Anti-Troll system

[Xenor]

I like this feature but pretty useless if you have more than three classes ranked up. Why bother showing any? My sig is already obsolete for that reason but I've not bothered changing it yet because all the other character sigs I've seen are fugly.

[_C-a-e-r-i-t-h_]

We need the ignore feature to also ignore threads they start. -_-, this isn't to the OP of this thread, but you know some people I mean.

We need the ignore feature to ignore threads and posts based on concepts. Like, "ignore all bitching about FFXI" and "ignore all complaining about complaining" and "ignore all can't spell."

[Vahzl]

Never really understood the need to want to ignore threads people make. Posts, yes, but just because someone upset you in one thread, doesn't mean they will do the same in another.

I wind alot of people up, mainly because I have some very conflicting views, which I am seldom afraid to state, and this tends to twist up some peoples knickers, causing them to launch into tyrades against me as if I am the second coming of the fallen one, which they don't realise that I really couldn't care less about.

Ignore posts - Yes

Ignore threads - Pointless - You might be missing out on all the fun!

Ignore Peregrine Falcon and Gifthorse (plus his 29 zombie accounts) - Should be added as default to all new accounts

[KaiKatzchen]

I love the ignore function that you can put posters on, I've used it a few times.

I also like the idea of connecting the forum posters to their accounts for a few reasons.

If I am correct, and correct me if I am wrong, people don't have to play the game to post here they just have to create an account. With this you have to have a character connected to your forum account to post, and this will make it so only people who have active characters can post. Now I could be wrong about this, but I thought someone had said anyone can create an account and post here with or without having FFXIV.

Also it will be interesting to see who is who on the forums since not every uses their character name as their forum name, what type of classes they have and what server they are from.

I like it, will be fun after the update.

[Vahzl]

I love the ignore function that you can put posters on, I've used it a few times.

I also like the idea of connecting the forum posters to their accounts for a few reasons.

If I am correct, and correct me if I am wrong, people don't have to play the game to post here they just have to create an account. With this you have to have a character connected to your forum account to post, and this will make it so only people who have active characters can post. Now I could be wrong about this, but I thought someone had said anyone can create an account and post here with or without having FFXIV.

Also it will be interesting to see who is who on the forums since not every uses their character name as their forum name, what type of classes they have and what server they are from.

I like it, will be fun after the update.

Can't wait to see even more of "You don't even matter as you don't even have XXXX class at R50", and you see this a tonne on the crafting forums whenever someone dares to mention the RNG of the crafting minigame.

[Rentahamster]

I don't ignore anyone.

I <3 all of you.

[KaiKatzchen]

Can't wait to see even more of "You don't even matter as you don't even have XXXX class at R50", and you see this a tonne on the crafting forums whenever someone dares to mention the RNG of the crafting minigame.

I don't care if people have a 50, I know I don't have a 50 and it also says you have to choose 3 of your classes. It doesn't say it has to be your 3 highest, so it could be people's favorite classes. Anyway I am of the mind that high levels doesn't automatically equal that the person knows more than someone who has lower ranks. Sometimes a person rushes though so fast they miss a lot. Someone who may have a lower rank but takes time might actually know more about the game in that aspect.

Anyway it doesn't matter to me. I'm just interested to see what people level, and who some people really are.

[_C-a-e-r-i-t-h_]

Can't wait to see even more of "You don't even matter as you don't even have XXXX class at R50", and you see this a tonne on the crafting forums whenever someone dares to mention the RNG of the crafting minigame.

The notice says you pick 3 classes to have linked to your profile. I'll be linking my three lowest. Like, ones I have at 0, on an alt.

Arguments should stand by their own merit, not by who said them. When threads start devolving into "but you're level 1" you know the people in there don't have a logical leg to stand on.

[Amsai]

Hmm.... I usually have complaints about certain features of the game it self. This marks the first time that I have a problem with changes to the forums. I am honestly suprised more people don't have a problem with this??

I am seriously against this, and here is why: I think it could cater to a certain aspect of elitism, and it attempts to destroy anonymity. Personally I don't have a problem showing everyone what classes I have at what level, but I can see how some people could use it (and have done so when people have it in their sigs) as grounds to call their opinion on a topic into question. I do, however, have a problem with SE trying to take away my anonymity. I have in the past made some negative comments about this game, and will do so in the future. I have voiced complaints, and will probably continue to do so. So I appreciate the anonymity, because what I do on the forums, and what I do in the game are completely unrelated.

I am a friendly and helful player in general, particularly to my LS and friends. I do not dwell on or get into lengthy debates/arguments with fellow players in game about whats wrong with FFXIV and would never do so. What I choose to do instead is abstain from the game for now. However, even when I played the game, I tried to make the best of it and will do so again when Patch 1.18 comes. This game lacks a fair amount of community and people to have a community with as it is, so I don't need my opinion on the forums to negatively impact the way people interact with me in game.

I don't consider myself a troll any more than the other people in these forums that have opposite views on things. We have different opinions, and while sometimes some of the things people say are good in this game make me go a bit crazy, I do try to refrain from being an absolute a%%hole. I even try to look at this issue a bit more objectively to search for compromise. The point is that there is no right or wrong opinion, there are only differences in opinion (not fact), and everyone should be entitled to his/her own voice as was intended by the creation of these forums.

So yea......... this is a really bad idea, and has only encouraged me to create a second character (oh the fun I will have with the char names) specifically to be used on these forums. Someone in an earlier post suggested that this would weed out trolls (which I read as weeding out people of a differing opinion). I am here to tell you, even if they start charging, I will pay for that extra character for the life of the game or until I finally see no hope for it (is it secretly a way to get people to buy another character for when they start charging? o.0). Because believe it or not, I do want this game to succede and have great hope in its potential, IF SE can get there act together (totally subjective to my ideals).

Now its time to put some serious thought into a name for my "fake" character.

[KaiKatzchen]

Arguments should stand by their own merit, not by who said them. When threads start devolving into "but you're level 1" you know the people in there don't have a logical leg to stand on.

I agree, if someone can only use a persons supposed inexperience or ranks as an argument people can pretty much figure out that they really don't have anything to counteract your statement. At that point anything they say is just to try and make themselves feel like they actually do have a point...

Anyway I have all my ranks out for everyone to see on my sig, so they can say anything about me that they want. I'll just laugh at them if it turns to something so childish as picking on me about a rank. At least I don't mind people seeing my ranks, one person insulted my ranks so I told them to tell me theirs if they were so much better than myself. Of course I never got a response from them, but then again I didn't expect one either.