Why was my Thread taken down?

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07-09-2021, 05:26 AM
Soge01

Why was my Thread taken down?

Just curious as to why, yet I see someone like Titanmen allowed to use multiple accounts and create equally, if not more controversial forum thread topics on a daily basis. :/
07-09-2021, 05:35 AM
Nethereal

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Originally Posted by Soge01

Just curious as to why, yet I see someone like Titanmen allowed to use multiple accounts and create equally, if not more controversial forum thread topics on a daily basis. :/

What was it about/called?
07-09-2021, 05:36 AM
Ursa_Vonfiebryd

Wow. Why indeed? It wasn't even getting violent. Sorry for your loss. I had some good posts in it. T-T
07-09-2021, 05:39 AM
Lunalepsy

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Originally Posted by Soge01

Just curious as to why, yet I see someone like Titanmen allowed to use multiple accounts and create equally, if not more controversial forum thread topics on a daily basis. :/

People are very sensitive nowadays. I am pretty sure a group of people did not like your ideas and flagged your thread.
07-09-2021, 05:46 AM
Theodric

I thought that the thread itself was perfect civil. Any posts considered to be inappropriate could have been dealt with individually.

If threads referring to political or social issues are not allowed, however, then I think that the rule should be enforced fairly across the board rather than only in situations where there is backlash against those self-same issues.
07-09-2021, 05:48 AM
Dragonblanco

Not sure which one is/was yours but I have been reporting a lot of them. Any that's naming characters on worlds and essentially setting up for harassment is a violation of forum rules and also the game's TOS. So if your missing post essentially did that, then I guess that's your answer. Otherwise, no clue without knowing what it was.
07-09-2021, 05:51 AM
Dragonblanco

But I doubt it was one of my reports, as quite a few are still up. Just figured I'd give a very blunt answer as I'm looking through things now, lol.
07-09-2021, 05:57 AM
Valkyrie_Lenneth

If it was the one about ff7r, because it's off topic.

General discussion is for discussion about XIV, not other ff related or completely unrelated topics. That one had nothing to do with XIV.
07-09-2021, 06:02 AM
Vahlnir

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

If it was the one about ff7r, because it's off topic.

Yeah, most likely. Might have been a topic best discussed in the off topic discussion thread that already exists.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ion-Megathread

The mods clearly don't mind having this one around.
07-09-2021, 06:11 AM
Mimilu

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

If it was the one about ff7r, because it's off topic.

General discussion is for discussion about XIV, not other ff related or completely unrelated topics. That one had nothing to do with XIV.

Probably this.
I wrote a thread when Cloud getting into Smash Bros. and it was taken down because it wasn't XIV-related.
07-09-2021, 06:20 AM
SturmChurro

I'm more surprised about how quick it was taken down, considering the content of some threads. Such as very recently, but I won't get into that.
07-09-2021, 06:51 AM
Nethereal

Checking my post history I have a pretty good idea which thread it was.

I forget the exact title but people turned 2 pages into politics, completely civil but now we know that SE does not want to see any form of discussion about politics on their forums.

Makes sense considering their branding.
07-09-2021, 07:07 AM
Theodric

The thread made by a player in search of a Free Company was also removed.
07-09-2021, 07:09 AM
MilkieTea

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

Yeah, most likely. Might have been a topic best discussed in the off topic discussion thread that already exists.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ion-Megathread

The mods clearly don't mind having this one around.

Yeah. Not to sound like I’m advertising it or anything, but it’s there for this exact reason - coralling content that may or may not exactly be related to XIV, into one space to avoid cluttering the front page with off-topic stuff, or derailing other threads with off-topic stuff.
07-09-2021, 07:12 AM
Rinhi

it's a bit of a joke that that thread was removed but a plethora of pure bait and non-xiv related threads made by titanmen and copycat trolls aren't dealt with the same kind of response or urgency, tbh
07-09-2021, 07:13 AM
SturmChurro

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Originally Posted by MilkieTea

Yeah. Not to sound like I’m advertising it or anything, but it’s there for this exact reason - coralling content that may or may not exactly be related to XIV, into one space to avoid cluttering the front page with off-topic stuff, or derailing other threads with off-topic stuff.

I like I said before, it's the speed at which threads are taken down. The thread I referred to in my prior post was left up for three days. It looks like things with a specific leaning are removed quite quickly.
07-09-2021, 07:15 AM
MilkieTea

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Originally Posted by SturmChurro

I like I said before, it's the speed at which threads are taken down. The thread I referred to prior was left up for three days. It looks like things with a specific leaning are removed quite quickly.

Oh definitely. Seems like - and this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, purely a PR move - but it seems like threads with distinct political leanings are removed far more swiftly than other threads.

