My two cents

[neotek]

Funny how now this thread is reopened and unlocked. Lol @ that

Real upfront there cool guys.

Neotek

[The Pioneer]

I am wodering (as I am at work right now with nothing better to do) why would people that do not like Mark/Dan/Ming and/or the other Mods stay around and b**c about it? This is a private site and as far as I am concerned they can lock anybody they like or want at any time without the need to explain themselves to us! Of course they do not do that. They do try though to keep everything in order and while keeping the site interesting. Now I think a lot of people agree with me here when I say they are doing darn good job at it. Of course they have their glitches and make mistakes but then everybody does. I also think that they are open to constructive criticism....

So long...

[MarkG]

just so that you dont have any illusions neotek, the thread was unlocked 9 minutes before your thread....

[Alex]

Civ is the only God and Mark/Dan/Ming are His prophets...

[TheStinger]

If you don't like the game at all why bother posting, if you have some crticisms fair enough, but i suppose the point is this site is for people who play and like Civ type games

[Alexander's Horse]

Re: My two cents

Originally posted by Anaximander
(although I do think that the car analogy has SOME merit)

Thank you

I used it first in one of my PTW threads that was locked

Mark and Ming should lighten up - you guys are stifling debate and really starting to look ridiculous. Went through this before with civ III and those other dogs - the CTP series.

Does Firaxis help pay for the site or something? I can only assume there is a relationship of some kind which we are not seeing

[MarkG]

Mark and Ming should lighten up - you guys are stifling debate

you know, you're right!
ming, from now on we will delete threads instead of closing them with explanations on reasons and then encouraging a reasonable discussion with arguments and stuff...

thank you very much for your suggestion horsie!!

[Alexander's Horse]

Well I don't even feel I have the right to start a thread there because you would just close it and ban me.

Is that the atmosphere you want your forums to have?

[MarkG]

noone has been banned for starting one of the threads we are talking about horsie

the fear is just in your head and has no basis in reality and any of our decisions. i strongly advise that you seek help from a professional.

[Alexander's Horse]

The "fear", more like a strong inhibition, is well just justified - you have banned me twice for posting critical comments in an on topic forum. Ming closed the thread on consumer rights I started on the PTW forum.

I can join the dots.

[Rasbelin]

My little input (don't associate this with Poly or any official rules) on the issue...

There's indeed times when threads are better to be deleted than left open or closed. The reason can simply be that you want to ASAP cool off an issue by force or if there's something that would mess up the community. I do understand this now (okay, now someone's going to say "yikes" when my understanding for Ming has increased ) after some own experience from the FreeAC Forums when a simple thread about the future web hosting of the project website, FTP, e-mail and forums, became something of a flamewar and a thread like 10-year-olds arguing about the hosting and a future fund raising scheme. Well, the project was almost endangered by that, so I had to ask others not to take part in it or discuss the issue behind the scene, while closing and deleting the thread in order to cool off the whole debacle. Fortunately that was the right move as the rally settled down and things returned back to normal after a few days.

So sometimes there's those moments you have to act like a despot and cut off the chatter.

Indeed Horsie has a clue when he says questionises a clamp down like this, but on the other hand there's times when you have to do something. Well, maybe I'm not the right person to speak about issues like this, but if the owners of the site think that's a valid policy, then it's IMHO up to them. Of course consulting the community members is a good thing, but if they enforce this new policy, I'm not among the first ones to whine.

After all, each community and society needs rules in order to work.

Just 0,05 € by me.

[MarkG]

you have banned me twice for posting critical comments in an on topic forum.

i can only find a record of single ban since April 2001. it was in fact April 16, 2001 and the record states:
For continued spamming and trolling after being told not to

it seems that you have yet to contain your habits...

[Robert]

Civ3 is not a bad game,
I still enjoy it very much! I play it on daily base.

If I look at all the rant-threads that popped up after it's release, and compare it with the huge amount of people that are still playing it right now, we can easily conclude that all the ranting had no point.

I'm sure (eventhough I didn't play PtW yet) that in half a year we will conclude the same from this product.

I really support poly for closing those boring first-sight rants. And yes please, delete them as well.

AH: just keep on civ2-ing, you're too old for new games It's a fact, when people grow old, they aren't able to learn new things anymore

[SpencerH]

Given that one of my threads just got closed with the comment "that there were lots of others", I have to agree that the closings can be somewhat capricious (especially since mine was started earlier).

[Ming]

If I had seen it when you started it, I would have closed it then.