icarus_improviser: *snip*
- Posting a link is sometimes messed up. It's been suggested that you have to unicode first before posting it if it has any special characters but when I tried it, it still didn't work. If you have one that becomes garbage, best bet would be to edit your post and change it from a link to a url. (ie remove the http bit)
1) Like all websites, you can get banned for any reason at any time. Does it happen here? Not that I'm aware of. I went around with a very well known Open Source developer who posted a rather disturbing bigoted slur at me on one of the mail lists and then booted me when I called him out on it. A decade later, I;m still waiting for resolution.
2) They lock such threads here. Usually if a thread gets deleted, you'll get at least one person complaining publicly about it and I haven't seen that here.
3) We have a few ladies here. I'm sure a few of them use such language but I was always taught that it;s not proper to do so in front of one of them.
Having said that, there's no method of ignoring a user here on the forums.
4) I consider myself to be a very impartial person as I feel I can see both (or more) sides of an issue. As to the admin, *shrug*. We really don;t get much interaction from them around here.
5) Quoting system is fine. If you can get it done within 10 minutes of one another and no one else posts during that, the software will actually combine your posts into a single one. So you can hit the reply button on each one instead of having to copy and paste to get your response in all one post.
6) Game developers seems to have no input on the forums. I think some folks have suggested that reviews may be a different story.
Hope this helps