Giveaway of the Day Forums

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   Steph
   Member

   I was extremely unimpressed to see a lack of response from GOTD to the multiple severe warnings posted by users about today's giveaway by Fotis Software, i.e. the AllMySongs Database.

   The first time I attempted to post a comment warning other people away from this very dangerous program, which trashed my operating system (XP SP3) the last time it was given away, my comment was deleted by the moderator instead of being approved. This was after at least two other people had posted about serious system errors related to today's giveaway, on different versions of Windows.

   My second attempt to post (under another name) was approved for publication a long time after other bland and positive reviews posted later were approved.

   I think GOTD needs to take a far more responsible attitude to protecting its users from catastrophic system failures, when serious problems have been reported by more than one person.

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   Sorry to hear of your problems with respect to posting. I volunteered to moderate the applications side of the giveaway project and put forwards several other names of community members who had asked to moderaste asd well becasue we have been concerned about the lack of moderation especially over a weekend. Plus the lack of clear guidelines as to what is and isn't allowerd to post. But my requests have been refused.

   We have one quality moderator (BuBBy), but he's a volunteer and cannot be there all the time. Whoever else moderates never leaves answers to comments as BuBBy does when he's around.

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   Steph
   Member

   Thanks very much for your reply, Whiterabbit, and for your efforts in supporting the whole community. I sincerely appreciate the work you do for us.

   What you've said here though does tend to reinforce my viewpoint. I think that there should be some transparency - on behalf of the site owners, not volunteer moderators, who cannot be held responsible - about the technical safeguards which are in place (if any) and the risks to the user in installing software given away on this site.

   Posted 14 years ago #

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