Major PC modding sites remove Spider-Man mod that replaces in-game pride flags
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#62MRV)
Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered. | Image: Sony NexusMods and ModDB, two of the biggest online sites for PC game mods, have removed a project that cut the in-game pride flags from the recently-released PC port of Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered. As NexusMods explained in a blog post, the mod was uploaded to its site by a brand new account with no modding history, which the site's administrators suspect is a secondary account for one of the site's users - a sock puppet" account.
It was very clearly done deliberately to be a troll mod," NexusMods writes. The fact the user needed to make a sock puppet like a coward to upload the mod showed their intent to troll and that they knew it would not be allowed. Had they not been a coward and had they used their main account instead, we would...