Terms of Service that don't require us to censor ourselves

[Xanthe]

Seriously SE, you made these forums to get our feedback, correct?

According to your Terms of Service for the forums, we can't say anything bad about FFXI, the forum, or SE. How exactly are we supposed to give you our feedback when all we can post is:

"I like FFXI, FFXI is good, and SE is a great company."

If you want people to kiss your ass then get your secretaries/interns to do it, don't make it so everybody on the forums has to do it as well.

There is a large difference between constructive criticism and blatant attacks, especially in that the former will generally be accepted and the latter will generally get you in trouble with the moderators. So yes, these forums are in part a way for us to give feedback to SE. Just because there are rules against outright slander does not mean that they don't want to hear our criticisms. All they are saying is that it needs to be done with a degree of civility. If you complain for complaining's sake and do it in a crass way it's unreasonable to expect a favorable response.