@STEED
I received your PM this morning and quite frankly it puzzled me. It is not my intention to quote from it as I consider PM's to be private, however I will respond to it's contents in the broader sense.
You sir in my considered opinion chose to post comments on this forum knowing full well they would be read by all and sundry. Comments which I could only perceive to be derogitory and potentially humiliating towards myself.
You claim you may have been "misquoted a bit"....prey tell, which comments are those ?
This one ? "You have my permission as of today, by all rights I could have given you six of the best" :hmm:
Or this one ? "I will allow you to carry on hosting it, but could have asked first" :hmm:
Or maybe this one ? "Anyway as I said, I am letting Jim off the hook" :hmm:
I will not be stigmatised, associated or labelled alongside those who are already suspected of stealing other modders work (you've actually brought quite a few wry grins from those within the GWX crew)
I'm not going to repeat comments and opinions about the ethics of ownership and sharing in this community....this has already been covered in posts 15,16 and 39. I would respectfully suggest you read them carefully.
IMO my track record for helping people and sharing files in this community is as good as most.
I have as of yesterday taken your sub skin off my FF account and HD....I sincerely hope you will be pleased to know that 63 people personally benefitted from it's prior availability....something I thought this community built it's foundation stones on.
You make reference to the fact that people have PM'd you......well let me explain....I got out of bed this morning and my PM box was full. A fair number of those PM's voicing concern at the contents of this thread. I am eternally grateful to those and am absolutely overjoyed that each and everyone (yes, you all got a response) have respected my wishes and not gotten involved by posting on this thread. Sadly, the resultant consequence of a full PM box meant that I missed some important messages regarding the development of GWX.
You further went on to state that some of your comments may have sounded 'hard' to me....well yes they bloody well did!!
I am no angel...I am well equipped to deal with the challenges life often brings to my table both in and out of work, (although it has been often said that a person in my position is never off duty)....perhaps that is true but I have always strived to maintain a differential between work and play.
You further state you have not visited this thread since your last post and therefore consider the matter closed..........Really ? :hmm:
You chose to publicly air the matter so I reserve the right to respond in public. Do not pull a pistol on somebody and act suprised or cry foul play if you suddenly realise they are firearms trained and pull out an MP5.
I'll say this....because of your comments on this thread, you have come within an inch of having permission to post links to GWX on your Subsimulations forum withdrawn in public. What poetic justice would that be?
If I felt I had offended you I would be the first to apologise.....and if that is the case then please accept my unreserved apoligies........but do not do me the disservice of what I consider to be nothing less than an attempt at public humiliation, then attempt to right what I and others consider to be your wrongdoing yourself via a PM.