Warning this is a long post but I felt it was necessary.
Ok so a while back I took a break of about 6 months, and before that the sp community was a bunch of close people and was just all together awesome, but recently I've been seeing a lot of comments that are just rude on forum posts and aircraft, generally it's older users commenting on newer users posts. Now by rude I don't mean racism or language, but just mean, deconstructive comments.
For the forum posts, most of us have become really good about tagging posts correctly, ( not always something we've been great at XD ) so is it really necessary to comment on a post and call it pointless and stupid if it is marked off topic? Ever think that the person posting found it interesting and thought we may find it interesting as well? Now we shouldn't treat this like Facebook by any means.... we truly do not care what you had for breakfast.
As for the planes, constructive criticism is great, I find it to be really helpful myself. However calling someone's plane ugly and pointing out that it probably took like 30 min. to do isn't constructive criticism that's honestly just harsh. Not everyone is as skilled as you are. What happened to us being helpful with one another and giving advice on aircraft instead of trying to destroy someone. Now there are those builds that look like they took 30 min and actually did, but if it is a new user, I know 30 min for me when I started building things was a good amount of time. Encourage spending more time and adding more detail, help them grow into a more popular user.
Can we really say that the sp community is one of the best if we keep doing this?
Then there's the spammy post that have no purpose whatsoever...
This is so true:)
@KingDeadshot :D
@jamesPLANESii absolutely, I was trying to say that without making a book of a forum post, but yes better said than I could have :)
I highly agree with this post, however, with the off-topic posts, it has to be something happy, entertaining, important, amazing, or something like that. It can't be something like: "Today I whent shopping", or "I just got a new X-Box", and that's it. That stuff is removable spam. This isn't Facebook. It's a gaming forum.
And with the planes thing, there are some people who whip up a replica in just like, 5 minutes, and expect a higher user to help them fix it, though fixing it would mean getting rid of the whole plane and starting again. But when you see stuff like that, just don't speak your mind and say "That plane looks like a pile of $&-@". Tell the user what could be improved, and give some techniques and stuff to help him/her.
Also, when you've been loitering on the website for as long as the older users have, it gets easier to identify how long creations took to build. I did a survey a couple of weeks ago to see how long people took to build their creations. I saw a trending pattern where the users who took less than 3 hours on their builds, their creations looked rushed and a bit imperfected. These ones are the ccooper builds, and most lower users build at this rate. Then there is the stuff that was slapped together in a couple of minutes and the user said: "Yep, that looks about right. It has a problem with the plane falling appart, and it pitches up uncontrollably, and the prop blows up as soon as the level starts, but who cares!" Those look about the same for every user. And you see quite a lot of them.
But really, when you see these things, who cares! They won't kill you or... break your heart. Don't bother with them if you don't want to or don't need to or if it's for no good cause.
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This post took 35 minutes to write lol! The news is on.
I completly agree, we need to think about before making a rude comment
@saturn28 thank you!
@MechWARRIOR57 now don't get me wrong I really don't care for off topic posts but I mean if they are marked correctly...
Personally I only comment about tags if it's off topic otherwise I couldn't care less