There's no convenient way to send out messages to people on your WL, so that's why I've opted to do a forum thread.

There's been a lot of drama on SG recently, and some people have been really bad at containing it to private venues, and instead it's been taking place on the forum, and in some cases in other people's threads & giveaways. I don't want to have to deal with any of the drama, so until people learn to play nice, I'll remove people I've seen take part in the recent drama from my WL. This is not a blacklisting but if anyone feels the need to tell on someone else or try to justify their part of the drama, it will be.

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I've had similar concerns and have stopped making whitelist giveaways while I decide what to do about it. I don't know what the answer is - but for the benefit of anyone else I have no issues, I wouldn't want to win a game anyway from somebody who didn't feel OK gifting to me. No need to apologise or explain yourself if I don't meet your requirements...

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I've removed everyone involved already, so you can check for yourself ;) I'll of course not make it public who I've removed. Now I just need to decide what to do with my WL, if I'll leave the spots open, or if I'll fill them with new people and simply let the drama squad re-join as I make room in the future (I keep a limit on the number of people on my WL)

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I'll keep that in mind - but for the record I have 117 hours and 39 achievements in the last game I won from you and I very much appreciate your contributions!

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You're saying there's too much drama, yet you create this "dramatic" thread? :P

Kidding aside, I agree about the behaviour on the forum, it's getting worse every day too. I try to ignore it though, it's better than to talk about it and resurrecting the topic in my opinion. I haven't unwhitelisted anyone and I don't plan to, and I won't change how I handle blacklisting, because to me it feels like that would be taking part in that "drama" thing everyone is talking about.

Also, you really don't have any reason to justify why you whitelist/blacklist, that's up to you alone and screw whoever cries about it.

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I did not want anyone to think that I'm picking sides, that's why I felt the need to make the thread. I had people from both sides of it on my WL; and that was why I was afraid it would be leaking out into WL & group giveaways that I make.

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Ah, that makes sense.

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Haha nice perspective. Made me laugh. Jokes aside, I agree with you both...
That's why I've been away for a while. Somehow, all the best people are, gradually, doing the same.
I'm already missing some memorable characters on this forum...

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I'm still here... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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iam with you, i don't like this Drama going on here, but i think it's not easy to stop that, we are all in the same community here and everybody wants to be treated nice, but in a Community it's big like SG, there are many Problems like in every other Forum or Community aswell.
I hope this Drama stops someday, but that's Life i guess ;)

and you must give a shit about, who or why you black or whitelist people.it's only your decision :)

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If ppl in my whitelist cant behave i would not hesitate to remove them even though my WL is very small but atleast im trying to build it up

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Waiting eagerly to learn more about the latest drama on steamgifts.

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+1

I see the forum and everything is like always. I'm still not aware of what "drama" people are talking about...

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+2 Don't know what happened or happening either.

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Remind me to buy some popcorn tomorrow, in the hope of learning more about the recent events.

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Get the ones with sugar please, guess we also need some sweetness on this forum.

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Bleeerrgghhhh. Noooo, popcorn must be salty. You can't combine something salty with something sweet. Sacrilege! :@

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Hey hey i am sweet but salty sometimes. :>

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Then you are not tasty. :B

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If i had a gf i would let her tell you differently. But i don't. :/

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I know this caramel white chocolate with salted peanuts, it's great.
And there are people who put salt on watermelons.

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Salt on watermelons? Da f@ck? xD They are really tasty with feta cheese though, so I can understand.....a bit. :P
If it has just a few nuts, then it's reasonable, because many sweets have nuts.

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Feta on watermelons? D:
The chocolate's package does specifically say "salted peanuts"; honestly better than it sounds.

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Feta with watermelon and feta with grapes are both really tasty choices. Favorite Greek food combinations. xD
Still, a lot of sweets contains nuts which are obviously salted, so it's not that much of a sweet-salty combination.

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I'll just say this: Kettle corn

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Nope. Just nope. xD

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You should be ashamed then. >:(

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Peanut brittle is good.

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That's a no from me! xD

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Why don't they let us know? We need some drama in our lives. That's unacceptable and they will be punished! >:(

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Is that a nut cutter or something?

Oh wait finger probably.

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Exactly! xD

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I wouldn't let that woman touch my nuts. :p

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I'm not going to say who's involved or point you in the direction of where you can find out more.

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No names but atleast a hint what it is was about?

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It's not an itstoohard puzzle. :P

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Fair enough. Lucky never "needs" to know anything. :( Anyway, because you referred to drama, I expected a more explanatory topic. :P

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I fear I would just make it worse by trying to explain things. I'm not in the middle of it, I've just seen the dirt that has been flung, thus my perspective is too limited. Also, if I were to try and explain it, someone involved might try to fill in the missing parts or clarify, and then someone else would have to counter... and yeah, I think you can see where I'm going with this.

