Hello, DAD.
I'm writing this here offline, just to keep my head free from online-time = money.
I'm analysing you right now.
You have come to this forum, as it appealed to you.
You agreed to the very Terms of this Forum, as you entered.
You agreed on being a part of this Community, as you entered.
This Community is special, because we have a common sense.
It's like an unwritten law, and I hope you have alredy noticed that.
This unwritten law - or sense - goes as the following :
We are here all equal fans of productions of Larian Studios and sometimes even of the company itself.
There is no-one better or weaker than another one.
Everyone is encouraged to help a fellow gamer here.
Because everyone is equal here, everyone should treat the other one with the same respect and politeness and honesty as one would treat oneself.
This is the unwritten law here, unwritten, but now formed into some words, to clarify what I want to say.
You, DAD, have entered this community, but it seems to me as if you have not sayd "yes" to this unwritten law of equality.
You consider youself as a competent man, and even more : As a Professor. You very often point out that you are a Professor.
To us, profession is NOT important.
The rule "treat the others like you wanna be treated" sounds - as it seems to me - as the following : "I am a Professor, so you should give me the respect I deserve."
There is nothing of equality in this sentence.
We all agree here that no-one is "more right" than the other one, and because of that, even highly heated discussions could stand here, because we all did NOT consider ourselves to be superior or inferior than other fellow gamers HERE AT THIS BOARD.
We could do heated discussions because we took a great respect or one another; meaning in fact that we surely said we would not believe in the other's point of view, but "let him or her go", because this point of view is a PERSONAL POINT OF VIEW.
At least as far as it is "politically correct" in the sense that it doesn't violate human rights.
This Forum here has a special feling, because anyone can enter, no matter what nationality, colour of handicap.
In another Forum, where I'm Moderator in, there is a girl who has only 10-20 % of sight
at all. She has no difficulties reading the Forum there, as long as the font is extra high.
Her postings are FULL or typos, but we don't criticize her, because we kbnow she has heavy problems with sight.
I have critizised [fritizised ? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" /> ] people here when they have had
lots of Typos, but at the point they explain me why they have this, I stop criticizing.
There are also dyslexic people out there. We've had one in the german Forum part. His or her posts were full of typos, but we didn't care because we knew the reason.
As a summary, I don't take care on the way someone posts - regarding grammar and typing.
You, DAD, are very often pointing out that you are a Professor. Well, why not ? But here, profession is not important, and you should NOT expect to get extra respect because of being a wise professor in a field. Here, everyone is considered equal.
You consider youself as a competent man, and even more : As a Professor. You very often point out that you are a Professor.
You very often say things, which seems to have importance. You say things and try to reason them, logically. Well, why not ?
But you very often say these things in a way implying ( reading between the lines ! ) a kind of "rule" "I am a Professor, so my own point of view is more right than yours".
To me this is a kind of arrogance I know from George Orwell's "Animal Farm " : "Some are more equal than others."
You often call Forummembers here "kids", implying they are not competent as you are, because they are not as old as you are, do not have the same life-time experience you have, and are not Professors in a special field.
With that, you are violating the unwritten law that everyone here is equal and to be treated as such.
We here have a god discussing style, because we consider one another not to be "more right than the other". Thus, we can have a high respect for one another - and treat one another with respect - because no-one is considered "false" or "wrong", only "different". Everyone is different, and so are the many points of view.
You are a Professor, and you act as if you still want to get the respect you've had when you were still teaching. Respect given by pupils.
This is no University here, and we are not pupils. Instead, we are all equal gamers here.
You could be a good member here, if you'd take off the hood of being a Professor at the entrance. But you don't so you must take the consequences of acting like a Professor in a non-school.
I still remember that I've had the Best Times of my Life, when I was making my Abitur : Not only we - the pupils - could freely discuss any king of Art, Music, Science, Politics and Philosophy, but also we could do this with our teachers. The greatness of that time was expecially created through the fact that - at one point - we were allowed to treat the teachers almost in a way as if they were pupils - like us. Without that distance and kind of wall between pupils and teachers, we could freely discuss any kind of the above given fields. It was a wonderful time.
Maybe you, DAD, have never had such a time. I would like to see this Forum
here to become such a place of equality, with everyone discussing freely, without any walls around ourselves.
You, DAD, are an exception of this. You don't want to be equal to the others, instead you want to be treted respectfully, as a Teacher would deserve it. So you are different.
You consider yourself "standing on higher ground" (Song by The Alan Parsons project), and you treat us as such. We, used to treat one another just as ordinary fellow gamers, without any hills around us, feel not only embarassed by this behaviour, but also being provoked, even also being attacked. We want no king of the hill.
You are different, as you put yourself into such a definitive position of superiority with flows of arragonce flowing between the lines of what you write. For that you'll have to bear the consequences of a self-crowned king among a community of sheep.
I write this as a last try to explain to you our point of view, and our intentions. Any kind of king who acted not truthfulnessy towards his subjects, will be thrown off his throne. And we
certainly don't want any king !I write this as the last warning of the Sheep.
