Why Are the FFXIV Forums So Bad?

[Absimiliard]

Welp, look on the bright side. At least these forums have not yet reached the point of regularly deleting negative comments and threads. If you take a peek over in Blizzard-land, specifically in the D4 forums, you may notice an inordinate number of threads criticizing the dumpster fire state of that game keep getting locked and/or mysteriously disappearing. Pretty sure I'll take a general (but seemingly not complete, considering people do occasionally get banned if they go far enough off the rails) lack of moderation over active censorship. The only censorship we have to worry about here is users having a tendency to dogpile (and occasionally mass report) dissenting opinions.

Making any kind of favorable comparison of these forums to another is surreal. Truly a testament to how far gone online communication as a whole is.