Due to excessive strain on the forum servers, the FSE administration have unfortunately had to make a decision to cap all regiment threads at 100 pages. This thread will now be locked, please feel free to begin a new thread for your regiment.
Thanks for your co-operation,
Regards,
Blobmania,
Senior Moderator
Why block the thread if you're going to recommend starting a new one? Surely creating a new one with another original post like the 63e's one which has dozens of images is worse than just letting the thread continue...?
Pardon my French, but this is bullshit.
It feels to me you take away a lot of the history of a regiment. Also, in all honesty, this wasn't very thought through, since it is impossible (for as far as I know, tell me if I'm wrong :P) to quote, modify your posts on a locked page, meaning I can't copy paste the thread I spent forever to make.
FSE is worse at making de scions than the US Government. Luckily the 40th thread is saved elsewhere but what if it wasn't? How the fuck are reg leaders supposed to get their thread back?
Why block the thread if you're going to recommend starting a new one? Surely creating a new one with another original post like the 63e's one which has dozens of images is worse than just letting the thread continue...?
Pardon my French, but this is bullshit.
How the fuck are reg leaders supposed to get their thread back?This stickied topic explains it, will be a FAQ now.
You can message a moderator for your thread's bb code back
Why not HEY! take sometime and delete the 50 pages of shit locked thread's and disbanded regiments
Honestly. Look at the 93rd's thread. Now there's two of them. Two of those beautiful things taking up more space than just the one would. It's not as if having a new thread will stop people from posting on it... Also, when the new thread gets to 100 pages, do we have to start yet another? Three threads with the same space-hogging OP? What's the logic behind this?
Why not HEY! take sometime and delete the 50 pages of shit locked thread's and disbanded regiments+1
Okay.You can message a moderator for your thread's bb code back
Yeah, this. It is pretty sane.
There is no alterior motive to this. If they didn't do it, there'd be a thread here demanding FSE to make the forums less slow.
Why not HEY! take sometime and delete the 50 pages of shit locked thread's and disbanded regiments+1
I also don't understand how thread pages could cause wear on the server, we don't live in 2005.
"I have an idea to put less strain on the servers"qft (with screwed up date ftw)
"Oh what's that fellow oppressive FSE moderator?"
"Let's DOUBLE the number of threads on regiment's board!"
"You smart! NO, YOU A GENIUS"
Maybe they're doing it to stop people from spam posting to reach a certain number of pages? If people have to make new threads every 100 pages, they'd be less likely to go for those page milestones.
let's go back to taleworlds.
Why don't we have lord esquire Diplex donate 5000 euros for a new server box?
Edit: Forgot that everyone owns a computer from 1990 and can't load a forum, my bad ::)
let's go back to taleworlds.
I have an idea, details will be handed out soon and a meeting will be held in the upcoming days.sounds yum.
I can't say I'd agree with the locking of the threads but whats done is done.+1
One thing I'd say though is that it would have been nice to get a warning about it so regiment leaders that needed to get their BB code ready could get it ready and copied.
We should Bush Pirate Vincent o's reenactment events.Sounds like a plan
Blobmania dun goofdDon't kill the messenger
Idk if half these comments are serious or not, but most of the threads out there are just...spam and I know I used to be like that to, but time to grow up guys. There was once a time when a thread held something meaningful like relevant to the game, regiment and event, now it's all this stupid 420 shit. Fuck the haters, I support the FSE teams decision on capping the thread, maybe now people will post meaningful things instead of 420 youtube videosPeople are going to do what they can to keep their threads on the first page. Instead of saying "bump", they do the spam talk. Different words, same effect. This isn't going to stop it.
Idk if half these comments are serious or not, but most of the threads out there are just...spam and I know I used to be like that to, but time to grow up guys. There was once a time when a thread held something meaningful like relevant to the game, regiment and event, now it's all this stupid 420 shit. Fuck the haters, I support the FSE teams decision on capping the thread, maybe now people will post meaningful things instead of 420 youtube videos
We should Bush Pirate Vincent o's reenactment events.Sounds like a plan
We should Bush Pirate Vincenzo's reenactment events.
