Your post #28 here was not helpful. Von Asten and his ilk sang that refrain in excelsis in the Shout Box, day after day. You testing maps was a good thing; Von Asten showboating in the SB was not.
There are far worse stuff being said in shout box than anything you are accusing VonAsten of.
It is not my intention to defend him, but to defend objective truth.
I think, though I may be wrong, that any of us trying to be a constructive creator can turn into a 'butthurt diva', if all we encounter are mindless trolls in the SB, who showboat to impress their audience.
I think history has shown dat being mindlessly trolled in coh community is equivalent to getting shot in a ghetto; there are no innocent victims. You have to be a general, grade a dick to be mindlessly trolled.
Trouble is: it's not fun, if it drives the creators underground, is it? I mean...have you seen a 2v2 map tourney this year? If not, why not? The question is rhetorical, BTW
Not true. In majority of cases creators leave because they start feeling entitled after contributing some content. In tric's case, he made a few maps and started bitching about lack of relic support he felt he was entitled to receive. General bitching will cause trolling. In Ami's case, he felt entitled to get half of Relic's prize money for his "contributing" effort. He screwed relic once but when he couldn't do it again, he stopped with SNF.
Da bottom line is dat people dat generally like contributing content without expecting anything from anyone will stick around. Guys like Stormless, ImperialDane, GG guys, and anyone else dat contributes for da love of da game.
I don't see those guys getting mindlessly trolled.