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Originally Posted by Orpheus
You can't be serious, surely? Ban those who make off-topic posts? At this rate there'll barely be a forum left, and if there is it'll only be populated with kool-aid drinking fanboys.
This place, the 1c Company and Maddox Games disappoint me more every time I visit. Just a 'friendly heads up' here, but this forum is already half-dead thanks to the excessive moderation - if you make the posting rules any more draconian, I'd be surprised if anyone comes back here at all.
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Of course i am, every forum in the world has off topic rules.
You should see some other forums and the kind of moderation they have, people get banned simply for posting in the wrong section, and these are not even official forums but usually community maintained ones. Now that is excessive moderation, what we have here is not really.
Our situations is simply a few people not willing to change their habits of "i do whatever i want". Their call, the rules are very simple and will be enforced.
This is an official forum with enough sections for everyone to post to their heart's content. I can tell someone to post in the right section, i can offer to move their posts there, etc etc. It's just that certain people don't want that and are not happy having their own thread, instead they want to have their stand in the spotlight and derail threads that should be community service/public announcement in nature, like this one.
So, these people will get off-topic points because i have other things to do that try to sweet talk them into cooperating and have them ignore me every time.
The rules are simple: update threads are about the update, not trying to prove each other wrong, which is what a lot of people do here. You should see the kind of reported posts we get too: it's more or less the same 2-3 "duelists" who fight it out here, reporting each other's posts.
Like i always say, i don't mind opinions of whatever kind. But they WILL respect the right of any other forum member to be able to come to an update thread and find information about the update, instead of watching the same 2-3 adults verbally assaulting each other week in, week out
This is nobody's private playground, it's a community service platform and quite honestly, the only people who will have a problem adjusting to the new rules are those that can't stomach the fact that they are not more important than the rest. Everybody's freedom ends where the other guy's freedom starts, it's dead simple. That's what we are trying to do here and it's not exactly easy, we make mistakes too like every other human being, but we want to keep going at it, correcting them as we go.
If you have any better ideas, by all means you're welcome to apply for a moderator position and spend your free time managing the forum instead of flying