Hahah lolWe should Bush Pirate Vincenzo's reenactment events.
let's get this to a 100 pages so it gets locked+1
Idk if half these comments are serious or not, but most of the threads out there are just...spam and I know I used to be like that to, but time to grow up guys. There was once a time when a thread held something meaningful like relevant to the game, regiment and event, now it's all this stupid 420 shit. Fuck the haters, I support the FSE teams decision on capping the thread, maybe now people will post meaningful things instead of 420 youtube videosI agree with you. Instead of an unnecessary shit ("ok" "no" "lol" and not only these), we should only post messages which are closely connected to the topic and the game.
They locked all the threads so now people can't even copy and paste their BB codes to make a new one.Taleworlds also has policies against large threads, however not all forum boards seem to be affected by this. (Regimental topics, mods etc.)
Honestly what the actual fuck? Taleworlds has LOADS more 100+ page threads than FSE will ever have, they use the same software, are you to tell me FSE's servers are just that shitty?
There's an ulterior motive here, God knows what.
Yeah but I'm pretty sure Taleworlds caps it to 1000 pages.Some threads have been capped at a 1000 and some are capped way earlier.
If everyone stopped spamming threads with retarded shit no regiments would have a 100 page threads. I think this is a good move, it just stops forum spam.
If everyone stopped spamming threads with retarded shit no regiments would have a 100 page threads. I think this is a good move, it just stops forum spam.
This should teach a few lessons to the community:Probably
1) Don't spam the fuck out of regimental threads to get on that 1st page.
2) Back-up your threads.
Am I the only one who welcomes this?
This should teach a few lessons to the community:And you are not the only one.
1) Don't spam the fuck out of regimental threads to get on that 1st page.
2) Back-up your threads.
Am I the only one who welcomes this?
You're the one who is watched, Nutty. ::)Because I am dope, and I do dope shit.
But does it take more performance if 20 people visit page 30, compared to 20 people visiting page 320?
But surely if you removed them it would further increase performance, that's what you're trying to achieve.Nope, topics only take performance if they are visited.
So what's going to happen to all the other 100+ threads elsewhere. Not just on the regiments section?
FSE voodoo magic
Because I am dope, and I do dope shit.I'm sorry to get off-topic, but this mixed with the waddles pic. My sides.
Pony magic!#thebestkindamagic
How about we be a smart cookie, and remove grandma's laptop from the hosting equation. stop spending donations on shit and get a decent server box?
#MuhFeels
#DontMuteMeForVoicingMyOpinion
How about we be a smart cookie, and remove grandma's laptop from the hosting equation. stop spending donations on shit and get a decent server box?
#MuhFeels
#DontMuteMeForVoicingMyOpinion
i am not quoting this
#DoesNotReadPreviousRepliesSuggestsBullshitAndHasAnNicknameWithPoo
#DoesNotReadPreviousRepliesSuggestsBullshitAndHasAnNicknameWithPoo
FSE voodoo magic
Pony magic!
this is what happens when the community did not come to help the 60th when we were being oppressed
we could've stopped this
now you face the thredocaust
your threads will be locked and your history destroyed, the battle of the pages has been lost
this is what happens when the community did not come to help the 60th when we were being oppressed
we could've stopped this
now you face the thredocaust
your threads will be locked and your history destroyed, the battle of the pages has been lost
Everybody cares.
Piss on
this is what happens when the community did not come to help the 60th when we were being oppressed
we could've stopped this
now you face the thredocaust
your threads will be locked and your history destroyed, the battle of the pages has been lost
Nobody cares.
Piss off.
this is what happens when the community did not come to help the 60th when we were being oppressed
we could've stopped this
now you face the thredocaust
your threads will be locked and your history destroyed, the battle of the pages has been lost
Nobody cares.
Piss off.
The change was done for performance reasons.
I can assure you the box the webserver is running on is one of the fastest in the market, however a many page topic, is straining it at lot, let me explain why.
