Feel free to ignore my opinion, or flame away if you like. I'm not particularly vested in this board except for occasional troubleshooting. I keep seeing boards becoming wastelands, useful content and dialogue drowned by pointless flamewars. I'm down to a handful that I participate in, and a few more (like this one) that I generally just scan. Don't want to lose another one. Remember the MOO3 boards? Forget the game, just the, hmm, incivility (<-understatement) of the forums.

Sorry you feel that way. Personally, I think this forum has just the "right mix" when it comes to personalities in here.

LOL hey it's x-mas all is forgiven! Peace to everyone!

Bralex - I guess it depends on how sensitive you want to be about things, I guess people will always have disagreements on forums, in some ways that is the whole point really, a voicing of various opinions.

My biggest beef with your post with the suggestion of perma-banning for the content contained above, having been a mod of a couple of other forums (predominately car related forums) only really serious transgressions would see someone permanently banned from a forum site, and none of the above would constitute that (although there would perhaps be a serious mod discussion about the content of something like post #20). Only serious personal slights or attack, where profane language was used or compromise of site sponsors, that sort of thing. In my experience, temp-bans were often enough to deter most people from repeat offending, and we often found that their posts would generally be more civil after a temp ban.

Hokay, that's my 50 cents worth. Gotta get cracking on this nasty Gigantic Obscene game - the Iconians are running rampant!

I moderated at a small 3d art site, and this place is relatively mild compared to it. Get a core group of 50 artist members with their prima donna egos flaming each other, and then you've really got something. The only times we had to ban people were when they started sending rather questionable pm's to other members. Then again, we weren't running an 'all audiences' site, if you get my drift.

I can't really imagine that you care about my opinion - but I'll post more anyway . I'm not sure I'd consider myself "sensitive" as much as "tired" of the flaming. A person smarter than me would have posted in the most egregious thread rather than the last one (of the ones I read before posting that day). I have not been a moderator. Donfield, I laughed at your post, I can totally imagine what you saw there. I used to track and participate in a lot of sites, newsgroups, and listserves, and have gradually been retreating under the load of spam, flames, advertising, etc. The best sites I still use are closely moderated, limit advertising, and come down hard on spam (adverts and spam don't look like a problem here, thanks stardock!). Well, I won't belabor it any more than I already have. BTW my baseline is rather long - I was playing and participating in GalCiv newsgroups from the OS/2 days. Are there still any others of us old-timers around?

Scott

A tactic I've tried does work in many situations - not all for sure - but limits the pre-teen prattling - is to create a sub forum, and the moderator labels the thread "Flame War XXXX" where XXXX is the topic concerned, any flamewar not in the subforum meant instant forum ban.

Initially, they went at it hammer and tongs, but when they began to realise no one bothered to look at the subforum to read the boring prattling they lost their audience, and they drifted away. Didnt stop it totally, but it got rid of 90% of the inane drivel.

Regards
Zy

Stardock, Any idea as to when we will be able to post DA games to the Metaverse?

BUMP

I am curious to know if it is yet possible to post DA games to the metaverse...?

Yes, they've been postable since release (before it actually, if you had the final version early ). Note though that races may not show up correctly until the web team gets to spend some time on the metaverse.