Yes. I already had that one pointed out to me, GhostofAnakin. Thank you. The reason I probably missed it was because I came into the forums via a search engine this time around, while searching for news on KOTOR III.
The General Star Wars thread seemed a logical place to post it, since it doesn't directly pertain to KOTOR II. Since the title of this thread is "Replying to KotoR 3: Ideas & Suggestions," I assumed that it would be a bit rude to just plop my question into the middle of what seemed to be an unrelated discussion. The LEAST intrusive method seemed at the time to be to post a quick thread with my question. Believe me, I might be a newbie to this forum, but I am no newbie to forums in general.
I don't know what history there is here on this forum regarding KOTOR III, Obviously I struck a nerve, so I assume that KOTOR III questions from newbies have been so common as to get them relegated to a single thread.
I apologize to everyone for having violated your forum rules, albeit unintentionally.
But I DO have a few comments that I think are legitimate regarding this issue and how it was handled.
1. I'm obviously a newbie on this forum (one only has to look at my post count to see that). In the forums I have visited before, a little slack is cut for newbies until they get a feel for the forum.
2. Relegating discussion of KOTOR 3 to a single thread, no matter how annoying it might be, is not really a good idea. It forces the thread to be very chaotic and hard to follow, since it pushes a ton of unrelated discussion into one place (kind of like having all the books in a library jumbled into one pile). It is also grossly unfair to what is, whether you like it or not, a legitimate point of discussion and query regarding something in the Star Wars universe.
3. Most moderators would have handled the situation better. A little honey works wonders, and instead of feeling angry, I would have just felt a bit embarrassed (Well, truthfully, I was still embarrassed, but I was also angry). Heck, the guy before Dark_Raven was more polite than the moderator!! There was no sympathetic "I know it's not labeled as such, but we like to have all KOTOR III discussion go in the KOTOR III Suggestions thread." There was just this cold smack-down/shut-down. If this is an example of moderators here on this forum, then I don't think I care to hang out here. Which is really too bad, since some of you seem like very interesting people, and we obviously share a love of Star Wars.
And that's about all I have to say about that.
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming...
Michael