I'm not a big fan of the moderation around here, its got a little bit 'one rule for one, one for another', and some of the banning raise an odd eyebrow or three.
I vent my fury at some of the stuff elsewhere though, because it'll not last five minutes on here... But, I do love Blitz to bits though, its been there since I started tinkering on a PC, and even though I could technically move to C++/DirectX or XNA... I'm pretty comfy dabbling in BlitzMax and always return to the language when I try to break the shackles out of spite! ;)
The one thing that really grinds my bones on the forums is the people that think they are the 'uber' elite, yet somehow, the eliteness isnt backed up by anything other than an unfinished project in their sig.
Then when you try to state why they are wrong they get all defensive and it usually ends up being a bit of a slagging match... Even if you post evidence why you are right, they still wont give in.
I also used to help in the language forums, until I posted some code, which did the job the author of the topic asked for... Yet, a user decided to pop in, post a "Ewwww, thats so unoptimized" comment, with nothing more to add, not even a reason why it was unoptimized... So I thought why bother, why take being put down by someone when your only trying to help... I'm game to learn a better way, if someone has something better than mine, show me it, dont take the piss.
Basically, these forums are hard work, and it manifest's itself to negativity (Which I do argree I carry that a lot over here)... any community feeling was ripped out years ago, which was when Blitz got a bit too big I think, maybe not big, maybe the word popular is more appropriate.
Maybe BRL need a refresh, new site, new forums, new layout... To take a step back, take stock and rebrand... Maybe!
Dabz
P.S. Love ya's all though! :P
I vent my fury at some of the stuff elsewhere though, because it'll not last five minutes on here... But, I do love Blitz to bits though, its been there since I started tinkering on a PC, and even though I could technically move to C++/DirectX or XNA... I'm pretty comfy dabbling in BlitzMax and always return to the language when I try to break the shackles out of spite! ;)
The one thing that really grinds my bones on the forums is the people that think they are the 'uber' elite, yet somehow, the eliteness isnt backed up by anything other than an unfinished project in their sig.
Then when you try to state why they are wrong they get all defensive and it usually ends up being a bit of a slagging match... Even if you post evidence why you are right, they still wont give in.
I also used to help in the language forums, until I posted some code, which did the job the author of the topic asked for... Yet, a user decided to pop in, post a "Ewwww, thats so unoptimized" comment, with nothing more to add, not even a reason why it was unoptimized... So I thought why bother, why take being put down by someone when your only trying to help... I'm game to learn a better way, if someone has something better than mine, show me it, dont take the piss.
Basically, these forums are hard work, and it manifest's itself to negativity (Which I do argree I carry that a lot over here)... any community feeling was ripped out years ago, which was when Blitz got a bit too big I think, maybe not big, maybe the word popular is more appropriate.
Maybe BRL need a refresh, new site, new forums, new layout... To take a step back, take stock and rebrand... Maybe!
Dabz
P.S. Love ya's all though! :P