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

[Baronius]

Well, if every time we notice a new lie we re-open this topic, we will probably need to re-open it almost everyday!

That's very true, Sikret! Fortunately, IA's players aren't misled by these statements (lies) any longer.

(By the way, I can easily reply in these topics, because I don't have to reopen them: the CLOSED icon appears as a button for me, and functions as REPLY. )

None of her posts have ever been deleted by me.

I remember she had one or more posts in a topic which was beset by trolls, and IA was attacked excessively. I decided to remove that topic, and any topics which were opened by the attackers who were saying "the other topic disappeared". I clearly asked them to stop their trolling, swearing and harassment, yet they kept reopening topics. Some of the user accounts even were blocked for a few hours, as there was no other way (except closing whole BWL forum, which would have been very unpleasant.) So it's possible that one or more of her posts were deleted by me, because she refused to complete the request about taking a break in posting until trolls are gone.

Nonetheless, I think your FAQ summarizes everything very well, and there is no need to discuss this issue any longer.