Melkor

I also might not be quite so suspicious of your posts' content if you weren't a member of staff at the IE forum whose staff have deleted and edited more posts, locked more threads, etc than any other IE community, past or present.

Maybe you yourself don't act in the same way as most of your fellows.  If that's the case, and if you really feel so strongly about the subject of moderators abusing their power, perhaps your time would be better spent calling for reform at your own forum rather than elsewhere.

Usually I stay out of modding/forum politics. Been there done that back in the great days of TeamBG. But since you seem to have an issue on how my forum operates, I suppose I'll have to say something on it. I would have to say you are quite the exaggerator. We're not in the habit of editing someone's post as Gabrielle has pointed out. Deleted posts hmm no on that. If there are any flame posts they are kept out in the open for a period of time, than they are put away as proof. And like any other forum out there, old posts, threads and topics are removed for space/storage reasons.

Posts are usually locked because they went off topic, spam, flammatory, old irrelevent posts, etc.

As I can see from the majority of the postings in this thread, some reform has to happen here.

Now if you supposedly had a problem on how my board operates, I haven't seen you there complaing or offering suggestions on improvement.

Let my quote your esteem leader in case you do not agree with my forums policy.

...keep in mind that nothing forces you to post here - or anywhere else.

In any case, this will be a last, reasonable attempt to look forward to seeing an entirely reasonable statement put forward by an entirely reasonable staff condemning such unreasonable actions. Assuming that such a statement is not forthcoming, I can just assume that there IS something to Lose by making such a statement, that the Staff has difficulties and interests that we mortals are unaware of, and so are unable to commit as a whole to such a statement.

It'd be easy to make such a statement, however I seriously doubt that there's a need to make a flat-out policy on dealing with this type of situation for several reasons:

1) In all the time I've been staff at FW(S)/SHS, this is the only such case I can recall. If it's not unique, it's certainly rare enough not to require a hard and fast position.

2) What constitutes resonable provocation for deleting posts will be subjective to each and every situation. As in this one. The posts and resulting actions were highly spiced by past interactions between the two individuals. As such, we'd like to be able to season any such situations with common sense.

Hopefully that's acceptable. If not, well you can't please everybody all the time.

Well said.

And Ghreyfain, on this one I agree with you. Unregistered posts of this sort are cowardly.

That is true just like cowards registering under a different name.

Project Auril for IWD was my first mod. It was fun and challenging. The only thing I really knew how to do before that was just make items. During the making of PA I learned dialogues, scripts and everything else about modding. PA has now been combined with the other IWD mod at that time Winter's Bane to create Aurils Bane.

Yes why are you wasting your time on this when we have the majority of the things redone, fixed and corrected? Wait until the end of this month hopefully and I'll have it released.