On October 20 2012 23:55 MoltkeWarding wrote:Show nested quote +On October 20 2012 22:08 JingleHell wrote:On October 20 2012 13:28 KwarK wrote:
Banned him for being an idiot about how he approached this in the general topic but if anyone agrees with him they can feel free to post here. Website feedback is a safe place where we can all share our feelings.
KwarK is a sexy beast, and I have feelings of strong humor related sexual attraction whenever there's a new feedback thread about him.
Am I sharing my feelings right? And do I need to do another blog on sensitivity?
I think you mistake for personal hypocrisy something more intractable and inchoate about this forum.
That the moderation has become pedestrian and martinent in the past decade, is so. That the poor and uninitiated newcomers can no longer breathe as freely without looking over their shoulders and guarding their lips is also true to some extent. The hypocrisy is the intractable hypocrisy of generations. The founding fathers have grown old, lost their passion but retained their advantage in being one step ahead in the lessons of life, and are eager to restrain the romp and riot of their former selves.
It is inevitable when a clan grows too large and too old that it loses its folkish charms and becomes encumbered with the machinery of a bureaucratic republic. So has it happened with tl.net. My best years of online interation with the SC community were before 2004, before I joined tl.net, on a completely unmoderated forum with 100-150 regulars, among whom the more dedicated were the chieftains, but who were backbone of the community rather than its policemen.
Consequently I've always appreciated the approach that Drone took to moderating tl.net in those early days, though I have always abstained from having an opinion in such matters, generally speaking.
P.S. The other consideration is my personal inclination: sometime after 2001 the casuals who played the game left the game, and we were left with the awful deterioration of manners in the online gaming community, who betimes would take great troubles to affect pseudo-Korean bearings. I am probably one of a few people who ceased taking SC/BW seriously thereafter, but channeled my interest in other directions, including taking an amateur interest in professional gaming, which again ceased with the decline of the professional scene a few years ago. For a brief period after 2010, the casuals were back, and all kinds of
normal people, including your girlfriend's little sister were playing your game. This time though you are no longer an ingenue and could no longer look upon gaming virginity with a charitable heart.
A fair description of tl.net's social millieu: bunch of normal kids being chaperoned by a bunch of grown-ups with abnormal childhoods is probably broadly right.
EPT
(I too was a big fan of drone's moderation way back when).
