I’ve come across a Spectrum post of a user reporting that, allegedly, some threads on Spectrum cannot be upvoted, and wondering why this is the case. They shared this response preview picture in their post.

The answer why this is happening may be right there in the error message.

As someone who worked on a proprietary forum backend API before, I can tell you that what you’re seeing is called “thread sinking”. It’s a tool sometimes employed by moderation to prevent unwanted bumping of threads you don’t want to gain visibility on your board, for whatever the reason may be.

Basically, it’s a more subtle way to prevent certain threads from gaining visibility and getting into search engine front pages. Not saying Spectrum is getting any search engine traction, but when I did the work on the API I worked on, this was the reason.

You don’t have to believe me, just google “forum thread sinking”.

EDIT: fixed a few grammar errors

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day 1,214 of building everything in star citizen at scale out of lego
started arround May 2023

Just what the title says. I remember being excited for this announcement, as FPS combat is very important to me. As far as I can tell the gameplay hasn't improved much if at all in forever.

Like, healing in combat basically turns the game into an anxiety simulator/gun disappearing simulator. Why, after 13 years do we not have ONE BUTTON to heal/throw a grenade, and have it ACTUALLY equip our gun when it's done?

Gotta love having no neck

First of all - I want to say thanks to all of those, who managed to read the whole post. The Star Citizen universe became huge part of my life, not just a hobby, but a place where I met multiple amazing people, got tons of emotions and years of really cool experience no game could provide.

I was from the start of the Kickstarter campaign, and actually believed what Chris told me from the scene (how naive I was), but that's not really matter for now, after more than a decade.

For some reason I can't actually play any other games because I really love SC universe that much - absolutely amazing people in there, helping each other, sometimes griefing each other XDD, etc. BUT now for me the game became an absolute mess. Why? - Many gameplay things added - are just broken for multiple patches.

I've played SC for thousands of hours and I'm really tired of that "bad server" take is still a thing, I'm really tired that in 2026 we still sometimes can't basically reload fps weapon and having stuck animations, that in 2026 we still have broken cargo elevators cig couldn't fix for at least a year while whole community was complaining, that in 2026 we still have such important reward parts of the game as CZs and Warehouses broken, with broken terminals.

I love this project and community from the deep of my heart and want it to develop in the best way possible, but, jesus, why the fundamental things in this game are still not working correctly after more than a decade of my dedication to this project.

If I could say something important to CIG - I would say that, guys, now we want actual product, working product, without "its an alpha", without "no when questions", just fix the fundamentals we, as players, use each time, and nearly each time - its broken. Star Citizen is an amazing game, when it works. So, if you want to make it really amazing - make it work.

I don't want another patch bundle & ship. I want a patch with numerous bugfixes, fixing fundamentals of this game, making it amazing and providing really cool experience. That's what we need. And as much as you guys delayed squadron - let us start to enjoy the Star Citizen universe.

I've ran Siege of Orison twice, one time in solo, second time - with my friend. Both of these times I had numerous D-syncs with my inventory & weapons. It was just disappearing from my hands, not realoading, etc. And I had absolutely same experience in bunkers 6 years ago, guys. What instances and server meshing gave us, if we still have such bugged mess? Yes, you gave us another architecture & principals of servers repositioning their powers, BUT, we still got that FPS experience we've got 6 years ago. Its an actual nonsense.

Yes, sometimes Star Citizen can provide pretty smooth experience and I had that many times. And that's what I want to say - if the game worked as intended - it could be an absolute blast of a game. But 90% of my experience is spending hours to workaround the bugs we're facing.

And about "no when questions" - its even a different thing. Why me, as 10+ years backer - can't ask when I'll get the product I payed and dedicated to for multiple years? This feels like a joke. I can and I want to ask when will I get certain things absolutely needed for this project.

You, CIG, probably the only guys possible to make this project complete. And I'm a bit sad seeing the project getting this direction. So I want to ask - when will we actually see Star Citizen universe actually work as intended? When will I stop spending hours writing bug reports on issue council instead of actually having smooth experience, even with old content you added?

By writing this post I just want to say, that I'm proud to be a part of amazing people we've got around SC, and I'm really worried by what's going on around the project. And, I'm afraid, that if nothing will change in near future - there's nothing to save the situation around it.

So I wanted to haul some cargo in my Hermes. Got to the station, bought my cargo and let it auto-load. Got back to the terminal and retrieved the ship, take the elevator to my hangar and surprise the piece of ship ship clipps halfway through the hangar floor. Try to store and retrieve it again. Nope, it’s fucking gone and all cargo with it (about 700,000 UEC). This type of thing probably has been posted hundreds of times, but how do simple gameplay mechanics still don’t work? So frustrating and just makes you don’t want to play.

With 3 hours remaining, the Perseus leads the M80 by 12,200+ votes.

♫... I believe I can touch the sky.... ♫

Didn’t we just get a coin case like 5 days ago? Wtf is going on?

Please only discuss about the location and no complaining about the state of game or bugs.

It's been about a year since I've logged on, I decided to give it a try tonight and it was great!

I love being able to bed log on the Avenger titan and i'm excited to grind for the bigger ships again.

"There has been a full pass on loot boxes, weapon caches, and rarities around the PU."

Anyone seen any sign of this?

Have checked Stanton (bunkers/DC/settlements/PAF) and Pyro (settlements/asteroid bases) and there doesn't seem to be any different loot to me.

I usually run with a Theta Pro Low Light 8X Scope on my P6 Archangel. I have noticed as soon as I get into the Seige of Orison Instance, the scope gets obstructed by heavy armour and sometimes bugs when trying to look down the scope.

I have tried different armor sets, helmets and still get the same issue. It only seems to be this specific scope as I have been using the 4x version on my parallax AR and that seems to work fine. The LL scope is very handy for when it's night time inside the instance.

Has anyone else had the same issue? Last image is an alternative 8X scope that works but doesn't have low light.

Issue Council link: https://issue-council.robertsspaceindustries.com/projects/STAR-CITIZEN/issues/STARC-218422#communityEvidence:4ad5ef28-681e-420f-b9d7-3847ee616efe

i see names in this box even in when i cut quantum in the middle of nowhere. does that mean people can hear me even out here? or is that unrelated to vc? how does this little box work im very confused