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    Quote Originally Posted by Kolsykol View Post
    The thing that bothers me the most about political shenanigans online is that it's pretty much exclusively US-centric.
    It'd maybe bother me a bit less if it wasn't just the one pov and lens of looking at things through ( strangely enough even from a lot of non-Americans ).
    Like when it comes to gaming websites the last straw for me was when DoA6 was coming out and freaking reviews became about the last president and it became some '' left vs right '' culture war whether you liked the game or not...

    Imo it should just be shutdown immediately and be isolated to where it belongs in sub-sections or something.
    Gaming is a global market...
    Just create a trashfire politics section and then let it burn itself to the ground, don't even moderate it just let people go nuts but keep them away from everywhere else.
    The US has a lot of influence on both world politics and makes up a large portion of 'gamers'. It makes sense that there is bleed through. However, the site I was referring was host to world politics, especially British or EU topics, as there were a lot of users from that region. Now I do agree that real world politics should be - mostly - isolated to their own sections (of a general forum, not like here being specifically about FFXIV), and/or should only be addressed if it's relevant to the topic or something appearing in the game. The problem is politics has the tendency to get tempers raging on whatever side (or not) one may be, and quickly devolve into insult wars and personal attacks. It requires heavy moderation for actual discourse to happen, and even then it's touchy, as one side or the other will claim moderation is biased. It's usually easier to not allow it entirely.

    Quote Originally Posted by Fukuro View Post
    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.
    English forums definitely need somebody. Even just placing a warning in certain threads would go a long way, or just more interactions like for popular requests.
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    Last edited by SturmChurro; 09-14-2021 at 12:08 AM.
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