"Everyone's so open and friendly" is a lie

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

people were having a civil discussion about various aspects of the community and experiences of it, but apparently that was worth removing? nothing that was said by anyone that took part in it was against the rules, there was no name calling, no one was insulted, people were just writing their experiences and/or observations down
though, one could certainly argue that one of the mentioned aspects of the community is either very report happy when directly mentioned or worse, the moderation wants people to not talk about it a la reddit

I don't know that I'd say it was completely civil, there's a lot of disingenuous posts in this thread, from people saying how bad the community is and people saying the community has no issues.

The reality is that people on the forums are much more vocal and opinionated than people in game, and most experiences in game will be positive. Very few members of the community visit outside of game media, so their impressions tend to be on the positive end. Hence all the "Wow, the XIV community is great" posts you see on places like reddit.

As I said before, the communities opinion on itself is like reviews. Peoples viewpoints will trend the impressions one way or another, and XIVs is seen as mostly positive.

There seems to be a lot of people on here who think anyone having a positive view of the game/community/devs are white knights or shills or w/e, and there is another subset who think anyone who dislikes the game apparently came from WoW and should leave.

Both groups are equally terrible to deal with.