Foreward: I'm not accusing OTLand users or staff of starting anything, nor am I accusing OTFans users or staff of doing the same. I am well aware that this bickering started over something insignificant, followed by over-the-top retaliations; and escalated to an unreasonable level and has encompassed an entire community of bystanders who know little if anything of the truth.
I want the bickering between OTFans and OTLand to stop, completely. It's died down, but it is still a point of contention on both communities. It's a petty dispute between the owners of the respective sites that has probably long ended, but the community; knowing nothing; has felt the need to continue long past the right time.
I am well aware that OTFans and OTLand will always be "competing" on some level to become the better, or more popular, or whatever, site for Open-Tibia. I don't care who wins the competition, it has no bearing on me. I can put out content on either site with no issue.
However, the fighting is the issue. Two parties can be in sportsman-like competition with eachother, or they can bicker amongst eachother and try to make the one site look inferior to the other in an attempt to garter new users. The latter approach is cheap, but commonly used and found to be effective in politics. But, I dislike it and would like it to stop.
I just want things to be sane again. The fighting's gone on far too long, and although I know both sides might think that the other is somehow "unforgivable", know that the other side was either doing what it thought was correct or what it felt it had to do to preserve itself - neither side acted completely on malice, however it may seem.
So, just stop the fighting. It's pointless, and every moment that I personally spend reading and commenting on some post attacking one of the sites is a moment that I could be spending either putting information out to the community or developing the community's major product. The community around OTServ, no matter on which forum it may dwell, is the same community - developers, moochers, noobs, and those who can barely understand english are all here attempting to do whatever it is here to do; whether it is on OTFans or on OTLand. The aforementioned parties are present and deeply routed in both forums, and the only difference between the members of the two forums is which forum they decided that they were most comfortable residing at. Hell, plenty of users use them both.
Disclaimer: I also posted this at OTFans. This is not an attack on OTLand, as stated in the first paragraph.
I want the bickering between OTFans and OTLand to stop, completely. It's died down, but it is still a point of contention on both communities. It's a petty dispute between the owners of the respective sites that has probably long ended, but the community; knowing nothing; has felt the need to continue long past the right time.
I am well aware that OTFans and OTLand will always be "competing" on some level to become the better, or more popular, or whatever, site for Open-Tibia. I don't care who wins the competition, it has no bearing on me. I can put out content on either site with no issue.
However, the fighting is the issue. Two parties can be in sportsman-like competition with eachother, or they can bicker amongst eachother and try to make the one site look inferior to the other in an attempt to garter new users. The latter approach is cheap, but commonly used and found to be effective in politics. But, I dislike it and would like it to stop.
I just want things to be sane again. The fighting's gone on far too long, and although I know both sides might think that the other is somehow "unforgivable", know that the other side was either doing what it thought was correct or what it felt it had to do to preserve itself - neither side acted completely on malice, however it may seem.
So, just stop the fighting. It's pointless, and every moment that I personally spend reading and commenting on some post attacking one of the sites is a moment that I could be spending either putting information out to the community or developing the community's major product. The community around OTServ, no matter on which forum it may dwell, is the same community - developers, moochers, noobs, and those who can barely understand english are all here attempting to do whatever it is here to do; whether it is on OTFans or on OTLand. The aforementioned parties are present and deeply routed in both forums, and the only difference between the members of the two forums is which forum they decided that they were most comfortable residing at. Hell, plenty of users use them both.
Disclaimer: I also posted this at OTFans. This is not an attack on OTLand, as stated in the first paragraph.
