problem with nexus?

[PsychoMachina]

On the same post as the throttling is a piece about google bots flagging half the Skyrim Nexus pages for serving malware with there ad's and if paying attention it's happened many times before, but he tries to minimize it by saying things like "ad brokers" and such in an attempt to shift blame for his own lack of watching what gets put up. I have on occasion seen questionable ads, nothing major but questionable because of there stance on even the most mundain form of "sexy". Granted it didn't stay up long (because of all the asskissers whinning) but it wasn't caught by those who should of caught it. He can slam us ad blockers all he wants and call us less then garbage but he can kiss my lilly white ass if he thinks I'm going to let he's precious ads infect my computer. Been there done that, I learn from my mistakes.

 

That explains the warning I received one time when I was about to log into Nexus.  It was the same warning as when LL had that malicious ad problem and happened around the same time.

[tagalong]

I dislike the nexus mod staff, but love the service. I am torn I guess.

[leddis3]

I used to be a paying member because I liked the convenience of the site and wanted to give something back.

But their arrogant attitude alienated me. Their paranoia is ridiculous, instantly taking down mods and pics for "copyrighted content" even if they've been on the Steam workshop for almost a year. If Valve doesn't have a problem with it, why does the nexus? Oh yeah because they're paranoid assholes.

[tagalong]

I don't post anything on their forums, I just download stuff. They seem to not like opinions. If your opinion differs, then it can be problematic , so I avoid it altogether.

 

I don't suggest going to their chat room and a ban may result from talking with them or other members about anything.

[Remy]

I don't post anything on their forums, I just download stuff. They seem to not like opinions. If your opinion differs, then it can be problematic , so I avoid it altogether. I don't suggest going to their chat room and a ban may result from talking with them or other members about anything.

Yeah i seen that happen, i went there once, said hi but noone replied, luckly i just walked away...the day after i see a thread about someone being banned because of the chat...someone asked for help in the chat and got in to an argument with them..and bam banned lol...yep they dont like different opinions.

[leddis3]

Well I was never banned but one of the admins, DarkOne I think, once ranted at me because I criticised their decision to make a Witcher nexus and not a seperate nexus for Morrowind and Oblivion.

He went on and on about not enough demand (does the Witcher have more mods than Morrowind?) and what was he supposed to do and blah blah blah. I sensed this was going nowhere so I dropped it.

Lo and behold a few months later and there was now a seperate Morrowind nexus.

[Cozy]

I used to very active on The Nexus way back in the Morrowind and Oblivion days. Even got friendly with one of the mods, Buddha. Say what you will about their administration but he's a nice guy. The first time I ever really got pissed off at the Nexus was when a dear friend of mine was banned, because get this, some asshole outed her as trans to the entire forum. How is it she, the victim gets banned and the antagonist that brought all that drama public doesn't? Where's the compassion there?

 

The next domino that caught my eye was how they just outright flattened the Morroblivion project, which thankfully has a new home and has come a long way despite being thrown under the bus by The Nexus. Then I saw new sites emerge Fallout 3 and NV Nexus started to get popular, Then Dragon Age, The Witcher and I started to notice certain trends. Not exactly surprising trends mind you, I saw where things were going.

 

I think a lot of folks are disenfranchised with the Nexus because, it's just not what it used to be. This loan independent modding site for aspiring modders, so open to new stuff that they made an adult section. Openly embracing Alienslof after a bunch of kiddies, and manchildren ran her off the official Bethesda forums for posting erotic male content, something that was rather scarce. Even going as far as to make her a moderator. Still love her work from the old Morrowind days, and especially the Oblivion days. My male character in Oblivion was rather smexy thanks to her efforts.

 

Now with everything going on with the Nexus the olive branch they extended to Alienslof almost seems like a publicity stunt, even if it wasn't at the time. But it was a different site back then. My advice to folks disenfranchised with the Nexus is take it for what it now is. A business. It's a big money maker and the beneficiaries are going to be careful as to what they allow on the site in fear of losing sponsors. That's why the censorship over there has been amped up a bit, and even more disturbing if the trend continues I think mods like Animated Prostitution and the like will be the next to go to keep the site business friendly.

