Quote: "I am almost affraid to post for fear of either mindless babble responses or unsolicited attacks."
If you make a legitimate post, and you're attacked, a mod will make sure the attacker pays.
Quote: "Freedom to write whatever you want comes with a responsibilty."
Agreed.
Quote: "Sadly, the mods COULD do a better job."
How so?
Quote: "You've made an error: it's megatRon cat."
Don't fuel the fire.
Quote: "lol, good one French gui
although I think we may want to stop before this devolves into a 'lets flame Megaton Cat' thread"
Agreed. I do find it ironic that there is flaming inside a thread about flaming.
Quote: "All MODs get paid if we are bad fourm posters. If we aren't they don't get money. So naturally, to Milk Lee for all his worth, they must let us slaughter each other then come in and "collect their paycheck""
We don't get paid at all. We volunteer our own time to help keep things running smoothly.
Quote: "But the atmospher is far worth a few insults. On many boards there is a "Call MOD" button. This is abused to the core. People will "Call" the MOD simply because they dissagree with you. Sure it results in pretty boards, but what is life without a nice debate now and then. (Even MOD Wars are fun)."
Most of us mods have posted our e-mails. Use e-mail (or msn messenger/aim/yahoo) if you see things getting out of control.
Quote: "But the MODs CAN take care of it all. Rarly if ever are there a lot of people logged in (perhaps 50) so they CAN check it all. They just sit back and let us fight. (Until it gets too bad)"
We're not babysitters. There's hundreds of new posts each day. Perhaps together, the time we all sacrifice we'll see 95% of the threads around here, but we can't simultaneously watch every thread.
Nobody forces you to make a post. Use some common sense. If you're going to slam Megaton in a thread about flaming, you're 2X as worse. If you don't know whether a post is appropriate, ask someone(I've had several users ask me in the past).
Most of the slamming of other users goes on in the general talk.
If you look around at the other boards, you'll see that 95% or more are where they should be and stay on topic. This is one of the better forums around on the internet for game development. Every forum is going to have there share of flame wars, and arguments.
It's nothing to get too over worked about. Best thing you can do is take some time off from the forum and code.
A book? I hate book. Book is stupid.
(Formerly Yellow)
