Major video crippled modding websites Nexus Mods and ModDB person taken a nationalist stance against anti-LGBTQ+ content, aft a Spider-Man PC mod aimed to region each Pride emblem successful the game.

Nexus Mods, a website successful which users tin stock their customized contented for PC games, initiated the question aft an established idiosyncratic created a caller relationship (branded a sock puppet) to upload the anti LGBTQ+ content, which swapped retired the rainbow Pride emblem for the American flag. The mod was subsequently removed.

The user, who Nexus Mods called a "coward", had some their caller and aged relationship banned, with the instauration of the sock puppet relationship making it "a precise casual decision".

A blog station connected Nexus Mods said: "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 website besides made wide that it volition instrumentality akin enactment against immoderate akin cases successful the future, stating that "we are for inclusivity, we are for diversity" and, arsenic a backstage business, "we person a close to take what contented we bash and bash not privation to big connected our platform."

Nexus Mods added: "We don't privation to and won't reason this with you. We've present explained our stance and we won't beryllium providing a level for you to distort our presumption successful bid to provender an irrational and paranoid narrative. You tin bash that elsewhere, wherever we won't attraction capable to work it.

"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 relationship and determination on, arsenic we will."

Hi! We've removed the contented and banned the users. ModDB is an inclusive situation for each and we bash not licence targeting marginalised groups. Our contented moderation is mostly automated but erstwhile identified, we person a zero tolerance argumentation for this benignant of content. https://t.co/0leqjUxqJD

As reported by PC Gamer, ModDB followed suit and removed the aforesaid Spider-Man mod and banned the users down it. "ModDB is an inclusive situation for each and we bash not licence targeting marginalised groups," the website said connected Twitter (above). "Our contented moderation is mostly automated but erstwhile identified, we person a zero tolerance argumentation for this benignant of content."

The porting of PlayStation Studios' Spider-Man to PC earlier successful August has seen a fig of mods added to the crippled including 1 that turns Spidey into Stan Lee. Users person besides been digging done the crippled files, discovering what appears to be a scrapped multiplayer mode and mentions of a imaginable PlayStation PC launcher.

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