Wh... wha.... what happened to the community?? :'(

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally Posted by Squirrelloid

Justice is never served unless its public and transparent. And it lets the community know how justice operates and prevents accusations of power tripping or unfairness. (Unless of course that is what happened, then it becomes obvious - so public justice helps prevent favoritism, abuse of power, and other nonsense).

Thats one of those things that always sounds good. But Ive never seen it work well when Ive seen it tried. Posting a private conversation publicly and then declaring punishment doesnt tend to go over well. And having a public trial tends to be more drama than justice.

All in all I think a fast axe and clear statement of "no discussion" creates the least turmoil. We might not want it to, but it does.

But now we have a chance to see another forum tackle the subject.

"The only un-censored site is your own.

[Lingchih]

Nothing really happened to the community, other than it kind of split in two. I still come here, though I spend most of my time on the newer forum. It's where most of my compadres are.

As for that forum being unfriendly to noobs... there's maybe a grain of truth to that. But it's more like just friendly taunting. It's mostly vets over there, and if a noob pops in with a noob question, well, they're probably gonna get poked in the ribs for a bit. But someone will finally answer them, or point them back here.

Of course, the community is smaller on the whole. A lot of longtime players have left the game and don't post much anymore (it is a 5 year old game after all).

[Squirrelloid]

I think his point was hostility is equally distributed. (Also, you sort of deserve the hostility if you make no effort to find the answer yourself).

Anyway, I can't even respond to your post about public justice Gandalf. It makes me very angry. To believe that minimizing drama should be the goal... excuse me, I don't want to get banned for saying what I feel about that. Morally bankrupt doesn't even begin to describe it.

[rdonj]

On a lighter note, welcome back Tifone. I was wondering what happened to you.

And radio star, you have just won the Noob of the Year award.

[Gandalf Parker]

Hmmm this seems to have come to a stop.
Im not at disagreement with Radio_Star's descriptions.
And Im not in disagreement with Squirrelloid's reaction to lack of morale high-road.
Both seem fair descriptions of any corporate-owned sales-interested forums.

[Foodstamp]

So much drama. They type things over there, we type things over here, some people type things over there and over here. Sometimes people take a break from that and play a few turns of Dominions.

The End.

[Zen]

LingChih is a bastard and loves the 3rd degree. Also we cuddle and I call him snugly names that he adores like "Fufflebunny"

[Lingchih]

You will pay for that remark, Zen. Tomorrow. Clear out your games, Gandalf, Zen and I have a score to settle.

Originally Posted by Zen

LingChih is a bastard and loves the 3rd degree. Also we cuddle and I call him snugly names that he adores like "Fufflebunny"

[Bananadine]

Originally Posted by Foodstamp

So much drama. They type things over there, we type things over here, some people type things over there and over here. Sometimes people take a break from that and play a few turns of Dominions.

Amen. There's a community of people who play games, and a community of people who post on the forums, and of course, enormous overlap between the two--but the first community is more silent, because gameplay mostly doesn't produce words, and the first community is also far more important, because there is only one Dominions 3 and it is very special, whereas there are a million billion trillion forums online where people can post about stuff and fight about stuff and try to formulate the Last Word on every possible topic and grow as social creatures and stalk each other and fall in love and be masterful humorists and BLAH BLAH BLAH yes all that stuff is valuable and some is very good but it's available EVERYWHERE. Thumbs up to people who strive to defend justice and all that, but if you think that your refusal to perform a trivially easy demonstration of fealty to some seemingly-awful moderator is more interesting and good than Dominions 3 is, then I think you are a poor judge of what is interesting and good. Not that there's anything so bad about that... as long as you keep playing the game!

[13lackGu4rd]

Originally Posted by Bananadine

Amen. There's a community of people who play games, and a community of people who post on the forums, and of course, enormous overlap between the two--but the first community is more silent, because gameplay mostly doesn't produce words, and the first community is also far more important, because there is only one Dominions 3 and it is very special, whereas there are a million billion trillion forums online where people can post about stuff and fight about stuff and try to formulate the Last Word on every possible topic and grow as social creatures and stalk each other and fall in love and be masterful humorists and BLAH BLAH BLAH yes all that stuff is valuable and some is very good but it's available EVERYWHERE. Thumbs up to people who strive to defend justice and all that, but if you think that your refusal to perform a trivially easy demonstration of fealty to some seemingly-awful moderator is more interesting and good than Dominions 3 is, then I think you are a poor judge of what is interesting and good. Not that there's anything so bad about that... as long as you keep playing the game!

wrong, without all the chatter around dominions, besides the games themselves, this game will die like most others... it's this "second group" that actually keeps this game alive so long after it's original release. oh and by the way, all the modders, map makers, etc are also in your "second group" yet those are the people who keep this(and other) relatively old games fresh, along with the constant discussions and chit chat as you call it.