Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Vyrerus]

Idk, I never really much bothered entering the male viera thread, so I wouldn't know. Pretty sure mods here don't really check much outside of reports, and even those they kind of ignore, likely because there's so many. It was likely one mod doing a lot of the moderating back whenever they did do it, and then life got the better of them and moved them away from moderating. People say they get paid to mod this site, but I am not so sure.

I mod the FFXIah site, and like... reports there are always people trying to just have authority ban or otherwise get opposition to shut up. It's silly, mostly, so I wind up not actually doing very much in the way of punishing people. Of course, that situation is rather different. I also had no access to the site, a year or so after becoming a mod, for like a year and a half. It was due to some error in the site code that wouldn't allow me to login. By the time I was able to get it fixed, I hadn't moderated anything in so long, that I kinda forgot the ruleset. Now people don't take my moderation very seriously, so I only really get the worst offenders. Of course, I don't get paid to moderate at all, so I only do it when I can manage to, anyway.

[SturmChurro]

I just keep waiting for one of them to notice that some pretty major lines in the sand have been crossed in certain threads.

You'd think they would have already noticed. It's as if it's completely hands off right now. Like it's not even specifically just moderation that I'd want to see, but community reps actually participating in the community here more.

Idk, I never really much bothered entering the male viera thread, so I wouldn't know. Pretty sure mods here don't really check much outside of reports, and even those they kind of ignore, likely because there's so many. It was likely one mod doing a lot of the moderating back whenever they did do it, and then life got the better of them and moved them away from moderating. People say they get paid to mod this site, but I am not so sure.

I mod the FFXIah site, and like... reports there are always people trying to just have authority ban or otherwise get opposition to shut up. It's silly, mostly, so I wind up not actually doing very much in the way of punishing people. Of course, that situation is rather different. I also had no access to the site, a year or so after becoming a mod, for like a year and a half. It was due to some error in the site code that wouldn't allow me to login. By the time I was able to get it fixed, I hadn't moderated anything in so long, that I kinda forgot the ruleset. Now people don't take my moderation very seriously, so I only really get the worst offenders. Of course, I don't get paid to moderate at all, so I only do it when I can manage to, anyway.

I've been a forum moderator on a fansite with, frankly, a much larger active userbase than this one at the time - with wide variety of topics (including politics), so there was a lot more room for controversial topics to show up... and our mod team was doing it for free. I'd assume the community reps are being paid. I guess the forums have really just been completely abandoned at this point. The English ones at least.

[Fukuro]

I guess the forums have really just been completely abandoned at this point. The English ones at least.

the german forums have a lovely person, interacting with people, assuring people that suggestions get sent to the dev team and such.
it‘s really weird the english one doesn‘t get as much attention as the japanese and german ones do.
and before people say „but the english one is more toxic“, a forsaken forum get‘s toxic without moderations after some time, if you leave it by itself.
i mean there are people that are blatantly trolling but they seem to get around with that stuff without a problem, which invites others to do the same.