So what is up with the big purge of skyrim mods?

[Ernest Lemmingway]

15 hours ago, goaway said:

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My reply was sarcasm.  Then again, I probably should have gone with my own remark about inflation if there was a money czar. That's the one good thing Diz-knee cartoons taught me: more money for everyone = inflation.

[CrysisWar1234]

Nexus doesn't like people wanking to their characters.  So they shut them all down.

[Grey Cloud]

7 hours ago, CrysisWar1234 said:

Nexus doesn't like people wanking to their characters.  So they shut them all down.

Thank you for another in depth and informed analysis.

 

"Hey, look at me. I'm a member of Lover's Lab so I'm way too cool to say anything positive about Nexus."

[goaway]

On 1/21/2019 at 12:34 PM, Ernest Lemmingway said:

My reply was sarcasm.

I'm not familiar with this concept.

[woodsman30]

On 1/22/2019 at 12:15 PM, Grey Cloud said:

 

"Hey, look at me. I'm a member of Lover's Lab so I'm way too cool to say anything positive about Nexus."

 

2 hours ago, goaway said:

I'm not familiar with this concept.

 

[LordArek]

On 1/22/2019 at 10:14 AM, CrysisWar1234 said:

Nexus doesn't like people wanking to their characters.  So they shut them all down.

 

On 1/22/2019 at 6:15 PM, Grey Cloud said:

Thank you for another in depth and informed analysis.

 

"Hey, look at me. I'm a member of Lover's Lab so I'm way too cool to say anything positive about Nexus."

 

He isn't wrong, though. Or can you prove the opposite? Your own in depth and informed analysis surely doesn't.  

Of course, Nexus is a cool site and I get most of my mods from there, but aduld content is just not really represented there. What do you think why most pervs are here and not on the nexus? I migrated from Nexus to LL for that exact reason when I began exploring this side of skyrim. 

[Grey Cloud]

Took you a month to think all that did it? Nexus doesn't have an 18 and over policy so therefore it doesn't allow, and cannot allow, porn-type mods. It is a similar story with all sorts of websites, e.g. the BBC. There are things called 'laws'.

 

 "Or can you prove the opposite?"

That's asking me to prove a negative, BTW.

[Corsayr]

Spoiler

 

OSEX

 

Is still available on Nexus... 

 

If there had been an actual purge of sex mods on Nexus then this little mod would have been the first against the wall. 

[Grey Cloud]

16 minutes ago, Corsayr said:

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OSEX

 

Is still available on Nexus... 

 

If there had been an actual purge of sex mods on Nexus then this little mod would have been the first against the wall. 

And there's a new brothel mod just out today.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/96377

 

(Read the first entry on the Posts tab (21 February 2019, 8:04AM )

[GenioMaestro]

I not think can be a sex purge because, as Corsayr say, you can download Osex and Flowers Girls.

And you can filter by tag and get thousand and thousand of mods with tags like "SEXY/SKIMPY" or "NOT SAFE FOR WORK" or "NUDITY"

 

If Nexus remove that mod's can be because have stealed content. Is a thing that Nexus look with detail.

Your mod can depend from any other mod, but you can NOT include content stealed from other mod.

You can change completely other mod but your mod MUST depend from the original.

You can NOT make a similar or diferent version, whitout dependency, whitout express autorization.

[LordArek]

5 hours ago, Grey Cloud said:

Nexus doesn't have an 18 and over policy so therefore it doesn't allow, and cannot allow, porn-type mods.

Nexus used to have rated r mods, that's why this discussion came up in the first place. Basically you answered the question though, because I didn't know about this as well. Not that it was really explained, since there never was a real statement why certain mods were deleted, they were just gone, but thanks. 

 

5 hours ago, Grey Cloud said:

"Or can you prove the opposite?"

That's asking me to prove a negative, BTW.

 

Thanks again! English is not my mother tongue. I actually meant if you can prove the opposite of what the post you cited said. Which you now did. 

[woodsman30]

OP here ...topic was never about sex mods not sure how that got thrown in. I had noticed a lot of mods now gone from there I had noticed many mod authors are gone as well nothing to do with sex in any way. It was an observation on my part whether you believe or not is up to you.

[Ernest Lemmingway]

1 hour ago, woodsman30 said:

OP here ...topic was never about sex mods not sure how that got thrown in. I had noticed a lot of mods now gone from there I had noticed many mod authors are gone as well nothing to do with sex in any way. It was an observation on my part whether you believe or not is up to you.

