this feels less like protecting his work and more like an ego trip, using the threat of withholding unverified "research" to control what I'm allowed to say publicly.
i feel bad for you, you want to be worshipped so badly, you make threats to control people, you showed your hands with the message you sent, trying to control me and make sure I don't have the will to express my opinion. i hope there is a point in the future where you reflect upon this and grow. i don't think that's anytime soon with this egotistical behavior.
Any individual who believes they can criticize someone based on how they distribute their own personal work, simply because you fantasize it and then continue to degrade their image because of your childishness, i wont assist.
i've explained some stuff, not to people like this.
ingo is threatening to permanently withhold "work" that has never even been shown to exist unless I stop publicly expressing opinions he dislikes. that isn't accountability
it's an attempt to use hypothetical community progress as leverage to silence criticism.
@Ingustious @vortexfrc @Project164_pdb i'll take criticism from someone who didn't threat to hurt the community, like yesterday. especially when I initially offered to literally work together and post our works to help the community.
you're a walking ad hominem
i feel bad for you, you want to be worshipped so badly, you make threats to control people, you showed your hands with the message you sent, trying to control me and make sure I don't have the will to express my opinion. i hope there is a point in the future where you reflect upon this and grow. i don't think that's anytime soon with this egotistical behavior.
i think we're mixing two different things.
yes, your post was an example that brought the topic up. i have never denied that.
the distinction i'm making is that using a situation as an example of a broader issue is not the same as accusing the person involved of having bad intentions or being a problem for the community.
i've already acknowledged that my wording could have been clearer, and that's the part I take responsibility for.
you were not mentioned or identified in my post, and i did not directly accuse you of anything.
your post helped bring the topic to mind, but the statement itself was about a broader pattern in modding communities. i understand why you connected it to yourself given the timing, and i've already acknowledged that my wording was too definitive about intent.
that does not mean the post was a direct personal attack on you or that i portrayed you as some kind of malicious gatekeeper.
you were an example of information remaining private, yes. you were not meant to be an example of someone maliciously trying to stop the community from progressing.
that's the distinction i've been trying to make. my original wording blurred those two things together, and i've already acknowledged that it was too definitive about intent.
my actual point remains that when useful knowledge stays limited to a small group, it can slow broader community progress, even if that isn't the intention of the person keeping it private.
i understand the point you're making, but i don't think those are the same thing.
a specific example can bring attention to a broader issue without the person involved being the target of a personal accusation.
i agree that my wording sounded more certain about your intentions than it should have, which is why i clarified it. that isn't me switching intentions; it's explaining the distinction i should have made more clearly and acknowledging why the wording bothered you.
i understand why that specific wording bothered you. looking back, saying "there is no doubt" was too definitive because it implies certainty about someone's intentions, which wasn't something i could know.
the point i was trying to make was that when useful information stays inaccessible, it can have the effect of slowing community progress. that was a criticism of the situation and the broader culture, not an assertion that you personally wanted to prevent people from progressing.
i should have worded that distinction better.
i agree that your post was the example that brought the topic up. i'm not denying that.
the distinction i'm making is that criticizing the accessibility of information around a discovery is not the same as saying the person who made the discovery is intentionally harming the community.
my concern was with the broader pattern, not with labeling you as a problem or saying you shouldn't have ownership over your work.
i can confirm your post was part of what brought the topic up, because it was a recent example of the broader issue i was talking about.
what i don't agree with is the idea that this means i was accusing you personally of intentionally holding the community back. my criticism was about the accessibility of information and how discoveries are shared within the community.
those are two different things, and that's the distinction i've been trying to explain.