by Blink on Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:20 pm
Every community has bad eggs. If you guys think you can maintain an idiot free community that is also completely open to the public and quite popular then you need to think again.
Although I agree lopers does have some questionable members, you only need to spend some time looking at the other HL2 sites and after reading a few utterly inane threads that are on offer and you'll realise it's not all bad here.
With regard to 904s thread, I've seen much worse elsewhere on a regular basis. It's no secret that in this day and age of level design and modding you can't release poor content and expect everyone here to butter you up. Sure, some members can go a tad far but what you do get is honest criticism most of the time. The fact that the poster of that thread was used to 100% positive comments from other communities says a lot more about their userbase than ours.
We have a small moderation team, so if you guys keep helping us out with the report tool then we can help guide the problem threads back on track.
The community is what you make it, blaming the 'interlopers community' when you're part of it doesn't help. Leading by example and following the correct channels of moderation is the way forward.
Also, thanks for pissing on the one tiny bit of positive feedback we do receive. Good one!