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I haven't noticed any drama either, though perhaps I'm just blind. Honestly, I don't even understand half the things people talk about on here, makes me feel old and out of touch.

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Same here, maybe I should add some random people to my whitelist and then make a bad rats GA so I will know what is going on.

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I'm not alone, then!

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Feel the same. I remember the drama back when JadeFalcon left and came back and... I remember "nice nice" incident, calling out... This new drama is too "young" for my old bones, I don't even know 90% of these "prominent" members anymore.

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xD i honestly have no clue if i was on your wl or bl xD and i honestly dont care about being on ppl wl or bl i always try to be civilized be it here be some where else in real life or not xD so have a bump? XD

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Hmm. I've wondered about this in another thread, but no one was able to provide an answer, so I'm going to ask again here. Please forgive me if this is out of line, but what exactly is the "drama" that everyone keeps talking about? I haven't posted much lately, but I still try to click through the threads from time to time, and I really haven't seen many severe arguments or anything. Some other posts in this thread allude to an issue that has 'sides', but seem fearful of identifying it.
This specific thread doesn't apply to me, and I don't care what people do with their whitelists or blacklists, but I'm very curious about the true identity of this elephant in the room. Again, sorry if this comes across as impolite or ignorant. I'm not asking for personal information and I don't want anyone to provide any info they're not comfortable with.
EDIT: In the time I took to write this, the same question was already asked and given a negative answer, so... I guess its something sort of private. I assumed it was a publicly identifiable issue due to the amount of people commenting on it. I don't want to pry, so I suppose I will rescind my question.

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I'm honestly only assuming what's this drama thing people keep mentioning, but I think it's when people argue over personal issues on the forum. For example, User1 doesn't like User2, so User1 makes a mean reply to User2, but User2 doesn't like User1 either so they reply back, and then it becomes a heated argument over a personal hatred between two people.

That, or something happens in a certain group/community and then the people involved take it to the forum.

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both of them needs to stop O/

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lol

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lol, made me laugh

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Heh.

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I fear I would just make it worse by trying to explain things. I'm not in the middle of it, I've just seen the dirt that has been flung, thus my perspective is too limited. Also, if I were to try and explain it, someone involved might try to fill in the missing parts or clarify, and then someone else would have to counter... and yeah, I think you can see where I'm going with this.

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I was frankly saddened by some of the things that I read on SG recently - made me feel sad to be a lurker who looks through old threads for fun... - the sniping does not make this place nice to visit :(

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a friend and i talked in a 6 months old ga of mine about personal issues and commented on a group and people, then someone digged it with his/her nose and leaked it.

result:
*insert drama here*

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Oh really? That's surprising, I didn't think it would have anything to do with you or anyone I know. Huh.
I'll pretend I saw nothing though, otherwise this may just start some more shit. :P

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I'm not whitelisted ;_;

and I have no idea what drama you're talking about, but here's a bump

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But drama makes SG more interesting

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I'm missing out on all the drama :c Work be damned!!!11one

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Well, don't forget that some of the people involved in drama LIKE the drama. So it's not like everyone participating is the bad guy ... sometimes it's people engaging in a mutually enjoyable activity. They get offended, but they enjoy being offended. Twisted, but seriously.

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That's actually a good point. I think that many enjoy the "show" when drama happens. Can you blame them though, it's free entertainment. :D

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ok ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

just remember who stuck his nose in other people's matters first.

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I have no idea who started it and I don't want to find out, all I've seen is it growing, and not being contained to private venues.

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you could ask the group involved in this.
i had an old ga being used as a private chat, and even if it was public, people shouldn't be snooping around looking for trouble.... even less getting offended by things they shouldn't have seen.

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have shiny wishes - or refuse them if you don't want them - I only drove by the fallout in my lurking and frankly thought it was not mine or anyone elses business - especially when it was on such an old posting (only someone looking for trouble would dig out that to poke around and make a mess with)

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I won't. I won't ask anyone involved where it started, why it started, or who compared who's mom to lardman first. That's none of my concern. What is my concern is the fact that the people involved feel the need to go at each other in other people's threads.

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And yet you've just done exactly what you are so opposed to - brought private issues with handful of users into public space. If you wanted to explain why you unwhitelist them, proper venue is 1-1 chat with them.
You've made valid point, but hypocrysy basically negated any positive impact it could have

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yeah!!! we may are like 700.000 users that are not in him whitelist!!!!

so! this thread may be just another:: look at me! play attention to me!!

meh!

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It seems I'm not on yours, so I'm not sure if I ever was. You are certainly on mine, though.

Schrödinger's Whitelist?

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I was wondering the same, but I'm pretty sure I wasn't ever on their whitelist. If I was and was then removed, I'd love to know what made it happen though. I tend to try to keep away from that drama thing.
I don't need drama to be an asshole

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Same. I do have a tendency to drunkpost like a madman. C'est la vie.

