Why Are the FFXIV Forums So Bad?

[Jeeqbit]

It's genuinely hard to tell if this is real.

If you're a different person then you have my apologies. The forums has a ton of alt accounts posting attempts to bait the forums, and honestly, we don't know how many bad actors there are either.

It's at the point where I can't even tell if you're real, because the main culprit who has a small army of alts has made high effort "new person posts" that we believed to be genuine, only for the forum account to start necroing their threads a few months later.

I know it looks suspicious given the language and tone of the OP, but the join date isn't this year and other details look normal and not like an alt.