Suspended for Otter Nonsense

[MrKusakabe]

If you think this forum is "bad" when it comes to moderation: It is not.
The worst ever is/was the GuildWars 2 forum under Gaile Gray (which left the company two month ago).

She, Gaile Gray, was absolutely hyped the community for no reason, probably the female counterpart to YoshiP. And everyone was giving her a free pass for everything.
She barked at us customers (upon a report that the World vs World had a troubled linking, she left a snide remark about "Is it a real bug or do you just don't like it, eh?"), left condescending answers (upon some person said the moderation is like walking on eggshells: "Use better judgement in future!" Eh, it's a personal opinion...), left the community alone when serious trouble started (Kung-Fu tea promotion turned from "worldwide" to "U.S.-only" over night. Community Manager Gaile Gray submerged and kept a low profile since then in all the threads! Way to go!) and went easy on her bootlickers that could post exactly the same as me, but my post have been against the rules for no apparent reasons.

Whenever I logged onto the forums, I had a "Warning" by a moderator. And when I checked the responses, I was so bamboozled that you can even bend those useless, all-purpose rules so much just to get my post off the boards.

Guess how I got a forum ban? Because I said that Gaile Gray's stories about her personal pets - her cats - do not belong in the devtracker of the game. (She posted a lot of off-topic bullcrap that ended up in the DevTracker as she was an arenaNet employee.) So if you opened up the Devtrecker, you would see: "Moo jokes", "I like violine music", "my cats have a good personality". That forum ban got me so pissed that I uninstalled the game on the instant - that's why I am here.

So far, I could post even borderline delete-worthy messages (about my sucidal toughts in the "Is there a place for me?" thread) but no ban yet.

So if you think this board is bad, no. It is not. Getting infracted daily is a common thing over in the GW2 boards, and people openly state they went to Reddit because of that...

[JunkhogMakison]

How...are your fonts....purple. *_*

[Joven]

How...are your fonts....purple. *_*

There's an icon above the text field that's an underlined capital 'A'. You can change your font color there.

[Halivel]

If you think this forum is "bad" when it comes to moderation: It is not.
The worst ever is/was the GuildWars 2 forum under Gaile Gray (which left the company two month ago).
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While I see you point and actually agree, just to be fair, if some Forum's moderating sytem is worse, it doesn't make the other moderating system better. It's still bad. Just somewhere it happened to be worse. It is same kind of logic as "our country lives bad, but children in Africa are hungry so we are actually okay".

[HyoMinPark]

So if you think this board is bad, no. It is not. Getting infracted daily is a common thing over in the GW2 boards, and people openly state they went to Reddit because of that...

It is my understanding that a lot of players prefer FFXIV’s subreddit as opposed to posting here because of the inconsistencies in moderation. I don’t post on Reddit that frequently myself, but I’ve read the occasional threads that appear there about the official forums, and a lot of posters tend to say they prefer Reddit over it. Which, unfortunately, doesn’t help with getting feedback to the developers because I don’t think they actively visit the subreddit.

[AngelCheese77]

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Oi, reading in that color is painful >< Is there a dark mode for the forums?

Anyway, I'm not concerned with other forums and their moderation. Like many others, I have been moderated (I won't talk about it here) and they are very vague as to the reason why. When you ask about it or defend yourself, they're like .. "Eh, that's nice, temp ban stands" and that's it.

There should be a set ruleset we all can see, and be able to fight against and repeal a ban. It makes me not want to post here much either. And yes I do report those posts who have things that are clearly against the rules of these forums, which are found here, and nope .. those posts and topics are still up there.