Has Nexus finally come up to LLs status as far as political speech?

[Psalam]

I was surprised to see the following notice when I went on Nexus earlier today:

 

Recently we have seen a spate of provocative and troll mods being uploaded based around current sociopolitical issues in the United States. As we get closer to the US election in November we expect this trend to increase as it did this time 4 years ago.

Considering the low quality of the mods being uploaded, the polarising views they express and the fact that a small but vocal contingent of our users are seemingly not intelligent or grown up enough to be able to debate the issues without resorting to name calling and baseless accusations without proof (indicative of the wider issues plaguing our world at this time) we've decided to wipe our hands clean of this mess and invoke an outright ban on mods relating to sociopolitical issues in the United States. We have neither the time, the care or the wish to moderate such things. This ban will apply to all mods uploaded from the 28th of September onwards. We will review this restriction sometime after the next President of the United States has been inaugurated.

Most of these mods are being uploaded by cowards with sock puppet accounts deliberately to try and cause a stir. If you see one of these mods I suggest you do as our Terms of Service say and report the mod and move on without engaging with the content. Your engagement will only fuel the idiots further. Smile and be happy in the knowledge the time it took them to make an account on the site and upload their mod is a lot longer than it takes for us to ban the account and delete the mod.

To be blunt, we do not care how this looks nor do we care if you think the mods we do or don't moderate reflect on us, our political beliefs or what we do and don't want on our site. Say and do what you want on other sites or services, we care nothing for it here.

Have a great day.

 

Has Nexus finally read LL's rule number 9 or is this more of their usual way of saying we're only going to allow speech with which we agree on our forum?

[Seijin8]

9 minutes ago, Psalam said:

Has Nexus finally read LL's rule number 9 or is this more of their usual way of saying we're only going to allow speech with which we agree on our forum?

Alternately, we could avoid immediately polarizing things into two equally disingenuous binary states.

[endersgame]

1 hour ago, Psalam said:

Has Nexus finally read LL's rule number 9 or is this more of their usual way of saying we're only going to allow speech with which we agree on our forum?

 

What do you think?

1 hour ago, Psalam said:

We will review this restriction sometime after the next President of the United States has been inaugurated.

 

[worik]

My take: They realized

a) it could cost them

b) it isn't one of their core topics, so why bother with it at all

 

[landess]

Who gives a fuck what people upload as long as it isn't illegal. This is just another form of cancel culture.

 

The problem I see is because some idiots 'do give a fuck', they get involved in making posts which border on or are against forum rules, forcing moderators to work 'overtime' trying to keep the peace. Saying 'take it outside' doesn't work on idiots, so the site ends up catering to the idiots instead of banning them for their inability to keep it in their pants while continuing to allow artistic freedom regardless of it's popularity.

 

 

It's amazing how one of the most 'American' things brings out one of the most 'anti-American' things.

[parsalian100]

This was done as a response to a low-quality mod which changed the names of Fallout 4 Raiders to 'Antifa' (and used the picture of Anthony Huber's dead body). This spawned a series of 10 or so copycat mods naming them 'trump supporters', 'rioters', 'not-fascists-but-support-them' etc. etc. within 3 hours.

I agree with the choice. Keep politics where it belongs and focus on gaming, fapping, and grilling.

[Heroine HoneyCrotch]

So basically,if you see a funny political mod dl that shit quick. 

[gregathit]

And discussing politics on LL............thread lock.  ?