C3PX said:Bingowings said:If you aren't on here to help in anyway why are you here?
If you aren't prepared to back up you claims with hard evidence or your membership on this forum with some useful advice or projects of your own it's perfectly reasonable for us to surmise that you a useless fraudster and should be defenestrated from Castle OT.COM ASAP.
Perhaps we should be cautious of how high in the air we hold our noses, I have heard of good people drowning from this when a big rain comes along.
I don't think anyone needs to defend their membership here. These boards are open to anyone with a computer and an internet connection. This isn't an exclusive club where you have to make some amazing SW fan edit, or have made suggestions to an editor of one in order to be welcome. If so, then I suppose myself and several other regular members here are not welcomed either.
Mr. Ghostface is quite welcome here, and has absolutely no need to fear being defenestrated from OT.com so long as he doesn't go along breaking any of the forum rules, and so far, he has not, nor has he given us any reason to suspect he might do so in the future.
I agree with that accessment of OT.COM as a whole (it was originally a campaign site for getting the unaltered OT presented on DVD but has expanded since to include other projects and general discussion).
However this section is clearly labelled Fan Edits, Preservation Efforts, and Other Fan Projects which implies a bit more than signing up, dropping as yet unsubstantiated claims, uncharitable and incendiary comments and not contributing anything in the way of advice, suggestions or effort.
There are places within and without these forums where general comments can be made, the section heading however underlines the doing side of things. If you look around the majority of people on here are either producing something or helping someone else produce or find something (even if it's just by giving positive support or providing constructive criticism) and that includes yourself C3PX.
Mr Ghostface has (so far) made negative comments about another site, underplayed the effort involved in the creation of and misunderstood the aims of ANH:R, claimed to be able to produce similar results without substantial effort (without proof) and provided little if anything (as yet) of positive worth.
Moderators step in when the rules are broken but when the spirit of a forum is tarnished in this way it's understandable that the reaction will be negative, not because a postee doesn't like every aspect of a particular project because what is being presented in terms of comment is not germane to the purpose of place on which it is posted.
Now if he were to back up what he said with suggestions or illustrations of how it could be done, or proof that effort could be saved by doing something in a different way, that would be helpful, very welcome and in keeping with the function of these particular forums.