 

So basically following the trends and putting it all together the administration had gone down the slippery slope of selling out, and I believe they will continue to do so in the future in even more extreme examples. It doesn't make me mad, for that kind of cash flow who can blame them, and they will remain probably one of the best mega mod resource sites around. However in terms of a sense of community? Forget it...  I like the Nexus for what is, accepting what it now is, a nice and clean sponsor friendly stockpile of mods, and resources.  It serves it's purpose for me, in terms of downloading from their quite often. However, I am no longer active like i once was. I don't help on the forums, I don't feel any sense of community. So I just download and leave an endorsement on the mods I like, then go on my merry way.

 

In a nutshell I don't feel the Nexus is bad, but it's certainly changed. It still has it's pluses, and it has negatives. Right now more than ever it's very important for independent smaller modding sites to take root in the shadow of The Nexus. Because The Nexus is inevitably going to amp up it's censorship. It's sites like Lovers Lab or Gamevixen, or the more obscure Mods Reloaded, which I've been a long time contributor too and so forth that really need to get proactive in hosting the mods the Nexus will refuse to host. Otherwise these mods will be lost.

 

I think the smaller sites should go as far as to band together and form a network of their own. If that happens it means the independent sites can help mirror each other.  I am sure there are a lot more smaller independent sites that would like to form some sort of network of more fringe modding sites. Like I don't know anyone at Gamevixen, at least not anymore, but that would be a great site for Loverslab to reach out too, they are also known for their adult mods over their grant you for a wider variety of games. They do have some nice resources for Saint's Row 2, and Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines. Also while your at it see if you can hook up with the folks over at the Morroblivion project and now get this they are working on Skywind! Morrowind with Skyrim's engine and more power to them!

 

Babbling, but I guess what I am getting at is that in lieu of the Nexus essentially going corporate, a lot of mods are going to fall threw the cracks, and it's just a shame to see so much creativity go to waste.  Now this site is running strong now, but I am thinking long term. I feel sites like this should stick together, and maybe find common ground with one another in order to support one another. It would be great to see some sort of agreement met, and more unification and stability for the underdogs overall imo.

 

The Nexus is what it is, it's good for what it does, but it's success has stifled it's potential and isolated long time site-goers. You can't think of it as a normal entity anymore, it's a business now, and that's that. So with that said I really feel it's important sites like this not only flourish, but stick around for the long haul to be a counter balance to it. The problem you see with the Nexus now goes hand in hand with the old saying, "don't put all your eggs in one basket."

 

... and /end rant.

[Queen Bee]

Yeah, Nexus is a good site for non-adult mods, but I don't actually talk to anyone there. If mods were currency, Nexus would be the NYSE, where LL would be Las Vegas. One is a bit more stable, but cold and indifferent, while the other is warm and full of fun people, but kind of a crap shoot for what you get.

[Guest Lehshara]

To be honest Nexus moderators / admins are totall idiots.

 

A long time ago before Dawnguard was released I have created performance mod for Skyrim, I modified some files from Boris .V (with his permission of course)

Fucking Nexus moderators caused big problems, They wanted proofs that I have permissions to edit those files and that I created them etc.

So I gave them proof and everything was cool for maybe 2 weeks.

 

And after those 2 weeks, My mod was removed from Nexus and my account banned for no reason.

I have created new account and I asked them why they banned me from Nexus... Of course I didnt get any reply from them and those idiots banned my second account.

 

After that I said to Nexus "Bye Bye fuckheads, Will never visit ya shitty site again"

 

 

 

Well
I was never banned but one of the admins, DarkOne I think, once ranted
at me because I criticised their decision to make a Witcher nexus and
not a seperate nexus for Morrowind and Oblivion.

He went on and on
about not enough demand (does the Witcher have more mods than
Morrowind?) and what was he supposed to do and blah blah blah. I sensed
this was going nowhere so I dropped it.

Lo and behold a few months later and there was now a seperate Morrowind nexus.

 

Nexus - Place where good ideas are considered bad ideas.

[Tarthalas]

how i chancge the .esp mods to .esm?... help pls

[gregathit]

how i chancge the .esp mods to .esm?... help pls

 

 

This is not a tech help thread it is a place to rant about the nexus.    