I've noticed it here and there myself but I tend to chalk it up to personal reasons and/or the politicized nature of Nexus regarding things like paid mods, mod makers vs. mod reviewers on YouTube, or moderators on Nexus turning into petty little tyrants. Nothing new there, really. I've been a member of Nexus since '03 and there's always something making the natives restless.

[SmedleyDButler]

Also the simple age of the game and the huge pool of established mods (with ever-higher quality and feature standards) means people aren't as eager to jump into modding as they might once have been.

[Derpakiin]

A large part of Skyrim mods have exposure on Tumblr, (quite a large number of sites feature mods that are hosted on Tumblr) but ever since the Tumblr purge a lot of mods have been essentially removed from the site for adult content. Tumblr also used to be a great place to browse for mods because people often repost other mods content and you can get fairly lost in there and accidentally find some great armor mods.

 

Another hit to mods is the massive push by Bethesda to normalize and force paid modding. Paid modding isn't a new idea to the modding scene and it was never adopted earlier in the past 20-30 years of gaming because it was frowned upon and split up the community. The golden age of modding used to be based on the goodwill shared between modders and dev/publishers were quite content to leave us alone. Having paid mods has no impact on the quality on the mods being produced so all it does really is make mods difficult to obtain.

Now we are seeing less and less mods being offered for free and lots of mods being locked up behind paywalls. The whole point of having mods for free is that modders can collaborate and reiterate on each other's mods, but since paid mods won't allow it, we don't have a lot of options.

 

Now before someone comes up to claim that paid modding is legitimate, there used to be a massive debacle when the author of SkyUI decide to lock his mod behind a paywall. A lot of mods depend on SkyUI so if SkyUI gets locked out a lot of other mods will by extension. Eventually he had to allow SkyUI to remain free.

 

Another issue is that there is a lot of old mods that are no longer safe to install or that there are simply better and more up to date mods that do the same thing. The game is 8 years old at this point so there will be a lot of out of date links pointing to mods that are made by early modders that poorly understood modding. So the host or the original author has removed the original links and most fail to inform anyone of any new updated mods or alternatives.

 

Additionally, a lot of new mods are being made on other sites from other countries. There has been a rise of mods from Russia, China and Japan. Partly why we don't have much access to these mods are a combination of the language barrier and regional restrictions. China being the hardest as their sites require actual Chinese phone numbers to register.

 

tl;dr

 

1. Tumblr nuked a lot of mods. Modders have moved away from Tumblr because of this.

2. Paid mods have effectively locked off a lot of mods. It's now difficult to iterate or collaborate between 2 separate paid mods.

3. Very old mods have their links removed because there are better alternative or because the old mods are dangerous to install.

4. Most other mod releases are now coming from other countries and are difficult to access.

 

[myuhinny]

I like how fachry from the rift brothel mod doesn't want to put sexlab as a requirement because they don't want to get banned. They obviously haven't heard that loverslab is no longer on the nexus's black list and you can now link links from here to there as well as say the words lovers lab without being struck down and it's been like that for awhile now.

[Grey Cloud]

There's a lot of crap talked about Nexus.

 

From 2016 but I've seen stuff from earlier.

HAnimations

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/80201?tab=images

[woodsman30]

On 2/28/2019 at 2:22 AM, myuhinny said:

I like how fachry from the rift brothel mod doesn't want to put sexlab as a requirement because they don't want to get banned. They obviously haven't heard that loverslab is no longer on the nexus's black list and you can now link links from here to there as well as say the words lovers lab without being struck down and it's been like that for awhile now.

It is a stigma there and always will be I go there often but consider this my home....... Never fully understood Skyrim has straight up decapitation in game violence like no tomorrow and many mods to take it further but mention sex people get all offended go figure

[myuhinny]

@woodsman30

 

Sex was never the problem it was that at the time LL never had a age gate so that anyone could enter the site with no problems and that is why darkone had the site on their blacklist and prevented anyone from posting about loverslab or posting links to the site once the age gate was added to LL and darkone was notified about it the site was removed from their black list and you can now talk about LL on the nexus as well as post links from LL on the nexus.

[GrimReaper]

Pretty sure back then there was also the issue of piracy and such, with mods and games alike. After all, I don't recall anyone ever getting any permission to modify and upload the original xLovers mod here or elsewhere. The Nexus itself had quite an issue with english speaking uploaders who just uploaded mods from asian sites without any permission whatsoever.