Three more days

[Vanuslux]

If that's all you want we have a whole different forum for that sort of thing

http://www.circvsmaximvs.com/

Let me make one thing clear...I like both editions and my forum posts back that up (the only thing I've been seriously negative about is WotC's failure to deliver on the character generator). I'm not interested in being involved in the edition war. However, I don't think telling people they're not allowed to vocally dislike one edition or another leaves much room for actually discussing the relative merits of one edition over another, and I did enjoy those sorts of threads.

Where do you draw the line between a "This is why I like X edition more" thread and "I want to do obscenely illegal things to anyone who likes X edition because I hate it" thread? It seems to me that every so called "edition war" thread had both sorts of posters regardless of the intent of the original thread poster.

 

[Darrin Drader]

Huh. All I got out of it was that you'd been dropped on your head as a child.

I'd comment on your questionable parentage and dubious upbringing, but I think there are safer boards for us to discuss such things.

 

[Corjay]

Speaking of which. . . IIRC, I think that discussing of policy at other forums is against the rules here (or, at least, that's what I've been told in the past).

I just looked through the rules again and didn't see it, but the rules do state that if a moderator makes a ruling, no matter how much you disagree, you have to abide by it. So, if a moderator says don't, I won't. For you, though, you would be bound by the moderator's warning you saw.

 

[Foundry of Decay]

I have to admit that while I don't mind lively discussions on the difference between editions, I honestly hope it doesn't devolve into the D&D version of 'Kirk vs. Picard' uselessness.

Then again, I tend to vent on my own private/semi-private channels now, which is fantastically cathartic. For one, I'm *always* right when I post to them (seeing as they're my own journals).

And I still say pong is better than Pac-man. Seriously. Boop..... Boop.... Boop...

 

[The Little Raven]

i have to admit that while i don't mind lively discussions on the difference between editions, i honestly hope it doesn't devolve into the d&d version of 'kirk vs. Picard' uselessness.

Picard, yo.

 

[Darrin Drader]

Picard, yo.

W3rd!

 

[Foundry of Decay]

Picard, yo.

/agree.

 

[Corjay]

Let me make one thing clear...I like both editions and my forum posts back that up (the only thing I've been seriously negative about is WotC's failure to deliver on the character generator). I'm not interested in being involved in the edition war. However, I don't think telling people they're not allowed to vocally dislike one edition or another leaves much room for actually discussing the relative merits of one edition over another, and I did enjoy those sorts of threads.

Amen.

Where do you draw the line between a "This is why I like X edition more" thread and "I want to do obscenely illegal things to anyone who likes X edition because I hate it" thread? It seems to me that every so called "edition war" thread had both sorts of posters regardless of the intent of the original thread poster.

I think it's a matter of approach. Just as you point out, the one says "I like this because it does such and such". That's focused and is not launching ammunition against an opponent. Thus is no part of any war. But saying "you must be a moron for liking that version" is a clear attack. So a thread that says "I like this version, who else does?" is not an edition war thread. But a thread that says "Why on earth would you want to play that version?" is clearly an edition war thread.

 

[jdrakeh]

I just looked through the rules again and didn't see it, but the rules do state that if a moderator makes a ruling, no matter how much you disagree, you have to abide by it. So, if a moderator says don't, I won't. For you, though, you would be bound by the moderator's warning you saw.

Actually, it looks like it's not there anymore. There was (at one time) a very specific clause about not engaging in cross-forum flaming (i.e., a don't talk about people at other forums behind their backs kind of rule). So, feel free to talk about or criticize the moderators/posters at RPGnet any old way you want, I suppose.

 

[Nightchilde-2]

I would prefer to see the edition wars remain on the back burner. I almost stopped visiting ENWorld due to the edition wars.

That's not to say I wouldn't mind rational discussion on the different editions, calm statements regarding your favorite edition backed by experience or fact as opposed to knee-jerk reaction and opinion.

However, these are the internets and such a wish is merely a pipe dream.