NexusMods and ModDB, 2 of the biggest online sites for PC crippled mods, person removed a task that chopped the in-game pridefulness flags from the recently-released PC larboard of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered. As NexusMods explained successful a blog post, the mod was uploaded to its tract by a marque caller relationship with nary modding history, which the site’s administrators fishy is simply a secondary relationship for 1 of the site’s users — a “sock puppet” account.

“It was precise intelligibly done deliberately to beryllium a troll mod,” NexusMods writes. “The information the idiosyncratic needed to marque a sock puppet similar a coward to upload the mod showed their intent to troll and that they knew it would not beryllium allowed. Had they not been a coward and had they utilized their main relationship instead, we would person simply removed the mod and told them that we did not privation to big it, lone banning them if they reuploaded it again aft being reasonably warned. The instauration of the sock puppet removed immoderate uncertainty and made it a precise casual determination for us.”

As good arsenic removing the mod, NexusMods says it’s banned some “the sock puppet relationship and the user’s main account.” The mod replaced the pridefulness flags recovered astir New York City with the United States flag, which is often seen successful the archetypal game.

ModDB, different fashionable root of mods for PC games, besides confirmed successful a tweet that it’s removed the mod. “ModDB is an inclusive situation for each and we bash not licence targeting marginalized groups,” the tweet reads. “Our contented moderation is mostly automated but erstwhile identified, we person a zero tolerance argumentation for this benignant of content.”

“Our argumentation is thus: we are for inclusivity, we are for diversity,” NexusMods says successful its post. “If we deliberation idiosyncratic is uploading a mod connected our tract with the intent to deliberately beryllium against inclusivity and/or diverseness past we volition instrumentality enactment against it.” A NexusMods assistance page notes that “content that whitethorn beryllium mostly construed arsenic provocative, divisive, objectionable, discriminatory, oregon abusive toward immoderate real-world idiosyncratic oregon group, whitethorn beryllium taxable to moderation.”

“If this argumentation upsets you, if we’ve breached immoderate motivation codification of behaviour arsenic a concern that you can’t accept, past please, delete your account,” NexusMods writes.

It’s a shame, due to the fact that the PC modding assemblage has different been connected fantabulous signifier with the mods they’ve been creating for Insomniac’s Spider-Man title, allowing players to plaything astir the metropolis arsenic everything from Spider-Man antagonist Kingpin to Black Cat, and determination person been plentifulness of mods to set the look and colors of Spider-Man’s iconic suit.