Mod database Nexus Mods has warned customers that anyone intentionally peddling incendiary content material will likely be reprimanded and probably even banned.

The firm was talking out after a consumer created a sock puppet account to add a mod for Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered that eliminated and changed the title’s pleasure flags with a USA flag texture.

Nexus mentioned the mod was “clearly” uploaded to troll customers and trigger offence, and as such the writer has been banned and the mod eliminated. The firm added that whereas it is not the “authority on what customers can and can’t mod,” it as an organization stands for inclusivity and variety and can “take motion” towards anyone that seems to be taking goal at these values.

“To deal with the banning, which is what lots of people need to concentrate on, the mod was uploaded by a sock puppet account (i.e. a newly made account by somebody who already has an account on the positioning) and uploaded beneath the identify ‘Mike Hawk.’ It was very clearly performed intentionally to be a troll mod,” wrote the corporate in an announcement.

“The reality the consumer wanted to make a sock puppet like a coward to add the mod confirmed their intent to troll and that they knew it might not be allowed. Had they not been a coward and had they used their important account as an alternative, we might have merely eliminated the mod and instructed them that we didn’t need to host it, solely banning them in the event that they reuploaded it once more after being pretty warned. The creation of the sock puppet eliminated any doubt and made it an easy choice for us. Both the sock puppet account and the consumer’s important account have been banned.”

Nexus has pledged to do a greater job of moderating its web site transferring ahead, and reiterated that as a personal enterprise it has the proper to decide on what content material it desires to host on its platform.

The firm inspired customers to report any content material they really feel is likely to be in violation of its insurance policies, however mentioned that it’ll in the end have the ultimate say on what it feels is acceptable — noting this goes for all customers “regardless of the place they stand; left, proper, up or down.”

“We do not need to and will not argue this with you. We’ve now defined our stance and we can’t be offering a platform so that you can distort our place so as to feed an irrational and paranoid narrative. You can try this elsewhere, the place we can’t care sufficient to learn it,” added the corporate.

“If this coverage upsets you, if we have damaged some ethical code of conduct as a enterprise you could’t settle for, then please, delete your account (backside possibility) and transfer on, as we’ll.”