OT: Hostility in Forums

[Makinus]

No, it´s not in the shrapnelforums... But in another one...

I registered in a forum about a game i like to play, with the objective of asking some members there about modding the game a little...

My question was very simple, i asked if it was possible to mod the single-player campaign of the game to add more missions... i had already read several posts in the forum and saw some people modding the missions themselves and was curious if it was possible to add more missions to the campaign...

To my surprise one of the Admins of the forum replied to my post saying: "It's probably safe to say it's out of your league, so just forget about it"...

I ignored the post (i don´t see the point in flame wars), but other member of the forum asked the admin why he was so hostile, and the admin replied that "I can tell by his post that he doesn't have what it takes."

Happily other forum members, while unable to answer if my modding objective was possible or not, indicated ways and files i should try to read and edit, even offering to help me if i could discover something in the way of what i wanted...

Now i question, if someone is an admin of a forum, should it not be he/her responsible to create an amiable ambient to the forum? I continue to ignore the flame war that was initiated in my behalf, as i already got the answer and help i asked for, but i find very sad that an admin that don´t know me (it was my first post), in answer to a perfect valid question starts by trying to offend myself...

I just hope that the said admin didn´t ban myself from the forum because of the flame war that was initiated... as i said i´m ignoring it and focusing in the technical question i asked, but i´m afraid that an admin that insults people without any reason could also ban forum members without any reason too...

Sorry about the rant people, i just wanted to share this experience, that i found very sad and puzzling...