After wave of troll mods hits website.
NexusMods has issued a full on ban of mod uploads pertaining to US politics. The decision follows a slate of “provocative and troll mods” appearing on the website in recent weeks with admins expecting the trend to increase in the weeks leading up to the United States presidential election.
As per the announcement:
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.
The NexusMods team seems aware of the potential criticism and has an answer for that; they don’t care.
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.
The full announcement is available here. As one might expect, the comment section on the article is currently closed.
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