Editing Forum Tags To Insult People

[Grimmel]

Hoping something get's said about this tomorrow..

If this thread get's closed without a proper sticky being made.. I guarantee a few months later people will be back to doing their vile business in tags. It's what happened the last time I made this topic.

[Fievel]

Hoping something get's said about this tomorrow..

If this thread get's closed without a proper sticky being made.. I guarantee a few months later people will be back to doing their vile business in tags. It's what happened the last time I made this topic.

tagging posts is as vile as 9/11!

[Enkidoh]

If I remember rightly, one of the Community Team members explained about exactly how the thread tags work back on the Beta Forum (which was suffering from much the same problem of people adding insulting tags to harass or troll other members as is happening here) - basically anyone can add a tag to a thread, however every time a thread is tagged the forum software actually logs the username and IP address of the person adding the tag to the forum administration panel, meaning the Community Team/moderators can easily resolve such problems by seeing exactly who added what tag at what time to what thread. Once Beta testers were told this, things improved considerably on the Beta forum, at least as far as people using tags to troll each other was concerned.

Given the same forum software (VBulletin) is used here for the official FFXIV forum that SE used for the Beta test forum, I don't see any reason why things would be different here, although it would be great if one of the Community Team or a GM/moderator could clarify this.

[Nadirah]

Given the same forum software (VBulletin) is used here for the official FFXIV forum that SE used for the Beta test forum, I don't see any reason why things would be different here, although it would be great if one of the Community Team or a GM/moderator could clarify this.

Mouse over the tags.

it gives the name of the person that added it.

[Souljacker]

I saw a thread last week with some pretty horrific tags on it and I just shook my head at the level of bullying endemic in these forums. Had no idea it was reportable. Next time you can bet I'll be taking every name and writing that very strong letter to the admins. It's ridiculous that people on this forum can't have a discussion without degenerating into kindergartners.

[Grimmel]

I can't allow this to fall off into the non existent part of the forums! This needs to be dealt with and the topic kept alive until something official is made as a sticky.

[Magis]

I can't allow this to fall off into the non existent part of the forums! This needs to be dealt with and the topic kept alive until something official is made as a sticky.

This is kinda of cringe worthy getting worked up over.... tags?

Do you have such thin skin you get this hurt by forum tags of all things? Ignore the bad tags and get over it, it's not like they mean anything anyway. I guess sticks and stones is no longer taught to kids these days.

[Coatl]

Did the moderators not handle the reports they were sent of people who posted malicious tags? If not, then rather than make a sticky they should just make examples of people and start taking away their posting privileges. Or not. That'd be a very fast way for the GMs to land themselves a bad rep.

[LittleBubbles]

I think what people need to do is make higher quality posts.

There are three different forums with a thread(plus a twitter feed) dedicated to making fun of the stuff posted on this forum. It's just generally awful and people are laughing.

Try and post things that are interesting, useful to know, or just funny! If you care about this forum, try and make it not be an embarrassment to the greater FF community.

[AkashiXI]

It is now my objective to make the weirdest, non - offensive relatable tags when redundant threads pop up.