Amen to that. I am still at a loss as to why people need to jump on off topic posts and flame them down. If you don't like lots of emails don't join mailing lists. If you are only here for announcements then filtering for emails with *update coming* and/or emails from Valve employees or join the hlds-announce list. That leave two groups of other people, people here for help and to learn, and to try and help if they can; and the bitter old trolls who is probably here for the announcements but cannot handle people *god forbid* discussing other matters that game operators may face in place that is convenient and knowledgeable.
msleeper I like some of your work [I am a user of the L4D2 Sourcemod plugin based off your code], but you really do present yourself as being condescending and it does detract from that. Clearly you run in a community and in the time it took to write your response you could have instead said something such as "We use <x> because <y>" and helped instead of hindering. Don't take that as a personal attack, it applies to quite a few members of this list. Either ignore the threads or help them, stop spamming them with crap then complaining the list is full of spam. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Michael R. Matheson <d...@ourhumbleabode.com > wrote: > I've tried very hard to ignore this whole, stupid thread. And I really do > not want to contribute to its length. But I think my contract allows me > one > post per year. :) > > One fact remains blatantly obvious to me. There really was NO PROBLEM > until > msleeper posted his usual sarcastic comment "and how is this pertinent to > this list?" (I'm paraphrasing his original e-mail.) Granted, perhaps the > topic of discussion didn't exactly fit the guidelines perfectly, but so > what? I was learning something by reading and it was far more interesting > than the subsequent bickering that has ensued. I submit that if msleeper > had not tried to play "mailing list police", like he always does, the topic > would have ended quickly and no one would be terribly upset. I doubt very > much anyone would have left the mailing list just because they had to > "endure" a few more e-mail exchanges between people that were helping each > other. It really wasn't a big deal! > > Msleeper, can you please just learn to ignore threads that you're not > interested in, instead of always trying to moderate the mailing list? Your > constant critiques of whether or not a post meets your approval do more > harm > than good. Life goes on just fine, even if someone happens to stray a > little off topic. Please just keep your keen "off topic" observations to > yourself. Until this list has a true moderator with clear editing > instructions, this list is simply not going to be perfect. Please stop > pointing out to the whole group every time it isn't perfect. > > Sincerely, > > X-ray Doc > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com > [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of D4rKr0W > Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:11 PM > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds] Good bye, farewell, thanks for the help, and go to hell > > Il 16/02/2010 21:55, msleeper ha scritto: > > Yeah, that's the problem. Everyone "has to". Everyone "has to" get their > > witty quips in, everyone "has to" post whatever dumb ass remark comes to > > mind, and before you know it there's 60+ responses to something that > > shouldn't have been posted in the first place. > > > > But go ahead and blame it on me for the lulz, right? > > > > I'm not blaming anybody, i'm just pointing out that flaming over such > things is a waste of time and you guys keep doing it every time you got > the chance. Get over it, this is a list dedicated to server OPs, you're > not moderating it and even if you keep flaming people will still post > things *you* think are OT. > > PROTIP: Ignore those threads and go on living your life like we all do. > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
