You especially shouldn't treat anyone that way and then single one person out of the several who left you middle finger emojis and try to paint them personally as attacking you.

Please report any other user who used a middle finger emoji or any other obscene symbols, they will also be warned.

don't give your customers the middle finger.

It's in Unicode unfortunately.

With the child like behavior aside, I would look into the context that was said while also addressing the behaviors. The people on this forum are not the only ones who were irked by that last minute change. The change was fine. Finalizing the decision and rolling it out with a short notice only seemingly punished on the forum is an issue. You guys do great work and this is only one little hiccup, but I still wouldn't shrug it off. It's our game... but it's also your business.

@tdxtor I don't really understand what you are trying to prove here, but my point still stands - if you want to discuss, then discuss, but without middle fingers. Trying to turn this around on others doesn't help at all. Everyone who uses offensive language and symbols will be warned and banned, regardless the reasons why they did that.

I'm closing this thread. Please don't create new ones for the same purpose.

https://screeps.com/forum/topic/1925/future-of-screeps-what-do-the-devs-envision/
https://screeps.com/forum/topic/3099/game-cpu-generatepixel-change/

Even a quick search of the forums reveals literal hundreds of results of @artch getting heated at customers, usually explicitly ego related:

"So now you're comparing competency of project developers who worked on it for 5 years, and a person who started playing it a month ago."
"Really, did I say that somewhere?"
"Oh come on, you can't be serious."
"I didn't want to start this argument here, but you're so wrong."

And here's a little nugget of advice past you has left for present day you @artch
"You might probably have noticed already that 95% of fights and friction on this forum have happened with your participation. Don't you think it may indicate that something is wrong with your way of expressing your ideas rather than our way of listening to them? ... And if someone disagrees with you, he is simply mistaken and incompetent?"

That being said, the main reason why I have not said anything is because I love this game so much and I'm VERY grateful for the game development team and @artch for having created it. I can appreciate the ungodly amount of work that must have been put on it and can see why someone would get annoyed when confronted. So as much as I can see things in the game and on the moderation that could be improved but I really don't want the development team to get burned out with petty details.

So yeah, my take on it is thanks Screeps Development team.

It's hard to feel grateful for interaction from the devs when all we seem to get is abusive language and churlishness. If we want the community to grow, we need the forums here to feel more like the subreddit: a place where people are welcome to talk without being abused just because the devs are overworked. Community moderation I think would be a good thing, and what we have now I feel like is worse than nothing.

Please stop.

I am confused why if screeps has a community manager and @artch isn't that person why @artch hasn't been dealt with by the community manager yet. At this point, this thread has evolved into just a discussion about what can be done to improve the player experience in screeps by taking advantage of the dedicated community it has built.

moderators sometimes take comments about the game a bit too much like personal attacks instead of healthy discussion about what is best for the game

It's funny to read this in a thread full of personal attacks by someone who got offended by a warning for using obscene symbols.

10 days.

UPD: I've checked this message edits history () and decided we don't want such people on our forum at all. Permaban.

I love healthy discussions about the game of any sort. I follow such discussions very carefully, and not only on forum, but also on Slack (earlier IRC), Steam reviews, Reddit, etc. Actually, Screeps is what it is due to these discussions. 70% of the game is influenced by the interaction with the community starting from the very first crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, and only 30% were my own ideas. So it's really unfair to say that I don't take healthy discussions.

Sometimes, however, I just may seem not super polite, but it's only because I lack some polite English phrases vocabulary that are often used in official speech. I speak plainly. Not because I'm angry or irritated, but simply because I don't have language skills to look like a diplomat, or a politician, or a big company official person. I'm just a dev guy who talks to other dev guys, and hope you all understand