 

However to answer your question you need to get the Construction Set Extender (from the nexus).  I recommend using version 51 as that doesn't require you to run a beta version of OBSE.

[Guest Lehshara]

Just noticed that somebody stole my old Skyrim mod and uploaded it on Nexus, redemption time biatch.

[Dex Luther]

That's why we'll soon be able to host some files here and avoid that kind of douchy attitude. Now, please ask them for further explanation as I'd like to know.

 

 

 

Hello Dex,

 

Thank you for contacting MediaFire.

I apologize for this inconvenience as it appears these files were

removed in error. While we have uncovered the bug which caused this

problem and resolved it, we unfortunately weren't able to restore your

deleted files. 

 

However we can assure you that your files are no longer at risk, and

that you can continue to upload and distribute files freely.  If there's

anything else we can do to help please let us know.

 

We appreciate you bringing this to our attention.

 

Sincerely,

LaChandra

 

Mistake my ass.

[Grumpf]

Another long-assed blog post by you-know-who basically describing how he'll use bandwidth throttling to punish people who use adblock and who don't participate by endorsing files. Meanwhile, the cult congregation kisses his ass in agreement. (And yes, his site so he can do what he wants, but the FILES are not his.)

 

http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?showtopic=906602

 

Indeed. This TL;DR could be easily summarized if everyone will keep in mind the Nexus is a business making money using the work of others and thus, has absolutely no right to ask anything from members. I fucking paid a membership for fuck sake, you think it should have been offered to me as it should be to any modder with a certain download success? You're damn right. Enough now.

 

 

 

Well the "punishment" is only a small knock on your download speed so I don't think it is all that terrible.  While I despise many things about the Nexus and how it operates, I find it hard to argue with what he is trying to say.  For the nexus to remain up and operating the money has to come from somewhere after all.......

 Why is it my job to pay for someone else's hobby? Why is it my job to pay for Dark0ne to use other people's files to start a business?

 

Yup. Greg is right (of course Greg is right, Greg is ALWAYS right   ) the money has to come from somewhere. Block the adds, they'll find another way. It's the same old long debate about many many things... We can't stop the progress because of some old habits and backwards superstitions. We need to evolve, Belgium is in deep shit now because of 45 years of socialism and union corruption (ok, move this to political thread if you must, I'm angry   ) due to this exact same attitude. I don't care if blocking adds renders the business non profitable, in nature not adapting leads to extinction. It's called evolution... (for the story I do pause adblock from time to time here, but that's because I love this community, not out of misplaced guilt).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello Dex,

 

Thank you for contacting MediaFire.

I apologize for this inconvenience as it appears these files were

removed in error. While we have uncovered the bug which caused this

problem and resolved it, we unfortunately weren't able to restore your

deleted files. 

 

However we can assure you that your files are no longer at risk, and

that you can continue to upload and distribute files freely.  If there's

anything else we can do to help please let us know.

 

We appreciate you bringing this to our attention.

 

Sincerely,

LaChandra

 

Mistake my ass.

 

 

 

Interesting...

[Guest Plastrader]

What I care about in a community are the following things.

1. The general attitude of the members.
   There shouldn't be many members who only care for their post count.
   Members should have a nice attitude towards eachother.
2. The behaviour and presence of admins/moderators.
   The staff should be there to help and assist.
   Never should a member of the staff be affected by "arse lickers".
   The staff should be part of the community but not being fascists.

The Nexus consists of two camps of members.

1. "The Helpful"-camp
2. "The I'm the best modder/scripter/member"-camp.

Unfortunately the second camp is much larger than the first one.

Which results in a rather unfriendly tone.

 

And the staff only seem to do things if someone uses the "report"-button on a post/mod.

They(the staff) very rarly see or bothers to see the whole picture of the report and just ban/warn the user without reason.

Contacting the Staff via PM is pretty much futile.

I've yet to see any member of the staff actually participating in a conversation or moderating a thread.

 

If one should try to compare "The Nexus" with Lovers Lab.

The first and most important thing I've noticed(I've not been a member for long though) is that the general attitude of members in this community(LL)

are far more nice than on The Nexus.

 

The second thing is the attitude and presence of the staff.

