Some of us have not english as our native language, which means producing a lengthy post, sometimes takes hours. One half-hour later, 3-4 guys produces 3-4 short topic-starters each, and by that monopolize a large part of the main first page.

quote: Originally posted by Ralf on 12-14-2000 04:38 PM We can post as many topic-responses as we like, but please, cant we, from now on, constrict ourselfes to MAX 1-2 topic-starters per day/person? Some of us have not english as our native language, which means producing a lengthy post, sometimes takes hours. One half-hour later, 3-4 guys produces 3-4 short topic-starters each, and by that monopolize a large part of the main first page. Its all about showing a little consideration.

Dear Newbies,

Welcome all!

I completely agree with Ralfs' proposal. I do not think that his proposed limit of one (or two) new topic(s) a day is unreasonably restrictive. You may depend on it that almost every topic has been discussed many times before; so some repeating of old topics is inevitable indeed nor is it necessarily a bad thing. Yet it is also quite possible to search for an old thread covering a subject you want to make some comments about. It just takes some searching and reading! And I guarantee there are some forgotten gems among those old threads.

It is still possible to make contributions which by other users are considered valuable. I have hardly ever posted a new topic thread myself: only once in this Forum and one thread in the Off-topic Forum, which was deleted within ten minutes! Fortunately such tyrannical behaviour is rather exceptional on this Forum. Yin26 is truly kind and clement.

So please show some consideration and all will be contented. The CivIII Forums were allways the most interesting of Apolyton. Personally I preferred the List Forum and I still regret its demise. But we have had excellent and truly intelligent discussions here too!

I'll make some links to some of my favourite threads:
SE MODELS v3.0 ; this will allways remain my favourite thread
RADICAL IDEAS(ver2.0)
Civil Wars in CivIII
How to portray the rise and fall of great powers in Civ3
New poll: Number of civs
civ3 to include a full set of nationalities
The ultimate ICS thread: analysis and solutions
***TECH TREE***: "Master List"

Best wishes!

S. Kroeze

quote: Originally posted by rremus on 12-15-2000 02:54 AM Definetly NO. Rude posters than start 10 threads with same subject on a day can be reminded that is a question of netiquette.

That isnt MY definitation of "rude posters", rremus. Such behaviour would only be non-logic and absurd. WHY should anyone in their right mind want to start 10 threads on the same subject, on one single day?

quote: But why restrict posters than are 'on fire' and actually have 5 different ideas today?

Why should posters thats "on fire" feel restricted?

He can post all these 5 short ideas under one or two threads, cant he? My "grief-factor" post, for example, could easily be splitted into 3 topic-starters.
But i choosed instead to post them all under ONE thread instead. Now, if I can do that - why cant you?

Also; he can also choose to spread them out, and instead post some of them, on days then he ISNT "on fire".

Infact, wouldnt that be a far better approach if one really want maximal exposure? If you post 5 different topics on one day - doesnt that means that these 5 topics actually competes with each other in a negative way, over fellow Apolyton-member attention?

quote: Dear civers, please remeber that, even in civ, the martial law is an option only under non-democratic governments!

quote: Originally posted by Tical_2000 on 12-15-2000 07:49 PM This forum is suddenly becoming too anti-newbie. If you don't like looking at new, flat threads all the time, wait a couple of days until a discussion gets going, then go in.

OK - HURRAY for more new flat threads, then!! And, yes - anyone else who dont like this development it is of course "anti-newbie".

And to hell with below argument:

"Some of us have not english as our native language, which means producing a lengthy post, sometimes takes hours. One half-hour later, 3-4 guys produces 3-4 short topic-starters each, and by that monopolize a large part of the main first page.

Its all about showing a little consideration."

What the heck is "anti-newbie" got to do with it? Its just common sense: Didnt you two guys read below?

Also; he can also choose to spread them out, and instead post some of them, on days then he ISNT "on fire".

Thankfully I've hardly ever had to close or delete posts! But, yes, I try as hard as possible to let things here run a natural course. I get no pleasure from showing I can shut things down.

Ralf and All:

As for this post, I'd like to offer this suggestion: If anybody here feels that a certain person is posting too many new threads in such a way that it detracts from the board, please send me an email:

namk26@hotmail.com

Hopefully I will already have seen the problem and mailed the person in question. Otherwise, I will take your complaint into consideration.

Overall, though, I think we should encourage new people to post. This can be taken to an extreme, however, when one person begins to flood the board. So other than that, let's be friendly and helpful as we wait for the greatest TBS game ever made.

Let's give the newbies a try of inventing something new.
(Oldies: We can give links to related threads then or then again maybe not.)