Whenever a person opens a topic, the database is asked to locate all posts in the posts table (millions) that are with topicID x.
After It fetched these details and stored in memory, you can imagine if you have 100+ pages, think about 500 pages, then there are thousands of posts fetched and stored in memory.
When it has gathered this information it is going to filter this data according to what page you are watching... then send this information to your computer.
The sad truth is that whenever you open a big page topic, reply to it, whatever, every page load is bumping the MySQL database process to 100% CPU for a good second.. mind you that is on a latest Intel Xenon CPU..
Topics with 100 pages, are in my opinion a good limit, they take significantly less CPU load..
Except CPU, the memory usage will be less and overall the site will perform faster..
The problems with remaking your topic were unintended, please send a message to a moderator or me to send you your topic start post contents.
I understand not everyone loves this change, but believe me, it is for the better to keep everything running smooth.
Either way. Even if the decision is just, the way FSE has been impliment ing their decisions is pants on head retarded.
Every decision they make they do without warning, and get everyone rilled the fuck up about it, and then have to deal with calming people down.
How about...
In the future you explain what you are doing ahead of time so people have appropriate time to deal with the change in policy (ie we can copy our fucking bb code before you lock our threads)
And then you can explain to people WHY this is happening. If There had been that post explaining before the locks, I'm sure it would have been fine.
Communicate with the people that keep your game alive god damn it.
Riddlez why do you even care, you haven't been in a regiment in months, maybe years. You just go around and spread your "knowledge" on off topic threads.
Oh and nobody cares, piss off. :-*
Yes Walko, we read it the first time.
It feels to me you take away a lot of the history of a regiment. Also, in all honesty, this wasn't very thought through, since it is impossible (for as far as I know, tell me if I'm wrong :P) to quote, modify your posts on a locked page, meaning I can't copy paste the thread I spent forever to make.
It feels to me you take away a lot of the history of a regiment. Also, in all honesty, this wasn't very thought through, since it is impossible (for as far as I know, tell me if I'm wrong :P) to quote, modify your posts on a locked page, meaning I can't copy paste the thread I spent forever to make.
Our Regiment exists since Mount&Musket and the thread never had more than 5 pages. We still have a great history.
Either way. Even if the decision is just, the way FSE has been impliment ing their decisions is pants on head retarded.
Every decision they make they do without warning, and get everyone rilled the fuck up about it, and then have to deal with calming people down.
How about...
In the future you explain what you are doing ahead of time so people have appropriate time to deal with the change in policy (ie we can copy our fucking bb code before you lock our threads)
And then you can explain to people WHY this is happening. If There had been that post explaining before the locks, I'm sure it would have been fine.
Communicate with the people that keep your game alive god damn it.
Either way. Even if the decision is just, the way FSE has been impliment ing their decisions is pants on head retarded.
Every decision they make they do without warning, and get everyone rilled the fuck up about it, and then have to deal with calming people down.
How about...
In the future you explain what you are doing ahead of time so people have appropriate time to deal with the change in policy (ie we can copy our fucking bb code before you lock our threads)
And then you can explain to people WHY this is happening. If There had been that post explaining before the locks, I'm sure it would have been fine.
Communicate with the people that keep your game alive god damn it.
meh, as if they ever gave a shit
its not even worth the time, if you want your voice heard you came to the wrong place
i cant remember the last time fse changed anything due to popular demand
i dont think we asked for that one thoYou have no idea what awful pain you have caused me this day ._______________________.
