EDIT: after my discussions with Khalsa and sleek on IRC, I've kind of retracted the points below. Although I maintain that not only coders should write ideas, I've been convinced that we definitely need to cut down on the threads of crappy ideas that are impossible or have been said many times before. Mods section is much more for discussion of existing mods than hypothetical ones. Always, always think before you post.
1) The coders will ask for your ideas when they do actually need your ideas.
2) If you think you do have an interesting idea and want to see it done, do post a new thread. We might tell you how you can do it, and you have to code it yourself. The possibility of it going mainstream is almost 0 though. So you'll end up with an unpure thing.
3) If you have an idea but you don't care if it's implemented or not, hmm maybe you don't need to post it here. I know there are some really good ones in your mind and you can't really code it, but most of the time they're just some random pure bullshit to us.
You don't like it when people calling you children or kids but look at what you have done to our forum. It's full of spams / worthless threads and you guys yelling at each other. Please, let us have some peaceful discussion. You can own all people you want in the game okay ?
1) Sometimes you don't know you want something until you have it. Perhaps we'll be working on some vaguely interesting mod idea, fully occupied and not asking for anything else, when suddenly someone comes up with an easy-to-implement and undeniably fun idea. It's not like we have limited internets that are being used up by everyone posting every damn stupid thought that comes into their heads. If it wasn't for all the flaming people seem to think is necessary, such things would take perhaps 5 seconds to skim over and discard.
2) Maybe you'll end up with a new feature for someone's game.qvm, or for someone's downloadable mod, that can go into use immediately, even if it isn't absorbed into the mainstream codebase. Maybe not all the people with good ideas are good coders, and maybe not all coders have good ideas. Again, there are plenty of spare internets to go around.
3) Or maybe you can post it after all, and not worry about whose precious time is wasted because they are forced to read your horrible blatherings.
Also, I'm pretty sure you've no right to refer to it as "our" forum. The only people who can do that are the owners of
http://www.tremulous.net, everyone else is a visitor.
All that said, I'm trying not to argue, not flame, and I don't mean to attack you personally.
