RE: The Distant Guns DRM thread of doom
* Note: This post has been moved to the Distant Guns forum from its original location in the main GameSquad help section.
Oh it happened allright. So if we report posts that goes to you? Obviously it's quite useless if it goes to Saddletank.
Not exactly. When you use the report post feature your report gets sent to a private moderator forum where all the mods can see it and talk over the best course of action (if any). I can tell you the reports that come in range from the horrific to the ridiculous and everything in between. The stuff that people will report is just amazing at times. The mods do their best to sort it all out, but bear in mind they're only volunteers and it's a thankless job.
If mods are editing posts then that's something that needs to be reported so the whole mod team can weigh in on it and get it sorted out (and please be as specific as possible so the mods have something to work with).
On a semi-related note, I just wondered into the DG forum to see what's going on for myself. Honestly, I was a little surprised to see how harsh the comments from all sides had gotten. I haven't been in there in ages as I've been busy with school, a new baby and lots of other stuff, but I remember the DG forum as being a fairly quiet place for the most part except for the occasional flame war. Perhaps I was wrong about that or perhaps things have changed. At any rate, it appears that your posts played a big part in pissing off the guys from SES. That's just your posting style, I guess. But in all fairness, some of the SES guys can be pretty touchy at times as well, so I'm not entirely surprised tempers have flared and an official forum has now been set up for SES products.
I have to admit I was also a bit taken aback to read some of the comments regarding GameSquad itself from both posters and reps from SES. It appears that some feel the GS mods were way overzealous and responsible for stomping on open debate. On the other side of the fence the SES guys were upset that the mods didn't take a more active approach and ban posters they deemed as inciting problems. Catch 22. I don't know who said what to who first or who "started it" and I really don't intend to get further involved unless the mod team requires my intervention. I will, however, ask the mods to keep an eye on things.
I'm not going to lose a lot a sleep about it. Half of you are pissed off at GS and the SES guys are certainly pissed off. But I maintain that the real dispute is between a certain segment of the wargame community and SES, not GameSquad. GameSquad is just a place where both sides can discuss all this stuff and everyone can have their say. You have a right to have your say but so do the guys from SES. I think it's unfortunate that everyone just couldn't agree to disagree before it reached the point where SES felt compelled to withdraw, but perhaps some good will come from all of this. SES now has its own forum and hopefully that will turn out to be a great resource for wargamers. I also hope the DG forum here continues to be a place that's useful for gamers.
But what I don't want to do is start hammering volunteer moderators because, let's face it, they have a very tough task and it isn't always easy to sort through the problems of an open forum and try to keep the peace. Nor will I bow to pressure from developers or anyone else and start banning controversial posters. The only way anyone is getting banned
is if the volunteer moderators deem that's the only course of action open to them. Bottom line: the intent of the GS forums is to serve as a place where everyone can have their say, even if it's unpopular or controversial. And that includes regular posters, developers, and everybody else.
Keep the comments coming.
I'm sure you would be even more welcome.