so no fakin candy u cheeky bugger
Idk if half these comments are serious or not, but most of the threads out there are just...spam and I know I used to be like that to, but time to grow up guys. There was once a time when a thread held something meaningful like relevant to the game, regiment and event, now it's all this stupid 420 shit. Fuck the haters, I support the FSE teams decision on capping the thread, maybe now people will post meaningful things instead of 420 youtube videosbut I like watching 420 videos
^
I've noticed that the majority of the EU community isn't too interested in the American Civil War. As well as some NA regiments that would rather keep their regimental identity that is set in the Napoleonic Wars instead of starting over with a new name and time period. (Not all regiments like/play the North and South mod)
^I think he is sort of right, although I prefere NW I still like to play North and South
I've noticed that the majority of the EU community isn't too interested in the American Civil War. As well as some NA regiments that would rather keep their regimental identity that is set in the Napoleonic Wars instead of starting over with a new name and time period. (Not all regiments like/play the North and South mod)
^
I've noticed that the majority of the EU community isn't too interested in the American Civil War. As well as some NA regiments that would rather keep their regimental identity that is set in the Napoleonic Wars instead of starting over with a new name and time period. (Not all regiments like/play the North and South mod)
When NaS was released it was all EU servers and players so I doubt they are not interested in the ACW
Belgium vs Holland independance war
(https://www.fsegames.eu/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi3.kym-cdn.com%2Fphotos%2Fimages%2Foriginal%2F000%2F610%2F825%2Feec.jpg&hash=257f5b2b720455e84921025d38f2ac09c42e53b1)Belgium vs Holland independance war
If this community moved to taleworlds half of you would be banned within a week
That IS half of the community.
Doesn't help that certain people form a fixation for certain animals, create a new account with the intent on writing in riddles to showcase their obviously towering intellect ( ::)) and then give up on the idea a mere few days later.
Doesn't help that certain people form a fixation for certain animals, create a new account with the intent on writing in riddles to showcase their obviously towering intellect ( ::)) and then give up on the idea a mere few days later.
Yes, fuck all the bronies.SpoilerSocial experiment and I wanted to change my name.
And my intellect is indeed towering. Duh ::)[close]
Doesn't help that certain people form a fixation for certain animals, create a new account with the intent on writing in riddles to showcase their obviously towering intellect ( ::)) and then give up on the idea a mere few days later.
Yes, fuck all the bronies.SpoilerSocial experiment and I wanted to change my name.
And my intellect is indeed towering. Duh ::)[close]
I think you'll find they prefer to be called "Pony Enthusiasts".
This community is already enough of a punishment.
They're still there... it's not like they're gone forever. You're more than welcome to read through them again if you feel like it.
I'm just wondering if the changes are actually doing anything.
Well, are they?
I'm just wondering if the changes are actually doing anything.
Well, are they?
*Generic stuff about old posts* *Stop whining* *Don't tell us mods what to do* *VinceVinceVinceVince* *Same repeated thing as before*
Hope that answered your question.
Good ol FSE Mods at their finest.
(https://i.imgur.com/WkWaqiB.png)
I am curious at what makes these threads so special, can I ask people to link the content of these threads that makes this whole thing controversial.Would you like for your steam account to be deleted and for you start all over again? Exactly, that's how the threads are.
I am curious at what makes these threads so special, can I ask people to link the content of these threads that makes this whole thing controversial.
Good b8 m8.
Every regiment should copy+paste every single post on their old regiment threads into the new one, one by one so that it has exactly the same number of posts and pages. Also make get every member who ever posted in the thread to do their own posts individually to recreate it as accurately as possible.Then we'd have to recreate the mutes, warnings, snips, etc etc. 2complicated4me
I am curious at what makes these threads so special, can I ask people to link the content of these threads that makes this whole thing controversial.Would you like for your steam account to be deleted and for you start all over again? Exactly, that's how the threads are.
Have you ever had something that evoked a memory from you? For example, going through photos whether it be IRL or from games and going "oh man, those were some great times, I sure do wish I could go back to those days". That's how these threads are, they allow people to really sort of go back in time to see how these forums were so long ago. I myself know, seeing as that I'm semi-liked among the community, like to go back to the older threads and go through the older posts and reminiscence of the posts and how humor was so different back then was in addition to seeing the older faces that no longer browse these forums for whatever the reason be.I am curious at what makes these threads so special, can I ask people to link the content of these threads that makes this whole thing controversial.Would you like for your steam account to be deleted and for you start all over again? Exactly, that's how the threads are.
