First, to everyone on Halomaps, It's been a pleasure seeing all of your working and watching months (even years) of your hard work, culminate and manifest into a playable form, that anyone could freely enjoy. I'm pretty sure that as soon as this post is read by our 'gracious' leader, he will not hesitate to remove this thread and possibly even ban my account.. What do I say to that realism?.. Well, oh well. In all honesty, this isn't the first time I've had an opinionated post regarding Dennis' leadership of the site, so don't feel shocked if this isn't the first time you've read one of my opinionated posts. Now that that's over, let's get to it, then.

Let me start by saying that Dennis is not, was never and will never be an 'adult'. Not as long as he is bound by this site. If anything, he's the opposite. He's a child. An idiotic, puerile, lazy, hypocritical child who asserts dominance through circumstantial leadership and feels the incessant need to tell people exactly why he dislikes children. There's been plenty of times where Dennis has evidenced that he is unfit for leadership on these grounds alone. While he blames the people's inability to ignore other people on a site where anyone and everyone with an account can make a post, he neglects his ability to ban someone based off a recurring IP-stem. Don't give me that 'Well he could make a mock IP and make a new account' crap, either.
To further explain my plateau, let me illustrate that my father worked with Trade-corp in the early 1990's, designing computers capable of running weaponry (missiles in particular). After leaving the job, he took on a a Job at IBM. He's still working there. Twenty three years, serving under IBM as a Band 10 IT Tech Manager. That's a single promotion from a Distinguished engineer, an honour so high in the business that there is less than 300 people inside of it. A promotion above that would be an IBM Fellow, a position right under the main executives.
How does this correlate to the topic? Simple. As someone who's worked with computers and technology for arguably as long as Dennis, himself, has been alive, he should be at least somewhat knowledgeable on this. So, I've asked him about it. He stated that a server-side ban of an IP address is possible. So, I asked him if it would be difficult. He explained how to do so in less than thirty minutes. Then, I asked him about mock IP addresses. Like anyone who understands anything regarding the internet (myself included), there is no such thing is effectively hiding your IP. Your IP is always visible, albeit not as well-detectable. Anyone with common sense can piece two and two together and see that the only person making new accounts is the person you keep banning. If you checked the time that you banned the person and compared it to the time the person's new account was created, you could assume that it's the same guy, ESPECIALLY if the site, itself is nearly a decade old. It's not impossible. In fact, it's easy. Dennis is simply being lazy.

Next thing, Dennis is either 1. A teenager dealing with self-loathing because of over-exposure to the degradation of today's generation, 2. A thirty-something who has been tormented online for his lack of power, and out of a trauma triggered power-fantasy, created a site in which he can control his subjects, 3. A textbook narcissist who insists that he was never a teenager, therefore he's better than everyone else or 4. A condescending child who wants people to think he's older. How can I make such a bold claim? Look at the guy's motto on the site. "We were all young once, but some of us get over it."

If anything, that only further insinuates that Dennis is, in fact, a child. He's simply attempting to create a blissful ignorance to that truth by feigning as some kind of established middle-aged man. I'll be the first to tell you that it doesn't take an 'adult' to run a site. There's been plenty of teenagers who were given websites as gifts or simply made them, themselves. Case and point, Habbo Hotel, a game dating back to 2002, has over 100 'fansites' that use domains that could not be given to you by a free forum site or a free webmaker. While geared towards teens, Habbo was always notorious for having children on it who said they were thirteen when they created the account, simply to get to log on. Who's to say that every one of those sites were made by men and women over the age of 18? You can't say that at all.

