I always find it ridiculous that aggravating posters aren't banned for several weeks.
I'm sure that no-one really would care if such a small penalty was dealt out.
Ban me if you disagree!! I really couldn't care any less.

I'll be back in a few weeks if I feel like it.

Really; just put a lock on anyone who is getting away from the topic.

Please!

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KOM.Nausicaa, I really like to know what's your personal opinion and your proposal ban for the following typical rude, insulting The Community and most racist posting I've ever seen on a simulation forum.




http://www.checksix-forums.com/showp...&postcount=980


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lol

OT posts are annoying, but one has to be realistic. Everybody posts a couple of OT lines every now and then, like a joke or sth else irrelevant to the actual subject. I have no prob with that at all. Personally I hate all the whining and wishlists, but I also hate posts that could make up a short novel and take 20 mins to plow through, even if they're on topic they're annoying just as well in my humble opinion.

I'd say: stick to the subject, crack an OT joke every now and then, keep it short and simple, stop whining and wishing and enjoy what's given by the great Oleg and team, even if you don't like it...

and yes, real spam = ban

Ok, the only input I always give here is my appreciation, which is considered just as tedious by some members. Maybe we have to shut up completely unless you're a highly intellectual insider with extremely valuable knowledge on the subject who has sth important and interesting to say, is that what you want to point out?. It would be an elitist place, reserved for the ones who are 'in the know' (whatever that means)... now, what is that???

It would be fantastic if we could all make only useful and to the point discussions!

There could always be "Off" topics if some people wanted to have some fun or discuss BS, but this discussion would not interfere with update threads where we look for usefull stuff.

lolol right after I posted this I went to see today's update thread and it's full of useless posts lolol

PS. I have no problem with these posts or the people who posted them. I'm just saying that they're useless.

Answers relevant to the topic are fine, but as on several other sites the update thread usually degenerates into a slagging match between a few (usual) posters who appear to use the forum as a personal zone.

Nobody knows everything. Everybody knows something. If somebody knows something relevant, they should tell us about it (but not if they know everybody else knows it too).

I take the view that Mr Maddox shows us details because he is kind, and because we might spot something that can be improved.

It might be, that of the thousands viewing an image, only one will spot some detail, so it is the duty of the first to spot something to speak up. There is very little point to being the second to mention a detail that might be questionable.

Mostly, we don't know how easy or not it would be to fix a point of detail, it might be a couple of characters in the code, it might be a million lines of code, with code unless you know the particular code intimately, there's often no telling.

So, we can point to possible changes, but we have to accept that the final decision on whether a change can be made is not ours.

I think the overall moderation here is good.. but in some of these update threads I see stuff that just shouldn't be there... When Oleg points out in the first thread that he is aware of a bug or that the shots are pre beta or taken at a lower res etc.. and then we get googobs of posts pointing out the bug or the quality of the shots .. that Oleg mentioned in his initial post.. to me tat is a waste of space.. Some people just look to find flaws and point them out.. and while I am sure that 1C is appreciative of things pointed out by users that they may miss... all this is unfinished.. so I find it kind of annoying at times that folks just can't appreciate the update for it's own sake.. and wait until the sim is at least nearer to completion or even released in a demo before the critics come out of the woodwork.