Being moderated recently for violating the "don't be a d*ck" rule has caused me to want to make a more positive contribution to the forum...
There's 2 scenarios, the veteran member gets jaded and cranky and lashes out at either:
A). a new member who is frustrated with the surprisingly difficult task of (insert surprisingly difficult task here), possibly quite young, and/or totally new to the experience of posting on interwebz forums.
B). another veteran member who may or may not be jaded and cranky also.
It plays out over and over but I think as the vets get a little older the bad scenes like when I got myself moderated couple weeks back fall off more and more. But there will always be moments in life where you witness someone being kinda viscous or aggressive and you just have to say: that is either a deliberate act for show and effect, or they are just not themselves at the present moment in time.
Sometimes a crazy stunt to teach the unwary a lesson, like say the "fire drill", is totally called for--or in training for military service, maybe. But let's not like, shoot the little girl who's running away from the truck just because she's running away.
Anyway I think it's entirely possible this thread was just meant to be a reply to another thread. Maybe the HQModels for STEAM thread it was right next to, which happened to be pretty broken at the moment the OP wrote in. I thought it was basically a request that mods be packed carefully and tested before they are unleashed on the unsuspecting public. That seems like a pretty reasonable expectation, to be honest.
