- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Wuyie
...the site is open to the public, so you have to deal with...get this...the public...if you go to the park you cant complain that the family next to you is too loud or too syrupy cute...either move or dont go there again..and if you volunteer to help keep the park clean...you cant say that it would be cleanier if only certain pple came or no one at all..it is what it is...
Half right, half wrong. No, you can't complain about the type of people that come to a public place, so long as the people you're complaining about are following the legalities and established rules of enjoying that place / activity / whatever. For example: no, you can't kick me out of your park for being cute. You CAN kick me out of your park for putting graffiti all over everything and urinating on your lovely picnic. And you should! The community doesn't want to deal with that, and it's against the rules. Bungie and the moderators have every right to enforce the rules on idiots; the rules here are simple, well-defined and publicly accessible. If you break them severely enough to get blacklisted, you probably deserved it.
...before someone tells me that the forums do not influence Bungie in anyway let me just stop you there and say thats hogwash...(awesome...I got to use "hogwash" in a sentence...that made my week)...a forum is a place to exchange and discuss ideas...and what is feedback?...an opinion or idea about something...hence if a majority of the community is talking about a particular subject..or as some would so derisively state..."complain" about a given topic, than eventually it will reach the ears of those who can do something about it
Maybe, but not in the way you're thinking. If you're referring to the forum or site and making changes to it that way, then yes, it is possible that your ideas will be acknowledged, discussed and possibly implemented. But if you're referring to Bungie's games, that's another matter entirely. Ideas for future products of any sort will likely not get you any response from Bungie whatsoever because to acknowledge that they viewed or in any way received your ideas is often grounds enough for a lawsuit. Say you really really really think it's a good idea to have a rocket launcher in Halo 3 that fires 2 rockets at a time and you post that on the forum; some Bungie employee sees it and writes back, "Yeah, that is a good idea." Then you see that idea in Halo 3. That's intellectual property and you'd have at least some basis to say it was your idea first, and not independently conceived by them. So don't be surprised if those ideas get you nowhere.
This next part slipped by me until tonight, but it's worth looking at.
From the post above:
if you go to the park you cant complain that the family next to you is too loud or too syrupy cute...either move or dont go there again
This quote below is from you in the previous page's posts.
And here we go with the All AMerican response to any questioning of a systems efficency...If you dont like dont come here...nice...apparently it s a problem for some pple to navigate the site...how do i know?...Why...because there is a need for stickies to clarify things...save me the energy and slap yourself until tiny vlack dots appear...
So, when someone has told you "if you don't like it, you should leave" it's an insult, but when you see things as acceptable and others don't, they should get out because it's fine by you? Let's get these routines straight before we really argue the finer points.
[Edited on 9/11/2006]