@AKA - Damn, I forgot about Tuple completely. Flaming is only constructive when it's not 100% "Gtfo, you're fucking horrible, there's nothing you can do to improve." Which I see Lava saying, though not in those exact words, almost constantly. Lava dissed nearly every map in the "Random Dev. Shots" thread, after seeing only a screenshot or two. What, I ask, gives him the right to do such a thing. Lava almost never gives constructive criticism, but he always has something rude to say, and infact, he starts a lot of the large, extremely discriminatory arguments around here. Want an example?
How about three?
Here's some constant bashing of SST| by "creating" a fake server just to make fum of them:
http://tremulous.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4793&highlight=satgnuHere's that bullshit "Moron Clan" that maci made, it had Lava's full support, dispite it's obvious discrimination. f0rqu3 was in on it too, I think it was then when he joined Lava & Co to start the endless flaming of me.
http://tremulous.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4671Oh, look, here's Lava & Co in the original Mormon Clan thread!
http://tremulous.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4670Here's some banning of Poland, now, mind you, while most people agreed with this act, it was completely and totally a discriminatory act, and I still don't believe it was (completely) necessary. Also, with Lava's (and Maci's, and Jhaar's) history of threads, this seems to be fairly.. well, contradictory to what Lava has said in his opening post.
http://tremulous.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4670@Player1 - ORLY? I'm going to bounce around, picking at bits and pieces of your post randomly. I'm not trying to best Lava and f0rqu3, nor am I
trying to be one of the largest pains in the ass any of you have ever encountered, but it seems that few of you notice how much this community as a whole is in need of some serious cleaning up. Perhaps I am but a simple weed trying to grow in a place where I feel as though I'm not wanted, where everything around me is attempting to hold me back, where few listen, but no one cares. It's not Ovaltine, it's Nyquil. Damn right I'm making myself, not so much madder, but more... determined, to get my point across. I'm going to be heard, but, more then that, I'm going to be listened to, before that 90% of this community convinces Timbo, or any other high admin here to give me a ban.
P.S. Player1, no one deserves the constant harrasment that you dish(ed) out on nearly a daily basis.
P.P.S. Lava & Co consists of Lava Croft, maci, jhaa, and f0rqu3. They had the support of sleekslacker aloth, though.
P.P.P.S. Here is a quote from a member of this community who wasn't very respected, but had his points. A lot like myself, I guess. This is concerning the Mormon clan. More important points are highlighted.
I personally disagree with a lot of Mormon doctirne, but it doesn't mean I'm going to be a fag about it like most of you guys have been.[/b] I mean seriously, he creates a clan based on NOT flaming/trash talking people, and what do you guys do?
-You flame his clan.
-You flame his religion.
-You flame his intelligence.
And half of the jerks doing the flaming are the same hypocrites who call everyone else on the forums trolls and flamewhores. Seriously, just leave the guy alone.[/color]
Don't be closeminded BIGOTS and flame Mormons if you have little or no idea wat their religious beliefs are, and more importantly if you have no idea what the OP's personal beliefs are. Liberal bigotry... oh the irony!
(Not really, actually. I find more open-minded people lean to the steriotypically 'closeminded' right.)
I could've easily highlighted the whole damned post, and for those of you who read it, you'll be able to see that.
We, the minority, have strong arguments and strong points that aren't being listened to. Open your minds, accept that for once we might just be right, and you might just be wrong. If you don't accept the fact that your minds are too narrow to understand some of the things that we do, then you would be a fool. We have, it's on you guys now.
You have to make the choice between the current state of this community, and a better one. One where there are stricter rules, where intense flames are siphoned off into another topic and locked. Where the moderators act like moderators, the people who are good rolemodels on how to be a good and respected forum member. Where everyone, along with their views is respected. A place where there isn't constant bitching and flaming of the underdogs by the people in power. A mature place. Tell me you think this is mature, and you'll be lying, either that, or you're not aware of the definition of mature.