Having read the thread in question, I think it's safe to assume you'll soon be exiled, dear Ock!
Why?
For the same reason Simon got the ax a couple of years ago, inspiring me to delete years worth of my own work and follow him out the door in sympathy.
You dared to violate an occult taboo here, mentioning that you are a PAYING CUSTOMER of Stardock and therefore expect to be treated with at least a soupcon of respect on Stardock forums.
Simon did the same after purchasing GalCiv2 (and an expansion pack!) and later bumping heads with Sir Wardell on one of his own (Simon's) unrelated threads.
The notion that we are free to speak our minds on our own blogs is a fallacy, my friend. Always has been, always will be.
And the risk of facing exile myself, I must say that some of the new 'admins' are going overboard and seem to be on some sort of power trip. Just last month I was threatened with discipline for mentioning that a certain stankfish had indeed turned up in Pampa.
No real name was mentioned, not even a JU moniker....just 'stankfish.'
No address was given, not even a neighborhood, just 'Pampa.'
But it still earned me a *very* stern email from someone who has yet to learn how to use his newly granted authoritaaaayyy with restraint and civility, claiming I would recieve no further warning.
So perhaps I'll be right behind ya, my friend, for daring to mention it here.
Then again, I can't think of a place I'd rather be.
End of little-whip's quote
They can exile me if they wish. I agree that this particular admin knee jerked his reaction to my post which contained unique-to-the-thread information about a problem I had noticed with the forums. He said it was a "me too" article. Whatever. It won't happen again. If I notice something about a problem with any of these sites, and I further notice that no one has mentioned it in threads that relate to said problem, they can just figure it out themselves. Why should I waste my time. Once I noticed my post had been deleted, I think I said something to the effect of spending more time learning to script and less time deleting threads. Shame on me. The dudes on this thread were all posting tracerts and pings and whatnot...one look at the taskbar showed it was an issue with a stardock script. A retarded monkey could have figured it out...and very oddly, after I pointed that out, the problem was fixed the next day. I'm sure it was just a coincidence.
So I posted an article about it, and when the admin showed up to comment, I deleted his post. I guess other admins felt this was not okie dokey as it (and I paraphrase) "made it appear as if Stardock wasn't addressing my concerns." So Island Dog locked it. I kinda figure if you're going to delete someone's attempt at being helpful, maybe a private message saying "Hey dude, to keep this forum clean, I deleted your post. We are interested in people trying to help, but your comments didn't quite fit the criteria we hold as "help." No offense is intended. I could deal with that.
So I just copied and pasted the whole thread and reposted it. For which I got more flack from ID and an email. But to his credit, he didn't lock that one. It's just listed as private.
Through all of this, I didn't really get too butthurt. I was too amused at all of Brad's recent posts saying that government doesn't have to be so big and get in everyone's business to insure they do the right thing. Yet what is this?
Too funny, that's what.
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