The bullying on these forums is concerning

[Themarvin]

Well the Op feels bullied because people does not agree with his/her/whatevers things and issues.... which make no sense at all to feel bullied about on a discussion fora.

[WillIrishclover]

The way i see it is this, theirs multiple facets to the xiv community.

The forums- probably are the most critical of the game and thats mainly because people care, and I feel many times people can get too carried away and passionate about how people speak to each other

The XIV subreddit- which could be summed up as a very overtly positive space, which at times can lend it self to being overtly positive and blind to the issues in the game (partially due to the karma system on reddit)

Twitter- the social side of the game in social media forum , with its own issues with people passionate about the game and crossing over these two previous groups.

I feel this forum at times can bend towards bullying on certain topics, and people need to be careful on how they speak, that shouldn't mean we become a 'square can do no wrong' place like the xiv subreddit, but that people should think before they speak, I think OP has a point in some regards.

[MonteCristo]

Grilled cheese sandwiches are delicious

[Axxion]

Grilled cheese sandwiches are delicious

Correction grilled cheese salmon sandwiches are better

[ThroatDeep]

pls no bully

[Kaliesto]

I feel a lot of the bullying in these forums are from people who act very arrogantly with their knowledge.

[Renalt]

Meanwhile raiding communities have public PF blacklists...

I've seen some of those lists. It's pretty funny actually.

[Yeol]

There have been times when I needed to take a break from the official forums.

[StarRosie]

There have been times when I needed to take a break from the official forums.

I've only just come back after a two to three year break from the OF...and I already want to leave again.

Just...burn it all down at this point. There's no saving the forums.

[ZephyrMenodora]

The quality of these forums the past week reminded me of League of Legends and worse than Lost Arks somehow, both of which were shut down.