dislike system for comments? Maybe it has been missing for a while but I just noticed it :S

@colourwheel. No, I have not yet contributed files to the community. I am working on a team project presently. It wasn't that I necessarily wanted to argue with you, I just didn't want this feature being labeled as negative. It is all to common a practice in the present society to falsely cast something in a negative light due to personal motives in order to convince others to take a similar stance based solely on that negative spin. I can see that was not your intention, so I do apologize if I upset you. It is a bit of a pet peve of mine (mainly because no one ever calls it out).

And note most of my statements concerning things like rights were directed at the connotative meaning of the word. Censhorship is a strong connotative word with a negative weight. It is commonly associated with rights violations, supression, and abuse of power. That is also why I say you seem to be trying to give this feature a negative spin: your language contains strong negative connotation.

@colourwheel. Your sited definition hurts you more than it helps. The phraseology of the definition denotes an authority or service acting based on regulations and/or rules, not an individual based on preference. Just like me going and snooping around a restaurant wouldn't be an official health inspection, me using this feature to avoid seeing mods I don't want to is not the same as me "officially" reading and suppressing content. But I am curious why you are so determined to give this a negative spin. I somehow doubt it is for the user's sake. Them potentially missing something is a price they are obviously willing to pay if they use the feature. All things being equal, most anyone would just say "oh well, their loss." But then, all things are never equal. Having found that you have an affinity for using the word "sexy" in your mods and producing mods with skimpy armor or clothes (two of the biggest disliked "tags" according to the above info), I can't help but wonder if that may be a contributing factor.

Also, it is a narrow view that people merely want to avoid mods for gameplay issues. Some, and I daresay many (especially those who don't comment on the mod page in question) have peraonal reasons for not wanting to have the possibility of running across such nods. Moral reasons, personal convictions and the like. Believe it or not people still have those.

@colourwheel Have to disagree. It may vaguely fit the denotative meaning, but it is a long ways off the conotative meaning. No ones rights are being violated, no one is being forced into silence. This is the furthest thing from the concept of censorship. This actually gives more power to users and indirectly to modders. For users, it means not browsing piles of unwanted results pulled up by a category search. For modders, it means that mods crowded out by the piles of said results can be more easily found. And not just by people who don't like, say, skimpy armor mods. If someone who likes said mods is loking for something else in the armor category to better suite a new character or follower, he can aimply change his settings and get to the mods he wants. That same person may not have bothered if he had had no other choice but to dig like crazy. And remember, the user controls this, not the site. Any established setting can be undone. So please, don't call this censorship; it is a rather flippant use of connotation.