I think you're in the wrong there, Ex. Kids will be kids. Imposing standards in a serious discussion or a balance topic is one thing (which you guys do a terrible job at, by the way), but there needs to be a place for morons to post stupid stuff. The majority of any large community is going to be idiots, (especially DotA/HoN) you can't change that by limiting their posts; all you're going to do is piss them off needlessly.
They will either learn there is no place for that or will get themselves into trouble. Pissing them off is irrelevant. There is no place for dick jokes and meme spouting on any forum worth a shit.
I never even knew there was an off topic forum, which is exactly how it should be. People who are there for the game can be there for the game, and people who are there to be retards/4chan/scum can do that. S2Games is a business. SEN is a (poor) investment, and so it can afford to enforce whatever arbitrary rules it wants. You need to realize the difference before making a judgment like you did.
I knew the difference, and that doesn't change my priorities. I was glad to help them manage their community properly but if they want money they better talk to marketing and sales. Not my department.
As for advice, after seeing some of the things you posted I don't really think you're that much better than many of the rest of us. Your advice is always for pubbing, which gets you better at pubbing and gets you nowhere serious in the end.
The majority of SEN players are looking to get good at pubbing, and so that's what I've helped them with. I've also played league in DOTA with a team of dedicated individuals.
My skills may not be great yet, but after 0 DotA experience
Stop right there.
This is what bothers me about you. You have to realize I have 3 years of experience in both pub and league that you do not. No guide by any level of player is going to give you what those years have given me. I admit that pub and the league were almost two different games when comparing how to play them properly, but I have yet to see any evidence that you know that difference yourself. It's not something a guide is going to teach you. A lot of the time I read your posts and it's like Shredder trying to give me a lesson on maturity, it's just laughable.
You are one of the individuals I'm talking about up there, you need to let our pubbers learn to be pubbers (Hence why I give them pubbing advice) and let our more serious players do and learn for themselves in some cases, and if not, link them to the guides. I don't feel any amount of guides you may have read have taught you enough, nor do I feel any amount of games you've played thus far make you any sort of authority and certainly not one to contest with me.
Respond as you will, but I'm not going to go back and fourth with you on this. It's done.
Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Sep 17 2009, 10:31 am by Excalibur.