locked treads on IL-2 Sturmovik Forum

[Fjordmonkey]

Originally Posted by Osprey

That is because their only goal was to destroy COD by badmouthing on these boards despite not even owning a copy of the sim. They are ROF fanboys through and through, God only knows what they think they would achieve by doing what they've done.

Or maybe it's because the new forums are rather ruthlessly moderated in order to keep people like that in check, perhaps?

I'd go with that. This forum has always needed a severe upgrade in moderator ruthlessness in order to quell the trolls, but that upgrade never came. Which results in the community we have here now and had here for the last few years.

[Osprey]

You can go with that but you are wrong. These guys nailed their colours to the mast with fanfare before a line of code is written, before moderators were even appointed - this has been a victory for them and they've been celebrating the confirmation of removal of a ton of advanced features in excahge for 777 and a ROF engine (which looks terribly limited)

[Davy TASB]

Originally Posted by Osprey

That is because their only goal was to destroy COD by badmouthing on these boards despite not even owning a copy of the sim. They are ROF fanboys through and through, God only knows what they think they would achieve by doing what they've done.

So ROF fanboys have killed CloD now.

Dear me.... this forum gets funnier by the day

[Fjordmonkey]

Originally Posted by Davy TASB

So ROF fanboys have killed CloD now.

Nah, it's been a well-known fact that the Roffers have killed off CLoD. Just like it's a well-known fact that the Creationists are right and Evolution is just a fantasy-story that Darwin created on his spare time.

Originally Posted by Davy TASB

Dear me.... this forum gets funnier by the day

Why do you think I stick around? It's a barrel of laughs, through and through.

Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

all programs have a Proof of Concept

Yet you cannot describe what the SU-26 was actually a proof of concept of. Good to know.

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by Davy TASB

So ROF fanboys have killed CloD now.

Dear me.... this forum gets funnier by the day

Try looking at the oldest threads waaaay back and tell me anything really changed, the oldest post is some whinge by Furbs complaining about a 'promised' website looooong before release, so as you can see the famous double act have been working hard at it since the beginning.

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=17410

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by Fjordmonkey

I just wish these boards were as ruthlessly moderated. Then again, I'd probably be banned myself, since I can't sit here in my glass-house and say that I haven't fired off more than one broadside

Well personal opinions and feelings don't/shouldn't come into moderating here, if they did there would be a decimation of members believe me.

There's a set of rules on the front door, most members never read them until they are pointed towards them after doing something wrong.

Even with moderating the rules, a lot gets let go for the sake of a decent discussion/argument, so long as members are not abusing each other and the trolls stay out of the thread.

Unfortunately members can take it personally and think they are being singled out when posts are deleted or infractions given, even when its clear and plain that they broke a forum rule they cannot accept the fact they are in the wrong.

I know none of the moderators here like to ban members and we have bent over backwards allowing banned members to come in again, if they request it, so long as they behave

But there's a slightly strange dark side to some members.............

If I showed you the pager messages from some members from killing my family, burning my house down, shoving a glass in my face, to personal attacks and senseless name calling personal insults derogatory insults, I have received over the years you wouldn't want to moderate here.

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

Well personal opinions and feelings don't/shouldn't come into moderating here, if they did there would be a decimation of members believe me.

There's a set of rules on the front door, most members never read them until they are pointed towards them after doing something wrong.

Even with moderating the rules, a lot gets let go for the sake of a decent discussion/argument, so long as members are not abusing each other and the trolls stay out of the thread.

Unfortunately members can take it personally and think they are being singled out when posts are deleted or infractions given, even when its clear and plain that they broke a forum rule they cannot accept the fact they are in the wrong.

I know none of the moderators here like to ban members and we have bent over backwards allowing banned members to come in again, if they request it, so long as they behave

But there's a slightly strange dark side to some members.............

If I showed you the pager messages from some members from killing my family, burning my house down, shoving a glass in my face, to personal attacks and senseless name calling personal insults derogatory insults, I have received over the years you wouldn't want to moderate here.

You noticed

[T_O_A_D]

Here Here,

Being a Moderator over at UBI was and is (not so often anymore) the very same way, I've saved a few of those nasty letters myself over the years.
I would never wish the Moderating Job on anyone. Its the most thankless none fulfilling thing one can do for the community. I signed up originally out of respect for Oleg and his creation, hoping to just keep general order for all of us involved. At times it was impossible, alot like herding Cats. My hats off to anyone willing to try, and concerned for the ones that have burned out or snapped in the past, and yet willing to try again in the new avenues of this genre.

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

Well personal opinions and feelings don't/shouldn't come into moderating here, if they did there would be a decimation of members believe me.

There's a set of rules on the front door, most members never read them until they are pointed towards them after doing something wrong.

Even with moderating the rules, a lot gets let go for the sake of a decent discussion/argument, so long as members are not abusing each other and the trolls stay out of the thread.

Unfortunately members can take it personally and think they are being singled out when posts are deleted or infractions given, even when its clear and plain that they broke a forum rule they cannot accept the fact they are in the wrong.

I know none of the moderators here like to ban members and we have bent over backwards allowing banned members to come in again, if they request it, so long as they behave

But there's a slightly strange dark side to some members.............

If I showed you the pager messages from some members from killing my family, burning my house down, shoving a glass in my face, to personal attacks and senseless name calling personal insults derogatory insults, I have received over the years you wouldn't want to moderate here.

[fruitbat]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

If I showed you the pager messages from some members from killing my family, burning my house down, shoving a glass in my face, to personal attacks and senseless name calling personal insults derogatory insults, I have received over the years you wouldn't want to moderate here.

You have to question whether we should give people in asylums access to the internet...

[JG52Uther]

Originally Posted by fruitbat

You have to question whether we should give people in asylums access to the internet...

People only see the fun side of forums, and not the dark underbelly where the crazies live
Lets see...Burn my house down? yep. Know where I live and going to kill my family? yep. Report me as a peadophile? yep. Ruin my career? yep. Kick someones pregnant wife in the belly? yep.That was a good one, from someone who had just received a 10 point infraction...
Thats some over the years.