[Ides]

Yahoo has a point. This isn't a game. The game is a hobby where more often than not, most of your frustration can be taken out by pounding your enemy's army with artillery fire, we haven't got that particular release here. This is a forum about the game where gamers (most of whom have a lot of passion for anythign and everything they are involved in) rub shoulders and generally butt heads. No-one is going to go through the Emperor, or a mod, if they can avoid it. It's childish (Mom! Timmy's yelling at me!), time consuming, messy, round-a-bout and rarely solves anything.

If a disagreement boils over into outright flaming on threads, then Mods and all can intervene to their hearts desire while the lurkers pass the popcorn. Otherwise, the best advice I can give in any argument that gets out hand would be to take it to PM, or to the chat and thrash it out. Its not great, but if it gets people onto the chat, so much the better.