That is just a really weird and bad example, especially since with a STEAM account people sort of actually spend money and enjoy themselves.
Whilst here now people seem to have developed a weird fucked up stockhold syndrome situation with the DLC, the community and these forums.
A thread on a message board is sometimes just a thread on a message board. Just like a gaming clan is just a gaming clan.
Have you ever had something that evoked a memory from you? For example, going through photos whether it be IRL or from games and going "oh man, those were some great times, I sure do wish I could go back to those days". That's how these threads are, they allow people to really sort of go back in time to see how these forums were so long ago. I myself know, seeing as that I'm semi-liked among the community, like to go back to the older threads and go through the older posts and reminiscence of the posts and how humor was so different back then was in addition to seeing the older faces that no longer browse these forums for whatever the reason be.
We tried to make a subreddit. No one contributed.
You can sort of have this back, you guys just not to stop being mad at video games and video game people. You all get way too much involved over clans/forum threads/games.Judging by the fact we're on a forum in order to be more involved with our regiments, there is reason to be over involved and into our threads.
I myself just cannot see the whole big deal behind this, and the fact that it seems every single time the FSE crowd do something in these forums they can't seem to get anything right.Usually because of the fact that whenever FSE decides to do anything regarding the community it comes out of the middle of no where. We never get any word of anything so whenever we get nailed in the side by FSE no one expects it and people are thrown off by a sudden change. That's just basic human psychology, to resist change if you yourself have no idea of it.
Since they split the event section up, have you considered requesting to split the EU/NA regiment section up so the need to constantly 'bump' the thread?You really need to proofread. Anyways, that was a community suggestion for over two years and was only recently integrated after FSE added in the new moderators and let them help bring more community focused ideas.
I also suggest reading the EULA if these changes really rile you up, I'm pretty sure what they do around here is pretty much all by the book and you all agreed to it when registering to these forums. Vince and the other FSE staff have posted deep down technical stuff that explains why they need to do it to."Deep down technical stuff" that contradicts in many ways. Judging by the fact that we're supposed to use spoilers with anything to help improve "performace" and then suddenly changing to "we're going to be taking down these forums for performance reasons even though our big bros at TW's use the same stuff and aren't having any problems"
And finally, I rarely see gaming forum threads these days with like 300-400 pages guys. A lot of the stuff you post can easily be transfered over to a Reddit or something.Because someone is actually going to set aside time to make a subreddit, okay, seems legit.
I've stopped listening to Nurdbot. He's little more than a sniveling sycophant.
I've stopped listening to Nurdbot. He's little more than a sniveling sycophant.
I've stopped listening to Nurdbot. He's little more than a sniveling sycophant.
sycophant your new favorite word? ;)
I've stopped listening to Nurdbot. He's little more than a sniveling sycophant.
No, I'm a grown adult trying to reason with people who refuse to see common sense and calm down. Clearly, it isn't working.
And I am done for good.
Perhaps you should implement some popup ads for extra revenue?Maybe start leasing teamspeak and warband servers for regiments to purchase. Easy money
If anyone wants, I can give you links for anything you need. HTML, CSS, box, and a domain name. But reaaaaaally anyone who wants to do this will have to find a set of balls first. I don't feel anyone will ever do this.
If anyone wants, I can give you links for anything you need. HTML, CSS, box, and a domain name. But reaaaaaally anyone who wants to do this will have to find a set of balls first. I don't feel anyone will ever do this.
I have a huge pair of balls.
I know ;)If anyone wants, I can give you links for anything you need. HTML, CSS, box, and a domain name. But reaaaaaally anyone who wants to do this will have to find a set of balls first. I don't feel anyone will ever do this.
I have a huge pair of balls.
So riddle me this Sean,
Ok, so here is the deal. If you donate us 1440 Euro each year, we can host the server on a new, faster and independent box and we can put the regiment thread cap back to what it used to be.HashtagRekt
Just talk to us via PM, Steam, Facebook, before you donate. We need to know that you want the money to be spend on a new Server box.
Thank you!
