I'm going to be saying good bye to the trainz community going forward from here. No, this isn't another lousy post about how bad TANE is, or how Trainz next is going to ruin our trainzing experience. This is a lousy post calling on the community itself. The community is in shambles right now. It needs new direction that perhaps one day in the future can find, and I might once return and enjoy it. The community has changed from groups of hobbyist enjoy and sharing experiences across each other, and having a good ole blast, to one where it is nothing more than a playground for more arguments than discussing political affiliation. It has turned into a land where people turn around and backstabbed each other. They don't respect each other's work. It's about how good I can make this one thing, so I can be popular with so many people, and use that to crush the people I don't like. This has nothing to do with children, gimmie pigs, and the likes. This has to do with people being more childish than toddlers are. This has nothing to do with the number of comments I receive on my work, because I receive comments on it quite often, and are usually positive with good suggestions here and there. I appreciate the people who take the time to enjoy it, and the hobby that Trainz brings us all. If you would like to continue to see my work, or talk to me, you can contact me privately anytime you wish, as I'll still be trainzing along. The Trainz community really needs to find it's direction and go there, because it is not going anywhere right now. Nothing can really progress without the community being united in any one way for any one cause.
2nd, The community needs to cure it's diseases, because they are becoming more of a nuisance than ever before. We blame the mods, N3V, or others, but never actually blame the people who do it, and ourselves for not taking appropriate action. It's time that we started doing so. Perhaps then, we can actually get some bright minds on here to make it a better experience for everybody. Our first step would be to instantly hitting the report button every time there was a post that was intentionally set out to cause a flame war or as such. We also need to hit the report button on the social justice warriors, as they are making the problem much much worse by inviting the trolls to come over, and intentionally incite riots so that they can divide the community further.
3rd, we need to rat out those diseases on our own, so that they can see they are not accepted here. This is quite a problem I see, and until it gets stopped, the issue will never go away or even be a step closer to making the community a more family friendly place again. There is a group of people responsible for a large number of issues on this very forum right now, and yet no action by the community has been taken. It looks as though we accept them here, so why else do so many of them come here? It's because they aren't welcome in other communities. Perhaps we should think about this, and think about the action we could take to fix it.
4th, I would actually like to take back some of the comments I said about TANE and Tony. I would like to congratulate him on the success that N3V has had making TANE better, as from what I can see, has come an extremely long way from where it started. I'm even thinking about taking another dive into it and see what can be done with it.
Please, keep trainzing, and enjoying yourselves, as I still will be too, and I might even pop in and out with a quick shot or two, but for now, but for now, it's a good bye.
2nd, The community needs to cure it's diseases, because they are becoming more of a nuisance than ever before. We blame the mods, N3V, or others, but never actually blame the people who do it, and ourselves for not taking appropriate action. It's time that we started doing so. Perhaps then, we can actually get some bright minds on here to make it a better experience for everybody. Our first step would be to instantly hitting the report button every time there was a post that was intentionally set out to cause a flame war or as such. We also need to hit the report button on the social justice warriors, as they are making the problem much much worse by inviting the trolls to come over, and intentionally incite riots so that they can divide the community further.
3rd, we need to rat out those diseases on our own, so that they can see they are not accepted here. This is quite a problem I see, and until it gets stopped, the issue will never go away or even be a step closer to making the community a more family friendly place again. There is a group of people responsible for a large number of issues on this very forum right now, and yet no action by the community has been taken. It looks as though we accept them here, so why else do so many of them come here? It's because they aren't welcome in other communities. Perhaps we should think about this, and think about the action we could take to fix it.
4th, I would actually like to take back some of the comments I said about TANE and Tony. I would like to congratulate him on the success that N3V has had making TANE better, as from what I can see, has come an extremely long way from where it started. I'm even thinking about taking another dive into it and see what can be done with it.
Please, keep trainzing, and enjoying yourselves, as I still will be too, and I might even pop in and out with a quick shot or two, but for now, but for now, it's a good bye.
