Quote Originally Posted by Sinh119 View Post
General Discussion, while receiving the most activity, is also the one section most prone to conflicts of ideas or interests. People use General Discussion to talk about controversial topics because GD is where those topics will gain the most traction, and since the FFXIV forums have regulars like any other forum, those more inclined to disagree with each other will most likely bump into each other with relative frequency. It’s also very likely that the new app has caused a sort of polarization among the forum community. You’ll inevitably see arguments between people on both sides of that discussion who are very vocal with their opinions, and those arguments have, in some respects, dominated GD. Most other sections of the forums seem innocuous enough, and in this respect GD stands out.
On this note, it's kind of interesting how General Discussion has more traffic than...let's say the boards designated for certain servers too from what I've noticed. It seems like, based on first impressions mind you, that the individual server boards get more FC recruiting snippets than anything else. I wonder if it's feasible or even worth it to keep the servers separate at that point on the forums and maybe just condense the individual server topics into just their data centers?

Or would that become too chaotic and a pain to navigate through topics, I wonder. It sometimes seems like a lot of dead space just lying around that no one really uses except for certain things.