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First post, by sc2fan

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Hi everyone,

So I'm new here and I apologise for not knowing all the various norms and stuff. This is the most general and most appropriate place I could find to post this. I apologise for the lack of brevity here as the original post I made I attempted to not write a dissertation, but here I must be clear as I felt a bit threatened by the moderator's reply and I would like to address the impression left by that to a new user to your forum.

I'm not really trying to call anyone out but it feels rather inappropriate to just squash a new user who spent their time posting an honest post seeking honest help. I would like to share my experience for an opportunity for the community to do better with this as if this is how you treat new users; you aren't going to have many new users.

I asked for help in the DOSBox thread and tried to keep it short. Everything mentioned in the thread I own copies of. I was not aware that was a point of contention or an issue. I naturally wasn't seeking to spread things that were not to be spread.

Nobody seems to have the answer, so I figured asking here may help. Several of my old games seem to be having an issue with DOSBox where the X/Y mouse movement does not match. I'm not aware of having changed anything. GOG support, GOG's forums, etc. have not been helpful with this. Yes, I agree they should have support for that, but I'm simply asking here because someone likely would have seen the problem before and saved time I have already spent investigating the problem and attempting various configuration tweaks to DOSBox, all of which to no avail.

I don't wish to call the moderator out, but to be rebuked in the way that I was is just not the kind of community I'd have hoped this was and I found that behaviour just not unacceptable to introduction someone to the community.

I apologise for bringing it up here, but if I don't say anything and just leave forever, I feel you've failed in your mission and not given an opportunity to succeed. It felt particularly unwarranted to scare off a new user with the heavy tone that message carried and there was a much better and positive way to approach it.

Reply 1 of 1, by DosFreak

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Your previous thread has been unlocked, as long as you make sure you are using your purchased copy on this forum and not copies acquired elsewhere (which was stated in your post) then you should be good.

The Internet is no different from anywhere else, it should be assumed that there are rules to be followed wherever you go. Both physical and virtual objects have restrictions on usage, it should be obvious that a game offered for free on a website is most likely copyright infringement unless proven otherwise and it should be obvious that your downloading of such is also copyright infringment unless proven otherwise. Furthermore perusal of Terms of Use on websites such as ucp.php?mode=terms should be done so that violation of such can be avoided.

Something else to keep in mind is that companies sell software while failing to support it while continuing to rake in the money and some companies (GOG) use the software created by the community to fix software they sell and yet still fail to offer support for it. If you buy something then you need to put pressure on the company you bought it from otherwise they will continue to rake in the money and not support or fix the product they sell.
 
Closing since these threads do not go well.

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