Moderation of the forum

[Anewie]

I like some of the features of this board but I think it's getting out of hand. I understand you guys are a company and want to connect with the user and customer base but someone needs to moderate these forums.

It's getting kind of scary. This forum should be used to discuss or suggest. Discuss changes, interests etc and suggest changes or fixes for things that may be displeasing to the individual.

Multiple thread of people complaining/whining/griping about anything or everything is making the forum very unattractive place to the BG community. I don't speak for that community but there is a thread on the forum that is 110+ pages long. It's about the quality of posts on this forum by a select group of users.

Having an unmoderated forum is IMHO scaring people away from posting/joining. Some of the stuff said/suggested on here is really ridic in general. That's not counting the general other stuff involved.

5-6 different thread about the same subject is silly. All the while it's the same people complaining about the same thing. I find is unessicary and I think this board needs to be heavily moderated to relieve that type of conjestion.

Is it possible we could do something about this? I don't want this board to just become another allakhzam or ffxiah but it doesnt need to be as strict as BG. People should be free to post but some posts are really far out and silly. And others are just a bunch of QQings. Not constructive QQing either..

[RAIST]

lol... and there are threads on here complaining they have been too heavy handed with the moderation.

Probly just a bit overwhelming for the handful of staff members assigned to it. People need to use the report feature more I guess to flag their attention to the off-the-wall posts.

[Arcon]

lol... and there are threads on here complaining they have been too heavy handed with the moderation.

I doubt anyone but trolls feel like that. I really wish mods would keep a closer eye on some topics. Sometimes flagging posts isn't ideal, because a single post isn't that bad, but if you take the whole thread, it's one giant derailed chronology of a flame war between two or more parties. The "Buy Windower" thread is one example (particularly designed to mess with Starcade), most of the "Break WS" thread also falls into that category.

Although I have to say, since it (kinda) falls under this topic, I don't mind mods ignoring those threads so much, I'd rather they focussed on getting our requests through to the developers and relaying a proper response. I know I've mentioned it before, but it's just sad to see so many great ideas go completely unnoticed (or at least it seems that way to us, without any reply from an official).

Although the second suggestion doesn't necessarily preclude the first, quite the opposite, the stricter they are with removing the trolls and spammers, the more time they can invest into researching valid topics, not to mention it would make those easier to spot.

[Windblade]

I hate moderated message boards.

[Windblade]

I doubt anyone but trolls feel like that. I really wish mods would keep a closer eye on some topics. Sometimes flagging posts isn't ideal, because a single post isn't that bad, but if you take the whole thread, it's one giant derailed chronology of a flame war between two or more parties.

Better than moderation is just allowing people to ignore other users, meaning let people create their own blacklists so they never have to see posts from people they don't like. I would prefer that, because oftentimes a thread I'm interested in (even if I'm not posting in it) will be deleted and that makes me mad. It happens in moderated chatrooms on IRC sometimes, too I'll be chatting with someone who is being "abusive" toward me, but I don't mind...and a channel op kicks the person out of the channel when I wasn't even offended. So if someone cusses me out on this board, I don't want the thread closed and I don't want his post deleted. I want *honest communication*, and moderators prevent that.