In no way am i excusing the hateful comments, but to tell me i can't address the developer in the thread of the game they made is ridiculous. It defeats the whole purpose of having a place for discussion.
It's contradicting with what the mods ACTUALLY do.
Comments praising the developer aren't deleted and by the mods behavior, one could say they are even encouraged at some level.
But God forbid someone says something negative! Call the shill brigade to delete all comments.
You can't have it both ways.
IMO devs and games are interconnected. You can't have discussion about the one without the other, negative or positive.
Granted though, I understand that not everyone can keep the discussion civil on the internet so that's the only thing that makes me understand the mods position. For scummy developers though like Gumdrop Games and sadly now ICSTOR, the mods can't be policing the forums and deleting comments all the time. People are pissed off at the devs behavior and the mods deleting comments is just pissing people off further.