Status quo of this "community"

Yes.

 

*GRANDPA MODE ON*
This community has always been the same, i'm here since the beginning, nowadays there are way more people inside and like any community problems happens, i had to opportunity to talk to any modder, to any dev and to any active user on the forum and while i reckon people 10 years younger than me begs for updates, asks for new cars and so on, this is a pretty enjoyable community. My mod, Ninetynine excellent work, Bernd beautiful cars, SergentFido ultra realistic mods, also Peter Beamo endless mods (i actually enjoy them a lot) and many more are a proof that the community works, remember that all this work is made by someone for the community, just for the sake of fun, without a good community this will never happen. If you dislike the forums it is a problem of yours to get it better: report who has to be reported, comment only when you know what you are saying, give proper ratings to content (personal secret: 2,3 and 4 stars also works, they are not broken like BMW turn signals) and support who put his time for you, this game without mods and community won't be as fun. Behave correctly yourself and you'll see an improvement on the forum.
*GRANDPA MODE OFF*

 

I have never given out so many agrees in my life.
I personally like the community but it needs some improvement.
I would write more but kinda tired right now.

 

Yeah A lot Of Change Now Since I Arrived Here.

 

this forum is mostly good with a few......'interesting'.....people on here

 

Mate you joined in june 2017?

 

Well i mean the community seems fine since i arrived on June,2017

 

An old fart checking in. Been lurking ever since I made my account all those years ago, and it's been interesting. The divide between salty older members and ultra-hyped new members has gotten bigger and bigger, but that is to be expected when a game gets more popular. I remember the same problem on the Rigs of Rods forum as well. My theory is that many of those younger guys don't get what it takes to create a quality mod, so they bump old mods whose authors have obviously given up, sometimes create threads for their own "mods" with lots of ambition and planned features, while all there is of the "mod" is a low quality model of a car, and give out advice to that they don't know anything about (seriously, a few weeks back someone suggested modders to use turboduck's models, because they're supposedly really good).

Now, I'm not saying that it's solely their fault that the community is in such state- the more mature and/or more experienced members can be right dicks when they get annoyed, which is absolutely understandable, too.

I honestly don't know how to improve the forums, but I really hope somebody figures something out.

 

Every forum that I've been in that doesn't archive old threads, moderates users who bump old threads without reason. This is the only forum I've seen where you can get away with it, and cause community outcry.
So unless they're bumping with a reason related to the topic, why aren't users who post "how i make mod like this?" in a three year old mod's thread not moderated?

The moderation here is great when a guideline is broken, they go ahead and take appropriate actions. But when someone's causing community outrage within forum guidelines, they don't take action and let it go down. I've seen a user I won't name try to create arguments with 3 threads now, the first two are gone but the user is still around.
A friend of mine who was on a several month forum ban vacation, comes in and swears (also directed to that same user), and only gets off with a warning when he was told the next one would be forever.
There is a lot that could be improved here...

 

Why aren't these threads locked in the first place?

 

Why can't we lock our own threads?

 

The answer is in the quote really:

 

What question might they ever have to revive a years old abandoned topic?

Either we do something to actively prevent bumps, or we accept the possibility of meaningful bumps every once in a while and stop worrying about them.

 

I was about to say that there was a forum that had a thing where it told you that the last reply was from awhile ago, and you had to check a box to say you understand, but want to post anyway.

Then I realized that the forum I was thinking about was this one. We've already got something in place to try and prevent meaningless bumps. It just seems that there are people who ignore it

 

That's because the user-determined unofficial rules about bumps are borderline stupid, too strict - 1 month, really? - and more or less just a reason for some self-proclaimed forum police to moan and complain. We can simply leave everything as is and stop making a big fuss about this...

On the other hand, locking very old threads - 2 years or more - is a pretty safe solution. Author can just have it reopened if needed.

 

The only thing that gets on my nerves here is the mod rating culture. Otherwise I do enjoy the community.

 

Honestly, after reading this thread, I find the communtity of beamng pretty much like all other video game community... Maybe some of the people here are used to full-sim racing game forums where only experienced and mature people are because unless they went for this game because they searched for it but it's absolutely not the case of beamng wich, even being one of the most hardcore car simulation game, had a revolutionnary new feature ( in case you've not guessed it, I talk about jbeam ) wich made the game very popular and made it come to young and unexperienced people by internet. This is by the way how I went to this game ( or should I say how the game went to me ) because the idea is indeed very catchy, in 2017, there are still no other game than bng and ror that have such great deformation system. So what it means is that many experienced and unexperienced people came to bng forums and so we had some "cancer" people in the new poeple that were coming to the forums and so, naturally, the experienced people now cannot have any confidence in young people and can be sometimes a bit rude with them (not to say some of them being *ssh*les) as it happens on the forums of games such as minecraft that are way more popular...

 

I don't even pay attention to the ratings anymore.

 

I'm more worried about the fact that If I posted fair reviews (i.e. 3/4 of the mods on the repo would be 2-4 stars) people would start to get pissed off at me and no improvement would be made. 5 star ratings are given out for nothing these days.

 

Make that 4 threads now...