Why was my Thread taken down?

[SturmChurro]

I'm more surprised about how quick it was taken down, considering the content of some threads. Such as very recently, but I won't get into that.

[Nethereal]

Checking my post history I have a pretty good idea which thread it was.

I forget the exact title but people turned 2 pages into politics, completely civil but now we know that SE does not want to see any form of discussion about politics on their forums.

Makes sense considering their branding.

[Theodric]

The thread made by a player in search of a Free Company was also removed.

[Neoyoshi]

The thread made by a player in search of a Free Company was also removed.

That one was destined to be removed from the start, I'm surprised it was up for as long as it was. xD

[MilkieTea]

Yeah, most likely. Might have been a topic best discussed in the off topic discussion thread that already exists.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ion-Megathread

The mods clearly don't mind having this one around.

Yeah. Not to sound like I’m advertising it or anything, but it’s there for this exact reason - coralling content that may or may not exactly be related to XIV, into one space to avoid cluttering the front page with off-topic stuff, or derailing other threads with off-topic stuff.

[SturmChurro]

Yeah. Not to sound like I’m advertising it or anything, but it’s there for this exact reason - coralling content that may or may not exactly be related to XIV, into one space to avoid cluttering the front page with off-topic stuff, or derailing other threads with off-topic stuff.

I like I said before, it's the speed at which threads are taken down. The thread I referred to in my prior post was left up for three days. It looks like things with a specific leaning are removed quite quickly.

[Rinhi]

it's a bit of a joke that that thread was removed but a plethora of pure bait and non-xiv related threads made by titanmen and copycat trolls aren't dealt with the same kind of response or urgency, tbh

[MilkieTea]

I like I said before, it's the speed at which threads are taken down. The thread I referred to prior was left up for three days. It looks like things with a specific leaning are removed quite quickly.

Oh definitely. Seems like - and this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, purely a PR move - but it seems like threads with distinct political leanings are removed far more swiftly than other threads.

Though the one recent one with horrible ill-wishes towards the devs, I feel, was left up just for the community to dig its teeth in before they removed it. Mods are humans too, and sometimes humans can be vindictive as HECK.

[Theodric]

For the sake of fairness, I'd prefer a blanket ban across the board on any complicated social or political issue as I do not believe that online games are a suitable platform for activism. After all by their very nature, any global game is going to attract players from all over the world from a great many different cultures, belief systems, backgrounds and countries.

[KizuyaKatogami]

Seems like the mods have a bias towards certain things. Guess they can’t handle some people’s opinions and instead decide to use their power to halt any form of debate. It’s pretty prevalent seeing as to how they handle other threads. Lots of off topic threads here lmao.