The user referred to who has been censored on the topic of automatic crash reporting opened a thread in this forum section viewtopic.php?f=55&t=63823#p389064featherwinglove wrote: βSun Jan 06, 2019 11:46 pmIn the case under discussion, the discussion of modding of axes and mining hardness was shut down. That goes well beyond mere moderation. Also, it doesn't matter what you think, if you can't offer any suitable justification for this deplorable behaviour, cannot see it as destructive to your ends and the relationship with the community, and have no desire to apologize for it, I can't feel in the slightest bit comfortable with Wube Software, especially the way I've seen you toot your ethical horn in the more distant past, and also very recently in private messages sent to me.Klonan wrote: βSun Jan 06, 2019 10:28 pmClosing topics when they become off-topic is not the same as censorship.featherwinglove wrote: βSun Jan 06, 2019 9:23 pmThe removal of the axe is nothing compared to this disgusting and insulting censorious behaviour.
But that is exactly what you have done in the modding thread I linked above. viewtopic.php?f=33&t=64142 for your convenience. Also, you need to realize that it doesn't need to be productive in a technical sense to be productive in a community sense; or at the very least realize how destructive it is to shut down the speech of your community members, please.
You have also done exactly this with a new user's concerns regarding the automatic crash reporting and you shut him down. Not once, but twice. Before I found out about this, I was quite satisfied with automatic crash reporting privacy and security. However, words mean less than action and your behaviour has raised my doubts to the point where I have turned off crash reporting.
I know I've gone off topic here, but frankly these are topics you are not allowing people to discuss anywhere else. Are you sure this is moderation? Or is it really as it looks from my perspective: Has Wube Software has lost its mojo?
I do not consider this behaviour to be defensible, and am currently warning my friends of it. It has the very real potential of destroying the reputation of Wube and Factorio, causing this once find developer to join the trash heap of the current gaming industry, something I don't want to see.vangruz wrote: The topic has been locked for no reason, so I restart it here.