The Official Forums is an EXTREMELY poor example of a "Good Community"

[xxmiamorecadenza]

So you're using one instance to paint an entire group? There's always going to be bad apples in any group, but that's no excuse to paint everybody with the same brush.

Here's my perspective overall after being active here the previous year.

General Forums is a more realistic version of the FFXIV community.

Here people don't really have to be overly kindly. And can be blunt about how they may or may not feel.

As someone who Raids, FC's, Discord Chats, Twitters and so on - I do standby the opinion that the community ain't all that.

There are genuinely great people both on here and out of it.

But General Forums, due to the lack of moderation, is a bit of a congealed pit of negative emotions that just boil together.