Seriously, I post a warning to an artist in the dev forum, warning him against hardcore and his immature pals and it gets deleted. Can something be done about these guys? They are seriously flooding the dev forum with usless posts about projects that will never go anywhere and in my eyes it's starting to take away credibility from said forum. I don't know how many others are fed up with this shit, but I'm not going to hang around a place flooded with 12 year old wannabe developers with nothing interesting to actually talk about.
Yeah we have voiced our complaints in their forums many times but the kid thinks that it is 'good' publicity. You didnt get to see like 5 pages of us telling him to shut up because it was deleted.
I considered starting a petition with some names and getting people to sign it. Wonder if the mods/admins even care about these jerkoffs. Of course, with them being on the forum they cause the forums to have more activity, but in the end, it hurts TA because the activity is a waste of time for everyone else.
I deleted the post you made because it was derailing that thread: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=35560
Yeah the admins and mods do care about them but they cant just ban them. I dont think they are really breaking any *big* rules. I mean so many people have dropped hints, or screamed at hardcore to cool it. If you quit his team he's gonna bash you. I mean really why would anyone want to work for someone who doesn't pay them for their hardwork, then bashes them?
If you really feel the need to warn people you could have PM'ed the guy. Just politely tell him to be weary of kids who are developing for the first time and aren't great at keeping their promises... or paying their staff. No need to mention names, he'll figure it out for himself.
They should institute forum points. SO when someone says something meaningful, helpful, or otherwise normal other users can give you a +1. If you're an immature jerk who just likes to spam because you have nothing better to do, you'd probably end up getting a lot of -1's. Then, make some of the forums so you have to have a positive value to even view/post in them.
Points per user or by post? By post could work similarly to YouTube... in our control panel we'd have the option to view all posts or only posts with a high enough score, anything below -5 or so gets magically invisiblized. The only problem with that is we'd still see a load of the posts, and at least 5 people would have to suffer and vote it down before other people are saved from it ...Firefox didn't tell me "invisiblized" wasn't a real word so I'll ignorantly and blissfully assume it is.
what if you could configure it in your settings to your liking: "only show posts started by users with at least +10" or even better, allow us to ignore other forum members so their posts don't even appear and we never have to see them.
Anyway, the only problem with the ignore list (and the reason I don't use it) is that not everyone is mature 100% of the time, and immature people can also occasionally post interesting/helpful information too... so if I ignored everyone who's ever annoyed me slightly I'd end up missing out on too much stuff.
you sir, are the best!!!! hardcoregamer, rather, weaksaucegamer say bye forever! edit: This message is hidden because hardcoregamer is on your ignore list. ahhh
Then we'd have people like CandyNJ and Claridosa taking down every single post that isn't mature, respectful, insightful, and a worthy contribution to this horrendous place that is nearly beyond saving.
As long as there aren't five of them we'd be safe But to be honest for every post Candy marked down there would be ten people to mark it back up again.
