I'm pissed. You should be too.
It's weird, really isn't it?
The forums have somehow managed to turn from a relatively friendly, albeit argumentative and childish at times, environment to one where people are scared to talk about a handful of topics for fear of being banned. I know there would be more people here if they weren't scared of having their accounts banned.
Regardless of whether Tiggs' and the new "mech mods" decision to ban the pair of them were correct, the community response has clearly shown that the method that they've gone about doing so, and moderating the forums in general, has been sub-par in the communities eyes, to say the least.
It is time people start respecting each other again.
I hope this is the start of finally connecting the community in a positive way
Lord knows we need all the help we can get.
Ah yes, because respect can be magically granted and totally isn't earned. /s
Of course, all communities are made positive not by the inclusion of people and ideas, allowing for a widespread discussion of the future from varying points of view, but by forcibly ejecting key components of said community and removing opposing ideologies wherever they may appear.
You're not wrong with the last point. The forums are indeed in a bad place, and an act of god may be required to fix them.
If Amid and Merl are so dang blasted integral to Hawken, then you won't have to do ANYTHING but sit back and watch Hawken implode rather than all this e-pouting.
Precisely! None of us here want to see HAWKEN go down the drain, we are a part of the "HAWKEN Community" after all, which is why the Merl/Amid situation is so frustrating because they're so important.
We don't want their work, or any of ours, to be in vain. Who wants to play a game with a dead community?
Edited by Miscellaneous, 31 July 2016 - 10:05 AM.