Greetings, all!

This thread has certainly taken a rather negative turn, both in direct insults and negative tones in sincere replies. There is certainly a valuable discussion to be had here about working together as a community and obtaining loot, and this discussion can be had without any of the negative aspects. Removing the direct insults should be easy (don't do it); however, tone can be difficult on an online medium. I recommend taking a moment to review what you write and to consider it from a negative standpoint to determine if it can be taken negatively. While this may not prevent it from being taken with a negative tone, a second glance can certainly help out a lot in heated and passionate discussions like this.

Quote Originally Posted by Stihllodeing View Post
3) The lack of a moderator presence in the official forums.

Most successful forums (or forums I believe to be successful and rather drama free) are the ones that have very obvious and direct moderator intervention. They place warnings in topics for all to see. Sometimes they just delete a post entirely and replace it with "Post has been removed by moderator for violation/flaming/off topic" or will have an actual warning sign with a comment and warning from a moderator. It's not that the moderators in those forums make themselves a part of conversations, but they don't ghost erase posts without any sign of intervention. I also see the moderators here just lock a thread instead of cleaning it up which isn't fair to those who were engaging in stimulating conversation.
Taking a moment to address this point as well, the moderation style you bring up is not often used because of our privacy policy. By noting that we took action against a post, it would indicate that we took action against an account, which is only information the owner of the account should be entitled to. As for posting more often, we do post when closing a thread or trying to correct the direction of a thread, as is being done here. However, we do not do this often since threads generally do well in staying on topic or die out before a GM response would be given.

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