The Basis of it All
Many of the disputes that are caused on Volition and Parallax servers are simple matters brought to the extreme. Most people start off losing a match in Squad War, they are obviously angered by this because much of the time the matches are very intense and can cause stress when losing. A natural reaction is to be angered with defeat and try and do whatever is possible to perhaps change the result to the better. A lot of squads will accuse the other side of cheating and whatnot over PXO chat servers, directly to the Squad War administrators, and/or to the Volition Bulletin Board. Volition kindly allows people many methods of communication and entertainment, but people abuse their privileges. Oh, and if you think they can't revoke those privileges because you bought the product, you are wrong, they do those things as a free service.

The most troublesome of the three methods of communication is the Volition Bulletin Board as it gets a large group of people involved and is permanently on the Internet from that point on. I'm not saying that the bulletin boards should be closed, I'm definitely not saying that. I'm saying that the people who do the complaining really need to ask themselves the question: "Is it really worth it?" If I were to answer the question for you right now, the answer 99.99% of the time would be "No." Now I am asking you to please cut them some slack, it's just a game. These attitudes and moods are quite disrespectful to Volition, and in specific, it's bulletin board administrators.

Nathan Camarillo
This brings me to my next point, Volition's administrators. A lot of people do not realize how much time and effort that administrators put in to their ventures. They are not the average people from an average company. They go above and beyond their job description and actually make things for them to be proud of. Nathan Camarillo is one of the best webmasters I have ever seen. He manages the Squad War system, many web sites for the company's games, the PXO systems, and the Volition Bulletin Board system. He doesn't do all of the things he does because they are part of the job, hell, much of it isn't. He logs in and administrates even if he is off duty or on the weekend. When he was on vacation, the bulletin boards couldn't even stay within sane limits two weeks without him. The situation got so out of control that he even had to log in and administrate the forums while he was on vacation. This is not fair to him, or to the rest of the community. Those of you who ruin it for the rest of us, be ashamed of yourselves and think about your actions the next time you're about to start a topic.

In Conclusion
The situation with our community is at a stable point right now, let's keep it that way. We have built it to become strong along with all of you and the company who does it all. The point of this all is, act the way you do in real life when you are actually with people. Dispose of that little security barrier you have just because the people are most of the time nowhere near you when you are talking with them online. Think about this the next time you are hard at work on projects for sometimes over two years and a minority of people wants to destroy it for nothing. Try hard at the coming FS Frenzy to not destroy what we have as a community.

Comments? Email them to Orange (orange@volitionwatch.com)

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