Well, since Ash brought it up again, I agree.
First, I get banned for posting kitten pictures. Some confusion about double-posting was why I was banned specifically, but the point is I was banned for posting kitten pictures.
I get unbanned a day later, not so much as an apology from skidracer for banning me and preventing me access to software I paid for. I figure I'll let it go since the guy is about as stable as a raging alcoholic riding a unicycle.
So, I post my kitten again, this time with Blitz shaved onto it. I figure that because now it's obviously a Blitz-related kitten, she'll get the adoration she deserves -- nope. Deleted.
It is a kitten, skid. What is wrong with you? Are you jealous of my kitten? Do you not like kittens? Are you somehow aroused by kittens and must block them out because of your severe mental issue(s)? If it's the last one, seek help.
Frankly, I've been banned from here before for criticizing BRL's work. You guys ever heard the saying "the customer is always right?" Stop tooling around and get your act together. Everyone is obviously tired of this crap, the forum was a much better place before skid went completely insane. Remember that thread I posted asking to have skid's mod status removed? I think by now it's a very legitimate request.
Him and Shagwana both clearly need to take a step back and look at the consequences of what they're doing. When you delete every interesting thread on the forum, you make the intelligent people go away and leave the useless ones who don't actually contribute worthwhile information but just post stuff to stir the pot, so to speak (case in point: FlameDuck).
And while we're on the subject of the well-being of the forum, bring back off-topic or remove skid's completely inane rules. Go ahead and lock political and religious threads, but locking fun ones about kittens and MegaMan? Come on. Have you completely lost your senses? Do you want to drive off the majority of people who will still buy your stuff? Any reasonable business doesn't, they want to make sure their customers are happy so they'll stay and see future products as worth buying. I haven't bought MaxGUI -- wonder why? It's because it's obvious you aren't going to support your customers the way people like The Game Creators, the PureBasic developers, or Truevision 3D developers (who are very nice folks, by the way -- always able to talk to them about bugs and they're very receptive to feature requests unlike a certain other company) will.
Frankly, I'm not happy at all with what's going on right now. I've behaved very well, as far as I'm concerned, for the past two months, so when I posted kittens I didn't expect to get banned. Why are these foolish forum rules still in place? Why are people like skid and Shagwana allowed to be moderators? Just because skid works for BRL doesn't mean he should be a moderator. As for Shag, with some training he might be better. How come the BlitzMax IDE is actually worse than before? Why is the default website skin still ugly (noticed while I was banned)? Why is a thread about a newly adopted kitten that was abandoned on my doorstep deleted?
Also, I'd take a dig at skid's appearance (saw the picture), but I figure I'll save that for when I'm really ticked off. And for the record, I don't have a problem with Mark anymore, this is primarily about skid and secondarily Shagwana (and a tiny mention for simonh to fix up the default website theme -- you don't sell games, you sell programming languages, so don't make it look unprofessional and gamey to outsiders; take a look at fredborg's theme for an idea as to what professional is) as they are the ones that have caused all the problems as of late (let's say 'late' is the past 6-7 months).
First, I get banned for posting kitten pictures. Some confusion about double-posting was why I was banned specifically, but the point is I was banned for posting kitten pictures.
I get unbanned a day later, not so much as an apology from skidracer for banning me and preventing me access to software I paid for. I figure I'll let it go since the guy is about as stable as a raging alcoholic riding a unicycle.
So, I post my kitten again, this time with Blitz shaved onto it. I figure that because now it's obviously a Blitz-related kitten, she'll get the adoration she deserves -- nope. Deleted.
It is a kitten, skid. What is wrong with you? Are you jealous of my kitten? Do you not like kittens? Are you somehow aroused by kittens and must block them out because of your severe mental issue(s)? If it's the last one, seek help.
Frankly, I've been banned from here before for criticizing BRL's work. You guys ever heard the saying "the customer is always right?" Stop tooling around and get your act together. Everyone is obviously tired of this crap, the forum was a much better place before skid went completely insane. Remember that thread I posted asking to have skid's mod status removed? I think by now it's a very legitimate request.
Him and Shagwana both clearly need to take a step back and look at the consequences of what they're doing. When you delete every interesting thread on the forum, you make the intelligent people go away and leave the useless ones who don't actually contribute worthwhile information but just post stuff to stir the pot, so to speak (case in point: FlameDuck).
And while we're on the subject of the well-being of the forum, bring back off-topic or remove skid's completely inane rules. Go ahead and lock political and religious threads, but locking fun ones about kittens and MegaMan? Come on. Have you completely lost your senses? Do you want to drive off the majority of people who will still buy your stuff? Any reasonable business doesn't, they want to make sure their customers are happy so they'll stay and see future products as worth buying. I haven't bought MaxGUI -- wonder why? It's because it's obvious you aren't going to support your customers the way people like The Game Creators, the PureBasic developers, or Truevision 3D developers (who are very nice folks, by the way -- always able to talk to them about bugs and they're very receptive to feature requests unlike a certain other company) will.
Frankly, I'm not happy at all with what's going on right now. I've behaved very well, as far as I'm concerned, for the past two months, so when I posted kittens I didn't expect to get banned. Why are these foolish forum rules still in place? Why are people like skid and Shagwana allowed to be moderators? Just because skid works for BRL doesn't mean he should be a moderator. As for Shag, with some training he might be better. How come the BlitzMax IDE is actually worse than before? Why is the default website skin still ugly (noticed while I was banned)? Why is a thread about a newly adopted kitten that was abandoned on my doorstep deleted?
Also, I'd take a dig at skid's appearance (saw the picture), but I figure I'll save that for when I'm really ticked off. And for the record, I don't have a problem with Mark anymore, this is primarily about skid and secondarily Shagwana (and a tiny mention for simonh to fix up the default website theme -- you don't sell games, you sell programming languages, so don't make it look unprofessional and gamey to outsiders; take a look at fredborg's theme for an idea as to what professional is) as they are the ones that have caused all the problems as of late (let's say 'late' is the past 6-7 months).