An editorial has appeared over at NWVault by MWMDragon entitled "Tolerance and the NWN2 Custom Content Community". Dealing with issues not often discussed such as the intolerance of opinionated community members, take a peek at what he has to say:

I'm sure many people in the community know I have not only released custom models, filled requests for development teams and single modders alike. But I have also done some Controversial conversion of weapons from another game. I love to fill the holes in the community in any way I can, even if they are a temporary fix until something better comes out, I want to help where ever I can. It seems my eagerness to mod is being met with intolerance by a few other, very outspoken, community members.

At first, I was happy that people were downloading my releases at all. I could shrug off the negative comments on my releases because of all the positive comments. But in time the negativity got worse. Now I know I am not the only person who feels this in any modding community, In fact I bet there are people who have not joined the community because they don't want to endure the attacks. We need to purge this intolerance from the community before it sets in, and like an infection, can cause any real damage.

Now that I have pointed out the problem, I have a few questions here I would like to answer for the accommodating people running the NWVault. Who, might I mention, even went as far as to add a new sub section called (Weapon - Conversions) to try to nip this demon in the butt. However the intolerance grew from an intolerance of my releases to an all out attack. I hope by bring this into the light, we as a community can learn from our mistakes and continue to grow and support our members not alienate them.

Well worth a read even for those who don't have an interest in modding, you'll find the whole thing here (http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Editorials.Detail&id=60).