Talk:Coma/@comment-27063129-20180420080324/@comment-33040815-20181020050524

(Reposting from a blog post) I agree with the idea but not how it is currently handled. I think it would be best to separate these games so users browsing for downloads do not encounter them. These pages have a history that can be used to find the downloads, so it only keeps them from users who don't know how to search through that. Delete the page (or wipe the history if possible), create a new one marked only as "Preserved", and make it clear that no download is to be available on the page. It would be up to readers to find these downloads elsewhere, like in an off-site archive. I truly think the real problem users have with this isn't that the download isn't available, its that they expect a download to be there if it has a game page and the creator or others coming to the page to remove the downloads themselves is removing info that isn't clearly forbidden on the page (currently) in the first place. I don't blame anyone for currently resubmitting these downloads, it is hostile but the creators of these games (and others) coming here and removing them off the page like this can also be seen as hostile to us. Having some procedure in place for this would prevent it from being this way. Not a procedure for the creators (who aren't familiar with this site), but a procecdure wiki editors can follow to deal with these situations.