Ok, so here is the deal. If you donate us 1440 Euro each year, we can host the server on a new, faster and independent box and we can put the regiment thread cap back to what it used to be.(https://www.fsegames.eu/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reactiongifs.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F06%2Fsupa-hot-fire.gif&hash=eb96463da476a74fcfc1a4aec2d07e4c21f3df8f)
Just talk to us via PM, Steam, Facebook, before you donate. We need to know that you want the money to be spend on a new Server box.
Thank you!
Ok, so here is the deal. If you donate us 1440 Euro each year, we can host the server on a new, faster and independent box and we can put the regiment thread cap back to what it used to be.
Just talk to us via PM, Steam, Facebook, before you donate. We need to know that you want the money to be spend on a new Server box.
Thank you!
I get the feeling that this has grown into something much larger than just the capping to a hundred pages x).Many of the old forumites had their ass metaphorically fractured by the 100 page cap.
Fractured arse?
We are running BCOF test, NW Servers, BCOF development stuff and the Forums on the same machine.
We can not afford to have constant spikes, which you will not notice when visiting the forums,because they are just that, very short spikes, but we do notice when testing BCOF.
Capping the pages to 100 prevents most of these CPU spikes. Unless you donate us 1440 euro each year, so we can host the forums on a separate server, it will stay as it is. We do not have the money to pay for it on our own.
We are running BCOF test, NW Servers, BCOF development stuff and the Forums on the same machine.
We can not afford to have constant spikes, which you will not notice when visiting the forums,because they are just that, very short spikes, but we do notice when testing BCOF.
Capping the pages to 100 prevents most of these CPU spikes. Unless you donate us 1440 euro each year, so we can host the forums on a separate server, it will stay as it is. We do not have the money to pay for it on our own.
The answer everyone has been looking for....
Why did no one say this earlier? jesus could've spared lots of butthurt cream
Believe it or not, we've got good reasons for doing what we do. It's rarely just a shot in the dark.??? wat no u opress us mods im off to TW evrey2 luvz us der. It is claer tha you all Ullimin@i wtf stap lieing
We could also have been spared that if the community had listened to us in the first place. The reasons for implementing the policy don't change their impact. If the community weren't so obsessed with the idea that we're trying to screw them over, this could have been avoided.
Believe it or not, we've got good reasons for doing what we do. It's rarely just a shot in the dark.
If the community weren't so obsessed with the idea that we're trying to screw them...
We could also have been spared that if the community had listened to us in the first place. The reasons for implementing the policy don't change their impact. If the community weren't so obsessed with the idea that we're trying to screw them over, this could have been avoided.When we listened to you, this is what you told us:
Believe it or not, we've got good reasons for doing what we do. It's rarely just a shot in the dark.
Due to excessive strain on the forum servers, the FSE administration have unfortunately had to make a decision to cap all regiment threads at 100 pages. This thread will now be locked, please feel free to begin a new thread for your regiment.Nobody said anything about game servers. Only one week after all of this does anyone say that it affects the game servers, and even then, he admits:
Thanks for your co-operation,
Regards,
Blobmania,
Senior Moderator
We are running BCOF test, NW Servers, BCOF development stuff and the Forums on the same machine.Everything we were told was that it's all about the forum servers lagging. Up until yesterday, no one said that the game and forum servers were the same servers, or that this was because the games were lagging.
We can not afford to have constant spikes, which you will not notice when visiting the forums,because they are just that, very short spikes, but we do notice when testing BCOF.
Capping the pages to 100 prevents most of these CPU spikes. Unless you donate us 1440 euro each year, so we can host the forums on a separate server, it will stay as it is. We do not have the money to pay for it on our own.
We could also have been spared that if the community had listened to us in the first place. The reasons for implementing the policy don't change their impact. If the community weren't so obsessed with the idea that we're trying to screw them over, this could have been avoided.
Believe it or not, we've got good reasons for doing what we do. It's rarely just a shot in the dark.
We could also have been spared that if the community had listened to us in the first place. The reasons for implementing the policy don't change their impact. If the community weren't so obsessed with the idea that we're trying to screw them over, this could have been avoided.
