[redsniper]

Well, I'm currently reading the AV thread and the thread here about this whole Derek Smart incident/controversy. I go to Canada fishing for a week and all this happens . Anyway, I caught this in the AV thread and figured I'd bring it to everyone's attention in case no one noticed.
DS discriminates against people who don't speak English well.  (FreeTerran and HIG probably appreciate that)
 

quote:Originally posted by Flipside:
   HLP is a multi-national forum, it has people ranging from Brazil, Russia, most of Europe, the US and Australia. Many of the people on HLP do not speak English as their first language. We have a general forum rule to respect that fact.

(Derek Smart)
Then they shouldn't be posting.

This Mr. Smart sounds like an ***hole to me and I know of his Battlecruiser games by reputation (not in a good way) and I won't buy FS3 if he makes it.

[jdjtcagle]

Welcome back... Crazy things have happened.
But yes you have a very good point, one we have figured out 2 days ago, so.... anyway, how was the fishing?

[redsniper]

fishing was pretty good but that's another thread (maybe)
Here's some more:

And if there is anyone here who doesn't understand English, they need to get someone transllate my verse for them.

[jdjtcagle]

Ok, seriously.
You have been gone but the reason I asked you about the fishing was...
We have too many threads about DS, he has become the most hated man in the gaming community.

1.  We know he is an Anus
2.  Everybody just wants him to either (A. Die by freak accident (B. Kill him
3.  Most of all we're tired of talking about him.

[redsniper]

I suppose I should have finished reading the threads before posting. I thought this incident was still happening. Thank you for stopping me before I made an arse out of myself.

[jdjtcagle]

Good luck finishing those threads

[Thorn]

So where were you fishing? Nova Scotia is good for that this time of year, provided you dont mind not catching anything....
"We have not caught anything, we are fishing."
-Teal'c

Jesus. Stargate has so many memorable quotes that work just about anywhere....

[WMCoolmon]

"Indeed"
-Teal'c

[Thorn]

*does the eyebrow raise thingy*

[IceFire]

Originally posted by redsniper
Well, I'm currently reading the AV thread and the thread here about this whole Derek Smart incident/controversy. I go to Canada fishing for a week and all this happens . Anyway, I caught this in the AV thread and figured I'd bring it to everyone's attention in case no one noticed.
DS discriminates against people who don't speak English well.  (FreeTerran and HIG probably appreciate that)
 
This Mr. Smart sounds like an ***hole to me and I know of his Battlecruiser games by reputation (not in a good way) and I won't buy FS3 if he makes it.

Yeah crazy things have happened in the last couple of days.  Lots of people upset and certainly this is yet another one that will stick with people.

I understand and more or less agree with your sentiment.  This IS a multinational forum with a multitude of languages and cultures represented.  The expectation is for all to be respected regardless of any of those or other factors.   of that has been thrown to the wind in the last 48 hours from more than one source.  Nonetheless, everyones words are their own.

While I know this thread was meant as nothing of the sort...we've got plenty of the Derek Smart issue threads floating about and this is yet another thing we should try and not provoke.  There needs to be some time and some repairs made.  So I'm closing the thread for now.  May re-open later but we're going to try and keep these threads to a minimum.