First post, by sc2fan
Hi everyone,
So I'm new here and I apologise for not knowing all the various norms and stuff. This is the most general and most appropriate place I could find to post this. I apologise for the lack of brevity here as the original post I made I attempted to not write a dissertation, but here I must be clear as I felt a bit threatened by the moderator's reply and I would like to address the impression left by that to a new user to your forum.
I'm not really trying to call anyone out but it feels rather inappropriate to just squash a new user who spent their time posting an honest post seeking honest help. I would like to share my experience for an opportunity for the community to do better with this as if this is how you treat new users; you aren't going to have many new users.
I asked for help in the DOSBox thread and tried to keep it short. Everything mentioned in the thread I own copies of. I was not aware that was a point of contention or an issue. I naturally wasn't seeking to spread things that were not to be spread.
Nobody seems to have the answer, so I figured asking here may help. Several of my old games seem to be having an issue with DOSBox where the X/Y mouse movement does not match. I'm not aware of having changed anything. GOG support, GOG's forums, etc. have not been helpful with this. Yes, I agree they should have support for that, but I'm simply asking here because someone likely would have seen the problem before and saved time I have already spent investigating the problem and attempting various configuration tweaks to DOSBox, all of which to no avail.
I don't wish to call the moderator out, but to be rebuked in the way that I was is just not the kind of community I'd have hoped this was and I found that behaviour just not unacceptable to introduction someone to the community.
I apologise for bringing it up here, but if I don't say anything and just leave forever, I feel you've failed in your mission and not given an opportunity to succeed. It felt particularly unwarranted to scare off a new user with the heavy tone that message carried and there was a much better and positive way to approach it.