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That Orbiter trolling may be true or not

As someone who was a regular in their old forum from the beginning, and who helped contribute ideas for some of the stuff they implemented, I can definitely say that there were quite a few Orbiter trolls who popped up and then got themselves outright banned by being idiots. These idiots would then go to other forums and complain about how the Space Shuttle Simulator (That's what it was called back then) forum was full of jerks and the mods were *expletive*'s.

In reality, these people would time and time again show up. These people would bash the idea of someone making a sim when there was Orbiter already, and then they would blatantly argue with everyone there when anyone tried to explain the differences between the two programs. They would always disrupt threads with their "Stop wasting your time with this sim !! Go to Orbiter !!" crap. Then, they'd get all huffy when they would get banned for being disruptive.

We went through the same thing on the "Fasterlight" forum for Exoflight when that was being worked on too, but not quite as much as we did on the Shuttle Sim forum.

I will agree that they shouldn't have closed their forum to everyone who wasn't a customer, but I can say that they had a LOT of problems with Orbiter trolls. I know because I was there from the beginning and I witnessed the whole thing.

That said, there were several people who enjoyed Orbiter there such as myself who didn't cause any problems. It was just that there was a tidal wave of idiots to the point where there were bannings almost every day. It was the trolls causing the issues. The mods were just reacting to it. I agree that closing the forum to the non customers was extreme. But I think that's why they did it.


Man. I wish my computer could run Space Shuttle Mission 2007.