My impression of English Forum

[EliaStormblade]

Don't let the forums ruin your fun in-game, OP.

I've learned to accept that toxicity is something to expect when conversing anonymously with others on a public forum like this. It still gets under my skin sometimes too, but I have to remember that a lot of it is people wanting to vent their frustrations. I appreciate you sharing your perspective, though.

There are some pretty cool people on here, too, which is why I'm always coming back to read (or react to) what they say.

What helps for me is checking out the activities the biggest Negative Nancies on this forum engage in ingame. (Usually, not a lot)

[Kacho_Nacho]

Honestly, I would love the forum sanctions to be tied in with in-game sanctions. Banned on here? Should be banned in-game too, frankly.

Might actually help simmer down some folk.

I agree. People get banned from the forum for unacceptable behavior and just create an alt and start trolling again. There needs to be a better punishment.

I could see this leading to some pretty crazy levels of witchhunting and abuse.

How? The moderators are able to see any reported post and able to decide if it breaks the terms or not. It's not mob rule.

If an individual tried to instigate a witch hunt by targeting an individual and spam reporting all their posts, they'd be banned themselves for abusing the reporting system.

[AngelCheese77]

People who use these forums are a miniscule FRACTION of opinions and thoughts. You’ll find it is a select few bad actors who like to stir up the proverbial pot and drama. You learn to block those accounts quickly and ignore them.

[Wyssahtyn]

Then you get stuff like this which outright proves the point. And there's always some people liking those toxic posts.

It's really sad. But all we can do is try to be the lighter voices in the darkness and pray that the moderators someday hear.

You're probably just another sockpuppet, but if you would have bothered to even glance at the post following mine, you'd see that the quoted original post used rather small font. The OP deciding to maliciously comply should remove any reason to believe that they're posting in good faith frankly.

[DixieBellOCE]

Meanwhile on Elemental:

1. Players get Doxxed, have google docs written about them over small personal drama.

2. The roleplaying community is full of sexual predators, some of the club owners even harbor these individuals knowing that they are sexual predators.

3. JP players were incredibly toxic towards English players, especially after the announcement of the Materia Datacenter. One look at the JP forums was enough to see how that went. (Check Quazii's YT channel for the video).

Nowhere is perfect, but i can tell you the JP forums and Elemental as a whole, is certainly not perfect.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Meanwhile on Elemental:

1. Players get Doxxed, have google docs written about them over small personal drama.

2. The roleplaying community is full of sexual predators, some of the club owners even harbor these individuals knowing that they are sexual predators.

3. JP players were incredibly toxic towards English players, especially after the announcement of the Materia Datacenter. One look at the JP forums was enough to see how that went. (Check Quazii's YT channel for the video).

Nowhere is perfect, but i can tell you the JP forums and Elemental as a whole, is certainly not perfect.

FFXIV was a mistake

[Knot_D]

Meanwhile on Elemental:

1. Players get Doxxed, have google docs written about them over small personal drama.

2. The roleplaying community is full of sexual predators, some of the club owners even harbor these individuals knowing that they are sexual predators.

3. JP players were incredibly toxic towards English players, especially after the announcement of the Materia Datacenter. One look at the JP forums was enough to see how that went. (Check Quazii's YT channel for the video).

Nowhere is perfect, but i can tell you the JP forums and Elemental as a whole, is certainly not perfect.

Well good thing I don't transfer to Elemental, because other JP DCs still don't mind with English speaker in general

Also would you mind to link what video is it?

[DixieBellOCE]

Well good thing I don't transfer to Elemental, because other JP DCs still don't mind with English speaker in general

Also would you mind to link what video is it?

Oop looks like it was a react video, here is the video link for the actual video.
https://youtu.be/e8NJiuzyFE8?t=315

[Renathras]

You're probably just another sockpuppet, but if you would have bothered to even glance at the post following mine, you'd see that the quoted original post used rather small font. The OP deciding to maliciously comply should remove any reason to believe that they're posting in good faith frankly.

I may be many things.

"sockpuppet" isn't one.

His post was entirely readable, and it was akin to "hahahaha! You used your instead of you're! You so dumb, I'm going to mock you and deride you while you're trying to make a legitimate discussion point".

Also not sure what you mean by the OP maliciously complying. The person who made the giant multicolored version of his post was a different user. I also couldn't tell the difference. The original post was readable just fine to me. /shrug

And how does changing a font size to make it larger after someone (who ignores the entire point to nip at them for their font size) so that said person could read it without complain mean they aren't posting in good faith? Hell, read OP's other replies. Seems pretty genuine to me... I don't see malice. I see a person who made a snippy first post defending making a snippy first post based on what someone else did after the fact. You can't use ex post facto to justify initial actions. Especially since his action seemed to be aimed to comply with your request (again, he didn't do the obnoxious multicolored chaos, that was someone else) and his other posts have all seemed to be genuine good faith.

[AwesomeJr44]