Lurker Lounge now a hack site

[CelticHound]

Sorry CelticHound, this isn't aimed at you, just the thread in general.

Considering that - the way I read your post - you pretty much agree with me, I take that as license to jump on my own bandwagon! :D

And if there are areas where you disagree with me, then I'd like to understand them.

I'm not that interested in discussing dii.net. There is stuff there - including the item generation tutorial and some of the guides - that I've found useful. Also, my impression is that Ruvanal was posting there before starting to post on the LL as well. Enough said. :)

But the Lounge! Now that is a fertile topic for discussion!

All I do is maintain this website.

But the choices you make have ramifications. Even if the effects were subtle, the choices you've make have shaped what the LL has become. Yes, it's been formed by contributions by scads of other people - from Jarulf's hints about new cube recipes to Sirian's debates to Occhi's ribald poetry. I won't discount that. But why here? Why not on another forum or on a.g.d?

How can you say the dii.net admins have the right to run their site as they please, yet, "it doesn't give me the right to just boot off someone I disagree with" on the LL? I'll assert that you could, indeed, choose to boot people who disagree with you. In fact, if the disagreement is over cheating, you do claim that right.

You know you took some grief over the "whole new game" thing, yet I don't recall you nuking your critics. Same thing goes for the "Ten Things I Like About You" rant. I've posted that I disagreed, and I don't think you nuked those posts.

Choices, choices.

I think I'll accuse you of being consistent. What you wrote in LoungeRant #3 seems to apply here.

(Note to Jarulf - more fence-straddling by me)
Jarulf, like I said earlier in this thread, in my opinion, if you need to blow off some steam, then it's fair to give you some space to do so. On the other hand, if you object to the policies at dii.net, then perhaps you should take the admins up on their suggestion to go someplace else. You know you're welcome here and several other forums. And if that's not enough to occupy your time, then I'll suggest you either start writing a guide to D2 or that you join Occhi, Hawk, Zed & I for our regular games... :D

(Besides, Jarulf, you have to be here. CNN linked to your guide on the LL. ;) )

-- CH

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