Friday Update, March 2, 2012

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by robtek

Usually it is not what you post, that gets you banned, but how you post it.

Exactly.

In the case of community service or announcement threads (for example, updates, bug reports, etc), straying from the topic will do it too.

I'm going backwards and deleting like 10 pages of off-topic drivel as we speak, because grown adult men (?) can not follow a simple line of reason that holds true for every forum across the internet: each thread has a specific topic, to help people find what they want with some ease.

People coming to this thread want to see the update information and ask questions about it. They don't care about all the "he said-she said-who said what first" nonsense that a vocal minority constantly throws around as an antidote to day-to-day boredom. "The forum is slow" is not a reason to come post in this thread if what you post is not related to the thread topic.

Are you bored? Take it to the pilot's lounge and start whatever thread you want, that's why it's there in the first place. But gods of all religions of the world be my witness, thou shall not drag another update thread off topic and get away with a mild request to cooperate which will fall on deaf ears: i spent like 3 hours last Friday editing posts to point people in the right direction.

I have no time to hold anybody's hand this week and it's not my fault if anyone gets banned: the guidelines are known, leeway has been given aplenty, it's time to enforce the rules so that certain people start to take them seriously.

Thread is locked for clean-up.