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[NekoboyGames]

I have a question about this rule.

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We are a free and open community; members requiring payment for mods, support, or putting anything behind a paywall will be removed without warning. Donation buttons/links to support an author is fine, so long as nothing is promised, given, or rewarded other than a sense of satisfaction for supporting an author or owner of content. 

 

Does this include members that stopped updating their files but still link to their patreon where everything, incl updates of the files they have on LL, is for paying members only?

 

For concept:

There is a member that stopped upload their content about 2 years ago and instead have all their sims 4 mods/cc created after that date locked on their patreon. They are still linking their patreon on their profile and the old stuffs that remain on LL. But if you go to their patreon, ALL their mods/CC from the past 2 years are locked. Membership might only be $1, but from my understanding, it is against sims ToS to have sims mods/cc locked behind a paywall/patreon membership for more than a month. Their things still works but have only been updated for paying patreons. They claimed on a unlocked patreon post (still need to pay to comment though), that they HAVE to do this bc of program costs etc, which to me sounds like bullocks. One patreon member had also comment that they had to cancel their membership bc they got flagged by EA for using stolen stuffs. I guess they ment the mods/cc as they commented it on that patreon post which listed all cc/mods of the patreon owner.

[Ashal]

9 hours ago, NekoboyGames said:

I have a question about this rule.

 

Does this include members that stopped updating their files but still link to their patreon where everything, incl updates of the files they have on LL, is for paying members only?

 

For concept:

There is a member that stopped upload their content about 2 years ago and instead have all their sims 4 mods/cc created after that date locked on their patreon. They are still linking their patreon on their profile and the old stuffs that remain on LL. But if you go to their patreon, ALL their mods/CC from the past 2 years are locked. Membership might only be $1, but from my understanding, it is against sims ToS to have sims mods/cc locked behind a paywall/patreon membership for more than a month. Their things still works but have only been updated for paying patreons. They claimed on a unlocked patreon post (still need to pay to comment though), that they HAVE to do this bc of program costs etc, which to me sounds like bullocks. One patreon member had also comment that they had to cancel their membership bc they got flagged by EA for using stolen stuffs. I guess they ment the mods/cc as they commented it on that patreon post which listed all cc/mods of the patreon owner.

 

The rule is pretty outdated and was written well before Patreon was really established in the way people use it now. I've been wanting to update it to better reflect how we've been trying to moderate such things lately, but I'm not entirely confident we've clearly nailed down our policy on it internally. I hate to admit it, but a lot of how we've been policing paid content the past couple of years has mostly just come down to how we subjectively feel about what's presented and whether or not it comes off as misleading, rather than anything objective.

 

What I can say for sure, though, is that we don't like or allow purely paid content advertising. If somebody makes a download page on loverslab for a Sim, for example, and the download button just links to a paid post on Patreon and there is no way to get it without subscribing to their Patreon, that's just using us as free advertising, and we'll remove anything like that we come across in moderator reports. We really rely on user reports for that, though, as the sheer number of mods that are uploaded and updated makes it impossible for the few staff members to catch such cases on our own.

 

But as long as actual free, useable content is being uploaded, there's some semblance of effort behind it, and there are no misleading paywalls in the way of using something provided on the site, we aren't typically going to get too up in arms about Patreon link being included in the post. So long as the content being provided free on LoversLab remains the focus of the post on LoversLab. If they are additionally doing paid-only content on the Patreon, I don't really consider that our business until the paid content becomes the sole focus of a post on LoversLab, but we'll tolerate at least a bit of "Support me on Patreon for additional content"-type stuff in a post that is providing something freely accessible.

 

Not sure that really clears anything up, but I hope it helps.

[LongDukDong]

On 5/5/2024 at 2:15 PM, ButchDiavolo said:

I have a technical question about the forums. I was updating a mod description in the download section and saved it. But when I looked in the support section, the mod description wasn't altered there? I vaguely remember that changing a mod description was altered on both descriptions? Has that been changed? Or am I just having fake memories.

