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Secondly the administration team ( Deep, Netham and me ( Eeems ) ) have decided that while the voting system is nice, downvoting has caused too much controversy in the past due to people not understanding how it is suppose to be used. Because of this we have decided to remove the downvote option. Now you can only upvote posts.

I personally think this is the wrong way to go. Members cannot be "slapped on the wrist" anymore for saying something they probably shouldn't have, and in the mind of the poster, there is less reprisal for saying potentially insulting or disrespectful posts. It's not going to ease hard feeling, but more increase them as now, a major part of the control factor on those kinds of posts is now gone. Also, all a regular member can do now is report a post or respond to it. With the downvote, a member could just rate down, feel better and then walk away. Now, they'd have to report the post or respond to (and feed) the troll which would potentially leave dissatisfaction, and thus, more drama. Ultimately, the downvote system was an important control on disrespectful and trolling posts and now that it's removed, the only true formal punishment that can be given is either a ban or suspension. And only a moderator or admin can do that, and the regular member can only point out the posts, but can't do anything directly to them. It's only going to increase drama and unresolved issues. That, I already foresee.
 
I also want to bring up the fact that, while you guys are the managers of the website, this came entirely out of the blue and was made without any sort of discussion on it by the community as a whole. (Or at least none that I have seen) I think that for major site changes like this one, the community should be notified and allowed to offer their own opinions and suggestions, because what if it's something the managers think is a good idea, but the community by and large is against? Also, you are also cutting out a lot of other valid outside opinions on the matter. Basically, I think there should have been a news poll thread suggesting the idea before it was agreed upon and implemented.

actually removing the down vote has been on the todo list for a long while. it just was never done for a multitude of reason.

secondly this is not out of the blue. if you had not noticed people have gotten demoted in the past few days as well as some other site drama. were just doing what we deem the best course of action for the site as a whole. if you really want to dispute it take it up on the site feed back subforum we will gladly listen thats why we have that subforum. we don't want to anger anyone we are just trying to make the site better as a whole for old and new members alike.

as for z80man and michael lee i believe we are giving them one more month to come back before removing them from there positions

Quote from: Geekboy1011 on March 03, 2012, 05:03:17 pm

i did laugh >.> <.<

It would probably need to be more circular than elliptic, actually

if i had photochop installed i would have dont it right but all i got atm is pdn

hey did you guys know we have a ts server on withg.us.to which a few of us. (mostly the admins....) idle on anyone is welcome on it

uhm made a few major fails in teh last one ... use the new attaached zip...only changes are in the source and binary files everything else is the same >.> <.<

so ninja managers dont count ;.; or was i moved after i cant remember?

and past that cause stuff needs doing.

hows pindurti working. and any questoins on calcnet?

Btw since L3 is used for intterupts, this means that in CALCnet games written in Axe cannot be in grayscale, right? (Since grayscale uses all of L3) Or can we simply not make our game full screen and just use the rest of L3 for grayscale?

actually you can still do greyscale as you can define arbitrary buffers with axe ^^

Oo i did not notice this thread. Would be cool to use

then help me test it!

Quote from: Xeda112358 on February 11, 2012, 08:34:24 am

Hmm, so why didn't he just put it all in one place? Is it so that it can work around DCS?

Only 547 bytes in "L1" is actually for CALCnet.  The other 100-odd you only have to worry about if you're also using the Doors CS GUI API with CALCnet. Believe it or not, I actually use my brain when I design things.

Edit: Oh yes, and the L3 stuff for interrupts, of course, but that's nothing extraordinary.

good to know that and i will make a note of that in the readme  and i labeled that right in the readme @547bytes