Forum posting restrictions

[Abrasumente]

The restrictions in place do not allow you to actually fully articulate on things.

Example: I'm posting about a dps rotation thread and ideal statistics etc for said class. You want me to limit that to 1000 characters? Best of luck.

You wouldn't get anything useful out of it. You'd only get maybe half or a quarter, or even an 8th of the information I could be trying to give to help others out.

These restrictions are garbage. I sign my name in agreement to remove them. Mainly the 10 minute cooldown and 1000 character limit.

I'd say 5 minutes and no character limit are suggested, as this would make better for the community. Just means SE needs to hop on the bandwagon and actively monitor these forums.


While there's a need to remove childish banter and remove inadequate information, the restrictions in place only allow certain limitations in the proper assault on forum trolls, and those with erratic behavior. The idea of a community is to provoke discussion and engagement in threads to allow us to properly discuss topics that warrant information excess and growth. It also is to promote user growth and allow those who have purchased the game to delve into topics that interest them. You're not going to find a person posting on every single topic unless their life is that meaningless in the first place.

To fully articulate on a topic of discussion in terms of DPS guides, dungeon guides, etc.... a character limit of 1000 makes the topic/guide incomplete. I'd rather see a verbose thread with excessive information that may need to be shortened and people posting "TL;DR" instead of "soooo what you're saying is (x) when (y) happens? Well what about (z)?" Mainly due to the fact that trying to rationalize on topics that are incomplete, just provokes skewed perceptions on everyone's end. You want people to be able to fully understand the scope of the topic and the article. In that instance, you have more than one problem. Mainly it's a provocation of people who are inept when it relies solely on interpretation from a post limited to 1k characters.

Personally, the only thing we can hope for is that SE will promote certain community members to a rank of "Moderator" in order to achieve success and people who actively monitor or engage on these forums by locking redundant threads full of tripe and "your mom" jokes that entice the community into leaving. They're already doing a great job of forcing people to use 3rd party forum software to communicate effectively. I've got an account on Killing Ifrit that I haven't used in quite some time. I re-activated it in the hopes of discussion with other players only to find they too are relatively dead, but still have a few avid posters.

Moderators would increase forum stature and promote growth. Locking useless threads, or flame threads, trolls, etc. As I stated earlier... the only way to build a hub/community is to remove the impedance caused by these restrictions.

NOTE: I've already used my 3 post count limit for today so that's why this is edited. Otherwise I would have responded with the additional information via reply.