Then you didn't read my post properly Remo.

Yes this is a sticky one whether to give Tag Points, because no-one can see each others profiles now anyway, but then again if Tag Points are given then it can be reflected on their forum tag? I have seen Custom ones etc, they could read "Best Spy PW72" (which could mean 3 forum TPs?) till the end of the next round... when someone else is Voted it...?

lol fine, great feedback btw

yes I admit things are moving towards the positive, I just think reading through a thread a week after the heat has died down may benefit all

There is no rule against it.  It is a configuration option, much like being able to use bbcode img tags to display images in posts, which I wanted to enable but hesitated because I feared that people would not be responsible enough to use them.

I will edit posts if I deem them to be an abuse of a forum feature that is meant to be useful, not distracting.  I did not edit the content of your post, only the formatting of it.

You know what though, you are right in that there are no rules on bbcode usage.  Because this apparently is a problem, I've gone ahead and disabled bbcode entirely for everybody.  Once we get rules in place I will re-enable it.  When people ask where bbcode went I will let them know that apparently some players need things spelled out for them in order to understand why they shouldn't italicize everything they write or color every other post.

This is a great example of a bad apple ruining things for everybody.

Right, fascist.  You are still able to speak aren't you?

I don't understand what the problem is.  You complained about a lack of bbcode rules, so I disabled the feature until such rules exist. 

You actually do have a point.  Apparently players cannot be trusted to use forum features with common sense, and when they have their post edited for format (not content) they complain about a lack of rules.  So guess what?  Feature is gone until such rules exist.

I'm not a Mod, I'm a Dev.

And that's the thing: I have spent a very large amount of time working on the code for these forums for the benefit of the entire community.  This included new cool things like post-specific tag points and bbcode support via a very complicated upgrade to very shitty punbb code.

Unfortunately I made the mistake of trusting that players would be able to use these tools responsibly.  You are actually very correct that we apparently need rules on bbcode usage.  I was hoping that we wouldn't, but you have proven that we do.

I edited your post to take away the italics and asked your very nicely if you could tone it down.  I did not edit what you actually said.  You then complained at me that there are no rules about bbcode usage.  I am simply fixing this problem.

And yes there is an announcement about it, because it effects everybody.

"Knee-jerk much?"  No, actually.  You see, after about a solid 5 weeks of preparation, code changes, testing, bug fixes, more code changes, and more testing, I am simply now realizing that some of my work needs to be disabled until we figure out how to introduce these features safely.  This isn't knee-jerk at all, it's just the realization that I made the wrong decision and should have left bbcode off by default.