Its been like that for a while, that is unless it was a very recently uploaded mod.

 

If you only just uploaded a mod, you may edit/update the contents of the main Download page with the changes taking effect in the Support page.  But after some time (I don't know how long), then the connection between the two is severed and the two pages need to be edited separately.

[LuSimmino]

I latini dicevano:

in media stat virtus!

 

In senso allargato significa che gli eccessi non rendono mai virtuosi. Applicare ciecamente una regola significa seguire tutto di tutti mentre tollerare appare più ludico e rilassante. Le invidie tra autori poi ........

beh .... lasciamo perdere .....

 

Che la pace e la fratellanza sia il vostro spirito di collaborazione perchè insieme si cresce meglio!!!

[Grey Cloud]

Not the right place for this but:

Somebody has posted SLF on Nexus

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/121865

 

 

[Hex Bolt]

28 minutes ago, Grey Cloud said:

Not the right place for this but:

Somebody has posted SLF on Nexus

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/121865

That's dirty, the person who did that didn't credit Ashal, and claims ownership of all assets in the permissions.

[Grey Cloud]

29 minutes ago, HexBolt8 said:

That's dirty, the person who did that didn't credit Ashal, and claims ownership of all assets in the permissions.

There wasn't a posts tab so I couldn't leave a comment and couldn't spot a 'report' button or whatever Never calls it.

I suppose I should have messaged @Ashal rather than post here.

[Psalam]

FYI - I reported it to Nexus just now. To do a Report on Nexus go to the mod you need to Report. About 3 lines below where it says "About this mod" is a button entitled "Report Abuse". There are a few steps to follow to make the Report but it's simple enough.

[travelmedic]

I just went to report it as well (squeaky wheel gets the grease) and it's already gone.

[Psalam]

1 minute ago, travelmedic said:

I just went to report it as well (squeaky wheel gets the grease) and it's already gone.

Yeah, me too. Props to Nexus - about a half hour. I doubt that I could have done it any faster.

[Grey Cloud]

Nicely done all round. We don't want those nasty Nexus types corrupting our cloistered community. 👼

[Guest]

> Something is wrong with my blog. Part of my text, the last passage of the latest entry isn't visible. The text doesn't fit into the text frame. Instead, LL added a slider to see the outframed text.

 

> Edit: Never mind. I fixed it.

Edited June 15, 2024 by Evaloves4

[AverageOtaku999]

Why is this post down? Everything else works perfectly. 

 

[NekoboyGames]

On 6/13/2024 at 3:36 AM, Ashal said:

 

The rule is pretty outdated and was written well before Patreon was really established in the way people use it now. I've been wanting to update it to better reflect how we've been trying to moderate such things lately, but I'm not entirely confident we've clearly nailed down our policy on it internally. I hate to admit it, but a lot of how we've been policing paid content the past couple of years has mostly just come down to how we subjectively feel about what's presented and whether or not it comes off as misleading, rather than anything objective.

 

What I can say for sure, though, is that we don't like or allow purely paid content advertising. If somebody makes a download page on loverslab for a Sim, for example, and the download button just links to a paid post on Patreon and there is no way to get it without subscribing to their Patreon, that's just using us as free advertising, and we'll remove anything like that we come across in moderator reports. We really rely on user reports for that, though, as the sheer number of mods that are uploaded and updated makes it impossible for the few staff members to catch such cases on our own.

 

But as long as actual free, useable content is being uploaded, there's some semblance of effort behind it, and there are no misleading paywalls in the way of using something provided on the site, we aren't typically going to get too up in arms about Patreon link being included in the post. So long as the content being provided free on LoversLab remains the focus of the post on LoversLab. If they are additionally doing paid-only content on the Patreon, I don't really consider that our business until the paid content becomes the sole focus of a post on LoversLab, but we'll tolerate at least a bit of "Support me on Patreon for additional content"-type stuff in a post that is providing something freely accessible.

 

Not sure that really clears anything up, but I hope it helps.

