About the situation on the EB forums as of late

[Krusader]

I have been away for a while and reading this rings a chord or two with me. Definately needed to be said. I like rome and am annoyed that it has been difficult to post anything about the topic.

However this quote:

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Originally Posted by abou
We don't have to agree to anything. You people seem to assume that you have some part in how the EB Team decides to run its fora. You don't, and it is as simple as that.
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comes across as decidedly cold. It almost has the effect of turning me away from the forum in the same way that Foot (or was it MAA or someone else) mentioned about the battle mech thingy. If abou is a EB modder or someone in the forum admin or something I would like to (respectfully) remind you that the forums and EB itself is made popular by the people who use and follow it. Those people have no right to crap throughout the forum and degrade the enjoyment people get. But, to just brush everyone off is rude and uncalled for and promotes exactly the opposite of what I assume this forum stands for and what this entire thread was made for.

If that is the view of the EB staff to its fans and supporters then I am more than happy to leave and never look back, as much as it would disappoint me.

With all due respect.
We have had these forums up for five years soon. We have had many, let's call it "troublemakers" up through the years. What you see is now is simply the EB team utterly fed up, after countless incidents and warnings. Most EB members don't even bother coming on to the public forums, because of all this crap that has happened up through the years. Hence why someone might come off as cold.
And also see that he was replying to someone who had taken part in turning the forums into a spam cesspit and now wanted us to agree to some terms so they should stop spamming...the entire EB team got, mildly put, pissed off as hell. These are OUR forums (within the ORG), not ours and Romaioktonoi's forums. They caused trouble and now we should agree to some terms so they will leave our forums free of spam?

And to clarify: We have nothing against Romaioktonoi and the intent behind the group. An anti-Roman group presence wouldn't bothered us if it was kept with reasonable limits...that is debating on why Rome is so bad, posting screenshots of Romans being routed, AARs of Pyrrhus turning Rome into a catapult testing range or coming with rebuttals/arguments to debates like "Roman legions crushed Macedonians because Maks were pussies!" . That we wouldn't have anything against (as long as they wouldn't have devolved into mudslinging and insults, per forum rules). But we had to take action because of the thread derailing, insults, silly oneliners and thread hijacks...and as posts in both EB fora have shown it was an action that non-Romaioktonoi EB fans welcomed.

And a last point to make it crystal clear. The warnings I posted are not by me as a person, but on behalf of the EB team.