Why Was "Natural Colors" Mod Removed from Nexus?

[haints]

My biggest issue with Skyrim has been the very artificial color scheme, heavily slanted towards the green and blue end of the spectrum. The single best mod I've been able to find to fix this was "Natural Colors and SMAA" by nandchan, which made a HUGE difference in the way the game looked. White clouds were actually white, not tinted blue, gray stone was actually gray, not tinted green--etc etc.

 

This morning I woke up to find all traces of this mod, including its thread and all comments about it, deleted. After a lot of googling I eventually found this single reference to what happened: http://www.thenexusforums.com/index.php?/topic/490336-nandchan-banned/

 

At first the reason given was "flame rolling," whatever that means, now changed to just "trolling." Nandchan was always very helpful and polite to me when I had questions. I don't know what he posted that resulted in his being banned, but I assume it must have been really bad.

 

Even so--why ban his mod? Surely the mod itself caused no harm? It definitely helped me, and there was a lot of helpful information in the thread about it as well. Making it disappear completely seems a little draconian.

Edited December 8, 2011 by haints

[Lutine]

As far as I know, the staff doesn't delete the mods of banned authors.

Perhaps he requested his mods to be taken offline after he was banned? I've seen authors do that in the past.

[firstprice]

That's like banning a producer and still selling it's products.

 

It makes sense that they remove the mods of people who're banned. They have no power over their own nexus profile, so they can't update/delete the mod anyways, so just leaving it there is bad idea.

 

Orrrr.... as the one above me wrote; maybe he requested it?

Edited December 8, 2011 by firstprice

[haints]

As far as I know, the staff doesn't delete the mods of banned authors.

Perhaps he requested his mods to be taken offline after he was banned? I've seen authors do that in the past.

 

 

Ah. I hadn't thought of that. If it was his decision, then that is his choice, I guess. Still seems a shame.

 

EDIT: If that happens, isn't the page usually left in place, with a message stating that the modder has withdrawn his mod from circulation? I remember that happening with Oblivion but maybe that was with the old Nexus?

Edited December 8, 2011 by haints

[Lutine]

Well, once the author is banned, the staff has to manually remove it themselves.

I'd imagine it would be different. This is all conjecture though, I'm not too savvy with the new Nexus yet either.

[RejectedCamel]

He was banned because of this: http://www.thenexusforums.com/index.php?/topic/459325-fxaa-post-process-injector/page__st__1150__p__4001986&do=findComment&comment=4001986

 

Although mind you, he does describe the Nexus Mod Manager as "shitty", despite them having had literally less than a month to develop it. I know it's based on OBMM/FOMM, but there's massive differences between its predecessors and the new version, and calling something basically new "shitty" is rude and immature. Doing it several times across multiple threads and then replying sarcastically to people who do use it is ridiculous. The guy has a lot of know-how, but he doesn't deserve to be around here if he can't control the tween rage inside him.

[buddah]

You can be the best mod maker in the world, however the rules are applied evenly to everyone. Mod maker, supporter, premium member or just anyone....the rules do apply, break them and you will suffer the consequences of your actions.\

 

No one, not even staff or previous staff are above the rules.

 

We are all guests in Dark0nes house, we must abide by his rules.

 

If you are not happy here, go elsewhere. If you think a member of the staff has acted inappropriately contact Dark0ne or one of the administrators.

 

Public discussion of staff actions is not allowed, it turns into a flame fest rather quickly.

 

Buddah

 

From the terms of service.

 

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[haints]

If you are not happy here, go elsewhere. If you think a member of the staff has acted inappropriately contact Dark0ne or one of the administrators.

 

Not sure if you are referring to me as the TS or not, but in case you were, buddah, I never meant to say that I was not happy here. I also don't know whether a member of the staff acted inappropriately or not, nor did I say anything about this. My main question as the title states, is why nandchan's mod was deleted from the site. In response it's been suggested that he made that decision himself. Can you tell me if that is in fact what happened or is this considered an inappropriate question?

Edited December 9, 2011 by haints