Quote Originally Posted by NobleWinter View Post
Forums are literally for people to converse
From my understanding the FFXIV forums were supposed to be for leaving feedback about the game.

Saying silence is tacit agreement seems a little dangerous lol. Nobody ever replies to my posts about how we should all have gcd buffs and debuffs and that dps abilities and DoTs are purely ancillary, but that doesn’t meant they agree in any way, shape or form. More likely they just read my post and (reasonably) concluded it was a bad idea because it doesn’t work in ffxiv like, at all.

People giving their opinions and agreement/disagreement isn’t really the issue here, it’s that they’ve become so circular that every thread devolves into the same thing (Two or more people arguing over who is more right) and not actual opinions or discussions about the game itself.

Personally I just don’t see the point of making a protracted rebuttal to someone’s opinion purely because you don’t like it. That doesn’t mean ostracising or ‘silencing’ anyone, it just means not engaging with them when it comes a point that they’re being ‘unreasonable’. If they reevaluate and come back more willing to actually discuss, then of course they shouldn’t still be ignored