The person in question has free content here, but it's 2 years since the last free update. They have however released updates, as well as new stuffs, on patreon, but everything is locked behind subscription. So if someone wants the updated version of the stuffs, they will have to pay a subscription fee. This creator is very popular and alot of ppl use their stuffs. 

What I want to know is if it is ok to lock updates behind patreon to stuffs that has previously been released for free on LL?

[Grey Cloud]

Is it me or has the 'Back To Top' button acquired some 'bounce n jiggle'?

[Psalam]

25 minutes ago, Grey Cloud said:

Is it me or has the 'Back To Top' button acquired some 'bounce n jiggle'?

It's been that way for some time now.

[Grey Cloud]

1 hour ago, Psalam said:

It's been that way for some time now.

Thanks. I only noticed it a few days ago.

[LuSimmino]

On 16/06/2024 at 21:08, NekoboyGames said:

La persona in questione ha contenuti gratuiti qui, ma sono trascorsi 2 anni dall'ultimo aggiornamento gratuito. Hanno comunque rilasciato aggiornamenti, nonché novità, su patreon, ma tutto è bloccato dietro abbonamento. Quindi, se qualcuno vuole la versione aggiornata del materiale, dovrà pagare una quota di abbonamento. Questo creatore è molto popolare e molte persone usano i suoi contenuti. 

Quello che voglio sapere è se è possibile bloccare gli aggiornamenti dietro Patreon su contenuti precedentemente rilasciati gratuitamente su LL?

Io penso che nessuno può obbligare all'aggiornamento a vita di materiale messo a disposizione quì. Si può anche rispettare la scelta di un autore di non propagare più gratuitamente la sua produzione. Ciò che però non deve essere concesso, a mio avviso, vista e sottoscritta la netiquette del forum, è la pubblicità del lavoro a pagamento senza rilasciare una quota gratuita quì. Inoltre, e concludo, non capisco questo acerrimo accanimento su un autore quando si hanno a disposizione su questo forum innumerevoli alternative.

[Psalam]

I just want to take a moment to give a shout out to the membership here at LL. As many of you who are regular visitors are aware, we have been subjected to spam attacks in the last couple of weeks. Thanks to the work of the membership in reporting these, we have been able to take them down rapidly. So, hats off to all of YOU (or props, or whatever if you're younger than me - which you probably are) for pitching in to make LL a better place for everyone.

[Guest]

16 hours ago, Psalam said:

I just want to take a moment to give a shout out to the membership here at LL. As many of you who are regular visitors are aware, we have been subjected to spam attacks in the last couple of weeks. Thanks to the work of the membership in reporting these, we have been able to take them down rapidly. So, hats off to all of YOU (or props, or whatever if you're younger than me - which you probably are) for pitching in to make LL a better place for everyone.

> No, Sir, thank YOU, for doing a good job.

[hana120]

The bug of unreadable images came back apparently.
On my blogs where I had posted my images directly on LL, none is readable.
I tried with different search engines, IE, Opera.
It’s the same.

Edited June 28, 2024 by hana120

[Guest]

> I could post new posts right one after another until two days ago when I started to receive this message: "New posts within a short time frame are limited. Please wait 17 seconds before submitting." Is this something new or it is a glitch?

[FacialLinks]

Hello. Is there only one moderator (or 1 + 1) active?

I see only @Psalam having some recent posts and activity, also @Ashal but I think he/she is the owner.

All other moderators have the last posts done months if not years ago.

[Ashal]

On 7/21/2024 at 2:19 AM, FacialLinks said:

Hello. Is there only one moderator (or 1 + 1) active?

I see only @Psalam having some recent posts and activity, also @Ashal but I think he/she is the owner.

All other moderators have the last posts done months if not years ago.

 

Psalam and DoctaSax are active, and I do both moderator and admin duties.

 

Active posts aren't really an indication of how active they are as moderators, as we do most of our moderation through private messages and handling user moderator reports, neither of which show up as public activity.