Cool more silent removal

[hynaku]

I always wondered if its ok to post photo shopped pictures or screen shots from other games.

[Vidu]

I always wondered if its ok to post photo shopped pictures or screen shots from other games.

I dont see a reason photoshopped screenshots from this game wouldnt be okay - assuming they're still "appropriate" (no racist or sexual content, for example).

In regards to pictures from other games, series etc.: As long as theres a clear link to FFXIV, for example trying to show an example of a gear-design you'd like to see etc. it should be fine aswell. Running your private blog about GW2 here or creating a "Share your WoW-screenshot"-thread are probably not. But as long as the main topic is FFXIV - why shouldnt they be okay?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

They used to pop into threads and warn people things were getting heated and they'd be locked if things didn't cool down. They used to lock threads and tell you why. They used to respond a lot more. I don't know if LGM Enkratia(sp?) (the one who did most of these back when they were common) is no longer around or if policies or procedures changed or if they've honestly just given up trying to moderate the mess that is the English subforum.

[Tomoebi]

moderator in this forum is like god. you cant see it, you cant touch it, but you can smell their existence. just like fart...

[Avidria]

if it was something offensive i cannot imagine what part that would be related to, the closest anything got was a dancing fat man which if classed as offensive hope mods never go to a beach, but that also has horrible implications of body shaming.

Was the man mostly naked? Because I remember seeing somebody posting a picture of a guy dancing who was mostly naked and thinking it was probably gonna get deleted for that.

Disregard if I'm thinking of a different post :P

[TheForce]

At this point what we need is a complete revamp of the site as a whole, including moderation policies and moderator engagement. I'd like to see the community representatives engage more with the community here. We're not a terrible lot, really - yet the bulk of their time is spent on Twitter and Facebook. Ironically, a quick look at the comments in reply to posts over on those two sites will show that the moderation isn't as intensive over there and that the comments made are often far nastier than any you find over here.

Nah, overall, these forums are pretty atrocious as far as the population goes. It's a cesspool, with people constantly being condescending to others, trying to make others feel like they're stupid, rampant narcissism, petty passive aggressive replies in almost every single post, very little to no empathy, having too much pride to apologize when proven wrong, and all of this is just barely scratching the surface, these forums are in a very bad spot. The only other community I've seen that was this toxic is probably GTA Online, but at least there it's done in a joking/trolling manner rather than just being outright malicious and hateful.

Of course it's not everybody, but it is the vast majority. I've said it once and I'll say it again: I would really hate to meet some of you in real life...

[Theodric]

Nah, overall, these forums are pretty atrocious as far as the population goes. It's a cesspool, with people constantly being condescending to others, trying to make others feel like they're stupid, rampant narcissism, petty passive aggressive replies in almost every single post, very little to no empathy, having too much pride to apologize when proven wrong, and all of this is just barely scratching the surface, these forums are in a very bad spot. The only other community I've seen that was this toxic is probably GTA Online, but at least there it's done in a joking/trolling manner rather than just being outright malicious and hateful.

Of course it's not everybody, but it is the vast majority. I've said it once and I'll say it again: I would really hate to meet some of you in real life...

I disagree. Things can get a little heated at times but I haven't seen anything here on the same extremely unpleasant level as what can be found within the FF14 Twitter and FF14 Tumblr communities where people are actively discriminated against or subjected to death threats. Many of which go completely unaddressed by moderators due to being aimed at 'safe' targets.

I haven't seen anything on that level posted here and when things go too far over the line the moderators at least step in and deal with genuinely unsettling posts.

I've found most people to be fairly pleasant to deal with here and I have made a fair few friends simply by posting on this forum and then being recognised in-game as a result. There's the occasion issue with tone policing, but you get that anywhere.

[SturmChurro]

Reddit is way better! I can't even post there, because people just downvote things they don't like! I literally had the FFXIV reddit mods tell me to go post on OTHER reddits to farm upvotes so I could post there. I haven't logged into reddit since. Not that I used it much in the first place.

The community here is.... something... but it's OUR... something..

This is what I got from the FFXIV reddit mods

Hiiya,

Your post was automatically removed due to your low comment karma score, which is currently -65. We would recommend participating in other subreddits in order to raise your karma score.

What kind of backwards....? HECK NO! I am not the type of person to pander for upvotes just so I can post a comment. Give me a break. Over here like... wish I could actually post my REAL thoughts on this. I wouldn't be as polite.

[Avidria]

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Oof. I mean, I've seen a handful of toxic and rude posts on here, but this is probably the least toxic MMO forum I've seen overall
WoW's forum is a real cesspool a lot of the time, with some posts being almost impressive in how outright hostile and nasty they are. Way more than I've seen here, anyway. I've had a few times over there where I had to stop and be like... Dude. Do these people just not even read their own post to themself? And think maybe? They shouldn't post this??? And then I just close the site for a while lmao. It's baffling to me how little care some people have for other people in general.

Anyway. I've definitely seen far worse than the FF forums. The forum here is also a very... quiet forum compared to what I'm used to, far as how often new posts get made in general discussion anyway. Probably at least a part of why I've seen less of that unfun side of things I suppose.

[Selova]

There is a reason the official forums are a laughing stock everywhere else. Some of the reasons why people are suspended/banned are straight up hysterical. This also goes for really odd moderation choices, this isn't the first time this has happened and it won't be the last.