Dying fansites with low populations are definitely not what I am looking for. What I want is someone to maintain some order when SE cant be around to rid of the repeat threads and spam, it annoys the crap out of me. I'm telling you, check out some of the most popular F2P MMOs forums right now, they all have some sort of player based volunteer mods; i.e. companies like Perfect World Entertainment (which pretty much dominates China's MMO world,) Aeria games, etc. The mods there keep the trolls in check, the flames at bay, and degenerating off topic threads to a minimum, rarely if not never do the bleeding hearts arise and make spam threads complaining about having their threads locked for antagonistic topics/offensive messages.
You'd have to get some good people to be a moderator. You can accidentally pick trollers, flamers and people who would pick favorites over others and go ban happy, not to mention you need people who know what the hell they are talking about.
You've been trolled! You've been trolled you have probably been told, "don't reply to this guy, he is just getting a rise out of you," yes its true you respond and that's his cue to start trouble on the double while he strokes his manly stubble. You've been trolled you've been trolled you should probably just fold when the only winning move is not to play! And yet you keep on trying mindlessly replying, you've been trolled, you've been trolled, have a nice day!
Volunteer moderators on official forums are a terrible idea. The end.
Who would want to moderate a forum filled with new people with horrible ideas?
That's why you use ffxi wiki forums. The only moderator for the forum here should be SE.
If it were up to the community, 90% of these forums would be deleted... and we wouldn't have all these terrible threads. =(
I would not wish the headache of moderating these forums on anyone. SE has to pay people to mod these boards for a reason.
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