Dennis has time to log on to the site to remove posts that offend him (and him alone) and spend hours thinking of snarky ways to tell people that they're children but he doesn't have time to update the site? It's been months since the site was last updated. In fact, it's been almost a year plus since the site's gotten any more sub-forums. How many people wanted a minecraft sub-forum? How many people wanted an off-topic sub-forum? Too many to name. All these people, while wanting to talk about these things, have still contributed more to the community than Dennis has, himself. I don't care if he 'owns' the site. If anything, I'd dish out a couple thousand dollars to make one. He expects people to act as if they're adults but he runs under the assumption that all adults do is work, eat, crap and sleep. It's that type of mundane lifestyles that lead to men and women breaking down, having heart attacks, etc. In this generation, men and women (especially in their 40's) are encouraged to take it easy. If you can see, the percentage of mothers leaving work to raise their children has risen significantly over the course of the past 10 years.
If all they did was work, eat, crap and sleep, what would happen to the child? He would be fed, he'd be clothed, but he wouldn't be entertained. He wouldn't have someone to come to when he's bullied. He wouldn't have a proud father or mother, watching him ride his bike for the first time. He'd feel neglected and unloved. In fact, so many children today feel the same way and instead of going and finding help, they commit suicide. A lot of them because there's no way to vent emotions. Schools have taken out recess and practically any other form of physical activity. Creativity is being stifled through the prevention of 'fun'. Because of this, children are turning into drones. Soulless, emotionless beings because anyone who was creative was weeded out of society as a whole. Written off as unteachable, unfit for any kind of work, etc. The same crap is going on here. Most of the tension on this site is a direct result of a lack of communication outside the creation of a map or mod. Oh no, Banshee's being mean to someone? Stop the presses, Salimander is spamming again. Killer5000 being stupid, what's new? Have you ever considered that some people on this site aren't here to solely create content? Maybe they want to meet likeminded people and actually talk with them outside of working on projects. In fact, communication encourages creativity. Maybe talk about an upcoming game in an off topic thread would inspire a map based off said game that's actually good? Maybe a Minecraft conversation would make someone want to import Minecraft weapons into Halo CE. Heck, we could probably even have some kind of DayZ-esque mod, thanks to the outlets for advanced scripting through OpenSauce. All this potential is wasted. If you're looking for a vote as to whether you should shut down the site, you've got my vote. If I have to go to Halomods or some other site to express my opinions, I'll be fine. I speak for myself when I say this, of course.

Go on. Ban me now, Dennis. I don't even care anymore.

I don't hate Dennis. I want him to grow up.

It is his site. He is paying for it. He can do whatever he wants, however he wants.

If this really upsets you that much then I kinda see that very childish. It's the internet. It's not even your site. You don't help run it and probably have never donated to it. Don't take things seriously online.

Also I believe the site hasn't been updated for a while because he has been dealing with family recently. Or I heard that somewhere.
Edited by MatthewDratt on Oct 15, 2013 at 11:36 PM

Just more ranting and insults.
Go ahead then, buy a site, host thousands of gigabytes of data. Manage a forum, check all uploaded files, keep the trolls in check, deal with arrogant people who refuse to submit to authority or heed their words.
And everybody who makes an account gets to upload however many files for FREE. And you also have to check every single one. for FREE. Deal with author attribution. for FREE.

If you hated this site and Dennis, then you should have never posted at all. Just leave. So simple, but you have to incite drama in a forum for a ten year old game.

Stop calling people children when you act like one yourself. 'Oh I don't like how this guy manages his forum, I'm gonna bug EVERYBODY about it, belittling people in the process. Oh look, more trolls, but this guy won't accept my suggestions for keeping them out, I'm gonna insult him until he does.'

agreed, i don't understand why everyone is getting so upset about this its the internet... i'm just grateful to have a place to post my work. id rather be on here versus halomods. and thats the truth despite the troll $H!Tstorm and the seasonal influx of newbs, it doesnt matter to me, ill just help the newbs to the best of my knowlege and ignore the trolls.

This whole post is a load of S***. How about being grateful, because Dennis has maintained a forum mainly for an eleven year old game (No one really uses the H2V and Portal Sections) with a player base of maybe a few hundred people, and hosts thousands of gigabytes of content relating to said game(s) on HIS servers that HE pays for. I think that's a pretty great thing to do for us, considering, well... us.

