MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Street Fighter IV dumped

>I don't know that rom kiddies were ever a serious problem with mame. Even back on the
>mame.net boards in 2001-2002 their being a pain in the ass was overexaggerated big time.

Fortunately Santeri S. (Gridle) kept old MAME.net forum as clean as possible even though I believe twisty had a much tighter control on MW forums.

Even though posts asking for roms is/was an issue (I didn't care myself about that, but can see why it is an issue to web site owners etc.), my real gripe was always towards the non-stop daily continuation posts of "when cps-2 be emulated?" Those kept appearing every other hour. Even after that post had been answered the same question post would be asked within another hour. When an occasional interesting thread would finally appear on old MAME.net forum, it would be interupted again by some other a**hole asking "When will Cps-2 be emulated?"

It's too bad the forum message software couldn't be set up to not allow any new subscriber to do a first post until after 5 days elapsed when first registering. Sounds 'l33test' but some sites are now that way. One of the sports sites I visit (MLB Pittsburgh Pirates fan site) will allow a user to do a new first post after 10 days has elapsed. I guess the Pirates fan site is trying extremely hard to keep riff-raff at a minimum now that Pirates have become a decent baseball team after 20 seasons of crappy baseball from 1993 to 2012.