Nemo121
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And i am tired of all you euro nazis and wish you you would all just go away or shoot yourselves or at least do something useful with your useless little PC lives. Leave us alone.
Hmm, while I certainly don't agree with el cid's manner of posting or many of his contentions I do find it concerning that members of the design team seem to get carte Blanche to breach the forum's rules of posting.
Labelling a bunch of posters as euro nazis and telling them to shoot themselves is clearly personal and abusive... Yet since this individual is a member of the design team it is fine? When double standards like this are allowed it makes it less likely others who were willing to give the benefit of the doubt will continue to do so.
There is a situation developing where design team members are, apparently, allowed to engage in abusive, bullying behaviour with impunity. Yes, I understand you may be frustrated at some of the needless criticism you get. However, behaving like bullies yourselves isn't a solution to that problem. It merely robs you of the support of those who would stand beside you but cannot do so while hypocritical double standards are being applied.
I think the team has done great work. Do I agree with everything? No. Am I afraid of pointing out issues in the tech issues thread because of the abuse you get from the design team ( without an apology even when the bug is later acknowledged and fixed)? Yes. Have others told me they feel the same? Yes. If the design team's primary focus is to blow off steam and bully then fine. If it is, as I believe it is, to make the game better then this sort of counterproductive behaviour needs to be limited. We all lose our cool sometimes but this sort of racist abuse simply shouldnt be tolerated.
I'm a European who had relatives killed by the nazis and I ( and I'm sure others are in the same boat) view the label of "euro-nazi" as being extremely offensive. It'd be like me labelling every White American a slave-owning, black-raping murderer simply because I disliked what one American said now and because in the past some Americans who owned slaves engaged in that sort of thing. Clearly that would be preposterous ( and a breach of forum rules) just as osterhaut's post is.
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