So if it's not related to FFXIV?!

[Agoven]

An off topic forum is in the best interest of this site. It keeps general discussion cleaner and makes less work for the mods.

People ARE going to talk about other stuff. Might as well provide them a place to do it rather than locking the threads whenever they appear.

This is called moderating with a purpose!

And um...when has any post on these forums not ended in TROLL land? Clean...that'll only happen with subscriptions. Look at every gaming forum that is open to all...and look at the ones closed only to the paying gaming community.

Very very different worlds.

[Rowyne]

Oh and it was never a question about religion or religious belief guys! I simply wanted to bring to light the question of how far renoved from the ffxiv world can you discuss before it being un-related and tehrefore blocked in a general discussion forum.

I gave an example of another religious festival, in this case christmas, merely as a comparison.

I think you're missing the point of the real reason the thread was most likely closed - not just because it was off topic, but because the topic was attracting trolls who posted offensive content.

Usually purely off topic posts will just get you flamed by the community. The forum mods generally only step in when it escalates beyond that.

[AshToreth]

To the OP....
Get over it!
I for one am sick and tired if todays oversensitive religious fruitloops spouting grievenaces like they are the victims.
People cant even say boo to a goose these days without getting branded by some religious group or another!

[Wynn]

This is called moderating with a purpose!

And um...when has any post on these forums not ended in TROLL land? Clean...that'll only happen with subscriptions. Look at every gaming forum that is open to all...and look at the ones closed only to the paying gaming community.

Very very different worlds.

If you think subscriptions are going to stop off-topic threads from being started, you're wrong. Also, most game forum sites have an off topic forum. This isn't controversial stuff, except to maybe the weird people FF seems to have attracted who are offended by things like jumping.

[Agoven]

It may not stop off topics...but it'll reduce the trolls.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

some ppl here offended me more than enough, hope this thread can just /thread. Yes i'm muslim, and eid mubarak is a holiday.

[Mishakai]

There are forums for everything. This is a Final Fantasy forum, and thus, posts and discussions should pertain to Final Fantasy. If you want to talk about religion, politics, cars, dogs, cats, guns, lawnmowers, beer, iPhones vs Droids.. whatever tickles your fancy, rest assured there is a forum out there that will welcome your subject.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

i would have to agree if the old post that was lock because of an offensive thinggie, but if it was lock to just because saying Happy Eid Mubarak, is totally wrong, because is the same as just wishing Merry Christmas, or Happy Holloween or other stuff like Happy Chinese New year.

:< im sad if it was that.

[Rutelor]

What the hell is Eid Mubarak? As far as I know this game does not mention the former dictator of Egypt in any shape or form.

You do know, of course, that Eid Mubarak is an expression muslims use to greet fellow muslims on certain holidays, don't you? Even non-religious people use it. The mubarak in the phrase is NOT deposed Hosni of Egypt... it means "blessed" in Arabic, and it completes the phrase, which roughly means "A blessed festival to you!"

I would expect you know all this, since your very name in the game is a variation of the Westernized name of a star (Alpha Orionis) the original form of which is in Arabic (Bait al-Jauzā') since it was the Muslim astronomers of old that named it.

Sometimes it's best to be quiet, when your fingers hurt so much... so much that even to google something copy-pasted from a forum seems like a chore.

[Keith_Dragoon]

WHAT THEY NEED is and OT section people can goto and just talk about anything and everything under the sun that does not involve FFXIV.