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| opt2not:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on December 27, 2016, 07:40:59 pm ---Thread crapping on someones projects posted in Project Announcement is not keeping with the spirit of this site and a dick move. I happen to think posting a cabinet for public ridicule is also a bad move, but as long as it's not in someones project announcement thread, it seems to be allowed. --- End quote --- What if that "project thread" is just a post of the finished result without an actual build log? I mean, there are a few recent ones that popped up that deserve to get ripped into. I mean, they're not actually project threads and more like project show-n-tell. You can always tell the these type of abominations are the ones people build without taking any advice and just post the results as if their crap is gold and we should "S their D's" (as Mal eloquently put it :lol ). |
| Howard_Casto:
I look at it this way. Smoking in the US is at an all time low. Why? Because of shame. Via marketing and social engineering we are slowly but surely eliminating the cancerous threat that is smoking just by making people feel embarrassed about their bad habit. Shaming people might be bad, but if you are doing it for the right reasons it's ok. If you make fun of a bad cab, others will realize not to do it, and thus they build a better cab and have more fun with it. It's also fun for me to make fun of hilariously bad designs, so it's a win-win. |
| pbj:
Eh, that's questionable. It really started dropping off after the surgeon general report, and it was never as socially acceptable afterwards as we remember it being. Now everyone lives 5 years longer and dies of Alzheimer's. :dunno |
| leapinlew:
--- Quote from: opt2not on December 27, 2016, 08:29:49 pm ---What if that "project thread" is ... --- End quote --- What if the builder has an extremely limited budget? What if the builder is mentally challenged? What if the build is as good as it's going to get for some reason we don't even know? Odds are slim all the details are available before someone goes off on a shaming rampage and ends up looking like an ass. What would happen eventually is a few loudmouth trolls would run all the newbies out and only correctly built cabs threads would exist. How boring would it be here then? If someone wants to name their cabinet with a "Cade" name, theme it after a console game, or whatever else - it's their project. If they post it in Project Announcements then we, as the Arcade Controls community, should be respectful of their decisions. If someone asks for their advice during the planning phase - cool, provide advice, but I've seen guys get pounced after it's built. Lame. I don't trust people will know when they are crossing a line, and who are we to crap a project announcement with our opinions of what we think is right. What's wrong with the "if you ain't got nothing nice to say, then don't say it" rule? And educating people via shaming is a good option.... for things like smoking, or vaccinating your kids but it's a bit of a stretch to think that technique is required for someone who wants to angle their p3 and p4 joysticks. I don't think any lives are on the line when Joe Blow builds a angled joystick "GAME-CADE" for his basement. |
| Howard_Casto:
You are obviously in the wrong forum then. We take our stupid pointless hobby quite seriously thankyouverymuch. |
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