Apparently there's a new WCU forum ^^; thanks LOAF

spiritplumber · Post by **spiritplumber** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:43 am

http://www.crius.net/zone/forumdisplay.php?f=26

I think we're supposed to use this one from now on....

*clueless*

I don't mind either, whatever is more convinient for everyone.

Post by **mkruer** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:49 am

Personally I would not use it, mainly due to issues regarding certain CIC staff members censoring and blocking just about everything.

spiritplumber · Post by **spiritplumber** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:17 am

Apparently I'm the one in charge of that bit of space, and I don't plan to censor anything. Except for naked photos of Rush Limbaugh. Eew. Anyway... again whichever is more convenient for everyone ^^; I wanted to use that one because there I can make stickies mostly.

peteyg · Post by **peteyg** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:54 am

I would strongly recommend against using a cruis.net forum. It's a good place to get into arguments over whether or not the WC Movie sucked, but is a bad place for anything else.

The overall tone of the community there is extremely acidic, and lacking in respect. You also don't have control over the forum; the cruis.net admins do, and they are typically the worst offenders. People will probably get banned from your forums for stupid stuff, or saying the wrong thing, or something.

Too much Internet Drama over there to get stuff done. Just stick with the forum here, or set up a new one, or something. You will be WAY better off.

spiritplumber · Post by **spiritplumber** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:48 am

thanks ^^; i'd like to stay away from net.politics and just get this thing working....

kilolima · Post by **kilolima** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:36 pm

Their admins are crazy over there... they banned one of the most prolific beta-testers for priv-remake for no reason and she's never been back...

bonus to admin's ego: +1

damage to priv-remake : -100

Please keep the WCU stuff here, it's also on sourcefourge a bit more reliable anyway.

pincushionman · Post by **pincushionman** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:04 pm

if stickies is an issue for spiritplumber, mebbe an admin can give him sticky privliges on this board...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:41 pm

peteyg wrote:I would strongly recommend against using a cruis.net forum. It's a good place to get into arguments over whether or not the WC Movie sucked, but is a bad place for anything else.

The overall tone of the community there is extremely acidic, and lacking in respect. You also don't have control over the forum; the cruis.net admins do, and they are typically the worst offenders. People will probably get banned from your forums for stupid stuff, or saying the wrong thing, or something.

Too much Internet Drama over there to get stuff done. Just stick with the forum here, or set up a new one, or something. You will be WAY better off.

Ohh here you are wrong buddy, really really wrong. I was there plenty of time already and if people get ban, tehy get ban for reason, that's I know for sure. Also I think CIC's boards is the best place to discuss WCU, cause there enough people to comment on the issues. Most of them are experienced Wingnuts and know alot about the Universe and might help alot.

Just behave in the right way and you should be fine. I think admins there are good. The ones that could be called the real admins.

Try and check CGTALK.com and what there admins do. You will never call CIC's admins in a bad way after that.

Best regards,
Cyberion

P.S. I strongly recommend to move all the discussion to the CIC's boards.

peteyg · Post by **peteyg** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:36 am

Mamiya and I got banned last night for no reason. Priv Remake developers and contributors have been getting banned a LOT for no reason. It's not a happy situation, and not a happy place.

It is generally the best place to talk about Wing Commander stuff (which makes it good), and it definitely isn't the worst forum on the Internet... but there are just too many negatives to using the forums they provide for a project.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:19 am

Just behave in the right way and you should be fine.

What, pray tell, is the 'right way', if it takes zero effort to be banned for no reason?

Penta · Post by **Penta** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:11 am

Cyberion, I must echo the other guest's question...

That is an amazingly ambiguous answer. It seems remarkably easy for threads to be closed and people to be banned.

WHAT is the right way?

That said, I hope to hell the people working on the code for both are talking to each other on common issues (3D models, codebits re the engine, etc), regardless of other catfights between them. Just call me naive, but...

spiritplumber · Post by **spiritplumber** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:48 am

Same here, internet forum politics have less point than church politics I think... I'm just trying to start WCU while I wait for someone serious to take it over.

Penta · Post by **Penta** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 4:04 am

Someone serious to take over what?

Silverain · Post by **Silverain** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 4:20 am

spiritplumber wrote:Same here, internet forum politics have less point than church politics I think... I'm just trying to start WCU while I wait for someone serious to take it over.

Err... you ARE that some serious??

Penta · Post by **Penta** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 5:12 am

spiritplumber wrote:Same here, internet forum politics have less point than church politics I think... I'm just trying to start WCU while I wait for someone serious to take it over.

Now, now...That would be unfair to church politics, which can get quite serious, dealing as they do with religion.

I believe the proper comparison would be academic politics. The fight's so bitter because the stakes are so low.

JKeefe · Post by **JKeefe** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:31 am

peteyg wrote:Mamiya and I got banned last night for no reason. Priv Remake developers and contributors have been getting banned a LOT for no reason. It's not a happy situation, and not a happy place.

Is it really true that Mamiya was banned? What kind of game forum bans the project lead?

I do agree that it's been pretty nuts over there the past few day. Thankfully things seem to be calming down.

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:25 pm

spiritplumber wrote:I'm just trying to start WCU while I wait for someone serious to take it over.

You shouldn't devalue your contributions.

spiritplumber · Post by **spiritplumber** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:00 pm

As for bannings, etc. I blame the Slashdot effect and the flood of new people. I personally try to not get involved, the only reason I wanted moderator status was so I could stick/unstick threads... I'll yell at people occasionally but never ever silence them.

And I'm just an engineering student in a small college, this sort of thing is for kitties who are real professionals, so I'm going to drop it as soon as I can't help anymore. Just keep my name in the credits is all ^^;

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 11:24 am

Nah, this crius.net and banning thing goes back to before PR ever reached /. and there was an issue as recently as January where a long term member of those forums and one of the major PR playtesters, Wendy, got banned. Speaking of her, she seems to have disappeared. I wonder where she went.