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I just tend to lose my temper a bit sometimes and say kinda rude things I may sometimes regret after. But whatever, I don't really care since I've got nothing to win or lose. Well, except maybe for whitelists/blacklists, which I generally don't give a fuck about. Unless it's someone I know. :P

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But without drama how do we convey the arts to the plebs? #DramaLivesMatter

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For the most part I'm just glad that I manage to miss most of such dramas. But I can't deny that it makes me wonder what must have happened, if you take such drastic measures, as I don't expect you to be one who overreacts. Oh well, I don't expect any "directions", just wanted to share my thoughts.

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I can't remember the last time total ignorance made me happy. No wait that's every day. Do not know, do not care. Sorry if it affected you Fnord because I've seen you put out some killer GA's and give a LOT to the community. Best wishes and hopefully whatever it is will blow over soon.

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There's definitely way too much drama on this site these days... ):

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Let's all agree to talk about games since this is a gaming forum. What have you been playing lately?

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If only people did that. I've been playing Uncanny Valley, you? (:

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I've been playing one of my latest wins, SOMA. It was an amazing experience and probably my favorite horror game so far. It wasn't too short nor too long, the game's design and story was purely incredible. It was so good that I played it all in one day, 10 hours of gaming with just a break to eat diner. It was that good.

Today, I just started playing Warframe which I've been downloading in the past few days, but I only played the introduction before having to go to work. :(

I've never played or heard of Uncanny Valley. Is it good?

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I'm planning on playing SOMA soon. Warframe doesn't interest me though (I don't do PVP anymore). Uncanny Valley is an interesting game... I like it. It's short, but there are multiple endings and stuff, depending on how you play, of course.

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Warframe isn't PvP (unless you decide to play in PvP). It's a bit strange, it's like a MMORPG except it's not. Haven't played enough to really know, but a friend recommended it and told me about the PvE (I also thought it was PvP at first).

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You may want to check out the Workshop mod they have for SOMA. It basically removes the monster (or at least changes how it reacts to you) so you can explore the environment at a less frantic pace. It would be a good way to do a second playthrough of the game, and see things that you may have originally missed. I have SOMA as well (installed as well), but have not played it yet.

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Damn, it's one of the few games I uninstalled after playing. I swear, my HDD is 2TB and it's almost full, I never want to uninstall any games because "I may play it again someday!" I remove a game because I'm sure I won't play it again, and then this happens. ;_;

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At least you'll know for next time.:)

And I'm like that as well. There are games that I have already completed, but want to keep installed...just in case. Games like Fallout 3 and copious amounts of mods, for example.;)

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Yeah, some games will always remain installed or will be re-downloaded as soon as I can in case of new HDD, like Skyrim for example. That game stays installed for the next time I get addicted to it. :P

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I have Titan Quest installed (along with Immortal Throne). I have a couple of programs installed that make it worth continuing to play it even though I finished it multiple times, such as The Collector (sort of a scavenger hunt for all unique items you can find in the game) and The Vault (pretty much unlimited storage space so you can KEEP all those found items!). Not to mention some mods for it such as Massbosses and the like.

Fallout 3 is a game that I will play pretty much forever, since I love the gameworld so much. I remember the first time I stepped out from the Vault and saw the world sprawling out in front of me. It was an amazing feeling. Even though I've found pretty much every special thing there is to find in the vanilla game, there are so many new locations, creatures, and items to be found in the mods. I highly recommend any mod by PuceMoose. Amazing mods!

I also like having Bittercup as a companion. Since I am a cannibalistic Vault-Dweller, I am "evil" so Jericho is my other companion. Fun times!

I haven't played Skyrim yet, but have it (and all DLC).

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Skyrim is super fun for me, but some people tend to hate on it for being less RPGey and more arcadey/actioney. Personally, I love it. I think the combat is bland, but for the world alone, I love it.

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I think that is the thing that people disliked about Fallout 3 (and I assume Fallout 4 as well). They did not like the combat, and (particularly with Fallout 4) the diaglogue trees. I have played Fallout since the beginning, and while Fallout 3 is different, I still enjoy it just as much as the first two Fallout games. Heck, I also really enjoyed Fallout: Tactics.!:)

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Hm, do you play a lot of Horror Games? If yes, what are you looking for? Atmosphere, an immediate and present danger to die/fail, story, realistic graphics? And is there a Horror Game you can recommand? I'm asking because it is a genre that for unknown reasons seems to appear more often in games I buy O.o Maybe there is something interesting I haven't heard of so far.

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Why i alway miss to see the good old drama ?

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I only seem to see the fallout

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drama
drama never changes \o/

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I'm still loved :3

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BLACKLISTED

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Lies, I'm the only one who loves you :3

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we can see the knife she is holding to your throat...

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Please no Tiny! :( she'll beat me for this!

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I haven't noticed the "drama" thingy everyone's talking about, where is it? Or maybe there is just too much positivity in me recently?

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so pure ;_;

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Aaaannnnddd post this comment

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