Moderator thank you thread

Just a thread to say thank you for the work our volunteer moderators do for the community here. We appreciate your work to make this a safe, open place to discuss Unity and game development.

I know this is not a task that makes you popular. Most of the feed back you get is from the couple of disgruntled users, rather then the happy contented masses.

So as part of the happy contented masses, thank you. Keep up the good work.

 

Thanks a lot, we appreciate it. People don't see the 30-40 spam threads that are hoovered up every day, the countless pms requesting threads moved or merged and so on. We're not paid for it, and do it because it matters to us.

 

In my region we use a term for this: PLOP!

 

Thanks for deleting the spam.

 

althought i dont really post often here, i read the unity forums almost every day.
so thanks for keeping them clean

 

You guys deserve something for your hard work! Maybe Unity should post you each a LEGO set for Christmas

 

No cause they are a chocking hazard. Some of them might try to chew on them as snacks as they work.

 

Thanks very much!

 

Awwww thanks ya'll!

 

@Thomas Pasieka (gsep?) @hippocoder, @Aurore

Words of appreciation.

Unity forum moderators are clean and impartial.

If you check other game-engine forums, moderators are corrupt.
They want bribes, kick-backs, favouritism and so on.


That's an impartial reason why Unity community is growing.

 

Thank you forum mods! Now please can I have a title?

 

And the truckloads of Korean spam that we got slammed with last night for some reason. Is this the new Arabic refrigerator spam? Almost miss that guy....

--Eric

 

Thank you for deleting spam, good job.

Not thank you for locking threads. It is lame. Especially if you see some threads that get crazy without any lock (e.g. Hatered thread, 8% of people blood related to Satan, should quarantine them all,...). I get the feeling a thread can get as crazy or offtopic as it wants, as long as it does not talk about the competition.

 

I have yet to see an UE4 mod closing a Unity thread. While I see the opposite all the time...
For me this is a kind of corruption, because it is good for UT but in my eyes not good for the community.
However, many thanks for letting the UE4 4.6 release thread live. I hope we will also be able to discuss the 4.7 release here.

 

OK this self congratulation has gone on long enough, where's my padlock button!

I'm joking guys!

Can you get forum spam blocking tools?

I know they would probably block my ideas posts but maybe there is a forum spam database doohickey that shares data between forums on spam, they must be cutting and pasting!

If there is not it's my idea don't steal it and make millions!

 

That already exists, which is why you don't see 95% of the spam. No spam blocking tool is 100% effective.

--Eric

 

Don't give in to the dark side, mods!! Use your powers only for good!!

 

Discussion of Moderator activities is expressly prohibited. This thread should be locked immediately! Keep up the good work guys!

 

Discussion of Moderator cuddliness is expressly required.

--Eric

 

I'm not a mod but surely the chatter of Unreal engine 4.7 should probably take place in... Uh.... The Unreal engine forums?

 

If it weren't for the mods, the forums would be chaotic. Thank you, moderators.

When I get a hug from Eric, I can decide if he is cuddly or not. All other mods are very cuddly.

 

I'm sure 4.7 will raise some Unity related questions. Because it is the competition, comparing changes done is kind of important to evaluate where Unity stands.

 

::hugs Samuel411 while wearing a Shirt of +3 Cuddliness::

--Eric

 

With that, I can now rest knowing that the forums are in the good hands of cuddly mods.

 

In that case, we should have a thread for every single time any game engine releases any update. That'd make sense, right?

Or if you wanted to talk about another game engine, you could go use their forums? I'll leave this decision to Aurore, but as someone who browses these forums for my own personal game development on my evenings and weekends, I don't really want it to be full of threads not really relevant to Unity.

 

Doesn't it make sense that game developers want to discuss pros and cons of different tools and compare them? If you are worried multiple topics cluttering the forums why not make one topic for it, sticky it (because there seems to be a lot of discussion), and lock or delete all the other topics regarding it and direct the discussion to that one topic? I don't think anyone wants to talk specifically about other tools. They want to compare them with Unity. Isn't that a sensible thing to do?

edit: Almost forgot. I saw the spam and only a few moments later it was gone. Thank you mods, you are great.

 

As I've said in the past, moderators welcome feature comparison topics, provided they do not degenerate into flaming. For example, UE4 raises some interesting features like shaders for paper, see-through foliage and importantly very high speedtree performance. Those are for another thread though. We do not ban feature and technology discussions only the usual UE4 vs Unity.

