SUBSIM is dying

CCIP · 03-10-10, 12:47 AM

I'm kind of amused at how some things never change. Grumpy people - with a point perhaps - who just don't get it, that's certainly one of those things.

I've been involved with quite a number of websites and have participated in administering some. Subsim's administration, if you ask me, is one of the most effective I have seen, largely because it's the right mix of common sense and community values on the one hand, and Neal's active 'my clubhouse' attitude on the other. In the end it works. It's a clubhouse built on respect, not written-in-stone rules, and if you want to challenge norms you have to respect the established way of doing things here. In the end, it's a submarine sim community, not a platform to make statements on politics of software. Let's keep that in perspective.

Otherwise "dying" is a gross exaggaration for a site that has just experienced problems due to demand for its community services just going through the roof. Anything but, sir.

03-10-10, 12:47 AM	#9
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	I'm kind of amused at how some things never change. Grumpy people - with a point perhaps - who just don't get it, that's certainly one of those things. I've been involved with quite a number of websites and have participated in administering some. Subsim's administration, if you ask me, is one of the most effective I have seen, largely because it's the right mix of common sense and community values on the one hand, and Neal's active 'my clubhouse' attitude on the other. In the end it works. It's a clubhouse built on respect, not written-in-stone rules, and if you want to challenge norms you have to respect the established way of doing things here. In the end, it's a submarine sim community, not a platform to make statements on politics of software. Let's keep that in perspective. Otherwise "dying" is a gross exaggaration for a site that has just experienced problems due to demand for its community services just going through the roof. Anything but, sir. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)