Though the one recent one with horrible ill-wishes towards the devs, I feel, was left up just for the community to dig its teeth in before they removed it. Mods are humans too, and sometimes humans can be vindictive as HECK.
07-09-2021, 07:21 AM
Theodric

For the sake of fairness, I'd prefer a blanket ban across the board on any complicated social or political issue as I do not believe that online games are a suitable platform for activism. After all by their very nature, any global game is going to attract players from all over the world from a great many different cultures, belief systems, backgrounds and countries.
07-09-2021, 07:27 AM
KizuyaKatogami

Seems like the mods have a bias towards certain things. Guess they can’t handle some people’s opinions and instead decide to use their power to halt any form of debate. It’s pretty prevalent seeing as to how they handle other threads. Lots of off topic threads here lmao.
07-09-2021, 07:32 AM
Vahlnir

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Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami

Seems like the mods have a bias towards certain things. Guess they can’t handle some people’s opinions and instead decide to use their power to halt any form of debate. It’s pretty prevalent seeing as to how they handle other threads. Lots of off topic threads here lmao.

If people think this is bad, they should have been around for Ottergate. lol
07-09-2021, 07:37 AM
Valkyrie_Lenneth

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Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami

Seems like the mods have a bias towards certain things. Guess they can’t handle some people’s opinions and instead decide to use their power to halt any form of debate. It’s pretty prevalent seeing as to how they handle other threads. Lots of off topic threads here lmao.

Yeah, they are very biased against off topic posts. They tend to get nuked very fast.

Don't try to make this political, it's not.
07-09-2021, 07:50 AM
KizuyaKatogami

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Yeah, they are very biased against off topic posts. They tend to get nuked very fast.

Don't try to make this political, it's not.

I didn’t even mention anything political, you put words in my mouth now...again. You seem to like doing that. I’ve seen plenty of off topic threads not get nuked very fast so it just rings as a bit curious. No reason to get your knickers in a twist over my opinion though :D
07-09-2021, 07:56 AM
Valkyrie_Lenneth

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Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami

I didn’t even mention anything political, you put words in my mouth now...again. You seem to like doing that. I’ve seen plenty of off topic threads not get nuked very fast so it just rings as a bit curious. No reason to get your knickers in a twist over my opinion though :D

Maybe don't word things in vague ways trying to be smart then.
07-09-2021, 08:01 AM
KizuyaKatogami

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Maybe don't word things in vague ways trying to be smart then.

Um...it seems like you read it that way? I can’t change what little reading or how functional your mind is. Not my problem if you did that. Maybe don’t assume things like you always do, seems to be a reoccurring problem. Read a bit s l o w e r. :) It helps me quite a lot. Also its okay to acknowledge when youre wrong btw. It's the first step to humility.
07-09-2021, 08:14 AM
Valkyrie_Lenneth

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Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami

Um...it seems like you read it that way? I can’t change what little reading or how functional your mind is. Not my problem if you did that. Maybe don’t assume things like you always do, seems to be a reoccurring problem. Read a bit s l o w e r. :) It helps me quite a lot. Also its okay to acknowledge when youre wrong btw. It's the first step to humility.

I mean, the thread in question was clearly politically targeted. You said they were biased and quick to knock down certain views.

Reading slower doesn't change these. I spend more time reading than I do playing XIV. And I spend a lot of time playing XIV.
07-09-2021, 08:56 AM
KizuyaKatogami

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

I mean, the thread in question was clearly politically targeted. You said they were biased and quick to knock down certain views.

Reading slower doesn't change these. I spend more time reading than I do playing XIV. And I spend a lot of time playing XIV.

It wasn’t a heavily political offset between the actual comments. Idk if you had actually seen the conversations that went on in there but they weren’t innately political, and neither were my comments. So yes, i find it strange that they were very quick to take down that specific thread when there’s numerous other off topic threads that they’ve chosen to take down, along with some actual 14 related threads where they just seemed to have not supported whatever viewpoint was being made. It isn’t the first time this has happened and it most likely won’t be the last. Again, i’d rather you not assume things from my posts and instead ask questions if you need help in clarifying :) Works better that way.
07-09-2021, 09:16 AM
StriderShinryu

Mayne they acted so quickly because there were a lot of people who reported the thread en masse? With the usual troll and bait threads, I'm guessing they only get one or two reports because most of us are just sick of them but have learned to largely tune them out knowing the characters involved will just be back in a month with no real repercussions. But when your inbox gets flooded with reported from different people all about a specific thread it's sort of hard to not take immediate action.
07-09-2021, 10:06 AM
Neoyoshi

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Originally Posted by Theodric

The thread made by a player in search of a Free Company was also removed.

That one was destined to be removed from the start, I'm surprised it was up for as long as it was. xD
07-09-2021, 12:19 PM
Godzillaxpowerrangers

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

If people think this is bad, they should have been around for Ottergate. lol

I remember those days.
07-10-2021, 07:11 PM
Lauront

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Maybe don't word things in vague ways trying to be smart then.

Or perhaps don't read things into his post that aren't even there.
07-10-2021, 08:12 PM
Gameovers

It was Eggman all along. See since his metal virus failed he needed a new plan. Unfair cleans. Eggman is purely evil. :c

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