https://youtu.be/kQMvX5Jcd4A?t=3m32s
Ok look, what just happened was pretty silly on all parts. However, I think it's worth having a somewhat serious discussion about, because well, hawken is a silly thing. The internet is over all a silly thing (like wtf is Arch talking about, amirite?), and hawken is it's own brand of silly inside of that. That's an important thing to understand going forward in this community.
You're enforcing rules here, that's good, but it's also not ok. Not everything can be so black and white. Such a totalitarian ideal is the mindset of cynics and heartless soft serve ice cream machines. Should poop have been put under moderation? Idk, probly. What he called someone a dildo or something? That's goofy. Idk that's not my point here.
As for the mass temp bans though. I kind of want to scoff at the idea that's been tossed around of these guys being "community heros or exemplars, because of a lot of that stems from them being a part of a very vocal hawken circle jerk. But I can't really scoff at the idea, because this isn't your typical circle jerk here, this the hawken circle jerk. These people are well rounded community members, offering help, advice, and welcomes to any and all players. Even the ones who aren't quite as grounded are still generally well mannered. That doesn't absolve them of punishment, or put them above the rules, but here's the thing:
As Mr. Mortar mentioned, you're selling a product here. You're selling us our game. (yes it's our game and our community, sorry) Your customers voiced they were not happy with your business conduct. They did it somewhat immaturely granted, but their actions were severely disproportionate to your reaction. Regardless of how unhappy you were with this community, you handled it in the poorest fashion possible.
Hawken is a bit like a girl that's been in too many bad relationships, and you should be careful with how you handle her. If you thought the forums were out of order, then clean them up either via merging all the poop threads into a mega poop thread, or deleting all the threads, AND THEN making a statement on the hot topic. Do not, however, delete all the thread, ban all the posters, AND THEN make a statement on the bands AFTER discussion starts about the bans that stemmed from people reacting to the hot topic which never received a statement.
Anyways this is all silly, please just unban Tickle so he can add my hawken map overview to his mega thread.
Then please also read, and comment on, my fuzzy bunnyng map overview thread, because I made it for you.
Appropriately titled Hawken maps R poop. (we have a theme going on here in case you didn't notice #hawkendopooping #dopooping)
Also the only reason I didn't make an #fps thread is because vegas crashed twiced while I was making poopslingers theme song, and I really didn't feel like animating all those little poops again.
Edited by Massive_Assailant_Stingray, 05 November 2015 - 12:09 AM.
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