Open world requests being censored?

Good afternoon community!

Many of you may recall my thread on open world content, it was going well with well over 130 likes and some great discussion on the subject of open world content.

Sadly...the thread was deleted by a moderator for.

"Posting aimed to create a negative impact on the community or it's members"

Now unless I'm mistaken usually threads that get out of control with flames (usually pretty evident) get locked. I haven't been searching around but have other open world thread been getting removed from the forums for some reason or another or did I miss some massive violation when I wasn't watching the thread?

Aww. I liked that thread.

These are the FFXIV forums, it's almost guaranteed that the last few pages of that thread turned into a cesspool of insults, elitism, white-knighting, flames, trolling, and other internet-related filth.

So did I.

Guess the devs didn't want you putting ideas in peoples heads? Lol

Honestly it was probably people (haters) reporting the thread. Tends to happen a lot around here. :/
Sorry it got deleted, I actually enjoyed that thread.

I just found it rather odd to have it deleted outright. I'll consider remaking it with some better formating in the future less opinion more compendium perhaps.

Just sucks all the other unique ideas in the thread are now lost.

I also made a thread with open world contents in mind, with the idea of having actual discussion and ideas of what we could do to bring more to the current "waiting for DF queue to pop land" that is open world. Sadly however I saw the direction that the thread was going and decided to abandon it, as apparently everyone thought it was about nothing more than trying to get NMs back into the game, even though there were about 5 or 6 other ideas besides NMs that were in the thread. While my thread wasn't deleted, ultimately, it just seems people want this games overworld to be nothing more than a lobby. T_T

Edit: I guess let me know if you want the link, and we could see about reviving it, but who knows what would come of it. If I had to guess with how the forums seem to go around here, it would just be more of the same insults / flaming that happens everywhere else that more than one opinion can form.

Maybe they just want people thinking about such things because the planning all the way to expansion is already done. If their plan is nothing but instances then this might be their way of pre-emptively controlling the discussions from going down that path.

It was most definitely a lot of trash-talking at the end of that thread, Jynx, I guarantee you.
As far as the thread being gone, don't worry, the devs DO archive ever thread they don't downright annihilate them. It's still somewhere, unreachable to us, but the devs can see. Or at least according to an older dev post.

Bummer one of the better threads got deleted

My main account got banned for talking about dps to tank dmg in a dps to tank dmg thread. I made no insult and said tanks do x much dmg on average and dps does x dmg on average(in coil). Apparently someone got butthurt about that and got me banned.

So in all honesty I think the mods are over policing the forums and deleting thread that shouldnt be. Just remove the "bad" post not the thread. Removing threads about new ideas taht the community thinks would be good for the game goes against what yoshi-p said in an interview "what the players want, i want".

Im starting to get that molyneux feeling.

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Originally Posted by Skies

It was most definitely a lot of trash-talking at the end of that thread, Jynx, I guarantee you.
As far as the thread being gone, don't worry, the devs DO archive ever thread they don't downright annihilate them. It's still somewhere, unreachable to us, but the devs can see. Or at least according to an older dev post.

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I agree, it was most likely delete due to flame war rather than the actual context of the original post.

That's a shame the thread devolved into a flame war at the end, well I've resolved to remake the thread at some point when I feel I can present it properly.

ya, it seems like innocent threads go missing around here on a regular basis. a thread requesting hairstyles i was posting in a while back was just randomly gone when i went to check on it.
VERY obnoxious.

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Originally Posted by WendyDarling

ya, it seems like innocent threads go missing around here on a regular basis. a thread requesting hairstyles i was posting in a while back was just randomly gone when i went to check on it.
VERY obnoxious.

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Blame the people who hate options that goes against their personal beliefs - You know, "open world", anything from FFXI or past FF games that isn't VI or VII = bad words around here and likely to get you and anyone who supports your idea flamed and thus thread closed and deleted.

Threads that get out of control usually get locked and the moderator provides a reason. However, every single thread about open world I recently posted in got deleted without explanation.

Suspicious if you ask me.

yeah thats what usually happens but not in this case

So after what seems to be another round of deletions anyone know why the Open world threads are being deleted with no reason?