Less and less SE interaction with forums community over time

[Laerune]

First page of the general discussion should be enough reason for SE to avoid this forum.

[Theodric]

First page of the general discussion should be enough reason for SE to avoid this forum.

Compared to...what, exactly?

Reddit? Twitter? Simply searching the FFXIV tag on the latter risks bringing up stuff far more disturbing than anything I have ever seen posted here.

Square Enix also has full control of this site. The only reason things are spiralling out of control periodically is due to the lack of a persistent, obvious presence. Which is something quite a lot of regular posters have been calling out for a while now.

[Lauront]

Compared to...what, exactly?

Reddit? Twitter? Simply searching the FFXIV tag on the latter risks bringing up stuff far more disturbing than anything I have ever seen posted here.

Square Enix have full control of this site. The only reason things are spiralling out of control periodically is due to the lack of a persistent, obvious presence.

Agreed. It's their forum, so any issues with the content here due to lack of moderation fall squarely on their shoulders.

[Iscah]

First page of the general discussion should be enough reason for SE to avoid this forum.

The first page of General Discussion is exactly why SE needs to spend more time on this forum and observe that the current standard of moderation is not working.

And it does need to be regular time spent, because a single glance suggests "the forum is a mess" but observation over time will make it pretty clear that most of the mess could be cleared up with better moderation.