Naturally, I investigate UE4 all the time. It's interesting, it's a superb engine. But I chose Unity for a lot of reasons. I'd love Unity to patch any weak spots too.

It would be prudent to open such a discussion with "speed tree rendering performance" and go from there rather than open it as "UE4 speed tree vs Unity speed tree" which is a bit much and has a way of attracting trolling. Just keep it focused on the technology and it's fine.

UE4 isn't a swear word. It's trying to create some sort of repeat of the old discussions that's bad, as it led to a whole lot of children thinking it was PC master race vs Consoles, when it's not.

 

On the topic of Spam... you think we got Spam issues?

 

You should have seen that crap last year, it would go on for hours during the day just flooding spam everywhere. Couldn't even find the new posts.

At least now they get it cleaned out in a somewhat timely manner rather than letting it happen for hours at a time.

 

Definitely.
A couple of hours ago, there were 3 sites in this forum filled with korean spam threads only.

 

Sir Touch...

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......The Pimp. I dare you to find an image of an anthropomorphic shark with bling and a feathered hat. If you can complete this quest, you will have earned your title!

Seriously, though, definitely agreed. Thank you moderators for keeping the community running well and not being a spam/troll/unorganized den of inequity. Even more to the point, thank you Unity for giving us a A) great tool, and B) a place to come together to show off our projects and our ideas.

Also, special shout-outs to @Aurore for periodic awesome acknowledgements of the community, like the old 'IsTheNewGUIOutYet.com' site when the new GUI was becoming a thing, or her contributions to the Arabic Washing Machine Salesman meme.

 

I dont know why unity cant pay you to do it.

 

They're the heroes the community deserves, not the heroes it needs...



Hippocoder is Batman. True story.

 

I guess the cat is out of the bag. Or is that the bat out of the cat? or the cat, bat out of the bag?

Here I am being thoughtful sharing the bong.


Sorry I meant bomb, not bong

 

And now you've got my nomination for "Best GIF Usage of 2015", to boot.

 

This also becomes difficult because there is a very fine line between what is really a flame war and what isn't. People do tend to get carried away but it is generally because they are very passionate about their technology. The tough part is separating those from the ones that are just doing it to be rude or get a rise out of others.

 

This situation remember me a technical Microsoft´s conference some years ago, in the begining the speaker says that is prohibited say the word "google", the developers in the room laugh and then the speakers says that is not a joke, and yes, it was not a joke.

 

I don't think it's the same thing, no.

 

Occasionally you'll see someone make a comparison with regards to "that unnamed engine".

 

And that's the reason why I asked why the Epic dev grant thread got closed. Because there was no flame war. It was in fact a healthy and interesting discussion, which wasn't even about Unity vs. Unreal.
But Hippocodder decided to close it down with the justification, it might lead to price comparisons.
Closing a thread because it potentially could go in a direction a certain moderator doesn't like is just silly IMO.

But whatever. It's your forum and your rules.

 

Yeah, this isn't the same thing.

 

Whats the best way to say thank you?
To make a game!!!
So did I, for you dear Moderatos.

You need to catch all the spam to keep the communtity happy, while doding all other questions! And be aware of the unity announcements! You dont want to catch those
love you all
http://element-wsc.azurewebsites.net/ThankUMods/

ps: you can't win nor die... I was to lazy -_-

 

Oh, but you forget I have mod powers. So I used the secret "win game" button.

--Eric

 

...So you killed my Lv.13 Blood Elf Paladin in World of Warcraft! With a wheel of cheese. A wheel of cheese. You can't even equip those, you jerk!

 

I can honestly say I've never played World of Warcraft in my life. ...It was Hippocoder wot done it.

--Eric

 

This. I played it for about ten minutes when it first came out and then decided I didn't like it. I use the name Ony (or the full version Onyxia) in several places (like Second Life when I was playing that) and people always say "oh, a WOW" player. Apparently there's a dragon in WOW named Onyxia. I just thought the name was kind of cool and everyone thinks I took it from WOW. It was pretty confusing at first when people would make "in" jokes that totally flew over my head.

Annnnyway....

YES!! Thank you mods. For the last few days with all that spam showing up constantly, you've taken care of business and cleared it up. Awesome. You guys rock.