Long story short, saw a vid here that I wanted to show a friend, came back and can't find it anymore. Did some digging via history and found that it was removed.
I love the game and I have over 90 hours in it, I admit that it has issues and that some issues are blown out of proportion but holy heck, you can't censor criticism just because it gained way more visibility than you expected, that is not cool man.
External link →No, no one is being censored.
I generally refrain from moderation on this subreddit - as I explained already in February
I even posted on Friday that I avoid removing any comments even when they are entirely unhelpful to the topic at hand.
Nevertheless, I did take a look at the mod-log for that particular thread.
| 1 hour ago | RedstoneTehnik | Approve link | That last line hurt more than it should (unspam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 day ago | AutoModerator | Remove link | That last line hurt more than it (remove) |
Having chatted to the mod team about what might have gone on there, we believe the auto-moderator kicked in to remove the thread in question when it passed a threshold in reports from users as it was likely considered Spam by the auto-mod.
The mods subsequently re-approved the thread earlier this morning (On Monday) without my prompting.
Why did it take a while to get reviewed? Probably because the auto-mod kicked in over the weekend.
Some partial quotes from myself for those of you who don't click the links I shared above:
On a community driven platform like Reddit, I feel that Brands / Community Managers / Developers are "guests" rather than "owners" or "managers". I feel that having a community that is player driven will allow everyone to be much more comfortable and open to discuss anything they want rather than feeling like negative opinions they have might be stifled by "official" powers.
Open and honest discussion, while sometimes painful, is the only way we can learn and improve. Not just on the game dev side, but also as a community.
For full transparency, I do have access to backend powers on this reddit but I use them only in rare circumstances - such as to speedily remove obvious NDA breaks or flair a topic that we might have provided an answer in. My powers are also there to safeguard against a subreddit going completely rogue, as has happened in the past in the industry, when individual moderators made decisions that affected the entire community negatively.
Generally speaking though, I prefer take a hands off approach and let the community moderators manage discussions here, while myself and PCF staff take part in discussions as regular community members, on a level with everyone else.
On Reddit I'm more hesitant to do this [remove posts] as people will think we're trying to hide any new cases (which of course is precisely the opposite of our intention). Such moderation on an unofficial sub generally brings out the "censorship" crowd, regardless of the logic behind it.
No, no one is being censored.
I generally refrain from moderation on this subreddit - as I explained already in February
I even posted on Friday that I avoid removing any comments even when they are entirely unhelpful to the topic at hand.
Nevertheless, I did take a look at the mod-log for that particular thread.
1 hour ago RedstoneTehnik Approve link That last line hurt more than it should (unspam) 1 day ago AutoModerator Remove link That last line hurt more than it (remove) Having chatted to the mod team about what might have gone on there, we believe the auto-moderator kicked in to remove the thread in question when it passed a threshold in reports from users as it was likely considered Spam by the auto-mod.
The mods subsequently re-approved the thread earlier this morning (On Monday) without my prompting.
Why did it take a while to get reviewed? Probably because the auto-mod kicked in over the weekend.
Some partial quotes from myself for those of you who don't click the links I shared above:
On a community driven platform like Reddit, I feel that Brands / Community Managers / Developers are "guests" rather than "owners" or "managers". I feel that having a community that is player driven will allow everyone to be much more comfortable and open to discuss anything they want rather than feeling like negative opinions they have might be stifled by "official" powers.
Open and honest discussion, while sometimes painful, is the only way we can learn and improve. Not just on the game dev side, but also as a community.
For full transparency, I do have access to backend powers on this reddit but I use them only in rare circumstances - such as to speedily remove obvious NDA breaks or flair a topic that we might have provided an answer in. My powers are also there to safeguard against a subreddit going completely rogue, as has happened in the past in the industry, when individual moderators made decisions that affected the entire community negatively.
Generally speaking though, I prefer take a hands off approach and let the community moderators manage discussions here, while myself and PCF staff take part in discussions as regular community members, on a level with everyone else.
On Reddit I'm more hesitant to do this [remove posts] as people will think we're trying to hide any new cases (which of course is precisely the opposite of our intention). Such moderation on an unofficial sub generally brings out the "censorship" crowd, regardless of the logic behind it.
Tagging other people who had strong opinions on this matter in this thread for visibility of the reply above
/u/KH_Fan96 /u/wasdica /u/Gcarsk /u/PoohTrailSnailCooch /u/OriginalGoatan /u/Anthony_chromehounds /u/Zephana /u/scalpingsnake /u/Equivalent_Alarm_558 /u/suliano /u/STylerMLmusic /u/Wolfkinic /u/halcan0 /u/ShadowWarrior42
such as to speedily remove obvious NDA breaks
Why are you removing any content from this community subreddit? An NDA is to prevent a party from disclosing confidential information. Once that information is in the wild, your NDA has no bearing on whether or not it belongs on social media.
This subreddit specifically has a "no leaks" rule.
Furthermore, your argument doesn't apply if the the people breaking the NDA are specifically doing so here on Reddit, as they were doing previously.
Back in December I talked about the value of NDAs to us and the damage that leaks and broken NDAs can do to a project. By trying to make an argument for supporting leaked content, you are actually making an argument that in turn would make it harder for us to develop games that you will want to play.
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