You really keep failing super hard at understanding. No one hear is salty, no one here is mad, nor upset, nor angry, nor frustrated. We're all watching a house burn down because the owner decided to cook meth and commenting on it. Some taking more glee than others obviously, but that's whatever.
Yet here you are undermining those opinions by suggesting they need help to 'get over whatever they're experiencing' to 'become better people.' Gimme a break...
90% of what BD posts on patreon are excuses about how he cant get the update out on time. I feel like youre one step removed from blaming the victims for the crimes that were committed against them. It's not our fault we have nothing to discuss be the excuses when that is all BD is willing to provide.
Read the last few pages (before all this shit), quite a lot of it is discussed.
Ultimately, what do you want me to do? Ban people that talk about BDs multiple lies, failures to meet deadlines, and other things that are completely on topic? Why would I make this a safe space for people that want to brownnose BD when he already has his patreon only discord?
There isn't a house burning down. He's got over 3,000 paying subs. And plenty of freemium enjoyers. You say nobody here is salty, and heck, that might be true for you personally (though I'd beg to differ from how you're talking about it). But you definitely can't say it about everyone.
I'm not undermining anything. I'm trying to create a more pleasant environment for everyone who does like the game by reminding the moderator that insulting people over their opinion is against forum rules. Yet here you, a mod, are calling me a brown-noser for ... not caring that an amateur developer is an amateur.
There are no victims. Paying into a crowd-funded project always runs the risk of deciding on reflection that it wasn't worth the money. Buyer's Remorse laws even in the EU are like 14 days. Crowd-funding is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get.
You also can't excuse excessive discussion of development by saying the Patreon posts are updates about development. That's what Patreon is for. This forum post is supposedly to discuss the game itself, as per the rules. So all the users who do nothing but complain about the development ARE being off-topic and ARE excessively discussing development.
You can say "it was already discussed". But that's completely besides the point. Discussing that is what the thread is for. And what, once SOMEONE has discussed it there shouldn't be room or common decensy for anyone else who wants to discuss it? "Make way for the hate-train! Choo-choo!".
As a mod, isn't your job to enforce the rules? So why are you lawyering for the people you're supposed to moderate? Doesn't seem like impartial arbitration of the rules when you yourself are defending the people who clearly aren't using the thread for its intended purpose and telling people who WANT to use it for its intended purpose but can't without getting "catharsised on" to create a separate thread. They're the ones breaking the rules. Let them create a separate thread where they can all huddle up around the supposed house fire and bake salty smores together.