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

[Joven]

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.

Based on your responses you have an overly aggressive attitude and people tend to respond negatively towards that.

That being said: the forums here are a very small fraction of the playerbase. Not a good metric to base assumptions on.