RPGHQ data was used for a paper on video game modifications

[rusty_shackleford]

https://videogamecultures.org/wp-conten ... edings.pdf

The data comprises two sources: (1) information on over 200 modifications for 75 games collected
from basedmods.eth.limo, including modification names, associated games, upload and collection
dates, file details, descriptions, and any images or showcases; and (2) 3,078 posts from the RPGHQ
forum, where users discuss and develop game modifications. This data includes anonymized
usernames, post counts, timestamps, and post content. To mitigate risks, this paper avoids lengthy
direct quotations from posts.

This section focuses on users and developers justifications for modifications like the ones described
in the previous sections. The analysis is organized along the framework of ‘orders of worth’. RPGHQ
is focused on video game discussions especially RPGs, and allows off-topic discussions, including
hateful-threads aimed against marginalized groups and maintains a distinct right-wing slant, with
frequent use of racist, misogynist, antisemitic, homophobic and transphobic language. The forum
leadership claims to practice ‘radical free speech’.

[Vergil]

All modtroon stuff

[maidenhaver]

Some **** doing a school paper about me?

[rusty_shackleford]

This paper offers an extremely condensed version of the findings from the author’s master’s thesis
‘Modding the Discourse’ in social sciences at Humboldt University, Berlin, summarizing only key
aspects of the research and analysis conducted.

yooo someone find his master's thesis

[maidenhaver]

All germans must hang.

[rusty_shackleford]

All germans must hang.

Going to submit a formal complaint to her university, the data was obtained without my permission and against the terms of service:

You agree that by using this website that you are assumed to be an American.

[rusty_shackleford]

This paper offers an extremely condensed version of the findings from the author’s master’s thesis
‘Modding the Discourse’ in social sciences at Humboldt University, Berlin, summarizing only key
aspects of the research and analysis conducted.

yooo someone find his master's thesis

Can't find it, don't think it was published yet. Someone reach out to the author

[jebacdrkac]

Where did you even find this lol?

[Tweed]

Where did you even find this lol?

Rusty is a glowie, he can use the ECHALON system to find all mentions of RPGHQ on the internet no matter where.

The audacity of people to mod out content they don't like, it gets their axe wounds all a-festering!

[loregamer]

hehe...

[A Chinese opium den]

I hope we're all in it.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

Wow. Guy made a whole thesis paper seething for the fact that people use mods to remove their progressive propaganda.

[UltraFan123]

hateful-threads aimed against marginalized groups

And THIS is why traditional conservatism is slowly rising in the West.

The fact that there are still people who believe that the demographics who are being overrepresented everywhere all the time are "marginalized" is peak delusion created by chronic self-gaslighting.

[rusty_shackleford]

The forum leadership claims to practice ‘radical free speech’.

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I claimed that, huh?

[Rand]

The forum leadership claims to practice ‘radical free speech’.

Dafuq?

"Claims?" You can see it in practice. It is fact.

"Leadership?" You mean the administration? An administrator is not a leader, unless you are commie-inclined.

Lastly, there is nothing "radical" about free speech, except to those that would have speech be limited, and therefore be not free.
You either have free speech, or you do not.
(Requiring users to be mutually intelligible, and requiring users to not actively damage threads with inappropriate posts are not against free speech.)

How do you manage to fumble at least three ideas in a nine word sentence?
******* modern journos/academics...

[rusty_shackleford]

Got a nice hot shower while thinking on this, then sat down and wrote on it for a bit. Going to file a formal complaint with the university, and if they refuse to comply I'll contact a lawyer.

My basis for this is as follows:

The author acknowledges that the data is valuable:

This research is based on natural online data, meaning data that already existed and has not been generated specifically for the purpose of social research (Marres, 2017: 54 ff.). Using digital sociology in this way permits a window into a digital social space that would be difficult to research otherwise. This paper does not seek to represent gaming communities as a whole; rather, it is specifically focused on the right-wing fringe within modding culture.

RPGHQ's data therefore significantly contributes to the research's originality and merit, which was taken without our consent against the terms of use. The author is deriving an unfair benefit from our data.

Ethical misrepresentation:

Ethical concerns regarding the use of natural online data were largely mitigated by anonymizing user data and avoiding lengthy quotations or identifiable information.

The claim that ethical concerns were "mitigated" by anonymization does not address whether the data usage was permissible — under our terms of service or otherwise as the data was not licensed to the author. It also does not consider whether I, as the platform owner, should have been consulted. Identifying RPGHQ and myself("forum leadership") undermines the assertion of anonymity.

