Postby jwocky » Wed Mar 01, 2017 11:58 am
Nice trick to rip what I said about books and TV out of context. The point was, that Bomber defended libel against me and that this, given my rather non-hidden position, is a problem for me. Which funny thing sees everybody as a problem when the same rules suddenly hit Bomber. Which in essence show the hypocrisy. And the push to control the users here more came from Bomber, not from me, so you maybe want to apologize for trying the oldest propaganda trick in the book?
The second thing is, you talk about passion. Well, yeah, we talk when you have done ten planes. Twenty, thirty, forty. What I did, and pretty early on, was making botched planes flyable. They are not perfect, true. What I also did was work on the FDMs of other people's planes. That I, unlike Bomber, forgot sometimes to write a copyright note in it ... shhh, old problem ... it's GPL anyway, so what. In January, I spend most of my FG time with the Ruslan (I still want to get back there), in February, it was a little 737-800 and more work through the sources to figure out how to use the hardware better ... speaking of techniques like adding functionally on a launcher level, options to put maybe Canvas in a worker thread. Experimental stuff. I don't this year much of a result because those are long and iffy processes. Anyway, in March, I hope to get a little time to play around on the Antonov again.
The fact, that I don't send every time, I do a little thing, a post on the forum nor that I send an email to Valery, who always thinks, he needs to be informed or it doesn't happen, doesn't mean it actually doesn't happen.
Now, passion beats trolls? Well, not necessarily and I am not willing to hand over this forum or the community behind it to the trolls. I am not willing to let the baby troll (greetings to Oscar) trying to pick on the problems of others. I am just not willing. When this started, we had an idea, call it a vision. Most of the time it worked for everybody here. Now we hit hard times because one troll attracted another, attracted another and now attracted obviously yet another. We could have solved that quite and hard, just kick them. However, that was, and I admit to that, against the principles, I set forth when I started this. In so far, some people far greater as persons than you or I, Val, put me there on a leash. I am still not entirely happy because as Bomber's and now your twisted posts show, it is hard to treat someone reasonable who rips lines out of context to get off on the attack. Great ideals obviously don't work if you have some bottom sediment of trolls. Which leads us back to the situation, that the only thing that beats trolls is a big hammer. Now, I warned you, Bomber serves only Bomber and will leave you behind to pick up the tab. Seems, it just happened. Bomber understood the warning, leaned back and waits that you cross the lines and I establish an example on you. I refused yet ... of course ... the more often you tell me, I can only be the bad guy, regardless what I do, the lesser grow my inhibitions to say "well ... he will anyway say, I'm the bad guy, so get over with it"
Now, I have a lot to do, outside of FG. So, for today, I withdraw and let you think. Honestly, even I like tinkering on plane simulations better, there are some things, I consider more important in my life. I don't expect you to understand that, because you obviously didn't look up what for example the Killing Season was about. However, tomorrow, probably early in the morning, I will look into the forum again. Then I will probably find another post about how bad I am from a guy, who knows neither about the history here nor about how this all grew. A guy who spent posts and posts with long wish lists what he would like to have changed on FG (which is actually also a form of participation) but then rather nuked up the forum instead of making things happen. And here I will sit and wonder, are the ideals on which I founded this board worth the trouble or shall I just clean out the list of some of the more disagreeable characters here. Because whether I let it go or not, trolls like you or bomber obviously will always claim, I am the bad guy. And then behaving really like a bad guy becomes really intriguing, don't you think?
Free speech can never be achieved by dictatorial measures!