YaTEdiGo: So if a post is reported several times as Spam is deleted?

Breja: The elephant’s very large ears are used to radiate excess heat away from the body.

Tauto: It does.

zeogold: Basically this. You can't discuss anything in here without it turning into an "us vs them" thing.
zeogold: It's not the discussion about politics that's the problem, it's the amount of morons here who can't discuss it like rational human beings and turn the whole thread into a battle royale.
I think you misunderstood the "creepy" part.
zeogold: It would be better to debate...if there was actual debate. There's a difference between "you're wrong and here's why" and "UP YOURS! YOU'RE A NAZI PIG!"
And yes, it's always a bad idea to respond to trolls, as their entire goal is often just to flamebait and instigate such mudflinging.
So far as your "echo chamber" argument, consider for a moment how bad this looks for GOG as a company. They're not trying to be some "bastion of free speech" or whatever. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of other forums out there with no moderation. What they are is a company with a reputation to try to cultivate/uphold. How does it look for a newbie to come on here and the first thread they see is a political flamewar? It's bad enough that we ALREADY have a reputation as a snakepit for most people who know of us.

zeogold: You have to consider some factors here:
1) Yes, they'd ban users rather than close the thread because they'd likely nip it in the bud. By the time any moderation on GOG had arrived, the #GG thread had been a complete mess for months if not years.
2) Apparently, GOG had somehow over the years LOST the ability to ban people from the forum without removing access to their game library. Meaning they were essentially powerless to ban anybody. At the time that fables22 stepped up to the plate, they were still in this state and she wanted to take action on the forum ASAP to show that she at least had some kind of power. Considering that the #GG thread was what people clamored most over, it made sense to close it, something that had immediate and visible effects.
3) Fables was attempting to do a "fresh start" thing, as in, not retroactively banning people for stuff they did in the past. Therefore, by these very rules, she couldn't ban anybody from #GG until they actually trolled again. It was better to just close the thread and take away their breeding ground than to wait for them to resurface.

YaTEdiGo: So are you telling me that "the most hatred" (139 votes to delete it) thread ever wasn´t voted as spam enough to be deleted?

YaTEdiGo: Thanks for the info, to be honest I didn´t read anything about Gamer Gate for months, specially not the closed thread, but time before I seen interesting arguments and news in both sides, and I still believe very few or none threads are closed here. So yes, maybe you are right, and no, I believe is definitively because it was a "gamer gate" thread and even if we would open a new one where people would not fight or we will ask for auto moderation, soon or later would be again, closed.

So if a post is reported several times as Spam is deleted? It´s difficult to believe it works like this, would not be the previous thread we talking about deleted because of this long time ago?

YaTEdiGo: Yes of course, at seems nobody may be even in the "middle" of the equation not even as a COMPANY or as a EMPLOYEE it need to be "us vs them" or you are out of "reputation". I am sorry but this is not a good and healthy environment for anybody unless it seems we all need to have, and more important BEHAVE under the main establishment of what is "politically correct" in order to save my reputation. Pretty WRONG, and time will tell is going to be even worse. Hope you will remind where it started.

YaTEdiGo: 2) Did he closed anything else or did anything else than that? Oh please! link it to me!

zeogold: At the time, nobody had realized that the spam-reporting thing actually did that. It was only after it was re-discovered where people started to abuse it. It was almost used on the Conversational Free-For-All thread before the OP closed it in fear of losing all the conversations there. I believe it would have been deleted like this if people had known about it, but they didn't, and it was closed before it could be.
zeogold: I still say it's because of the thread not being able to behave and not the movement itself, but to each their own. As you said, very few threads were closed before, but there are new rules now. You could see the news if you only visited infrequently, but for the rest of us, it got a little grating to see trolling every time the thread was bumped.

Yes. It really does work like that.
Not sure what previous thread you mean.
zeogold: ...what?
Edit: Oh, I see what you're saying, I think. You seem to be assuming they're taking political sides? I don't think they're doing that, although it's technically within their rights to do so and a lot of companies do.
More like they're trying to shut up all the trolling, which that thread was a huge source of. It's the same reason they close so many political threads, for the ones that weren't closed down by the OP themselves. Even I had to close down a thread or two because it got out of hand.
And again, on top of that, this is a company forum, not some user-run random sort of thing. I honestly think that GOG's original intention was to have this place like the subforums look - purely about video game chatter, much like the CDPR forums. That would probably even be better for them as a company.
zeogold: She did, yes. Also banned quite a few people, too. According to her, there was a period of time she was banning like 2-3 people a day or something. I know Tauto and Kleetus got a couple temp-bans as well, and ciomalau got a perma-ban.
Let me see if I can find some links to those threads.

Edit: Here's one of them:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/good_luck_america/post1054
And another:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/it_is_time_to_pay_attention_infowars/post2053
This one was closed, but before Fables showed up:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/meanwhile_in_kolncologne_warning_politics_inside/post569
This one was due to the OP wanting it closed:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/europe_is_burning_the_terrorism_thread/post824
This is the one I ended up closing:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/community_suggestions/post296