I'm not perfect, and probably post more than my fair share of immature and inflammatory posts, but I'm extremely grateful to Dennis for hosting this site. You may not like his way of moderating. That is understandable. But you aren't being very nice about it. You have a right to an opinion, but you don't have a right to abuse Dennis' generous hosting of this site for discussion about Halo Custom Edition modding and mapping to create a post with the sole intention of offending and/or insulting him. You also repeatedly call him a "child", but seem to be very good at acting like one yourself. Maybe something to think about?

A better way to discuss this may have been to post a constructive post about how you think things could be improved, even though I doubt you have any better ideas than the current system, given the immaturity evident by the writing and posting of this thread. Following this, Dennis could either decide to change things in response to the suggestions you made if he so chooses, or to not act on your advice at all. He doesn't have to run things the way you want to. It's his site, not yours.

Finally, if you really don't like the way Dennis does things and can't get over it, maybe you should go to Halomods or Modacity, because you obviously don't like the site or the way it is run.
Edited by 1337 on Oct 16, 2013 at 02:05 AM

"Buy a site. Host thousands of gigabytes of data.."
First of all, why did you just say Terrabyte? Nobody says thousands of gigabytes because nobody's computer has that much space unless they paid extra for a hard drive. The term is Terrabyte. Next thing, stop acting as if making this site was hard. Any idiot can run a site, as I've said before. The only problem with making a site is the price of the site. Buying one could cost you a few thousand dollars and if its not a secure server, you're going to get hacked. This site isn't hosting information that people would want to hack and in my own examination, I can tell you that the encryptions of the sites more private areas are pretty watertight too. You don't need to be Neo to do that. In fact, the simple adding of a command line in a site's construction can create more columns to prevent even the best SQL injections (or scripts). If you don't have time to run a site yourself, that's when you appoint others to run it for you. If you don't, it's assumed that you do have time. People are hired to be web administrators and web masters. If he's so inexperienced in 10 years of owning a site that he can't even ban an IP, maybe he Should appoint someone else. Next thing, I've already stated I was leaving this site. You're clearly 3edgy5me for saying I should go because I don't like the site. I was already leaving. All I'm doing now is hitting the lights on my way out. I'm not 'insulting' Dennis. Any adult on the Internet should know words don't hurt you. This pussified generation of kids getting 'cyber bullied' are the ones who whine about Internet words. Besides, am I insulting him as a person? No. Am I calling him autistic? Saying something about his family? No. I'm pointing out an aspect of his life that he publicized on a daily basis and giving my opinion on it.. You know.. Like what you're supposed to do on a forum. Never once have I told Dennis to die like that other kid, so you can't say that I "hate him" either. I've offered to give some of my knowledge on this things plenty of times. He's turned me down time an time again, all under his assumption that everyone on his forum is a kid. If anything, he loathes everyone on this forum. It's evidenced heavily by his clear hatred of teenagers and his incessant attempts to feign superiority through age. Even If Dennis is as old as he infers; If age brings wisdom and discernment, where did Pope Urban go wrong? Where did Nero, and Attila go wrong? Were they not old enough to see they were wrong? You're mad at me for being opinionated on a forum and combatted my opinion with another opinion. Believe what you'd like. Like I've said before, it won't be long until I'm banned from here, anyways.
Edited by AllySuzumiya on Oct 16, 2013 at 09:41 AM

Oh, i like where is this going..

Huh.

And its the bandwidth that costs, not the actual storage space.

This site is not anything but a hobby to Dennis so you you should see it as that.

All I read was "You are this, you are that, I'm right, you're wrong, feel bad. I'm leaving anyway, so I can do as I please."

Name-calling is just as bad as insulting someone.

Figure out the difference between having a working website and managing one.

Dennis, or any other person, does not have to conform to your beliefs/opinions.

