Well i was thinking about the recent events in here, where every two seconds a flamme war pops, and after some thoughts and with the help of my friend TomTaz, i have come with this thoughts:

1.-MKO is a forum. Meant for the MK fans to discuss, debate, and propose their ideology around the MK game, our artistic creations, and our life itself. The best we understand these three points the best our ideas and understanding will be.

2.-What enriches our community is the users, As part of this community, we should be conscious that the forums are made for us, and most of the mods spend a lot of hours working on them. We must understand that the mods are neither machines, nor life-less beings that are dedicated 24/7 to the forum. The time they are at MKO, they spend trying to ensure we have a better forum. We must be grateful to them. As humans they tend to lose it sometimes, maybe loosing patience with users, but it’s just human nature to have flaws. Remember they are just like you...they have bad days and are not perfect. We must be patient with them as well.

3.- As you all probably know, the popularity of the MK franchise itself has brought, and will continue to bring more users to this forum. Our duty, as members of the forum, is to welcome new users. It’s not our obligation nor in our nature to be instant friends with every single person that signs in, but we could at least make them feel at home.

4.- PLEASE REMEMBER: Our attitude towards new members will determine their future actions! The “vets”, or ppl that may have been here for a long time, are ppl that understand how the forum works, and may know a lot of people. But, sometimes, they (I use they as I’m somehow new in here) forget they were once new in the forums. If you receive a newbie with a flame or an arrogant comment, they will respond in the same way. Think about it, why would you wanna care for, and be part of a site where you get your head chewed off and humiliated for simply asking a question? So what if you think it's a dumb question? People are not born with supreme knowledge. Wouldn't it be easier to simply give an answer and move on rather then be insulting and starting a flame war? If the answer can be found in the faq, then just POLITELY suggest that they look for their answer there. What's hard about that? Give them time to learn the ropes. Nobody stays new forever, sooner or later they will adjust and then find themselves answering questions for other new members. And not all of the noobs are bad.

5.- Some try to act cool or tough but they are just trying to be accepted, let’s remember that one of the warmest feelings is that of being accepted.

6.- As for the new members: The best way to get through being labeled as “n00b” is to read the FAQ and respect others, remember not start something you won't be able to finish. You want to be respected? Then you must respect others. Take the advice given to you by the long time users of this site. They know how the site works. And, despite what you may read from time to time, many of them are very decent people who will help you if you don't make a fool of yourself or try to waste their time.

7.- We’re free to curse, joke, post our ideas freely, but what I don’t think we should do is diminish someone because any racial, intellectual, religious, political or sexual preference, it is stated in the FAQ. They are not hurting anyone, so why make nasty and hurtful comments about their personal lives? Or their backgrounds and views?

8.- If, In your opinion, a thread is stupid (Can't stress this enough): Don’t reply to it! Starting a flame war is not the best way to change a someone's opinion or to correct someone who has fallen into a flaw. That’s why we have a PM system! Flame wars and SPAM won’t make the other people stop thinking whatever they want to, or correcting his/her mistakes it will only generate more violence.

9.-Try to be kind with other peoples time and don’t spam the forum or make repetitive threads. That’s one of the main reasons many of the vets don’t post in the MK:D forum and they rather spend their time in the other forums.

10.- If you get into any trouble don’t be afraid of asking any mod. Maybe they wont answer immediately, but they will answer. If you get flamed, don’t answer back. You’ll probably get skulled or banned, the best way to solve this is to tell a mod.

11.- Respect to oneself and to diversity is what makes a community more rich and more valuable.

These are my thoughts.

Thanx as always TT