Why Are the FFXIV Forums So Bad?

[Sebazy]

Just curious, in-game its pretty pleasant, most people are reasonable and easy to talk to

That's because in game you can quite literally cop a ban for cut and pasting NPC dialogue if someone reports you over it.

I still laugh to this day at an old friend eating a temp ban in a dungeon for politely asking to be kicked as he had a raid starting shortly that he didn't anticipate and got reported for it. Doubly ironic as that was probably one of the few times he was actually ever polite =(

Here on the boards, the stakes aren't as high (Can confirm, you don't lose your character in game if you take a ban here), the rules and lines are much more clearly defined and overall the moderation would appear to be much laxer with things seemingly taking a sizeable mass report to get acted on perhaps the Mods here are kind of inconsistent in how they tackle posts that go past what's acceptable.

[Theodric]

That's because in game you can quite literally cop a ban for cut and pasting NPC dialogue if someone reports you over it.

I still laugh to this day at an old friend eating a temp ban in a dungeon for politely asking to be kicked as he had a raid starting shortly that he didn't anticipate and got reported for it. Doubly ironic as that was probably one of the few times he was actually ever polite =(

Here on the boards, the stakes aren't as high (Can confirm, you don't lose your character in game if you take a ban here), the rules and lines are much more clearly defined and overall the moderation would appear to be much laxer with things seemingly taking a sizeable mass report to get acted on perhaps the Mods here are kind of inconsistent in how they tackle posts that go past what's acceptable.

Unfortunately the terms of service is all too easily weaponised. Which in turn either causes people to get banned for stuff that could very easily be overlooked by any reasonable individual or they end up having to maintain a completely different style of speech to how they normally operate.

I know there's a lot of people who just don't bother socialising in this game because of it - which is a shame, since MMO's are meant to be social experiences at their core.