Archives For "Problematic" Content - And "problematic adjacent" content

[Judge Dredd]

It's become clear that archives are not as permanent as I'd like. Especially when it comes to content like videos, games, and mods.

This really came into focus earlier this year when a mod to remove the gay pride flags from Spiderman resulted in a lot of censorship of not just the mod itself, but of anyone who defended it. A while ago Nexus Mods stopped users from deleting their own mods for various reasons. So I was surprised seeing them go scorched earth on anyone and everyone over a simple flag replacement mod. Archive.org and Moddb also seemed to take issue with the mod.

While the flag mod itself is archived somewhere on KF, mods with no direct link are gone. For example, a Fallout modder I like called Random411 was banned and his content scrubbed. A couple of his most popular mods can be found on Reddit but I doubt they'll last.


I've considered asking if I such things should be archived on Kiwi Farms, but given all the recent problems I don't know if that's a good idea, but I don't know a good alternative.

 

[Saint Agustin]

The Nexus thing is really sus to me, like someone is else told them to scrub the site of problematic mods...

I know for a fact that when you disable an account or you "delete" a mod, the site still host that mod and the download link for it, even though it is supposedly gone.

Last week I redownloaded a mod for Battle Brothers that the author took it down, but the download link was still up. That tells me Nexus doesn't really give a shit about what you upload. The whole remove "fag flag" mod screams of site intervention.... The same about Cloudfare and ISPs and well, the whole internet at large.

Somebody, and I don't believe its the troons, is pulling an all out stops to make faggotry acceptable and punish those who goes against that principle.

Call me a lunatic but I seriously doubt troons have that kind of manipulation power nowadays.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

There's another thread around here (that I promised a post to and need to finish up...) about the possibility of making a decentralized archive system, maybe that will interest you for general content.

For specific things like games content, I would probably look at The-Eye.eu instead. They do big collections on various topics, but I'm not sure what it takes to be a topic they care about.

 

[Judge Dredd]

There's another thread around here (that I promised a post to and need to finish up...) about the possibility of making a decentralized archive system, maybe that will interest you for general content.

Sure, I'd love to read it. The only threads about the topic I've seen are about archiving web pages so if there's archives for content, I'd love to see them.

I know for a fact that when you disable an account or you "delete" a mod, the site still host that mod and the download link for it, even though it is supposedly gone.

Yes. There's a few reasons they did that. First is their "collections" feature where users could bundle mods together, but deletion would make collections useless over time. The second is a related problem of mod dependencies where mod z would need mod y which would need mod x and so on, but when mod x is deleted the whole house of cards built on top comes down.

Which is why the purging of these "problematic" modders and their mods is a surprise. Maybe the download links still work, but finding a working download link is difficult or even impossible.

I suspect that users can't permanently delete mods, but admins and moderators can and have once something offended them.

 

[Activelo]

The Nexus thing is really sus to me, like someone is else told them to scrub the site of problematic mods...

I know for a fact that when you disable an account or you "delete" a mod, the site still host that mod and the download link for it, even though it is supposedly gone.

Last week I redownloaded a mod for Battle Brothers that the author took it down, but the download link was still up. That tells me Nexus doesn't really give a shit about what you upload. The whole remove "fag flag" mod screams of site intervention.... The same about Cloudfare and ISPs and well, the whole internet at large.

Somebody, and I don't believe its the troons, is pulling an all out stops to make faggotry acceptable and punish those who goes against that principle.

Call me a lunatic but I seriously doubt troons have that kind of manipulation power nowadays.

I know that we're actively being censored, but sometimes the answer is more simple than you think. The answer being that the Nexus mods are faggots.

As for the Spiderman flag mod archives for those curious, it can be found in this thread. A /pol/ flag mod pack can be found on this page.

Some Non-Newtonian mods for a couple other games can be found here along with some local archives