BrEgOrs, in reference to your initial reply:
Since I'm unable to detect sarcasm I'll take your post at face value. You make some interesting points, but in my opinion:
1) It's difficult to know if you're interested in a discussion topic until you read it - don't judge a book by its cover and all that.
2) Banning people for subjective reasons is discriminatory, in my opinion, and might hurt people's feelings. It's better to try to separate facts from emotional responses, because failing to do so leads to extremisms, fanboyisms and other, um, "isms" that are not too good.
3) I don't think that it's ever good to remove threads for anything other than culturally/racially/socially/sexually (etc) offensive reasons. I have no problems with discussions that are going nowhere being locked and preserved though.
4) Basing one's right to post based on how many completed, commercially available games they've helped developed is unwise. 90% of new Blitz users wouldn't be able to contribute. It wouldn't be a problem for me since I've been involved in the development of plenty of commercially available games, but it'd make the forums fairly lifeless.
;)
Since I'm unable to detect sarcasm I'll take your post at face value. You make some interesting points, but in my opinion:
1) It's difficult to know if you're interested in a discussion topic until you read it - don't judge a book by its cover and all that.
2) Banning people for subjective reasons is discriminatory, in my opinion, and might hurt people's feelings. It's better to try to separate facts from emotional responses, because failing to do so leads to extremisms, fanboyisms and other, um, "isms" that are not too good.
3) I don't think that it's ever good to remove threads for anything other than culturally/racially/socially/sexually (etc) offensive reasons. I have no problems with discussions that are going nowhere being locked and preserved though.
4) Basing one's right to post based on how many completed, commercially available games they've helped developed is unwise. 90% of new Blitz users wouldn't be able to contribute. It wouldn't be a problem for me since I've been involved in the development of plenty of commercially available games, but it'd make the forums fairly lifeless.
;)