what about the future?

[TheConway]

As a relative newcomer, I really have to say that I find the attitudes on the forums pretty similar. The only real difference I see is that there seems to be a fairly low tolerance for deliberate misinformation and malicious trolling on dom3mods. This isn't enforced by mods, rather it seems the community of experienced players there feel free to post decisively to deal with such episodes. Having been a moderator on a different forum, I really don't understand how a community like this can function when the only times I see moderators is on the buglist or when somebody gets reported. On the forum I moderated for, moderators were expected to be active, contributing members of the community whom people could respect. From my own searching and lurking, this does not seem to be so much the case here. However, I see no reason to not enjoy whatever fruits both forums may offer.

[Edi]

Originally Posted by TheConway

As a relative newcomer, I really have to say that I find the attitudes on the forums pretty similar. The only real difference I see is that there seems to be a fairly low tolerance for deliberate misinformation and malicious trolling on dom3mods. This isn't enforced by mods, rather it seems the community of experienced players there feel free to post decisively to deal with such episodes. Having been a moderator on a different forum, I really don't understand how a community like this can function when the only times I see moderators is on the buglist or when somebody gets reported. On the forum I moderated for, moderators were expected to be active, contributing members of the community whom people could respect. From my own searching and lurking, this does not seem to be so much the case here. However, I see no reason to not enjoy whatever fruits both forums may offer.

Good post.

This community has functioned pretty well with various levels of moderator posting activity for years. I'm around and I read the forums even if I don't post a whole lot.

I have a posting philosophy of not posting if somebody else already covered what I would have said, since it would not add anything new to the discussion. There was a time when you could hardly find a thread where I wasn't posting when somebody asked a question, but you'd have to dig a while to get there. The same is true of the other mods, all of them have been very active some time in the past, even if that may be in the very distant past since they were already mods back in the day of Dominions 2.

The various moderators also have jobs, families and other interests, which often cuts down on their available posting time, even if they keep an eye on the forum. Keeping an eye on a forum requires far less time than actively posting on said forum.

The community here does a fairly good job of keeping things in hand by itself, it doesn't need a whole lot of moderator action as such. When certain sorts of things do crop up, then we may need to intervene, but I like not needing to intervene. Most of the other mods also prefer that state of things.

Sometimes though there are clashes of strong personalities that don't smooth out on their own, which is usually when the report button gets used and then moderators have to step in.

With regard to moderator activity on the bug reports, that's my primary job description here. It was the reason I was made a moderator in the first place, so I need to pay especially close attention to it.

Hopefully this answers some of your concerns and questions about how this place works.

[Fantomen]

Ah, well. It was more the "learning from mistakes etc..." part I wanted to borrow. I don't think Shrapnel is in any way fascist or evil, just a bit bullheaded.

[Gandalf Parker]

It used to be. Then it entered a dark period.

Interesting reference to "low tolerance for deliberate misinformation and malicious trolling". That was one of the old complaints. But they referred to it as fun ribbing and sarcasm (even when it was with people who were brand new here and had trouble seeing it).

But yes, thats going to be one of the advantages of split forums. One of the things that forum will serve is being for low tolerance for deliberate misinformation and malicious trolling. More power to them.

[Foodstamp]

How long are we going to continue to beat this dead horse?

[Gandalf Parker]

But look at the new people its bringing to the forum.
Isnt that what we want?

[Folket]

I skipped 15 pages and what happened to this thread? It seems to be talking about something else then the future of dominions.

[Gandalf Parker]

Yep, it went from the future of Dominions to the future of the Dominions forums.
Not at all the same thing (altho some might think it is).
My apologies to Pocus.

[Soyweiser]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

Yep, it went from the future of Dominions to the future of the Dominions forums.
Not at all the same thing (altho some might think it is).
My apologies to Pocus.

On the topic of the future of dominions, and the future of Illwinter. I'm still a bit disappointed that Illwinter keeps the new project so close to their own chest. A dev blog would make most of us more interested.

[S.R. Krol]

Originally Posted by Soyweiser

On the topic of the future of dominions, and the future of Illwinter.

Well, here's what part of Illwinter has done recently. Unfortunately not much of a strategy game.