29th May 2005, 9:31 PM
Here's the gist. OB1 was upset about some rules he felt stepped over some boundries.
The rules consisted of preexisting requirements regarding reviews, only this time the reviews were to be submitted in an actual forum meant for them instead of seperate pages outside the forum. Namely, the requirement that a review have a decent size and be detailed in the analysis of the game. There were a few more, but it was weakened into that form.
The rest of us, Weltall included, tried to defend these rules by saying we wanted some standards.
OB1 felt that this was not needed, since the entire forum was pretty meaningless on the whole, but the problem was by that logic arguing about any new requirements became meaningless too.
Unfortunatly, despite our best attempts to convey to him that this wasn't a big deal and that Weltall basically just wanted the reviews to look a certain way, OB1 felt too stongly for his arguments and felt our posts were an insult to him. In the end, he threatened to, and eventually did, leave over the issue. He did make a point of saying that he was thinking about it for a long time anyway due to percieved past transgressions and this was the final straw.
Anyway, there are a few threads here regarding that whole thing that are easy enough to find. Read them and judge for yourself what it all means. At any rate I believe I was fair above in my analysis of it all.
The rules consisted of preexisting requirements regarding reviews, only this time the reviews were to be submitted in an actual forum meant for them instead of seperate pages outside the forum. Namely, the requirement that a review have a decent size and be detailed in the analysis of the game. There were a few more, but it was weakened into that form.
The rest of us, Weltall included, tried to defend these rules by saying we wanted some standards.
OB1 felt that this was not needed, since the entire forum was pretty meaningless on the whole, but the problem was by that logic arguing about any new requirements became meaningless too.
Unfortunatly, despite our best attempts to convey to him that this wasn't a big deal and that Weltall basically just wanted the reviews to look a certain way, OB1 felt too stongly for his arguments and felt our posts were an insult to him. In the end, he threatened to, and eventually did, leave over the issue. He did make a point of saying that he was thinking about it for a long time anyway due to percieved past transgressions and this was the final straw.
Anyway, there are a few threads here regarding that whole thing that are easy enough to find. Read them and judge for yourself what it all means. At any rate I believe I was fair above in my analysis of it all.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)