Misplaced Reality's Journal

Damn, they really are gonna take this all the way. Been using the Nexus sites since Oblivion and have seen their ongoing downward spiral, but this, damn. I really don't know what to say. This is pretty much the reason my Nexus account is used just to download. I'll comment if I really like something or am reporting a bug but never for opinions or the like. I remember the times when the b&hammer was thrown willynilly and banned anyone it hit, such as the Dante moderator fiasco a while back. Sure, every mod author is different but giving someone tools of power is a temptation. Even before this there have been people who go in to butthurt rages, so this can do nothing but add to that.

I alway used NEXUS soley as DL site for mods nothing more. If im no longer capable of DL mods unless i pay, im out its simple as that.

 

NEXUS serve its purpose DL mods nothing more its kind (example) MEGA dl site only you can search with pictures the mods which i like btw and be gone.

 

But im no mod maker im just a consumer who also want everything for free:P

 

I understand your concern as mod maker and i APPLAUDE your initiative not to upload any mod on nexus this bloody premium also annoy me alot.

 

About the kids visiting nexus and they starting to target that audience they soon get in trouble then with all the sex mods are they planning on removing them from nexus?

 

Good luck hope more deside to place there mods on LL NMM sucks anyway.

@Misplaced Reality : I hear ya there. I saw the new entry on the front page, read it, and read through the new ToS. One of the reasons Celestial's is not on Nexus is because they have just to strict a policy. The fact I can't upload a mod that uses another modders assets, even if I HAVE permission to do so, if that mod is also NOT on Nexus, makes Celestial's impossible to upload there and also strikes me as REALLY going Nazi state on people. It seems as though their rules are designed to make Nexus the ONLY place to download mods, and trying to burn all other mod sites. Dick move.

 

@Mudchop : I don't think giving mod authors the ability to moderate their own mods is a bad thing. Even if the mod is "TEH BEST PHUCKING MOD EVAAAA!!" if the author ends up being a dick and acting like one, that will reflect on the amount of reviews and downloads in the end.

 

@evasiaducth : The main point of this blog entry and of Nexus is not that they are saying " you will have to pay to download mods ". The point is the Ad revenue they generate from you, as well as selling your personal information you used when signing up. Even if you never have to pay a single cent to use the site and download, Nexus is still making money off you, and as a money making asset, they should definitely NOT be treating mod authors with such disdain, since it is the authors that bring in the downloaders in the first place. 

 

As for kids visiting Nexus, I think you really need to think about things. I'm sure at any given time there is a 12 or 13 year old browsing the " adult only " section here on LL. It is very hard to police the internet, simply because it is so easy to lie.

i blame skyrim for bringing the entitled brats and easily offended mainstream into TES.

It's funny, I never got banned from the Nexus back in the fallout, oblivion days. But since skyrim nexus has started up, I've been banned like 6 times. Usually just for stating a opinion, and not rudely either. The last time I got banned for asking a simple question, it was a temp ban that turned into a perm ban after I got into it with a admin, And the darkone himself.

   He basically said to me, bow down to my authority admit you where wrong, take the temp ban.( the reason I went off on the admin to begin with was because he was extremely disrespectful to me) When I didnt he perm banned me, and then made a complete bullshit story on my ban topic in the forums. I don't even make comments anymore, I just download. The guy who owns the site is British, the fact that he is a authoritarian doesn't surprise me at all.

 

(The question was, are those your boobs in the description?: because the mod author was female, and she had a picture of someones real breasts on the mod page. If you don't want people asking about it, then don't plaster it on the front page of your mod. It's unfair in my opinion, that I can be punished for asking a question about a picture, but she doesn't have anything said to her about the picture.)

 

Also, when they ban you, they don't remove your mods. They keep your mods up available to download, but you can't access them or modify the page in any way.  

   Also, for those of you wondering how is he still using the nexus if he has been banned so many times? and has had is Ip banned? well, there are ways around that, but last time I made a post about that here on LL, admins deleted it.

i blame skyrim for bringing the entitled brats and easily offended mainstream into TES.

Im afraid your closer to truth then most realise or wanne hehe

Indeed, Nexus is by now the only database as to most (...) of the mods avalaible for TES IV (at last, as to Morrowind, there is now mwmodarchive, then, the upcoming OpenMW = ?

In any cases, Nexus is going very wrong theses times, even to the extend to edit private messages contents (damn, censure in 2013 online !).

That said, since most of the mods cannot be found out of there (even if, they are some others options, I there is a way to use the Mod Organiser to download from Steam for example ?).

Then, seeing the amount of modders and mods going (both the ones banned by admin or going themselves cause of "users".
On that, there will be an option for Modders to manage the comments on their mods, so, as to some parts (will need to be seen) some managament (anyone to know what moderation is about as to Internet Policy / management ?).

Pas si simple.
(Context / reality = time, name & location, then, decision > realisation).
Adaptation ?
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I guess I'm just a lucky one then. I've had several warnings for referencing LL to other users, but I've never actually been banned. It wasn't until I read a story here in LL that it's against the rules to even mention this community on the Nexus. The funny thing is I've gone through their entire list of ridiculous rules and haven't seen that made explicitly clear. That website is beyond all hope now, though.

