What are the largest issues plaguing XIV currently?

[Iscah]

Then, ignore him?

10 of the 20 posts on the front page are either started or bumped by one person. Another two are by someone widely assumed to be another account of the same person. It's hard to ignore and harder to see actual current discussions.

The examples you talk about of a single organised thread being unfairly deleted (while being a genuine issue) are the opposite of what this person is doing.

[Shurrikhan]

The examples you talk about of a single organised thread being unfairly deleted (while being a genuine issue) are the opposite of what this person is doing.

I never said he was getting threads deleted.

I said your suggested changes to the rules such that those who are currently "obviously" trolls but haven't yet broken the ToA can be permanently and completely censored (which is, in effect, a ban) opens a huge can of worms capable of creating or exacerbating other issues on these forums.

Moreover the Ragingtitanmanfisthorsebro issue can be better served via a simple player-by-player forum blacklist and surrounding functionality: their posts and threads are initially hidden and do not, for those who've blacklisted that poster, bump threads. Voila. No need to forfeit our ability to appeal bans, or question others' removal, from having made the ToA requirements exceptionally "non-exhaustive".

By all means, IP check banned players or carry over scrutiny to find and deal with ban evasion, but I don't want to see the ToA suddenly broadened in clause or enforcement.

[Iscah]

I never said he was getting threads deleted.

I said your suggested changes to the rules such that those who are currently "obviously" trolls but haven't yet broken the ToA can be permanently and completely censored (which is, in effect, a ban) opens a huge can of worms capable of creating or exacerbating other issues on these forums.

Moreover the Ragingtitanmanfisthorsebro issue can be better served via a simple player-by-player forum blacklist and surrounding functionality: their posts and threads are initially hidden, for those who've blacklisted that poster, bump threads. Voila. No need to forfeit our ability to appeal bans, or question others' removal, from having made the ToA requirements exceptionally "non-exhaustive".

I never said he was getting threads deleted either. You talked about the problem with moderation in general being that they delete threads.

And no, a player-by-player blacklist just mean he keeps dragging new posters in with each post.

I'm not saying to censor him "before" he does anything. He comes in and immediately starts behaving like he did the previous time - the same character, same writing style, same pattern of behaviour. He has been banned from the forum for that behaviour, he comes back and resumes the same behaviour, and instead of getting re-banned for evading the first ban he's just allowed to carry on.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I never said he was getting threads deleted either. You talked about the problem with moderation in general being that they delete threads.

And no, a player-by-player blacklist just mean he keeps dragging new posters in with each post.

I'm not saying to censor him "before" he does anything. He comes in and immediately starts behaving like he did the previous time - the same character, same writing style, same pattern of behaviour. He has been banned from the forum for that behaviour, he comes back and resumes the same behaviour, and instead of getting re-banned for evading the first ban he's just allowed to carry on.

Pretty much this. You could consider it ban evasion, blacklist evasion (which also can net you a ban in game, why not on the forums?!)

[LaughingBanana]

Then, ignore him? .

It's like a trash stinking up the corridor next to your room.

I mean yeah, you can ignore it and you can still function, but it's there, it's stinky, and it's annoying your living space. It would be much better if that stinky trash is to be put in the trash bin where it belongs.

[Haruka_R]

Then, ignore him?

You can't ignore shit that keeps popping up on the first page. And ignoring him does not prevent you from seeing his name and thread pop up.

[SamSmoot]

we dont have mythic plus dungeons

One of the best things about this game is that it doesn't have that elitist nightmare.

[Shurrikhan]

One of the best things about this game is that it doesn't have that elitist nightmare.

I maxed out Mythic+ rewards with less than half the questions as to my choice of class that I've had to deal with doing post-weekly-lock Savage farm PuGs or even Ex Primals here, regardless of which class I brought -- hardly an "elitest nightmare".

[TheCount]

NA servers being in hell, I meant west coast.

A hundred times this. I opposed it then, I still do now. East Coast or some sort of good central location would be far better, both for NA latency issues as well as the fact that there are still a lot of Europeans playing on the NA side. With how heavily latency can impact the gameplay in this game it really shouldn't be far west.

[KageTokage]

One of the best things about this game is that it doesn't have that elitist nightmare.

I'll take more elitism if it means we get a form of difficult content that actually has replay value outside of just getting better gear that can't be used for anything other then ultimate raids (Which comparatively have even less replay value then Savage unless you want a full collection of weapons for whatever reason).