We need more GMs in the forums.

[Themarvin]

I have never seen this games forums so toxic in all of my life. It has become so apparently toxic, if you even mention this place outside of the forums, people will laugh and eyeroll anyone who participates here. That isn't good.
What is supposed to be a place of constructive criticism and feedback has become a place that reminds me of the real world we live in. Fiercely divided, ruined by trolls, and negative people who don't care about anybody else.

For a long time I have loved to participate here, but I find my blood boiling so much at some of the posts, replies, and comments here, that I have had to actually force myself to stay logged off on my mobile devices, and only on my home computer. That way I can only browse, and not be in a perpetual state of anger, and disappointment. I have to actually force myself to have self control, so that I don't live to regret how I react to some of the vile things that happen here.

This place should be a place that reflects the community in a good light, so that we are heard by devs when we feel we need to voice our wishes and concerns for FFXIV as a whole. Not a place where people get laughed at, mocked, and harassed just because they share a different point of view, or happen to be the victim of an online hate mob for a day.

There are several twitters that mock this place, and take the most awful posts for people to look at and laugh. There's even threads where people on other forums talk about who to bash, doxx, and brigade here. They are actively targeting people that some do not agree with, and creating issues. We need more involvement from the people that run these forums. This forum has lost its way. I am deeply concerned about how people are affected by the lack of oversight here. With that said, I don't want the place to be locked down to the point where we cannot relax, and talk freely. We just need way more middle ground, because it's become obvious that things are way to lax here. People get away with way too much negativity and hate that shouldn't be tolerated. I watched as someone was LITERALLY BEING A RACIST toward African Americans today, and the post is STILL UP. This is just one tiny sliver of the discourse we have gone on. These kinds of things happen everyday, and I don't think the staff that SE has allotted for the forums can keep up. It is plainly obvious. Please do something.

They are here and if you overstep, they will do something about it, and I notice that you don't like peoples replies, if anything, mostly due to that they may have pointed at the ToS to help out for stuff not happening again... and that get put in jail really takes something in a wrong direction to end up there to begin with.

[Payadopa]

The OP is spot-on.
The only people who like the forum are the same dozen-or-so people who immediately shoot down every opinion that isn't liked by them and thus the echo chamber continues.

[icemage]

You never know if there is GM's on the forum, they could be posting with their game accounts and not their GM account.

There's at least one former GM who engages with the community on the Balance.

[MementoKoishi]

We need more GMs

You have made 3 threads complaining about people bullying you, perhaps it's time to just leave then. This is Poe's law at work, idk if you are someone creating bait threads or genuinely this stupid.

[Kolaina]

The OP is spot-on.
The only people who like the forum are the same dozen-or-so people who immediately shoot down every opinion that isn't liked by them and thus the echo chamber continues.

This is true. For you too even. The forums have people that frequent a lot so you notice the same names constantly. those people have certain beliefs and visions. Doesn’t mean they are an echo chamber. The echo chamber only starts when you don’t allow those who think differently than you to have a voice.

You and I see things very differently, yet, here we both are

[Remish]

You have made 3 threads complaining about people bullying you, perhaps it's time to just leave then. This is Poe's law at work, idk if you are someone creating bait threads or genuinely this stupid.

He has but most of them are necro'd by Titanman who has singled Damian out. If you look at the date of most of the threads, they were made well over a year ago.

There's at least one former GM who engages with the community on the Balance.

Feels like someone I wish I could meet. But I don't interact with the Balance discord outside of recruiting and occasional questions. For the most part, it's about as toxic as here if not worse at times.