[Whats your all time favorite RPG game.]

For me, Gothic 1 and 2 are simply unrivalled - imho the best and most immersive RPGs I played so far. TES 4 Oblivion however holds a special place in my heart, as it was through this game I got to know the true power of modding for the first time :happy:

[Why are mod authors allowed to ban people from seeing their mod?]

The big dividing point that sits at the very heart of it: Criticism.

Exactly! However, I would go one step further and replace the noun "Criticism" with "Language" which makes the issue clearer and also shows why you as administrators should indeed approach these problems a bit more seriously and unprejudiced in order to prevent an unjustified and irrational exploitation of certain features Nexus provides (i.e. unfounded blocking of mod users).

 

I've been reading this whole topic with great interest and was pretty amazed to see how many people hit out against Mightandmarine's legitimate complaint with comments totally off the mark, suggesting they either didn't read his objections properly or simply didn't understand them - and problems of understanding often lead to kneejerk reactions complicating things and diverging needlessly from the issues at hand, which is what most likely happened in the communication between Mightandmarine and the mod author who blocked him.

 

 

You can write a negative review, comment/remark or whatever - it's all about the delivery. A lot of "negative" or "critical" commentary might have actually included a valid point somewhere within its text. Why was that information ignored?

Because the poster wrote it somewhere inside such a hostile worded wall of text that the author couldn't feel anything but contempt for the entire post.

 

There's no need to be hostile, rude or insensitive when leaving feedback on a file. If there's some issue to be looked into, or an item to be changed, then fine - raise that point in a clear, direct and most of all polite manner.

It'll get you a lot further than being a complete prick about the matter and spewing a lot of incoherent nonsense and profanity.

 

Isn't this a bit disproportionate? As far as I can see, Mightandmarine did not spew incoherent, hostile nonsense and profanity but used a legitimate idiom in the English language as a comment ("stretch the term") which simply means "to prolong, distend or widen something". And because of that he gets blocked by the author? Absolutely ridiculous. The screenshot he provided in his opening post clearly shows the mod author's response which suggests that the person in question has a rather poor command of the English language and most probably blocked Mightandmarine just because he didn't understand what he was saying in his comment. Poor language proficiency and bad communicative skills are indeed a huge, albeit brushed aside problem here on the Nexus (both on the part of mod authors and mod users) and that's why I personally think administrators should look into matters such as these with a more sensitive approach.