Popular Modding Websites Bans Users For Anti LGBTQ Mods

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Major video game modding websites Nexus Mods and ModDB have taken a public stance against anti-LGBTQ+ content, after a Spider-Man PC mod aimed to remove every Pride flag in the game.

Nexus Mods, a website in which users can share their custom content for PC games, initiated the movement after an established user created a new account (branded a sock puppet) to upload the anti LGBTQ+ content, which swapped out the rainbow Pride flag for the American flag. The mod was subsequently removed.

The user, who Nexus Mods called a "coward", had both their new and old account banned, with the creation of the sock puppet account making it "a very easy decision".

The website also made clear that it will take similar action against any similar cases in the future, stating that "we are for inclusivity, we are for diversity" and, as a private business, "we have a right to choose what content we do and do not want to host on our platform."

Nexus Mods added: "We don't want to and won't argue this with you. We've now explained our stance and we won't be providing a platform for you to distort our position in order to feed an irrational and paranoid narrative. You can do that elsewhere, where we won't care enough to read it.

"If this policy upsets you, if we've broken some moral code of conduct as a business that you can't accept, then please, delete your account and move on, as we will."

As reported by PC Gamer, ModDB followed suit and removed the same Spider-Man mod and banned the users behind it. "ModDB is an inclusive environment for all and we do not permit targeting marginalised groups," the website said on Twitter (above). "Our content moderation is largely automated but when identified, we have a zero tolerance policy for this kind of content."

 

https://www.ign.com/articles/modding-websites-ban-anti-lgbtq-content-pride-flag-removal

 

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Conservatives call liberals 'snowflakes' but they can't even see a flag in a video game without losing their minds

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all the right wingers crying about freedom of speech

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The Nexus Mods forums have a section where they log bans and reasons for them. The amount of gamers who were upset enough about this to act in a way to get themselves banned is pretty gross 

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2 hours ago, RAMROD said:

the anti LGBTQ+ content, which swapped out the rainbow Pride flag for the American flag

As if it was 2 adversarial things and we had to choose between being queer or... Citizen of a certain country.

It makes zero sense, they're crazy.