It burns!
ThatEvilModfromMTS:
Quote from: humybyrd
Being limited in what I can create at this time I tried my hand at some female mass murderers. No matter what I did I could not get them posted. There was always some excuse (pictures not good enough, need shots of real and simmies for compairison etc.) I complied with the wishes of the forum mod until I got to the point of the face shots were not close up enough to show the details and a week later someone had a celebrity posted without a real person photo for compairison (something I had been turned down for on my 3rd try to get these posted!). I wasn't able to get back on for a week or so but figured that it just wasn't worth the effort anymore. At that point I decided to forget posting my stuff and just check in from time to time to see whats new.
I had to interject here and please don't take this in any rude way. I approve the sim uploads on the site. Yes you did work hard on your upload I'm sure. However your first submission you had no pictures of who they were modled after- If someone happens to upload an Angelina Jolie sim (god lord help me please make them stop uploading her)
and it doesnt have a picture, but the post is dont properly with links and photos- The general population does in fact know what she looks like. So a celeb photo is not always required there.
The sims that you made were based on very old historical characters that the general population does not know. If you had not titled your post no one looking at those sims would be able to identify them for who they were. Its not saying your work is bad but that is outr main criteria. If you submit a sim based on someone it has to look like them without guessing. Approving uploads is not a personal issue. We dont reject things becuase we feel like it, or we dont like you. If you worked hard on the sims and they didn't look enough like who they were based on you can always upload to the "other" category as many have done. Celebrity sims have stricter guidelines than other sim uploads.
As far as the thread closing issue I also have to defend this. We dont deliberately get heavy handed for fun either. But with such a massive number of posts piling up, the forum requires a good hard cleaning once in a while. there are outdated posts, and double posts, and silly BBSer posts, so sometimes it does look like were being bullies but if we continued to let the foum pile up with wasted postings then we'd get complaints on how hideously sloppy it is. Its a no win situation.
And for those of you who hate the layout- I myself am not even a fan of it, However its really easy to navigate if you use the site map- atleast for me it is. I only like certain areas of the forum and I can easily find them by just using the site map button. Instead of getting upset and ranting elsewhere, we are always open to constructive comments on how to better the site. Theres a thread just for site suggestions.
Not everyone can be happy all the time- and we only try to keep in mind that the site is perpetually growing. Even if you decide not to go back, hopefully there was something on there that you found useful. :)
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: Motoki on 2005 October 06, 05:01:58
Well when MTS2 first started out it did have a higher quality of posters, but this was months not weeks ago. :(
Somewhere along the line, they just went crazy with the expanding and broadening their focus trying to become all things to all people and becoming this super huge site and ended up picking up a lot of BBS refugees along the way, which in turn tended to drive a lot of what I consider the higher caliber of posters away to other smaller communities and you ended up with the situation you have now.
I also very strongly dislike their new interface which I find somehow paradoxically overly complex and yet dumbed down at the same time. If the point was to make things easier to find, they've failed, at least for when I've tried to browse it with the new interface.
I have to agree with you Motoki on the quality of some of the recent posts many of them sound like th BBS'ers that post in retardo land here and have the misbegotten belief that retardo land is the main MATY forum.I also dont care for the new interface on MTS2 itis paradoxical in its format as you say and also like you navigating the new interface is far more difficult. to find a specific Mod I was looking for I had to type in the Modders name in the search engine. the download times are horrible and thats putting it mildly and 50% percent of the time I get connection hang up and timed out.It took me four hours last sunday to get an item I needed for a sim Brynne sent me .because of connection hang ups and timed outs
bairy:
Bangelnuts,
As I've said at least twice in this thread, if you edit your options you can opt for the "old style" of mts2.
It may interest you to know that the new design is about a third lighter on the queries, meaning slightly faster page loads. Also, a "bug" was recently squashed which reduced average page rendering time from 5 mins to a few secs.
It is still slow at peak times (weekend) yes, and yes the files server is flat out for the entire weekend meaning many many requests are rejected, but being a free site, MTS2 has to work with the servers it has. Work is being done often that actually speeds things up. Of course the problem is that it allows more users, which slows it back down again.
The servers currently cost $1500 a month. The income is, give or take, $1500 a month. Unless donations or ad clicks go up, nothing more can be bought so I'm afraid there's not a lot can be done about the delays.
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: bairy on 2005 November 05, 23:29:27
Bangelnuts,
As I've said at least twice in this thread, if you edit your options you can opt for the "old style" of mts2.
It may interest you to know that the new design is about a third lighter on the queries, meaning slightly faster page loads. Also, a "bug" was recently squashed which reduced average page rendering time from 5 mins to a few secs.
It is still slow at peak times (weekend) yes, and yes the files server is flat out for the entire weekend meaning many many requests are rejected, but being a free site, MTS2 has to work with the servers it has. Work is being done often that actually speeds things up. Of course the problem is that it allows more users, which slows it back down again.
The servers currently cost $1500 a month. The income is, give or take, $1500 a month. Unless donations or ad clicks go up, nothing more can be bought so I'm afraid there's not a lot can be done about the delays.
I do donate to MTS2 . but aside from that many of us come here to post for help now because its far easier to get help here and the posters here on the Podium are quicker to respond than the help forum at MTS2. I had a game issue I posted for help onMTS2 and never got a reply. came here posted the same issue and got an immediate response
SimsHost:
Quote from: Mendota on 2005 October 12, 05:02:58
Well, I find the new interface to be a bit daunting myself, but I think it is unfair in the extreme to bash Mod2.
1. They were the first real Sims2 site to come on line. They are responsible for paving the way, so to speak for many of the later sites. Many who have their own sites now, started out at MTS They were the real start of the Sims2 community.
...
No, not really. There were hundreds of Sims 2 sites in the Ultimate Sims List before MTS2 came along. (I host the Ultimate Sims List, y'see; I've seen thousands of Sims sites come and go over the years.) I can't think of any feature of MTS2 that was new. MTS2's growth came from effective marketing and being the original host for many modders and hackers, but not from any great innovation.
MTS2 is an impressive achievement and can stand proud among the giants of the Sims community. That should be sufficient laurels for anybody, with no need for false advertising.
The mistake underlying the user complaints was changing the user interface. MTS2 is a very large and complex site. It takes work to learn how to find things. Every time you change things around, people have to go through the same work all over again. With thousands of other sites, people will tend to just go elsewhere rather than invest their time and energy keeping up with your changes.
Greg
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