What the!!!! Do kindly point out how I brought down the new guy, for I fail to see where i did this.
As I stated in PM's already, I don't think your post in itself is wrong or problematic. I originally didn't even pay attention to it. But in combination with Shivers post in the other thread, I think you guys give a negative first impression. I'd like to give a nice, or at least neutral, first impression so that people who start off by trying to contribute something (even if it doesn't help most of us) aren't put off and go somewhere else instead. To make this clear, this is my personal opinion. I'm not handing out warnings or waving a moderator stick around.
Excuse me if I take this a little personally but if you're going to public admonish me for a comment that you can only tentatively interpret as negative, then I need to back myself up here.
No need for excuses. You have every right to disagree with me and bring your own opinion forth. I don't really put much stock in the karma system, so I didn't expect you to take it very seriously. View it as something on level with Shiver giving Megagun negative karma. Perhaps it would have been better to just annigilate Shiver. Still, you're free to do the same. Something along the lines of "-1 karma to Lukipela for being a pompous ass" might not be totally amiss.
As an aside, the next time I can give Shiver karma he's getting some. In part because his resposne in both threads and PM's has been very reasonable (kudos for that) and in part because his karma is now a bit low for a member who actively contributes.
Anyways, back to learnng about how to not blow things up.
EDIT: Also, I appear to have screwed up a bit. For some reason I've confused Cedric and Draxas over in the Bio thread. I thought Cedric continued arguing about why the list is useless, which was in part why I deducted karma. Seeing as he actually didn't, half of my reason for deducting it vanishes. I apologize for that Cedric. I guess you can add illiterate to pompous eh?
