Nexus censors Loverslab... Da Fudge?

[encover]

So I was around the nexus asking for permissions and etc. for a mod I'm doing. I type in "loverslab" into the message, and nexus censors it out and replaces it with "link not allowed" or something like that. Come on... Does nexus have to be this childish about it? Instead, I just typed LL and hoped the author gets my point.

[adrenaline]

You can use "tinyurl.com" to create a substitute link like "http://tinyurl.com/7kxslvh".

This is my way to give LL link to people in Nexus.

[Kashiwaba Tomoe]

Unless the mods on nexus are utterly inept (a distinct possibility) then they've likely filterd tinyurl and other such sites, I know I tend to add them to filters when I mod/admin stuff if only because of how much they're used in spam.

 

And encover, nexus has been blocking mention of LL and many competing sites for a while now.

 

It's not news.

[Guest]

Yep. That's the nexus for ya.

[deathparade]

This is kinda where we sum everything up on the nexus enjoy:

http://www.loverslab.com/showthread.php?tid=4168

[encover]

Unless the mods on nexus are utterly inept (a distinct possibility) then they've likely filterd tinyurl and other such sites' date=' I know I tend to add them to filters when I mod/admin stuff if only because of how much they're used in spam.

 

And encover, nexus has been blocking mention of LL and many competing sites for a while now.

 

It's not news.

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I always understood that LL isn't fond of the nexus, but the censorship deal is news to me. It's just childish in my opinion. I mean, what's next? DarkOne runs into trouble with ModDB and censors that out too?

[lemonbalm]

I already know that curse.com is censored as well. The message is (or was at the time) something about curse spamming members, but it looks more to me like Nexus doesn't want anyone to know about a site that also has its own download manager.

[deathparade]

Wait what Curse is mainly WoW and only supports Skyrim... 176 Mods ooeh scary!

 

I though the nexus was retarded but not THIS retarded!

 

It does seem that Curse has a MUCH better way of filtering and such and has a lot of a less dumb design!

[lemonbalm]

Wait what Curse is mainly WoW and only supports Skyrim... 176 Mods ooeh scary!

 

I though the nexus was retarded but not THIS retarded!

 

It does seem that Curse has a MUCH better way of filtering and such and has a lot of a less dumb design!

 

Curse.com also has skyrimforge.com. Don't know if Nexus has it filtered as well.

[encover]

It is all really childish isn't it?

[deathparade]

Hmm yea iamma see i do know they also now host or something the Minecraft forum's maybe they do more forum hosting

[Triratna]

Hell, They even won't admit we're exist.

 

One of their moderators could be loverslab die hard fans.

[DocClox]

pastebin.com is a good way to send LL links. Not quite the one click solution we might prefer, but it does the job.

[Halstrom]

Wait what Curse is mainly WoW and only supports Skyrim... 176 Mods ooeh scary!

It's probably been set up as an auto filter I imagine, 176 Mods this early for a new game is probably enough to worry Nexus, if they don't grab all the Sykrim traffic, they'll be dead in the water in 3 years time if other sites become more popular, which is likely due to their customer attitudes.

[mrmuffins]

While it wouldn't be a stretch to assume that some of it is personal dislike for Loverslab, the biggest reason Nexus blocks other sites is business. You can see it in the way they've handled rolling out their exclusive mod manager, and the utter shit-their-pants reaction they had to the announcement of the Skyrim Steam Workshop way back when. As Halstrom said, Nexus needs to grab all the Skyrim traffic it can, while it can. If anyone else gets a foothold, modders will start leaving due to the Nexus community's shamefully unappreciative attitude.