Happily enough I've never been given a reason in this forum to apply punishments of any sort.
Happily enough I was lucky to be appointed to the Top 11 forum of all things instead of the forum of some other prolific game in the industry where communities are mostly built of the worst that humanity can offer.
Happily enough the people on this forum, even though they can indeed get a bit agitated (and sometimes with good reason), the worst that could happen at any point since I've stepped in this place was to put out a reminder.

The last thing I want to see is the community we have here, among ourselves, devolve to the state of your run-of-the-mill internet cesspool of bigotry and spiteful attitude.

i.e. Ease up on the name-calling. This ain't a high-school full of hormone-crazy kids going at each others throats due to each one's personal issues.
But if that doesn't matter to some people then let me put another reminded out there - Be as critical as you feel you have to be. But keep your comments clean of derogatory terms and offensive-sarcasm.
...I know its only human to swear here and there and I've never went after anyone here because of the seldom: ****, Crap, Asshole, etc. But the more a comment is spiced up with some of these terms the more the message is devalued and the intent is skewed. And its a pain to read as well. It makes the whole message messy and all over the place.


As if I don't understand the frustration everyone is feeling atm... Lets be real huh?


And I definitely hope that whoever reads this comment from me will get that its written with complete and full sincerity. I do not want to see this forum go up in flames. I hope I'm being positively clear about this.