Players! You are not real!, Another disgusting lie Options

[Sikret]

While I understand that these people are really envious of Improved Anvil's quality and popularity, I really didn't expect them to go so far to write such disgusting lies:

He writes:

whereas this can't be proven unless I had access to the BWL database (to cross-check IPs), I strongly suspect that the fanbase is at least partially astroturfed.

Hilarious!

All of the people who have sent praising post about IA are known people who have used the same nicknames in all forums for years (see Sorcerer's place for example).

He continues:

As a semi-proof, you don't see people posting praise this often at no other mod forum.

Well, that's because:

1- Improved Anvil is the only bugfree big mod.
2- Improved Anvil adds so many new quests and new content to the game.
3- Improved Anvil has high quality (= no bugs, no CTDs, good tactical challenges, new encounters, new monsters, expanded strongholds, Item randomizer and so on)

Instead of deducing the natural consequence that players really like IA, the envious modder has decided to conclude that these posters are not real (i.e. it is me who is posting here with different nicknames to praise my own mod!!)

He also claims that we delete criticisms which is another lie. We have only deleted insulting or trolling posts in the past. Constructive and polite criticisms have never been deleted; some of the topics (a minority of them not all of them) have been closed after a while but none of them have been deleted (even a degree of rudeness has been tolerated and even though some posts have been tactless and insulting enough to deserve being deleted, we kept them).

Where is the modding community going to?

My suggestion to them is to make a better mod than IA if they can. In that case, players will send praising posts to their forums. No more disgusting lies and accusations please. I am fed up with such lies.

This post has been edited by Sikret: Sep 4 2007, 08:57 AM

[Sikret]

Also, it's not a healthy argumentation style to say whatever false things you want and then when you are refuted or disproved you just reply that you were joking or you were funny. Such false information may do their harm despite your later comments of being funny.

For example, SimDing writes:

Sikret now wants it placed in EVERY category on the modlist. (I'm not joking about this.)

As you see, he is even emphasizing that he is not joking (link).

Baronius disproved the claim (link):

I see 12 categories in the BG2 section (and there are many more in the whole modlist), and Sikret asked it to be added to 5.

Now, just read SimDing's reply after being refuted (link):

I think you're dragging this one way too far. I've also claimed that I run a dating agency for modders and that England's national sport is football violence.

I have many similar examples to offer, but I don't think that it is worth the time. I prefer to spend my time preparing the mod's next release instead. The main point in all of them is the same: You misinform readers with something which was not initially supposed to be a joke. Later, when you are refuted, you claim that you were joking. These sort of unhealthy methods are not approved by any reasonable person.