Why must stuff always happen when I go to nap? Alright, to address a few things here.

First off, I'm sorry about removing the tags, but I want to keep this thread fairly serious. This was not an attempt at a troll thread nor was it meant to stir up controversy. Starcade, I apologize for directly pointing you out, but it was a recent and proper example. Blocking out your name wouldn't have done anything because of your... unique... personality. So if you felt dragged into this, my apologies. Truely.

Now that the mini-disclaimer-thingamajig is over with, let's get to the meat of this argument. I feel that this is a common issue, and a very important one to this forum's future. We need a moderation staff who can take the time and examine all aspects of the board. I know our team is strained already since most of the money is going towards the development of FFXIV, but you can't spare a little to get a team to actually look over these forums with a fair hand? Too many times we've found ourselves with deleted posts and nuked threads all because one idiot (though said idiot varies and/or is more than one person at times) decided that they were unhappy with someone else's ideas and started spamming the report button.

Without someone to actually look at the content, to fully examine the report and give us honest feedback as to why a post should get deleted. Before, we were getting posts edited at least by the community reps, and I thought that was a sincerely direct and personal approach that really helped in this forum. They looked and read posts and took out the unnecessary or things that were against the forum guidelines. What happened to this? When did we descend back to the point where "report = post/thread nuke" became the new equation? It doesn't do the forum any good, and it's more likely to drive away posters and restrict the information that is being passed along because one idiot doesn't like an informative thread and poof, there goes the thread.

How much good information has to be lost before you guys realize that you need some sort of personal touch, whether your own or a moderating crew's? How many blatantly rude posts go ignored while literally right above and below them you guys delete less offensive comments? We need to see this change, because otherwise, we're just hurting our ability to communicate with our community, which was the point of this forum in the first place.

So please, read this out and hopefully see what I'm getting at.