A Letter to All Forum Trolls Who Know Who They Are

Dear Forum Trolls,

I appreciate all the hard "work" that you've done to fill the General Discussion forums with full-on negative topics that are controversial at best or simply bad faith at worst. In fact, you've done such a good job you've scared of 90% of the playerbase from the Forums with your constant rebuffing and cringey, bad takes.

If you want to make the forums better, why not just fill it with a bunch of threads about "How this game is bad and you should stop playing it" or "SE Is Failing" or "XIV Is Failing" or any other bad take you want? Even saying "Healers are fine and I'm happy with it" or "Tanks are perfectly fine except they need to buff WAR" or, the worst: "I want simple DPS and I love it".

I'm sure your audience would love to hear from you, provided Moderators on the Forums will not lift a finger to address bad faith even under numerous reports - especially if you've been slandering people and content creators out of context. So please, carry on with your incessant rambling and make the Forums and even nastier place so nobody wants to come home to it.

- Yours Truly,

Trolly the World-class Troller, with extra Trolls in the Trolley for Trolling.

Figured I'd give you trolls a reminder in case the letter got stuffed in "Troll Mail".

Thanks for adding noise to the signal starved background.

Your post achieves nothing, helps nothing, and I hope whatever mods exist flush this with the rest of the Sunday nonsense I'm seeing today.

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Originally Posted by mythgraven

Thanks for adding noise to the signal starved background.

Your post achieves nothing, helps nothing, and I hope whatever mods exist flush this with the rest of the Sunday nonsense I'm seeing today.

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i get your sentiment, but at the same time you seem to think criticism and opposing opinions are trolling, and that kinda makes me think you are either a troll or just as bad as one.

you want a echo chamber not a discussion.

Imagine if you were a beggar, and every time you beg not only people always give you money, they also usually give you 10 times of what you're asking for.

Will you stop begging if people tell you to? Well, you will be stupid if you listen to them.

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Originally Posted by Mostly_Raxus

i get your sentiment, but at the same time you seem to think criticism and opposing opinions are trolling, and that kinda makes me think you are either a troll or just as bad as one.

you want a echo chamber not a discussion.

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No, not an echo chamber. Figured I'd respond in kind for once considering TitanMen tends to cycle his Alts when he's active every day in this forum. Every day it's a new thread - either bashing CBU3 for the wrong things, or simply just saying things that are extraneously out of the scope of the game - for instance: The LGBTQ+ thread that he made in regards to it.

Just so you know, TitanMen is a creature of controversy. Always hopping alts because of the post limit, and always looking for problems when there are none(or have already been discussed). Reminds me of a certain way of politics, but I won't divulge into those matters. Mostly, this post was to troll the trolls, but oh well.

I guess since there's 0 Moderation on the Forums we won't actually be able to sweep up the issue of ACTUAL USEFUL THREADS being swept under the rug by TitanMen in his quest for controversy.

It seems Titanmen is starting off the month with a veritable feast.

Why wouldn't they keep posting at this point, they don't get much attention in /xivg/ or related boards outside of a circlejerk but they're always guaranteed a homerun here. It's not even a quest for controversy it's just to rattle the cage and see who presents themselves as an easy lolcow.

You're about as much of a troll as Titanman is if you seriously think you're helping by making posts like these.

Lol lmao 10

I am not. He was amusing, but I'm usually more annoyed and angry.

everbody i dont agree with is a titanmen alt

It's a mod problem, we have nothing but scared mods afraid to enforce their own rules.

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Originally Posted by HyperiusUltima

No, not an echo chamber. Figured I'd respond in kind for once considering TitanMen tends to cycle his Alts when he's active every day in this forum. Every day it's a new thread - either bashing CBU3 for the wrong things, or simply just saying things that are extraneously out of the scope of the game - for instance: The LGBTQ+ thread that he made in regards to it.

Just so you know, TitanMen is a creature of controversy. Always hopping alts because of the post limit, and always looking for problems when there are none(or have already been discussed). Reminds me of a certain way of politics, but I won't divulge into those matters. Mostly, this post was to troll the trolls, but oh well.

I guess since there's 0 Moderation on the Forums we won't actually be able to sweep up the issue of ACTUAL USEFUL THREADS being swept under the rug by TitanMen in his quest for controversy.

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I get you, the guy/girl/person/whatever they are thrives on attention, they dont seek controversy, its just the only way they know to get the attention they are lacking in their life,
i see the wave of threads too, i see the intentionally upsetting posts... its a child crying out for moms love.
money may be able you buy you all the accounts in the worlds, but it cant buy you friends.

but its simple, stop feeding the trolls, every bump to his threads, every "oh its just you" or "this is bait" comment just bumps it.
here you are making an entire thread to give it attention.. good job.

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Originally Posted by mythgraven

Thanks for adding noise to the signal starved background.

Your post achieves nothing, helps nothing, and I hope whatever mods exist flush this with the rest of the Sunday nonsense I'm seeing today.

