SaulKafka

Thank you so much for that advice, Bess, and that even more helpful script tool, Selene; obviously neither of you are hearing this but the thought's out there. Stick around before getting on me for necromancing it up because there's something I want today's mod discussion community to hear. After that, do what you've got to do (like auto-lock old threads if gravedigging is a problem): So here's my rant that's been building: When referencing a mod, *please* actually state its name and not just post a URL! This drives me nuts because it's so thoughtless - URLs will not be active forever and it takes no more effort to give the name of the mod yet bizarrely it seems to have become the done thing to just say "This mod: tesnexus.com/deadlink, and this mod: texnexus.com/...". Even if the links were still active, it's so irritating to force the reader to click on all the links to see what you're talking about because you didn't say their names (names are not in the links, just ID numbers). While I'm ranting about maddening modder/gamer habits, the insistance on using acronyms has to be the single most off-putting bad habit among all communities. It's an Elder Scrolls community so TES is expected. Outside of that, there's rarely reason to not type the name once and then use acronyms if repeated - you may think that everyone knows what NMM and OMM are, and eventually those who grind will become familiar with all the popular utilities, but I'm betting we can all type fast enough that it's not done out of energy saving, just convention. Any discussion is near guaranteed to contain numerous strings of letters referencing various mods that require you to already know about them - every community becomes a gated community. Again, eventually I will become familiar with the metalanguage but so seldom is it necessary: one person types the words once in the discussion and from there acronyms are identifiable to all. Again, that's not exclusively a modding or gaming problem, we just seem to be among the worst offenders. So now that's out there too.