Modding Ethics

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Originally Posted by Spytrx

this is the kind of assumption that lead to bad feelings - you don't know anything about me and you already talk down on me? Or do you feel you are higher standing than me because you have posted here two years? I have to remember that...

Correct me if I am wrong, but the matter in question happend on another board? So you can discuss and make rules and regs all you want, if these things happen elsewhere you have no control over it - and discussing it here (with accusations and name calling) doesn't help matters much either but spoils a good board.

I have been SMod on another board for many years and saw it destroyed (literally) by such things. If you want to create rules (or just list them), then do so but without referencing to quotes and such like, that is all I am saying...

Oh, and if it needs discussing - shouldn't that be in the relevant forum rather than here?

@Spytrx, No I am not "Talking down to you." In fact I think your view of me is simply colored from a previous difference in view... and I feel this fuels your desire to counter me.

This is entirely the best place I think to address modding ethics. This is a mods workshop after all.

Regarding "feeling close to the work" ... that is not an "assumption" as you say... but the pure and simple truth. Any artist or designer would naturally feel this way after a great deal of time and personal sacrifice to see a thing through.

I'm sure you'd feel the same way. I recognize that you've been other places before... but you have not been here for this story to unfold. No offence, but you joined us last month did you not?

I think that referencing prior problems... including our own... is entirely appropriate. It is why I opened with a mistake that I personally take responsibility for.

The fact remains that permissions should be sought wherever possible... especially concerning "active" modding efforts and projects built by modders that call this place home... and have passed through its halls before.

This is not an unreasonable concept.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

I have to go to work unfortunately... Hopefully, the moderators will see the need for this discussion... or it will only be doomed to repeat.