It burns!
bairy:
Unfortunately, no one has told us that Mozilla is still playing up. Firefox and Mozilla are supposed to use the exact same rendering engine and firefox is fixed (at least, no one has said otherwise)
I suggested back/fwd because I find it's usually faster than reloading the page. I suggesting using IE because the site works perfectly on it, and although I'm not exactly keen on it, it was my choice for ease when the site was playing up.
However it's obviously your choice what you do :)
Now that I know, I'll get hold of moz and work with Delphy to see where the problem is, assuming I can recreate it.
*update* Mozilla should now have been fixed. Basically the user agent string for firefox is slightly different than for Moz, and it was classing Moz as IE and thus not removing the problematic CSS attribute.
You might have to clear the *modthesims2* cookies and the cache then restart moz before it actually works.
If there are other problems that anyone has, please report them to the mts2 site issues forum (or here if you're not registered there and don't want to be, I guess) . Sometimes it can take a little while to sort the problem because it needs to be recreated and tracked down, but usually all problems get solved eventually.
laeshanin:
All very interesting about MTS2, but I think I can speak for a number of us on this forum when our concern is about the migration of "fans" from the bbs/MTS2 to MATY, and the complete nonsense posted. It's drivel, without a doubt. I've also noticed this has been the case on the forums in MTS2, and I have been nuked on a number of times merely for expressing an opinion that did not concur with the people on that particular thread. At least here, if you do dare to express some rationale it will be discussed in an intelligent and adult manner. Or, you'll be ridiculed, but you have a perfect right to take the pee back and no-one will think less of you.
As for the new format... It is certainly very attractive, but it is also a pain to get round. And yes, I do indeed still use the old style pages.
bairy:
"I've also noticed this has been the case on the forums in MTS2, and I have been nuked on a number of times merely for expressing an opinion that did not concur with the people on that particular thread."
We remove flaming/off topic posts as much as we can. If you make a constructive or helpful post then usually it won't be touched however we do try to keep things on-topic as much as possible.
If we didn't they would turn into TSR-style chatfests (or flamefests) and the thread would lose most of it's productivity. With a site as big and popular as MTS2, you have to nip bad posts as quickly as possibly, before they turn the thread into a bad one. People can unfortunately be very explosive and 200 posts later, you can't even remember what the thread started out as.
laeshanin:
I did think about making a complaint but decided never to bother posting again. I'm not interested in getting people banned, and can't be arsed with childish/abusive remarks about the level of my intelligence, knowledge, impartiality or otherwise. Unfortunately, after checking through a number of threads on the site I've been really disappointed as most of them seem to be random rubbish. I don't doubt they are enormously fascinating to those joining in, but it just don't float my boat. Perhaps it's just a reflection of the average age of the people who use the forums as they all seem very young, not that I'm decrying youth in any way as there are those who display oodles of maturity, or, maybe, not terribly well educated? ;) My, that sounds horribly arrogant, doesn't it?
bairy:
A little, but you have a valid point. There are a number of, shall we say, under experienced in netiquette, users around. That's not really the fault of any one thing (except perhaps AOL), it's just how it is.
I think there are a couple of problems
1. People use l337 or shrthnd speak or excessive size/color tags (which are hacked so they won't work for anyone below moderator level btw), which is really irritating. They think it's the norm because they use it on their cellphones etc and they think this is perfectly acceptable because they've learnt on places like the bbs that it is.
2. People can't be bothered to find out what's needed of them. For example, in the help section we still get many posts that have been previously covered despite us giving instructions on how to find the previous posts. This is either laziness, or inability to look on their part. It is partly the forum's fault because searches can be quite complicated (there are plans to simplify)
It is true that a lot of kids are sims fans, and they usually provide lower quality posts. The more experienced posters then either don't understand, or don't want to understand, the posts, which leads to problems. And then this can escalate because the original poster gets all pissy, takes it personally and you have yourself a flamethread.
This is really down to the original posters' lack of understanding of netiquette. I am planning to write a guide at some point on how to use the forum, including a nice guide on netiquette.
There has been a recent run of "I'm first!" posts, which is ongoing. Although we try hard to keep up with them sometimes it's difficult. The problem is "the line". If we're too harsh then we get critisised for being so, and if we're not harsh enough then we get critisised for not doing anything. We're still learning the balance but I believe that we will master it.
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