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woke up on the wrong side of the bed buddy? gosh take it ez. Your words achieved the same as your complaint, nothing

Tbh, just leave the forum at this point. I give it a brief look every week or so to see if it's changed, but those are getting rarer and rarer. The meaningless drivel and troll posts outnumber everything else to such a degree that FF discussion is better held elsewhere.

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Originally Posted by Kansene

Tbh, just leave the forum at this point. I give it a brief look every week or so to see if it's changed, but those are getting rarer and rarer. The meaningless drivel and troll posts outnumber everything else to such a degree that FF discussion is better held elsewhere.

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The fun problem is where, there is a lot of trolls here but discussion is actually rather balanced (if only because everyone is extremely polarised on both sides)

-mainsub- pro 14 echo chamber
-xivdisscussion- anti 14 echo chamber for raiders
-shitpostxiv- used to be okay till it went on an anti mod tirade that consumes everything
-Facebook groups- make YPYT and zero DPS healers look like rank 1 ultimate raiders
-X (formally known as twitter)- ERP

14 really has no good discussion spaces

Seriously, the forums software has a ignore list. Just use it and trolls will not bother you.



Cheers

just to point out....

a regular rule of thumb OP, is game forums are ignored by easily 90% of the player base to begin with. it has nothing to do with trolls.

I look longingly forward to the day they decide to delete the forums and replace them with a link to a feedback form, this form would be sent across the aether to a printer buried deep inside Square Enix headquarters that feeds directly into a shredder.

Our opinions mean little, which is good cos they're garbage anyway.

I love how OP had to bump his own thread several days after making it because there was just zero interest in this topic and the people he's mad at exist in his head.

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Originally Posted by Larirawiel

Seriously, the forums software has a ignore list. Just use it and trolls will not bother you.

Cheers

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The forum is a community hub, it looks bad for users who are either new or unfamiliar with the forums when it's just ceaseless trolls.

Block sure, but mods should be doing their job instead.

Our brother neum was finally banned. May he resp in peace, reflect on his posts and be reborn a better user Amem

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Originally Posted by sagacious

woke up on the wrong side of the bed buddy? gosh take it ez. Your words achieved the same as your complaint, nothing

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"My words" *were* my complaint.

Do better.

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Originally Posted by Troxbark

The forum is a community hub, it looks bad for users who are either new or unfamiliar with the forums when it's just ceaseless trolls.

Block sure, but mods should be doing their job instead.

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Tbf the blocking system on this forum is atrocious, you can still see the person getting quoted by others which also means see their posts, it's pretty much useless

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Originally Posted by Stormpeaks

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It seems like they are they keep doing the same copy/pasted responses in every thread.

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Originally Posted by Nebelheim

It seems like they are they keep doing the same copy/pasted responses in every thread.

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Just once a day, assuming the thread is still alive. Also, you can say my name, this isn't The Ring my guy.

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Originally Posted by mythgraven

Just once a day, assuming the thread is still alive. Also, you can say my name, this isn't The Ring my guy.

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Whatever you say my guy i still think your titanmen you definitely have his post style. You post the same copy/paste message more then once a day and now it's a midlander instead of the usual blonde highlander/bunny boy. Either that or your the noumenon person who made a new account/alt forum user.

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Originally Posted by sindriiisgaming

Our brother neum was finally banned. May he resp in peace, reflect on his posts and be reborn a better user Amem

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Honestly trolls like him and Titanman don't even deserve the mentions after the ban. People here keep trolling because we enable them with joke posts that just contribute to their celebrity-like status. So, no amen, hope he stays buried in the ban list.

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Originally Posted by Nebelheim

Whatever you say my guy i still think your titanmen you definitely have his post style. You post the same copy/paste message more then once a day and now it's a midlander instead of the usual blonde highlander/bunny boy. Either that or your the noumenon person who made a new account/alt forum user.

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I am none of these people. I've said it before, I'll say it again.

As far as the "race breakdown", gimme a break my guy. You'd hold your speculative belief no matter what race/gender, so well done chap.

Lastly, I've seen titans threads. He posts drivel about the lghdtv mafia in an attempt to seem like an ally, whereas I do not. Interestingly, you've caught on that I repeatedly post the same antagonistic message on certain threads, but you apparently don't think the authors of those nonsense tornados are titan.



PS: I have it on excellent authority that we're all titans alts anyways.

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Originally Posted by Larirawiel

Seriously, the forums software has a ignore list. Just use it and trolls will not bother you.



Cheers

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Unfortunately not much use when the threads they bump still appear on the top of the list.

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Originally Posted by GrizzlyTank

Unfortunately not much use when the threads they bump still appear on the top of the list.

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It'd suck if you had to like, manually (analog?) ignore someone, without software assistance? Man that'd be like, the worst.

I could see how it'd work, you'd *look* at something, deem it distasteful, and then ... I guess just not respond or acknowledge it?

But without software to automate it for you, I guess it'd all fall apart.

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enjoy BeneG