Yet another crusader. Please take the time to use the Search feature, search for "ParaBrat" and expand to 'Username' and 'All Posts' and 'All Forums' - then feel free to read over 2,500 posts and also private message many regulars on this board asking for their opinion on ParaBrat, and THEN come back and tell me she lacks diplomacy and does not contribute anything but ethics and opinions. She, and many others, users and moderators alike, have contributed hugely to these boards. Some just in the Bugs/Development section, some all over, some just in the Support section, but a lot of people have posted hundreds of times in an effort to help others.
And you make ethics sound like such a bad thing? As if they shouldn't exist? I fail to see why mIRC should support "promotion", which whether you like it or not is another word for "advertising" which in turn is another word for "spamming" and as this board helps with mIRC, the board shouldn't support it either.
I think you also annoyed people because of d00dman's clear posts stating we wouldn't help with "spamming" which is, even after reading the most recent posts, what seems to be the aim of this thread, you intercepted and were rude.
Now, we have had people here before arguing the toss about the rules. The rules have never changed, the people have, or they have been "removed" (which is another word for "banned" *wink*) and everyone else has lived happily ever after. The rules are fair, and as someone myself who has never been a great follower of certain pedantic regulations, I find these board's rules extremely easy to abide by (oh, and one of them is to NOT be down right insulting to other people).
Whether you paid for mIRC or not is irrelevant. ParaBrat has been appointed as a moderator, as has d00dman, to, surprise surprise, "moderate" these forums and enforce the rules set out in the nicest way possible - both to unregistered and registered users. The discussion has been mentioned before - "we" (users/moderators/krejt/khaled) cannot enforce upon people how to use their mIRC. Nobody has remote access to their mIRC and ban them from using it for certain things. However, just because we can't STOP it doesn't mean we have to contribute to it. We will not contribute to it.
Maybe
this thread will interest you
Finally, following up with the ever-so-popular guns analogy: guns are a means to different causes, and some of those causes should not be assisted with. mIRC is also a means to different causes - and we
will not help with a few of them.
Happy helping!
Regards,
