[0104] Terrain Competition Voting

[lordmillt]

no luna u wont win dis fight!!!! just ff already

[Neco]

Looks like the poll is now extremely close... who will win?!

[Sytec270]

Dident the poll end a day ago ?

[Haunt]

Neco did make never ending poll, so I guess this will run for ever...

[Neco]

By my timing it should've ended today a few hours ago, but now it's pretty close...

[Sytec270]

So magic won congrats

[Lynx]

By 1 vote tho..

A re-vote is more than justified.

[wastedlandering]

Boy, if only we didn't delete all those posts saying why we should rehost this poll.

I was drunk and made a facetious post about how we should have a posts deleted count. I am now drunk and am reinforcing that suggestion, because wow, I sure don't feel like retyping any of my completely valid points for why we should be rehosting this poll. Also, all of Beek's posts (although they were fairly agressive, and I don't agree with all this reasoning) are deleted, basically saying the same thing.

It's not like we should have a democratic process for deciding something that will be a part of the game forever (essentially). /sarcasm off

[Burn]

The best forum moderators are the ones who are unseen, working behind the scenes. Just because there is a bit of flame or if it is not to your liking, doesn't mean you should just flat out delete it.

-Burn

[Neco]

The posts were deleted because they contributed nothing to this topic. It's my decision whether the poll needs to be rehosted or not, end of story.

[wastedlandering]

On a fundamental basis, I totally disagree with you, and I do believe they contributed to the topic, which is the process of choosing new map terrain.

I won't post on this again. Either people know where I'm coming from at this point, or they don't, and posting more won't change that. But I am so 450 percent against deleting anyone's post. Yes, it is your decision wether to rehost the post or not. I don't think it should be ANYONES decision on what opinions people should be allowed to contribute. If you delete things you disagree with, under the premise of [flaming, trolling, off-topic, not contributive, etc etc etc] you are dictating what you do want to hear and what you do not want other people to hear. Look, I know some ridiculous things get posted here, but deleting peoples opinions does not make them go away, it just takes them away from third parties being able to see them. That is corrupt on the most basic of levels, and is honestly the biggest problem I have with EN in general.

Edit: typo

[Sytec270]

By 1 vote tho..

A re-vote is more than justified.

I know that neco dosent want to make another poll that is a week long.

[Neco]

@wastedlandering the spread of misinformation is a very serious and real issue, one that certain key community members abuse in order to get there way. It's not constructive, it's not helpful, and it has no place here.

Removing such posts brought the focus of the thread back to what it was intended to be, I see nothing wrong with that.

[wastedlandering]

I seriously distrust having anyone (you, ENT, or a Mother Teresa) deciding what is misinformation, and stopping it's "spread", is.

Edit: Disclaimer: 95% of the time, I do agree with Neco on his decisions. I just have a very strong moral disagreement here.

[ShadowZz]

It's more the fact that this is supposed to be fun and enjoyable and people commenting on how they like this terrain because etc... But when people don't win they decide to turn the topic into a shit fest and it just shits all over everyone who contributed. Like-wise there's no point in revoting, 35-40 people have voted and Luna and magic_hero have both been spreading the link to this everywhere. You can pretty much assume that basically all the votes on other terrains are just peoples 2nd votes. Like-wise some people have voted for both luna's and magic's terrain because they don't care lol. A re-vote would just take more time and less people would be interested.

I suppose what I'm trying to say is that this topic needs to stay fun and just get a winner already rather than turning it into some huge problem that needs weeks of voting and re-voting like it's some tournament.