Go to the Ubisoft forums. Moderators will never get in your way, and I have used less polite terms than I used in the ED forums. I flatout suggested the rainbow six developers made teh latest operator overpowered on purpose to boost season pass sales:




http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/1568863-Jackal-is-OP-on-purpose-to-boost-Season-Pass-sales


I openly called design decisions retarded, idiotic and other things. Other players frequently attack ubisoft for server outages in very hostile wordings. Still moderators do not berate, ban, edit.

Because they are interacting with paying customers who have grievances. I am posting with my original account that is over 13 years old.

Meanwhile in the ED forums I lose a new account every module. It is the same for several other indie games where the developers rely on a group of volunteer assholes to moderate forums. And these people emotionally collapse when someone talks back to them.


That is your proof.

<<--- Breakdown Real Quick:

I'll put this out here just in case you have any doubts about my "qualifications"

1. I've Moderated Several Forums, Several of which are far more "Negative" than SimHQ, Several Of Which are Vastly Larger than both SimHQ and ED Forums.
(Xbox.com, ForzaMotorsport.net, NHL.com to name a few)

2. I've Moderated Several Services (of which Xbox Live, from Launch til now, I respond to support tickets and feedback complaints etc)

3. I Manage a Retail Store, and Before that was an Assistant/Dept. Manager at a Walmart.

4. I've Produced Content for Sites that I Spend Significant time on, in forms of Reviews/Articles, Applications, Media, Etc etc.
(SimHQ Being One of them).

5. I was Webmaster/Site Admin for Several Websites Starting my Junior year of HS through Now, I still admin a few sites.

6. I was Testing Games Before I Graduated from High School (2001 -> Present)

7. I was Testing Operating Systems Immediately After HS

8. I was Testing Both Xbox Hardware and Xbox Live before they Launched Retail, and Continue to do so Today.

9. I was Testing Flight Sims Since 2002 (Janes/Thirdwire Being the Bulk Until about 2009, and Eventually becoming a tester for DCS Primarily).

10. I Operate and Manage my Own CGI Studio w/ Subcontracts for Several Movie Studios for SFX and Rendering.


I can continue through to about 25 points.. but I'll spare you the long read.

Yet somehow you still suck at it.

I keed, I keed...

But seriously.

Not directing this at anyone in particular but I have worked with engineers, for example, with advanced degrees and years of experience, that still sucked at the job. Doing a job for a long time doesn't always equate to being good at it.

And being a customer with an attitude like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV4vHpqrj6E
doesn't qualify to reason about business plans,
coding, product cycle or physics.

I noticed that your list contains no 'qualifications' with regards common sense and the ability to interact in a suitable manner with the community, because that is the biggest problem with the ED message boards and the moderators that govern it.

Thanks for not listing the other 25 'qualifications'.

Wait... Sith has a day job??? I thought weilding the ban hammer and trolling other forums looking for bad guys was his full-time job? If not, then I'm impressed at his time management skills!



Right now, I'm dealing with a person in HR who has been in the hospital for 10+ years. You'd think by now they'd have the proper "qualifications" or skills but I'm there scratching my head wondering why they're still employed.

Also been on a HR meeting talking about my attendance record. My last "absence" was due to having my appendix taken out, emergency surgery. HR was present, and so were my two bosses, senior nurses in Theatres. The question was asked "What are the chances of you being absent for this reason again?" I'm sorry, but how many appendices does a person have? Basic anatomy guys. I'd understand that maybe Ms. HR has no idea about that, but surely my two bosses should've known that the question was out of place.... but they left it there for me to answer.

I also work "on the floor" with a couple of "senior" nurses, "senior" meaning they've been working there longer than I have and also that they're older than I am. Guess who's in charge of the floor? Me. Just because they've been working there for longer does not mean they're able to be in a supervisory position and handle the complex tasks of juggling staff around.

"Experience" does NOT equate to "Qualified".

All that alleged "experience" and you still manage to come across like a #%&*$#.

ANYBODY can moderate, the issue is HOW you moderate.

How about Capitalizing random Words in the middle of sentence? I find that Correlates to someone with mental issues.

How About it, Skate?

They're NOT random.

You NEED to get out MORE.

That's interesting, how so?

Nate

..Oh, it wasn't Aimed at me...sorry...Been drinking.

Yes...very Interesting.

iT was verY obVious that frEdeRf wasn'T talkIng aBOUt yOu, siLLy.

Unlike the other d***s, Skate is the only one spending time on most place trying to help people. But it can't be denied the rest of the team are doing terribly wrong.

I'd make a statement but personally the last couple of pages have summed it up regarding qualifications RE: moderator status for ED. I'll raise one point, Skate banned me over at ED for comments here when she chimed in on regarding the Hawk AFM thread......she took offence to my answer to her "can you tell me where in the world is carmen sandiego" and proceeded to ban me for 6 months for comments and points raised in these very forums.

I raised certain points with ED via opening a support ticket on the official DCS website regarding comments mentioned here and Skates ban, my response was answered by Sithspawn (community manager) however Sobek (former ED moderator) decided to throw her 5 cents into the thread which I thought was justified and so I put her name through to be considered for Community manager....thus in return earning me a lifetime ban from the official forums for comments raised here at SimHQ......Do I hold a grudge?? nope, however when ED come here (Sobek, Skate etc etc) and taking comments to heart whilst adding bans to accounts over at ED....If you are woman enough to picket here with your flags and signs about womens rights in the sim world, expect to cop a bit of flak and comments in return....

25 points regarding threads and what you have moderated in the past means nothing here.....No better than "up the tree" ranting about projects she has managed.

Is she?

Experience says Skate AKA Carmen is here to take notes and ban people on the official DCS site....

...Continues to bring the issue up every time he gets the chance :-D


It's about the systems and technology behind them, it's not the actual act of throwing bombs that I care about or find interesting. And that is what I like about DCS: it's a study sim in the likes of SAMsimulator.

Thanks to DCS, I followed a russian language course and spent hundreds of hours rummaging through the actual MiG-21bis technical documentation. I could probably maintain a real-life one at this point. And THAT is what satisfies me about DCS and motivates me to buy more.

But when a module gets never completed and is left being forgotten (MiG-21, Huey, NTTR) or is just a complete fantasy plane (Mirage 2000), that's when my feathers get ruffled.


I get it, you're more into BMS, but I doubt DCS will ever be a replacement. ED has just a completely different vision about what the end product should be. They aim to make it more of a flying book than a combat game.

Skates a She ?

Until Force 10 says otherwise....I believe she is.....

and this my friends is what happens when someone's advances are rejected in an open discussion....the same way Leafy Boy rejected my advances in a Pm