Here is where I stand:
Or at least where I'm trying to stand, it's nearly impossible to not be on one side or another these days.
I'm not gonna pick either side (if I can avoid it) because goddamn, you are just trying to fling dirt in each others faces down there. I think I'm a pretty tolerant person, I've yet to meet anyone on this site, or on our servers that has annoyed me so much that I need to mute/ignore them (there has been close calls but still not enough).
On the secondary topic of this thread (the "Flame is a douche? vote now" thing) I don't know what to say other than that I can't see where most of the criticism is coming from. I gather it's from him being blunt in his comments?
For starters some of my first encounters with flame was when he thundering down feedback lane on ctf_system (my map). And he had a lot to say about it, most sentences contained the word "suck" or "change map".
This made me more happy than angry tbh (and I'm not just saying that), because for the first time in 3 months someone pointed out the design faults that had been troubling me for ages, and actually had suggestions to fix when I confronted him about it. Sadly the map was done at that point and I didn't feel like updating it. But the feedback was carried on and used in ctf_fusion.
As I see it: Flame is blunt, but I have never seen him being rude. He can offer good feedback and you either take it, ignore it or bitch about it. And I don't know why so many choose option #3.
I think I'm slowly sliding down the mountain into the "yay flame" category? At least until someone can record a live session/me witnessing a situation where flame is a complete dick for no reason.
Blaming one guy for unbalancing a test, in a team based game is ridiculous and I'd say trying to figure out how he manages to be successful on the map is a good lesson in itself.