I rarly see any members of the staff online over at The Nexus, but here on Lovers Lab they are. To a point where I think that Ashal never sleeps.

If you contact the staff via PM over at The Nexus(as I mentioned above) you never get an answer. But here you do.

 

The only reason why I still hang around over at The Nexus is because of the mod section.

[Grumpf]

 

 

 

To a point where I think that Ashal never sleeps.

 

 

 

You know too much. Your account will be terminated soon...   

[lemonbalm]

You know, we gripe about the Nexus banning people at the drop of a hat, but they must really love that 83Willow person and his/her screenshots' popularity. S/he has offended yet again and only received a warning. Blatant favoritism. http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/923405-83willow-formal-warning-issued/

[Dex Luther]

You know, we gripe about the Nexus banning people at the drop of a hat, but they must really love that 83Willow person and his/her screenshots' popularity. S/he has offended yet again and only received a warning. Blatant favoritism. http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/923405-83willow-formal-warning-issued/

 

 

For once it looks like the punishment fits the crime.

[lemonbalm]

 

You know, we gripe about the Nexus banning people at the drop of a hat, but they must really love that 83Willow person and his/her screenshots' popularity. S/he has offended yet again and only received a warning. Blatant favoritism. http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/923405-83willow-formal-warning-issued/

 

 

For once it looks like the punishment fits the crime.

 

 

http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/754813-83willow-reinstated-strike-1-and-2/

 

[Arcueid Brunestud]

 

 

 

 

 

You know, we gripe about the Nexus banning people at the drop of a hat, but they must really love that 83Willow person and his/her screenshots' popularity. S/he has offended yet again and only received a warning. Blatant favoritism. http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/923405-83willow-formal-warning-issued/

 

 

 

For once it looks like the punishment fits the crime.

 

 

http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/754813-83willow-reinstated-strike-1-and-2/

 

 

That's quite severe but I do hope she would learn something there given the moderators of Nexus is infamous for not reinstate banned account.

[Poontank]

Willie's ban back then was a special one from the beginning as it was only temporary. An educative measure so to speak. Education failure.

 

When my appeal got turned down, my first ban was used as one of the arguments against me.

While the modeRATS forgot to mention the reason for that ban was none other but this vulgar and inappropriate username I'm using on here now.

To me as a German however this name never was more than just a sleazy little poon, I mean pun.

[Rayblue]

Ever since I started modding Skyrim, one of the things that disgusted me are the obnoxious loremongers who think that anything contrary to the purported "purity" of the game is considered heresy. Then there's the kiddies who scream at the modder, asking him/her to fix this and that while forgetting that the dork has messed up the load list. All that shit reminds me of Fanfiction.net.

 

Okay, as far as the administration is concerned, with game corporations eyeballing them and then the advertising revenue that mucho web traffic brings, Nex is very sensitive about IP and game rips which means they'll bring out the hammer for even the slightest .DDS tweak; they want to maintain the clean image attractive to corporate investors and sue-crazy IP lawyers.

 

So we're really cautious about stepping on their eggshells; Nex is also like Youtube in the way on how they run their operations.

 

I have a friend who'd made retextures of anano's school uniform mod, and according to him, he wished to upload it to Nex so he needed permission first. Unfortunately anano wasn't online most of the time, and to upload a retexture becomes a risky venture, as the admins were expecting him to do the standard procedure. The response gave him nothing but a chilling effect so he decided not to upload as not to get his existing Nex account flagged for just a simple retexture.

[Poontank]

Heh. Prophour is at large again and has released his 'Waywards' mod last night under a flashy new name.

 

The almost 9001 pictures to promote the mod all are very much like that one picture that got me banned, just more suggestive, and that character of his even looks about three years younger than mine. The Buttah however seems to be sleeping.

[Grumpf]

The shitty search engine over the Nexus doesn't give any result for any of the keywords you used. A link may help...

[gregathit]

Heh. Prophour is at large again and has released his 'Waywards' mod last night under a flashy new name.

 

The almost 9001 pictures to promote the mod all are very much like that one picture that got me banned, just more suggestive, and that character of his even looks about three years younger than mine. The Buttah however seems to be sleeping.

 

 

Give it a couple of days and see if they catch it.....