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Originally Posted by bigboywooly
I have yet to see an act of oneupmanship in respect of mods
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A door not wisely opened. We had a thread here where skwasjr announced a new kind of fix for propeller rotation. He did not just explain. He provided the tools to fix it. He provided a tutorial video showing how to use his tool. He explained in great detail how to make it work, and why it worked. This was a technique not available to the Subsim community before skwasjr's post. He demonstrated in great detail the intent of Ducimus' petition.
What happened? Members of a group we will not name descended upon a wonderful thread with the following observations: We did it first long ago so you haven't done anything but steal our idea. Your solution is too complicated and won't work properly. You don't understand the process and we did it better. There's no need to explain so thoroughly (it was implied that all skwasjr did was waste valuable bandwidth), it could have been done in two words and I would have understood.
This is oneupsmanship. This is just one situation where you have seen it used. This is a great illustration of how indtimidation of this kind by a pack of perpetrators can stifle future contributions, if they were supplied by a sensitive modder. Fortunately skwasjr is about as sensitive as the Rock of Gibralter and doesn't pay attention to childs' play.
Want to talk about OLC GUI and how certain people tried to squash its development? We could talk about the ship damage models in a certain prominent mod pack and where they came from and how. Naw, not necessary. You know all about them and a lot more besides. Some doors are best left closed.
Notice I stick to the facts and criticize specific issues. I have not characterized anyone or claimed they were some sensitive anatomical part. That is called argument in its best sense. Name-calling, personal attack and innuendo are not reasoned argument and are not an adequate substitute.
I don't see anything that a nice rail fence with many unlocked gates couldn't cure.