Looks like further explanation is needed although I really don't want to - if peolpe don't know why we moderate then nobody will ever get anywhere...
We clamp down so highly on warez for a couple of reasons. Firstly GS doesn't like it - or rather they can't like it. From their point of view it'd look very bad if they allowed their hosted sites to talk openly about warez, exchanging links and so on. We don't want them to get in trouble - or to get in trouble with them.
Secondly we as the staff don't like people exchanging links for games on the site - publicly our opinion is if you want to play a game you should buy it. It doesn't matter what our private opinion is because our public one is the only one that can be allowed to be seen by everyone. Myself - I like using warez for testing purposes and so on but I'll buy the game if I enjoyed its copy. That can't be garunteed with everyone so it's easier to ban the disucussion of warez links and so on on the public forums.
If you want to talk about warez with others openly or whatever then get yourselves in an ICQ conversation or something. Just don't do it round here - and thats an end to the matter