Mischaracterization of RPGHQ:

The forum leadership claims to practice ‘radical free speech’.

The term "radical free speech" was never stated by me despite the author putting it in quotation marks. I do not ascribe to any ridiculous European idea of American constitutionally protected free speech being "radical". RPGHQ stands for free speech, period, stating it is 'radical' is defamation.

[Rand]

Your style of actual free speech is now radical to the soy commie left and the centrist normies they gaslight and crybully into confusion.
Because they never want free speech. Not even for themselves.

[Rand]

hateful-threads aimed against marginalized groups

And THIS is why traditional conservatism is slowly rising in the West.

The fact that there are still people who believe that the demographics who are being overrepresented everywhere all the time are "marginalized" is peak delusion created by chronic self-gaslighting.

[Faceless_Sentinel]

Got a nice hot shower while thinking on this, then sat down and wrote on it for a bit. Going to file a formal complaint with the university, and if they refuse to comply I'll contact a lawyer.

My basis for this is as follows:

The author acknowledges that the data is valuable:

This research is based on natural online data, meaning data that already existed and has not been generated specifically for the purpose of social research (Marres, 2017: 54 ff.). Using digital sociology in this way permits a window into a digital social space that would be difficult to research otherwise. This paper does not seek to represent gaming communities as a whole; rather, it is specifically focused on the right-wing fringe within modding culture.

RPGHQ's data therefore significantly contributes to the research's originality and merit, which was taken without our consent against the terms of use. The author is deriving an unfair benefit from our data.

Ethical misrepresentation:

Ethical concerns regarding the use of natural online data were largely mitigated by anonymizing user data and avoiding lengthy quotations or identifiable information.

The claim that ethical concerns were "mitigated" by anonymization does not address whether the data usage was permissible — under our terms of service or otherwise as the data was not licensed to the author. It also does not consider whether I, as the platform owner, should have been consulted. Identifying RPGHQ and myself("forum leadership") undermines the assertion of anonymity.

Mischaracterization of RPGHQ:

The forum leadership claims to practice ‘radical free speech’.

The term "radical free speech" was never stated by me despite the author putting it in quotation marks. I do not ascribe to any ridiculous European idea of American constitutionally protected free speech being "radical". RPGHQ stands for free speech, period, stating it is 'radical' is defamation.

I hope you will not change your mind.
If I somehow can help with this, please tell.

[Rand]

The author acknowledges that the data is valuable:

This research is based on natural online data, meaning data that already existed and has not been generated specifically for the purpose of social research (Marres, 2017: 54 ff.). Using digital sociology in this way permits a window into a digital social space that would be difficult to research otherwise. This paper does not seek to represent gaming communities as a whole; rather, it is specifically focused on the right-wing fringe within modding culture.

RPGHQ's data therefore significantly contributes to the research's originality and merit, which was taken without our consent against the terms of use. The author is deriving an unfair benefit from our data.

Ethical misrepresentation:

Ethical concerns regarding the use of natural online data were largely mitigated by anonymizing user data and avoiding lengthy quotations or identifiable information.

The claim that ethical concerns were "mitigated" by anonymization does not address whether the data usage was permissible — under our terms of service or otherwise as the data was not licensed to the author. It also does not consider whether I, as the platform owner, should have been consulted. Identifying RPGHQ and myself("forum leadership") undermines the assertion of anonymity.

Mischaracterization of RPGHQ:

The forum leadership claims to practice ‘radical free speech’.

The term "radical free speech" was never stated by me despite the author putting it in quotation marks. I do not ascribe to any ridiculous European idea of American constitutionally protected free speech being "radical". RPGHQ stands for free speech, period, stating it is 'radical' is defamation.

[Rand]

This was the glowie that wanted to interview Furin, I'm pretty certain.

viewtopic.php?p=145911-woke-content-det ... es#p145911

rafraf777

[Tweed]

So this was all even more Furin list tourism ********? Color me surprised.

[rusty_shackleford]

Another, unrelated paper makes reference to rpghq. This is so low effort that it might as well be a sixth grade project. @orinEsque and @loregamer have probably written posts on modding that have more academic value than this.
https://dl.digra.org/index.php/dl/article/view/2229

[Tweed]

Another, unrelated paper makes reference to rpghq. This is so low effort that it might as well be a sixth grade project. @orinEsque and @loregamer have probably written posts on modding that have more academic value than this.
https://dl.digra.org/index.php/dl/article/view/2229

Heh "playgrounds of ***** expression" heh.