Believe it or not, we've got good reasons for doing what we do. It's rarely just a shot in the dark.
Implying that you told us what was going on before you went on a thread locking spree.
Implying that It didn't take a fuck ton of pages and a shit ton of confusion to show people the reason
Ok.
Please let's learn from past mistakes and next time something like this happens, you can go about it in a manner that won't make people thing "FSE Nazis!1!1!!" (Ie. Explain what's going on and why you do it before you do.) it's not difficult and wouldn't make people hate FSE more.
But then again you won't listen to me.
SpoilerWe could also have been spared that if the community had listened to us in the first place. The reasons for implementing the policy don't change their impact. If the community weren't so obsessed with the idea that we're trying to screw them over, this could have been avoided.
Believe it or not, we've got good reasons for doing what we do. It's rarely just a shot in the dark.
Implying that you told us what was going on before you went on a thread locking spree.
Implying that It didn't take a fuck ton of pages and a shit ton of confusion to show people the reason
Ok.
Please let's learn from past mistakes and next time something like this happens, you can go about it in a manner that won't make people thing "FSE Nazis!1!1!!" (Ie. Explain what's going on and why you do it before you do.) it's not difficult and wouldn't make people hate FSE more.
But then again you won't listen to me.[close]
It was explained on the threads that were locked, and again in more depth on a stickied thread of its own. Every poster that asked for their OP had it returned to them. Literally all people had to do was PM a moderator for the code and start a new thread - considerably less effort than people have spent in complaining about it in the first place. You're making mountains out of molehills here.
It was explained on the threads that were locked, and again in more depth on a stickied thread of its own. Every poster that asked for their OP had it returned to them. Literally all people had to do was PM a moderator for the code and start a new thread - considerably less effort than people have spent in complaining about it in the first place. You're making mountains out of molehills here.Yes it may have been stated. But it would have been better if you made an annoucement of some sort. So when you locked all the threads, you would not have gotten such a big reaction from the community.
We could also have been spared that if the community had listened to us in the first place. The reasons for implementing the policy don't change their impact. If the community weren't so obsessed with the idea that we're trying to screw them over, this could have been avoided.How difficult is it to warn people before hand or properly explain it?
Believe it or not, we've got good reasons for doing what we do. It's rarely just a shot in the dark.
It was explained on the threads that were locked, and again in more depth on a stickied thread of its own. Every poster that asked for their OP had it returned to them. Literally all people had to do was PM a moderator for the code and start a new thread - considerably less effort than people have spent in complaining about it in the first place. You're making mountains out of molehills here.I just think personally, #1 The Moderators should have contacted the regiment leaders or the community as a whole what is happening in more depth. Say as sending a message to everyone on the forum, stating whats upcoming with the forum etc.
Or maybe sending a private message to everyone.Ya that would be a good idea.
It was explained on the threads that were locked, and again in more depth on a stickied thread of its own. Every poster that asked for their OP had it returned to them. Literally all people had to do was PM a moderator for the code and start a new thread - considerably less effort than people have spent in complaining about it in the first place. You're making mountains out of molehills here.I just think personally, #1 The Moderators should have contacted the regiment leaders or the community as a whole what is happening in more depth. Say as sending a message to everyone on the forum, stating whats upcoming with the forum etc.
Yeah, just the regimental leaders. As if they deserve to know more just because they host a group of players. Notify the entire community, or no one at all.
I didn't feel that it was necessary to give more warning because I wasn't aware it was such a big deal. All it meant was that users would have to create new threads - hardly a strenuous task in the first place, the forums are full of them after all. The inability to quote locked posts wasn't anticipated, and I believe that's where much of the community outcry has stemmed from, but that would have happened whether we'd given warning or not. We provided alternate means to obtain your post, and the forum generally carried on as normal. What's the big deal.
There should always be a warning for any changes made to any forum.
I don't see why you should need a warning unless it's something you'd need to prepare for.
I didn't feel that