the quality of this forum...

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

LOL

You guys crack me up

This forums have nothing to do with the BOB COD, except to be a place to talk about it.

Now the US release is out, afaik. Maybe things will change, maybe not.

Everyone complained about Ubisoft forums, for years now.
The parents complain about the profanity.
Everyone wants his "thing" fixed.
Some members want developers to keep open discussion, but others only want to rag on them.

Where did civil discussion go? It melted into oblivion?

Too many people hang out on this forums because they really are anxious about their favorite air combat sim. Most of us understand that, but the more they hang out the more discussion degrades to worthless banter.

There are those type of posters that we all know from real life that just complain and whine, walk around with a half empty glass. No way we can ferret out the winners from the losers, except over time we do form our opinions of them.

Not picking on any person with this posting, because everyone is entitled to say something as long as they try to stay within the rules of this forums. The rules were documented to provide some guide to facilitating civil discussions among members. That is all they are there for.

Blaming the forums is stupid. It's about the members of the forums that make them what they are, nothing more nothing less.

Nearmiss, you have quite a big mileage in terms of forum moderating, and you know better than me that everybody's a hero behind a keyboard. I had violent menaces via PM by a delusional forum member over a very silly thing not so long ago, which really made me think about how these places sometimes take the worst out of us.
In my own delusional view of a forum, I always thought that it could be a place to meet people with similar interests, share knowledge, ask questions and find answers. A place where people would be respectful, post intelligent comments and help developers into further developing the game. I experienced it with the beta of Rise of Flight, it was an enclosed number of people, yes, but it was brilliant to interact directly with the developers.

This is (in theory) the closest place to interact with developers, and that's the spirit with which I joined this forum more than any other, because I was hoping that my experience and knowledge could be put to use, but apparently they know better..