Posters on "JOB lv. 1" characters trolling

[Yinnyth]

Nobody's worried about anything. While I couldn't care less about half of you people hiding behind level 1 characters, I think this thread succeeded in one thing: calling all of you people out for being cowards.

And you're so brave for making incendiary remarks against a group of people when they have no way of tracing your avatar back to the human being who controls it. The hypocracy of calling these people "cowards" is sickening. Even if they're forced to link a level 99 character to their forum account, they're still effectively anonymous. Woo, they're so brave now.

[Nynja]

And you're so brave for making incendiary remarks against a group of people when they have no way of tracing your avatar back to the human being who controls it. The hypocracy of calling these people "cowards" is sickening. Even if they're forced to link a level 99 character to their forum account, they're still effectively anonymous. Woo, they're so brave now.

Except mr anon poster who goes "only elitist fgts use gearswps" now actually has a name and if they join a VW shout, that person making the group may go "hey wait, I remember you, youre the idiot who said only elitists gearswap...go screw yourself, go gimp it up in abyssea" instead of inviting a scrub.

[Yinnyth]

Forgive me if this is a more frequent occurance than I'm aware of it being, but how frequently does "only elitists use gearswaps" get posted here? And how many of them are currently hiding behind a level 1 char? And how many of them are on the same server as you? And how many of their names do you remember?

The idea here seems to be that you want players to be held accountable for their opinions by other players, not just for the things they do in the actual game, but also for the things they do outside the game, such as posting on internet forums. And to some extent, I can understand why. After all, justice is a very enticing ideal. But I don't think a person's online habits should preclude them from joining in your reindeer games. It's more likely that people would be denied access to a group because "you said something which my enormous ego took offense to on the forums" rather than "you have revealed yourself to be an unskilled player on the forums" anyways.

[DrStrangelove]

First, I am on an account with only level 1's. So, you'll want to change your requirements to take care of that. I would suggest that you ask SE to only let people with a level 99 post. Better yet, make it 5 level 99's. As we ALL know for a fact, it's piss easy to get a job to 99.

Second, ask SE to not allow access to any character that is not fully linked to the linkshell community and FFXIAH. Otherwise, we won't know if the person posting even still plays or has gear.

Third, once you've done that, ask SE to enforce some new restrictions:

1) only people with relics can make posts about relics; empys, magians, etc., same idea
2) only people with 99 Mnks can make posts about mnks, mnk gear, mnk abilities etc.
3) only people who are on the test server can make posts about the test server

That should work well I think. The trolls will be running for cover.

Of course, SE will argue that the WHOLE point of the forums is to generate ideas and discussion, while these ideas tend to eliminate it. SE will also argue that the reason they gave us an ignore button was so WE could manage this like the adults they assumed we were....

But I really do see the point. While I guess a lowly patent clerk was able to be listened too by PhD's in physics while he delivered the most advanced theory of the 20th century, those PhDs were apparently mature enough to manage their FEAR over being trolled.

Now that was my first and only post in this thread. Get cracking and let's get some censorship in place!

[Babekeke]

First, I am on an account with only level 1's.

I'm intrigued as to why. I'm sure there are some legit reasons out there.

[Zaknafein]

First, I am on an account with only level 1's.

I'm intrigued as to why. I'm sure there are some legit reasons out there.

That's one way to insure FFXI will still present a challenge nowadays. Never gain any levels! I'll have to remember that one for the "find ways to make the game more challenging" crowd.

[Alhanelem]

First, I am on an account with only level 1's. So, you'll want to change your requirements to take care of that.

Then you don't use that account to register for the forum, simple as that. It's no different than any other lv1 poster. As with the posters above, I'd be wondering why. All I can imagine is it's a mule account, in which case you should be using another account to post with.

1) only people with relics can make posts about relics; empys, magians, etc., same idea
2) only people with 99 Mnks can make posts about mnks, mnk gear, mnk abilities etc.
3) only people who are on the test server can make posts about the test server

On 1) and 2), people without those things have legitimately askable questions or topics to discuss. You don't need to be level 99 in a job to discuss that job in any way. You'd be wrong to claim yourself an expert, but what if you're new to a job and wanted to ask questions about it?
On #3 I can agree to the extent that only test server users should be able to post in the test server sections. However, if people want to ask questions about the test server elsewhere, that should be fine. They'd need a lot more moderators to police crap like that anyway.

[Runespider]

Then you don't use that account to register for the forum, simple as that. It's no different than any other lv1 poster. As with the posters above, I'd be wondering why. All I can imagine is it's a mule account, in which case you should be using another account to post with.

You don't get sarcasm do you?

I'm intrigued as to why. I'm sure there are some legit reasons out there.

At my craziest time years ago I had 2 accounts full of level 1 chars purely for gardening, possibly something like that.

[ShadowHeart]

he is just trolling us all i bet when it comes down to it just look how many replies just to argue and crap talk back LOL

so it shows that you don't need a mule to troll behind we can all do it at any job any level LOL

I reserve the right to hold my anonimity and i REFUSE TO FEED THE TROLL anymore on this thread so going to stop replying and let it die so u you dont get the oh lookie how many replies i got trolled em all XD

[Mirage]

You are a lv.1 poster, you have no credibility

You're a lv99 poster, and still have no credibility