That leaves it up to the creator, who naturally thinks his abortion is good. Therefore, your idea solves nothing, as all the people we don't want posting mods seem to think they have "mad 31337 skillz" or something.

I'm saying you should spend at least 2 days on the mod, a week if possible.

Oh, blah blah. I wasn't even remotely afraid of flaming, ever. Even when I started with my gun pack. Why? Because I felt I was putting a decent amount of thought and work into my stuff. Sure, I got criticism, but it was perfectly constructive.

Honestly, I figure if somebody is getting flamed, they deserve it. Especially since, within the flaming, somebody, if not several people, will actually state exactly what is wrong with the mod. At that point, the modder has two choices: A, heed the advice and do better later, or B, stop modding. If they go with B, so be it. We didn't need them.

So, basically, the rule, I think, is this: put real work and thought into it. Find a theme or something. And if people really are so damn afraid of flaming - which I don't buy - then they need to grow a pair.

I agree, though, that you'd think there'd have been an explosion of ACrab actors by now...

In every experience I've had on a forum, flamers have a reason to flame. If they don't, they get banned ridiculously fast. Even if they do, they usually get banned, but apparently the moderation staff was/is rather lenient on some people.

This may have to do with the "IRC/Forum" war I've heard about, but I really don't know.

The subject of this thread is interesting to me, is there any way you (the community) think I can help?

I'm going nazi on the forums right now. Banned 4 people for flaming, and climbing.

..I didn't ban them for climbing, I meant that the number of bans were climbing.

I want to see someone get banned for climbong on the Internet.
Mostly just to see what the hell would be called "climbing."

Im my experience, corps don't make people any better or any more productive. So... don't be expecting any sort of modding epiphany.

Hey hey, its a valid sport.

Yeah, out-of-context, I know...