I got banned on nexus cause someone said i was on this site,  (before i even joined this site) 

kinda the only reason i joined here Lol.

 

even thou i got back on nexus with ip address change and new account name *shrug*

They didnt try to hard to keep me out

 

Nexus is getting rediculous, they ban you for anything even things they know is not true. 

Now all of this.  R.I.P a good community site turned corrupt. 

BEST... POST... EVER.

 

*gives cookies to misplaced reality*

 

anyhow, im here for my own special reasons... and my mods are now here too.

Also, when they ban you, they don't remove your mods. They keep your mods up available to download, but you can't access them or modify the page in any way.  

now that is news to me. no surprise dante banned me not after i told him to go f himself, but like 2 hours later when i started erasing all my main-files. so basically i got wasted AFTER i lost my value for them. eye opener.

 

try telling them that you go to your lawyer if they dont delete your files in case you still got stuff there.actually that was included in my last message to the sucker, and with their minds they wont risk to have their "wells dried out". quite frankly, they cleaned up my stuff really fast and good, not a single crumb left.

I took your words to heart. I honestly felt for some time i was just being unfair when i began feeling resentful of nexus for the way they were treating myself and everyone else around me. I had a lifetime membership with the site which i recently asked them to close (which they did in very short order) and, thankfully, i was lucky enough not to have posted any of my work there. I made the mistake of stating at the nexus chat before i closed my account that i put the finishing touches on several of my mods and when one of the chat users asked me when i was going to post it on nexus i opened my fat mouth and said i didn't feel comfortable posting them at nexus......thats when the emails started. I should have kept copies of them for proof but at the time i felt so offended at what they said i erased them. In a nutshell i got called a leech for not allowing nexus to exclusively host my mods (which aren't that grand in the first place.....yet). Then came the erasing of most of my forum posts followed by the constant berating in the chat. I had my suspicions as to why they would be so annoyed by a nobody modder not wanting them to host his mods there but i didn't say anything because i felt i was being a bit....i don't know.....over suspicious. Yet the fact you basically pulled the very thoughts out of my head proves (atleast to me) that my gut wasn't steering me wrong. 

So....yeah.... i only post my mods here (all open source of course) and no longer linger at the nexus of despair anymore. Your words were elegant and rang true to this humble LL lurker, and i hope you keep spreading the message.

Okay, not to offend anyone but if we are still downloading mods from Nexus are we not still putting money in their pockets?

Okay, not to offend anyone but if we are still downloading mods from Nexus are we not still putting money in their pockets?

 

I doubt they get money from people downloading the mods themselves but rather from advertisements, selling your informations (if they do that) and premium memberships. So as long as you use an adblocker and never purchase premium they get jackshit from you.

None of this surprises me. And it's why I do have adblock on Nexus and have never, and will never have a supporters or premium account. It's also why I will not now or ever upload any mods to STEAM. It's all about revenue utilizing your work to the benefit of their pockets in discretion.

 

 

 

I've said this before and I'll say it again. Nexus is the digital online of pyramid scam. The only reason why some mods are even banned from the site that may have assets from another author is simply because it's easier to rid of 1 person instead of 5 who's assets were being used. If modders didn't care about their work being used in someone else's project, I assure you Nexus would follow this line to the very end.

 

They play police acting like they serve justice from their very hands.

 

Sooner or later people will continue to realize the hypocrisy that place is. The TOS is constantly being changed (which is normal as all websites with a large foundation do this to protect themselves) for the benefit of themselves. Dark0ne isn't caring about the so called community. All he cares about is revenue. Money being produced and going straight to his bank account. Tossing a very small lump sum to his fellow staff, which is why TVD and the rest of them play robot. Taking orders and not caring what they are actually doing.

 

They sugarcoat it with their jibberish and creating small things to benefit the mod authors so they can sit there and smile and stay happy. But when it comes to things such as improvements, it nearly takes them a long time to make a decision. He's not doing it because he cares, No. D0 does it for the money. Again, nothing wrong with this. It's business, but why else do you think the guy himself doesn't even mod? I bet he doesn't know a damn thing about GECK or CK. Have you once seen him endorse a mod? Upload a mod? Create a mod? His background does not come straight out of modding. He found a benefit in it and created Nexus with his investment and knew it would grow. Ecommerce Entrepreneur. He thinks and works like a business man. All for the benefit of him. You think he actually spends time caring about Nexus? No, he hires college dorks to come in and make improvements to his website and even they are needed. Even NMM, which happens to be the more fail program ever. I don't use it and I already know how fail it is. Never have I seen a program in BETA stage for such a long time.

 

Let the idiots jock Nexus all the want. Sooner or later they will see what it's really about. Even these days, Oblivion, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, and Skyrim Nexus mod sites are not making noise like they used to. And I have a feeling it's because of what's been going on this year like year after year, D0 with his bullshit "It's a new year, we will be making improvements" blah blah blah.