A Look Back at How Poly Answered the Question: Will Civ3 Be Rushed? Top 10 Answers!

[Asher]

Originally posted by MarkG
yin, congratulations. you're on the ignore list of 6 people.
i'm trying to find if anyone else has more.

You should include these privacy violations in some privacy statement.

You could legally get in trouble for doing things like this.

[yin26]

yin, congratulations. you're on the ignore list of 6 people.
i'm trying to find if anyone else has more.

1. As Asher says, revealing that kind of information for your own trolling purposes is in poor taste.
2. Idiots can put people on ignore just as easily as a moderator can troll, it seems. In all fairness, they might not be idiots: Perhaps they just can't handle pessimism proven right. Fair enough. But about that trolling moderator ...

[MarkG]

Originally posted by yin26
As Asher says, revealing that kind of information for your own trolling purposes is in poor taste.

small note: asher didnt make any comment about the taste of my post nor did he characterize it as a troll

Originally posted by Asher
You should include these privacy violations in some privacy statement.

You could legally get in trouble for doing things like this.

[Asher]

Taste is such a poor word.

Yin is a better troll than you, Mark (Sorry).
Mark is a more interesting person to listen to though (Sorry).

I love you Mark. Step into my banana boat.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Asher
Taste is such a poor word.

what about "poor taste"? how poor is that?

Yin is a better troll than you, Mark (Sorry).

the thing is i dont try to be a troll

Mark is a more interesting person to listen to though (Sorry).

that i try to be

I love you Mark. Step into my banana boat.

you're sounding like horsie now

[Asher]

Originally posted by MarkG
what about "poor taste"? how poor is that?

I think Yin's threads here are in poor taste.

you're sounding like horsie now

I confess my love for you and you compare me to a barnhard animal?

[Setsuna]

Originally posted by MarkG
yin, congratulations. you're on the ignore list of 6 people.
i'm trying to find if anyone else has more.

I've often found in my many forum going years that people who ignore other posters do so for two reasons.

1. They are nearing sub-human in their intelligence and would make a twelve-year-old blush at their immaturity.
2. They make a point that does not conform to their viewpoint. At all. In fact, they hate the person for making a point that they just can't seem to refute. Their comfort zone has been brutally violated. As a safeguard mechanism they will use an ignore feature/kill file or if necessary just skip the offending posts/messages.

In this particular case I'm leaning towards the latter.

[Asher]

I'm not so sure.
It's a mix I think.

Yin does some pretty annoying stuff.

There's a reason I vanished from the Civ3 forums until the game came out: So many people have tried to convince themselves Civ3 will be the ultimate game of all time with all of this constant hype. Lo and behold, it doesn't meet expectations (who could have seen that coming?!) and everyone gets all pissed off and posting things like "Oh my God it's SOOO BUGGY Firaxis sucks AHHH". Obviously those people haven't played U9, Anarchy Online, WW2 Online, B&W, etc. Now those are buggy games.

[Setsuna]

Originally posted by Asher
B&W, etc. Now those are buggy games.

Oh god, it's true. For the most part the only support the game has had via patches is technical in nature.

I kept waiting for a patch that would address gameplay concerns (Witness the game crippling whining villagers who became utterly helpless the moment a god showed up.)

But it never came! Waaah.. What is this!? Some kind of sick joke?! Where am I?

Since SMAC had several patches I am confident Firaxis will fix this game. If not...

[SixArmedMan]

I vaguely remember Brian Reynolds making some quote about not releasing a game too early with tons of bugs... Now he's gone. I only wonder what WOULD'VE been had he stayed on... *sigh*. That's too bad.