I gave you a -1 not because I was offended or upset, but because I disagree with the tone you assumed was being used in that two word response.This, as with all of the devs' posts. No reason to get offended so easily over two words, especially when it's clear that Urist jokes a lot. Just because you don't understand someone's sense of humor, doesn't necessarily mean it's "wrong". Had he said "You're shit at this game, stop being a whiney little bitch and start practicing more" I'd have -1'd him instead of you; that wasn't what he said because that's not the message that was trying to be portrayed in the post. I believe Understanding is indeed itself a virtue, we should always at least make the attempt.
Edit: I don't mean to lecture, but this stuff comes up a fair bit and you did mention me.
bold: No problem, all good.
I don't mind trolls and love to troll myslef. My concern is people here (including me) got used to devs/admins trolling and them trolling back, even remember some cases where players were insulted back, that is a big nono in the professional world, this is a small communty so I can understand it to some point but would still like to see a more levelheaded approach for future projects sake. Your attitude as a dev is what people expect and like, Pauls isn't, he might be the funniest guy in the world but comes off a bit different...
Take a look at recent problems with Warband and how devs handled it on TW forums, some posts from the community were really awfull, not one single rage reply or "it's gonna be fixed when it's fixed" they replied to insults with apologies and defused the situation inna heartbeat, that's how it should be done not add fuel to the fire.