[Polpolion]

Note to self: Never use analogies when talking to TrashMan.

[TrashMan]

Note to self: Never use REALLY BAD analogies when talking to TrashMan.

Fixed

[Goober5000]

Thanks TrashMan, that's what I was waiting for.  You're now monkeyed for one week.

[chief1983]

I don't know what's funnier, that Trash is monkeyed or all the people on IRC who are excited about it.

[karajorma]

Thanks TrashMan, that's what I was waiting for.  You're now monkeyed for one week.

Yep. That was deliberately stupid. He wasn't even trying to understand TheSizzler's point and was even adding stuff (like the word child) to make it an even bigger strawman.

[captain-custard]

yet another discussion ( discussion , to talk about a subject ) shot dead by the trashman vs the admin mods problem.....

i tried to make what i thought was a valid point  squad logo avatar's and as far as i can see , reading the posts i never really got a reply except to say the world is flat its always been flat deal with it ,

i understand that the majority of my posts were followed by trashman so maybe that didn't help ...

but please can some one tell me how squad logos would be detrimental to hlp?

they show an interest and commitment in playing , and promoting the game, i spend as much time as possible bug testing new builds ( ok mainly multiplayer)

thanks anyway..., for reading

[karajorma]

Sorry about that. I did notice your post and I was going to post my objections but after reading Trash's posts I just walked away from the thread shaking my head and forgot to post them.

One basic problem with squad logos is that they could very quickly become a lot of work for the admins. Adding a logo isn't particularly fun. It does involve quite a few steps fiddling around with the behind the scenes server stuff. And as an admin I'd end up having to do that every time someone decided to start a squad (which could be reasonably often once we start getting them for TBP, WCS and Diaspora).

Secondly to give someone a badge means assigning them to a usergroup. Only the admins can do this. So that's a lot more work for the admins just to give someone a badge. I don't particularly want badge requests swamping out the important stuff. Nor do I want badge usergroups swamping out the important ones.

Finally, and most importantly although many of the multiplayer community do very good work promoting the game there are quite a few who only turn up to play (or at least there would be). Badges really should mean something or it devalues the project ones. If we ever get around to setting up a proper validation council for FS2 multiplayer I can see that deserving a badge. For much the same reason the Campaign Restoration team got one. But badges simply for playing the game? Nah.

[captain-custard]

yay a real reply with a real argument thats great .......thankyou

things work better when trashman is monkey'd

[Colonol Dekker]

Purpose served,

*no image signatures,
*no avatars
*no squad logos
*no post additions in GD





request lock..

[Polpolion]

Purpose served,

*no image signatures,
*no avatars
*no squad logos
*no post additions in GD





request lock..

Seconded.

Oh wait, I can't second things if this isn't a democracy.   

[Goober5000]

It's a benevolent oligarchy.