So this article just dropped today about Linko.
https://lulz.com/gog-linko-hashtag-wontbeerased-fired-1859/
https://archive.fo/qckgo
I normally do not trust this particular journalist, but he claims to have a source inside GoG who confirmed this.
I really hope this isn't true and that he's just taking a break or hiatus. Either way, the lack of transparency and communication is disappointing. I don't like having to learn news like this from a 3rd party and also wonder about its accuracy and truth, and I also don't believe he deserved to be fired for something that could hardly be considered offensive and *wasn't* to the vast majority of the forum or other communities outside of the twitter activist community focusing on that hashtag, who dogpiled the person after making a joke that clearly wasn't intended to offend anyone, but I digress.
This really is a problem though. GoG could stand to communicate with its community a lot more than its been doing... this is really disappointing to see. Not just these exceptionally brutal disciplinary actions against a public, important member of the community, but not even relating it to the communities he handled... I expected more out of GoG.
GoG apologizes to the outrage crowd on the daily it seems like, yet it never apologizes to its own community, far more passionate than any outside people and yet many get treated like second-class citizens. We're not entitled to information
like this? No apologies when your *own* community actually gets offended? Threads just get locked and disappear on these topics?
I really hope this thread stays up and gets an answer to prove a point, because this really is upsetting.

Here we go again .

When it comes to Linko90, GoG seems to be deleting anything resembling proof - I expect this thread to disappear.

That's not the proper and right way to handle such things.

if they keep going down this path, they can say goodbye too my money. i like drm free but if they go woke, I'll buy exclusivley on steam.

Neither is "complete transparancy." Companies should not make public the circumstances concerning firing people. That would be awrful and a complete breach of privacy for the employees.

If Linko himself wanted to go public he would.

Gog doesn't owe you or us any information on Linko. Leave the guy alone.

Yes, the proper way to handle such things is to bury it in a metric ton of bullshit so thick and confusing that nobody will bother trying to piece it together into a meaningful conclusion. TBH, we're assuming that whatever it was was done in public. It could just as easily have been something that happened at an office party or perhaps he had it and flipped management the bird during a meeting.

Whatever it is, if they were going to make a statement, they would have done so quite a while ago and the fact that nobody is on record suggests that both parties don't want it public.

I say just respect the wishes and move on. At this point, I doubt very much that he'll be coming back.

IF he could. There may very well be an NDA preventing him from coming forward.

A community isn't entitled to know what happened to its moderators?
And for Linko's part, he really can't go public with anything because nutcases swarmed him and dug up all his accounts and history, forcing him to go private on nearly all his accounts as far as I'm aware. His position was one that handled public affairs *directly* with the community and people want to know the answers of what had happened to him.
I don't expect "complete transparenty", but this is outright pathetic. Deleting topics and suppressing this shit doesn't satisfy anyone and only makes the situation worse.

No, a community is not entitled to know what happened to a moderator who left the parent company. If he wanted us to know, he could let us know.

This is not "outright pathetic." GOG is by now means a perfect company. But they are the ones handling this particular situation well. They are not sharing information with the public about an ex-employee of theirs. That is the correct thing to do here.

Leave it be. We don't deserve answers. And Linko will be better off when all this blows over.

So let it blow over.

A person isn't entitled to their privacy?

Let it go. If he wants it known, he'll put it out there. Until then, let's respect the privacy.

Edited out irrelevant statement.

"who left"
"if he wanted us to know he would let us know"
"we don't deserve answers
"Linko will be better off"
These are all assumptions you have made.
Did he leave, or was he fired because of something he made on the job as a *public* employee? (which many have drawn as a very likely conclusion)
Silence is not an answer, nor confirmation of whether he would want us to know or not. As others have said there could be plenty of external factors preventing him from speaking about it.
We don't deserve answers on what assumption? We don't mean anything to GoG as a company? I doubt that...
The last one is perhaps the most laughable. Losing one's job, especially if one was fired is almost never "better off" for the person being fired unless you can predict the future.

So deleted account means he is fired fully? I don't see anywhere that would confirm him being fired for real, he could be on another position but i am doing all the same everyone does now without official confirmination, i am just assuming it.

This is about his relation to GoG's community. Yes, when something happens to an employee who usually handles public affairs, its not wrong to expect *some* kind of answer instead of literally nothing. We don't know any circumstances of the situation whatsoever besides what people can piece together, and what people can piece together is not positive.

Ian is saying a source within GoG is confirming he has been fired. The deleted account was just speculation up until that point. Ian can't name the source because that will result in someone else being fired.