AddOn Makers Section? Options

[D@V£]

Can I ask, what's the point of this, really?

And, more importantly, what's the point of restricting access to a select group of 14 individuals?

Even more importantly than that, can I ask what's the point of restricted this to a group of 14 individuals, of whom only 10 actually frequently post? (as in, more than 30 posts)

And, even more importantly, how come, one of the 4 that do frequently post, 1 has never released an addon for ArmA at all?



So, yeah. Who chooses these Addon Makers? Because, in my experience at least half the members of the forum have toyed with addon making, and I'm sure more than 14 members have actually performed any serious addon creation (from a quick look at the released addons section, I see wipman, bdfy, Frostman, EMSI, MODUL, AtStWalker, Yac and Linker_Split, 8 members who seem obvious choices and have quite clearly overlooked in favour of members, some of whom have never even posted)

What is seriously expected to be achieved by segregating these "AddOn Makers" from the rest of the community? Whenever people have trouble making addons they ask in the WIP section what the problem is, and it's not like all these guys could just post in there. So what's the point?

[bdfy]

So far the idea of a read only access for general members has been greeted with enthusiasm by the members of the addon makers section.

it's not that i care a lot about it,ut imho it's flat nonsense atm
what is it now ? Some kind of very badly organized 'spam' filter - with admin confirmation for every poster ? it's standart to have restricted forums for new members (with less then N posts), but it's standart forum feature (maybe not for this forum engine though). it's standart to have private forum for every mod team - but it's defenatelly not the case. this forum lacks visitors a lot even without such 'features'.

[Deadeye]

it's not that i care a lot about it,ut imho it's flat nonsense atm
what is it now ? Some kind of very badly organized 'spam' filter - with admin confirmation for every poster ? it's standart to have restricted forums for new members (with less then N posts), but it's standart forum feature (maybe not for this forum engine though). it's standart to have private forum for every mod team - but it's defenatelly not the case. this forum lacks visitors a lot even without such 'features'.

It would be very kind if you could tell us in which way this is badly organized?Then we can learn from our mistakes and improve. And nope no admin confomration for every poster...only the addon makers (are also open for format suggestions..that includes the group name) in the group can post whatever they want.

Give it some time..as I said before..Rome wasn't build in one day either

But thanks for the feedback bdfy and D@nte

Also the public "Ask an addon artist" section will be published soon !

[pMASTER]

Also the public "Ask an addon artist" section will be published soon !

The question is what it was needed for. No threads were started or questions asked during the last three weeks. I'll always be happy to pick up new ideas and constructive criticism, but it's somewhat lame if you don't receive any feedback by the community if you're willing to follow her ideas.

[JdB]

The question is what it was needed for. No threads were started or questions asked during the last three weeks. I'll always be happy to pick up new ideas and constructive criticism, but it's somewhat lame if you don't receive any feedback by the community if you're willing to follow her ideas.

It has always been like that. The happy people don't say anything, while only the unhappy (or sometimes idiotic) people complain excessively, leading to the misguided impression that something is not working out at all. I've experienced this both in modmaking and while working on this site. It's pretty much the way the internet (and society for that matter) works. You don't hear opposition politicians mentioning government plans that worked really well either, it's not something they can work with (or need to for that matter).