Idea for forum:

[Ilax]

Too many bleeding hearts. Wouldn't work. If you want user moderated threads head on over to alla and ah. ki's another winner as well. You've always got bg as well. Those are community based website with user mods right? If that's what you want you can get it there.

True on that.

[MrWigglles]

Volunteer moderators; after the community is established, SE should look for prime candidates to assist in keeping the peace amongst the boards. Look for examples of posters who assist the community, display their opinions without being detrimental/offensive, and just overall present a good example to the rest of the community. They can be monitored by the company to make sure they aren't abusing power, and/or harassing people. My idea would be:
-Give them the ability to lock, move, or delete threads that are inappropriate, or antagonistic
-Let them warn posters when their posts are becoming offensive to the point they will recieve punitive action from the main staff.
-Be arbitrators between company and playerbase for getting ideas acrossed in an orderly fashion
-Other ideas the company might have them do errandwise that I havent thought of.

More morality police? No thanks.

[TearValerin]

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.

[Miera]

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.

[cidbahamut]

Volunteer moderators on official forums are a terrible idea. The end.

[Dobbykk]

Who would want to moderate a forum filled with new people with horrible ideas?

[Anon]

Who would want to moderate a forum filled with new people with horrible ideas?

The #1 damage dealer on the block obviously.

[Valefor4life]

That's why you use ffxi wiki forums. The only moderator for the forum here should be SE.

[Yarly]

If it were up to the community, 90% of these forums would be deleted... and we wouldn't have all these terrible threads. =(

[Vivik]

I would not wish the headache of moderating these forums on anyone. SE has to pay people to mod these boards for a reason.