Thank you to the moderators

[BRVV]

Dumb question: how did you all know they deleted 2 threads?

[ZephyrMenodora]

Yes I hate that, we were having a conversation about food, someone mentioned they have diabetes and that monkey came to laugh at them like?…..please tell me you’re 12 and if not then it’s just sad thats how you get your lols.

What disgusting behavior. I'm so sorry that happened to that poster and it should be unacceptable. One time someone posted a picture of their cat, and I was in the middle of replying with a picture of my cat when I thought, "What if X troll reverse-image searches this or something?" I then deleted my post. Was a bizarre moment for me and a thought process I haven't had on a gaming forum before.

[Semirhage]

I'm glad the moderators got rid of a thread naming and shaming people.

Now let's spend the next page and a half passive aggressively talking circles around talking about a specific person, now *that's* the FFXIV way.

[TaleraRistain]

I thought this was a sarcastic thread. The main reason the forum is in this state is the couple of dozen people and their alts that everyone knows their names and the names of their alt, and that roam free like mosquitoes on a hot summer day. They seem to ba able to ban ingame without banning on the forum (or at least I've seen people coming and complain on the forum for their ingame ban), so they should be able to do the opposite. And if not, that should be implemented.

They can do the opposite. I got banned here before for some name I called someone (not a slur or anything, just like profanity) but didn't get banned from the game.

[ZephyrMenodora]

Dumb question: how did you all know they deleted 2 threads?

I participated in both threads, but all my comments in those threads are gone from my post history. One of the threads started just yesterday and it was unusually quick of them to take action.

Usually if all your comments are gone from your own post history they probably deleted the thread or a chain of comments. If you haven't posted, well...guess it's not so noticeable and the action would fly under the radar.

[SassyAssassin]

What disgusting behavior. I'm so sorry that happened to that poster and it should be unacceptable. One time someone posted a picture of their cat, and I was in the middle of replying with a picture of my cat when I thought, "What if X troll reverse-image searches this or something?" I then deleted my post. Was a bizarre moment for me and a thought process I haven't had on a gaming forum before.

EXACTLY. Face it, everyone would have more fun without those bad apples, everyone would be at ease to be themselves without worrying about the same four/five bitter people.

[Kes13a]

...but they're spending a good bit of money on these alts XD

are they though? they have quite gleefully posted how they do not pay for their accounts.

if they are truly not, then they are not spending any money on the alts, so that argument for their untouchability flies out the window.

[TaleraRistain]

Oh and to the OP's post, I think we can and should praise moderation when we see it. It is appreciated. Thank you mods for getting rid of the naming and shaming content. We meme and troll each other and even get heated here sometimes and I appreciate that you let us mostly work things out, but that was a step too far.

This also doesn't mean that we don't think there is some room for improvement with it and mods if you're watching this, please see what you can do about the trolling. It was tolerable before but it's starting to completely take over the forums.

[CNitsah]

They can do the opposite. I got banned here before for some name I called someone (not a slur or anything, just like profanity) but didn't get banned from the game.

So the tool exist... That's rich...

[CStrife912]

are they though? they have quite gleefully posted how they do not pay for their accounts.

if they are truly not, then they are not spending any money on the alts, so that argument for their untouchability flies out the window.

I would very much like anything thrown out of the window with these trolls but deleting threads doesn't do too much. The issue that is concerning here is if you are getting reports about these threads from this particular few people and this is abundant in being reported surely you must think hmmm maybe its best to ban the user now rather then let them cook.