I am fluent in Japanese as well so I go to the Japanese forums, and really the tone is quite different with far fewer complaints and an ample amount of "self-policing" between users when redundant threads exist.
However, with the recent issue in Crystal Conflict and perceived over-powered condition of Black Mages, the forum erupted with multiple threads for the same issue with quickly escalating amount of pages... and many posts deleted by moderators.
That seems to have led to a fairly quick fix and letter from Yoshida-san.

I wonder if the quick fix was due to how it was the Japanese fans who erupted, and thus the whole "they listen more to Japanese fans" seems to warrant some merit.
I see far more critique in the English forums for sure (and many of these seem to be valid) but very few feedback (or moderator attention) from the development team.