[Marcus]

[Hyborian]

https://videogamecultures.org/wp-conten ... edings.pdf

The data comprises two sources: (1) information on over 200 modifications for 75 games collected
from basedmods.eth.limo, including modification names, associated games, upload and collection
dates, file details, descriptions, and any images or showcases; and (2) 3,078 posts from the RPGHQ
forum, where users discuss and develop game modifications. This data includes anonymized
usernames, post counts, timestamps, and post content. To mitigate risks, this paper avoids lengthy
direct quotations from posts.

This section focuses on users and developers justifications for modifications like the ones described
in the previous sections. The analysis is organized along the framework of ‘orders of worth’. RPGHQ
is focused on video game discussions especially RPGs, and allows off-topic discussions, including
hateful-threads aimed against marginalized groups and maintains a distinct right-wing slant, with
frequent use of racist, misogynist, antisemitic, homophobic and transphobic language. The forum
leadership claims to practice ‘radical free speech’.

I like the last bit!

Some german ****** got so mad over the "no alphabets" mod she wrote a 12 page paper on it. The most hilarious example of "the left can't meme".

[Hyborian]

Got a nice hot shower while thinking on this, then sat down and wrote on it for a bit. Going to file a formal complaint with the university, and if they refuse to comply I'll contact a lawyer.

My basis for this is as follows:

The author acknowledges that the data is valuable:

This research is based on natural online data, meaning data that already existed and has not been generated specifically for the purpose of social research (Marres, 2017: 54 ff.). Using digital sociology in this way permits a window into a digital social space that would be difficult to research otherwise. This paper does not seek to represent gaming communities as a whole; rather, it is specifically focused on the right-wing fringe within modding culture.

RPGHQ's data therefore significantly contributes to the research's originality and merit, which was taken without our consent against the terms of use. The author is deriving an unfair benefit from our data.

Ethical misrepresentation:

Ethical concerns regarding the use of natural online data were largely mitigated by anonymizing user data and avoiding lengthy quotations or identifiable information.

The claim that ethical concerns were "mitigated" by anonymization does not address whether the data usage was permissible — under our terms of service or otherwise as the data was not licensed to the author. It also does not consider whether I, as the platform owner, should have been consulted. Identifying RPGHQ and myself("forum leadership") undermines the assertion of anonymity.

Mischaracterization of RPGHQ:

The forum leadership claims to practice ‘radical free speech’.

The term "radical free speech" was never stated by me despite the author putting it in quotation marks. I do not ascribe to any ridiculous European idea of American constitutionally protected free speech being "radical". RPGHQ stands for free speech, period, stating it is 'radical' is defamation.

You sound like a little *****, Rustlejew. What is it with you ***** and suing? It's a mental illness.

[Nooneatall]

Got a nice hot shower while thinking on this, then sat down and wrote on it for a bit. Going to file a formal complaint with the university, and if they refuse to comply I'll contact a lawyer.

My basis for this is as follows:

The author acknowledges that the data is valuable:

This research is based on natural online data, meaning data that already existed and has not been generated specifically for the purpose of social research (Marres, 2017: 54 ff.). Using digital sociology in this way permits a window into a digital social space that would be difficult to research otherwise. This paper does not seek to represent gaming communities as a whole; rather, it is specifically focused on the right-wing fringe within modding culture.

RPGHQ's data therefore significantly contributes to the research's originality and merit, which was taken without our consent against the terms of use. The author is deriving an unfair benefit from our data.

Ethical misrepresentation:

Ethical concerns regarding the use of natural online data were largely mitigated by anonymizing user data and avoiding lengthy quotations or identifiable information.

The claim that ethical concerns were "mitigated" by anonymization does not address whether the data usage was permissible — under our terms of service or otherwise as the data was not licensed to the author. It also does not consider whether I, as the platform owner, should have been consulted. Identifying RPGHQ and myself("forum leadership") undermines the assertion of anonymity.

Mischaracterization of RPGHQ:

The forum leadership claims to practice ‘radical free speech’.

The term "radical free speech" was never stated by me despite the author putting it in quotation marks. I do not ascribe to any ridiculous European idea of American constitutionally protected free speech being "radical". RPGHQ stands for free speech, period, stating it is 'radical' is defamation.

You sound like a little *****, Rustlejew. What is it with you ***** and suing? It's a mental illness.

Sometimes you have to fight **** with ****

[Shillitron]

The forum leadership claims to practice ‘radical free speech’.

Thesis Title: "FREE GGS"

[maidenhaver]

Wow. Guy made a whole thesis paper seething for the fact that people use mods to remove their progressive propaganda.

Not a guy, its a fat chick.