Opinions have no place on this forum.

It's spelled 'Terabyte'.

Bye.
Edited by game user10 on Oct 16, 2013 at 10:59 AM

yet again i would like to reiterate that it is just the internet people, no reason to argue about any of this.

i have to side with Dennis on this topic though. i run a minecraft server for everyone around my area and being 18, in college, with a job, really doesn't leave me much time for any of my hobby's (i haven't touched blender for months and all my RC stuff is sitting around collecting dust). not to mention the severe lack of time that i have had to host my server. last year i could put it up every day after i got home from school, now it is up maybe once a week if i'm lucky. sometimes life just gets in the way of your hobby's and you have to put them aside for a while so you can sort things out.

its the same thing in this case, and i am grateful that Dennis keeps this site up so that we all have a place to share our (sometimes) hard work.

More of an antagonization than an insult. One thing Dennis hates more than anything is to be called a child. My use of the term child is one of a sarcastic nature. I know for a fact he's no longer a child as its been aforementioned that he's owned the site for some decade. I use the term in a commentary-like use, using child to refer to his maturity rather his age. It's also anecdotal in the sense that I've effectively went to his level by using 'child' as a derogatory term. Organized hypocrisy in an attempt to draw out hypocrisy. Anything he says in defense to my claim will be voided and considered hypocrisy simply for the fact that he did see my use of the term as offensive, meaning he truly doesn't like children. Also in response to the other guy; I don't want to win an argument. I know everything I said will be meaningless the second I get banned and this post is locked. I'm not a hero nor am I a sacrificial lamb. What I am is someone who intends to express her opinion at least once in an uncensored manner. I don't care about the resulting punishment. I don't even need Dennis to do anything special. I simply want him to read it. After he does and is thoroughly provoked, he has every right to remove me from the site. His site, his rules. If anything I say sticks, that's up to him. As for the spelling of 'terabyte', yes; I made a typo and added an extra 'r'. If we're gonna play the nazi game, here, let me me the first to say that your use of 'it's' is wrong as well, as it refers to possession rather than Identifiction. The correct contraction is 'its'. Therefore, you essentially said 'it has spelled terabyte'. Now that we have grammar out the way, call me out on something legitimate like the other person in this thread did. Also, let me establish that nobody is right or wrong. After all, they're just opinions. And like it or not, they are the very definition of forum. Opinions are insight. Without insight, people make stupid deciscions that can damage entire projects. How much time has LMT wasted using broken tags? How long has Killer spent making broken mods? A pretty long time.

Alright, nevermind. Let us bicker no more, this was almost completely unproductive.

The term idiotic implies that the subject is an idiot. That is an insult.
also it's does mean it is.
Edited by Maniac1000 on Oct 16, 2013 at 12:24 PM

Because I run the site and reflect an authority figure.

edit:

Now that I have taken to time to read AllySuzumiya post he/she makes incorrect assumptions based on incorrect information.

1) IP bans are in effect and used on the site. IP spoofing is not an issue since in order to make a two-way connection it requires a valid IP for the ACK. Spoofing is for attacks only. IP shielding is done thought proxy servers where the originator's IP is shielded but the proxy is not. We have over 30,000 proxies in the IP ban list but with a potential of approximately 4.3 billion IP addresses there is no way to keep up. The previous suggestion that we ban on MAC addresses is technically unworkable since ARP or NDP (for IPV6) is not translated across the node segments of a router and only available on a single broadcast or bridged network.

2) I do not dislike "kids" as evidenced by these freely offered websites and I would love to be a kid again because there is comfort in the certainty of your assumptions, the simplicity of your life and the faith in your ideals at that stage of your life. Observations only available through the passage of time.

Also based on his/her fathers respectable resume as explained in the post I am older than AllySuzumiya's father. (guessing is not allowed )
Edited by Dennis on Oct 16, 2013 at 06:33 PM