Why Are the FFXIV Forums So Bad?

[Orinori]

What do you want people to say when this is clearly bait? Fresh character posting like a certain you-know-who. I don't like to witch hunt but they're not even trying to hide it at this point and you're sitting there lapping it up.

They're aware that they don't need to bait with outlandish topics when simply posting something about positivity/negativity/anything about the forums is such easy bait that most forumers find irresistible.

What makes it worse is the fact that this behavior is apparently acceptable to most of you as long as the sentiments provided by the OP align with your own.

I'm really not baiting, though in hindsight I didn't mean to have the rude vibe the OP had, I was more or less in a joking manner trying to explain the demeanor and how ridiculous it is given the assumed average age of forum users.

I was actually genuinely curious why the forums just seem like an entirely different atmosphere and why this exact thing you're demonstrating here happens. There has been a ton of super interesting and helpful answers, basically summing up to lack of moderation and anonymity combined with a lack of punishment being tied to SE account.

[NekoMataMata]

I'm really not baiting, though in hindsight I didn't mean to have the rude vibe the OP had, I was more or less in a joking manner trying to explain the demeanor and how ridiculous it is given the assumed average age of forum users.

I was actually genuinely curious why the forums just seem like an entirely different atmosphere and why this exact thing you're demonstrating here happens. There has been a ton of super interesting and helpful answers, basically summing up to lack of moderation and anonymity combined with a lack of punishment being tied to SE account.

It's genuinely hard to tell if this is real.

If you're a different person then you have my apologies. The forums has a ton of alt accounts posting attempts to bait the forums, and honestly, we don't know how many bad actors there are either.

It's at the point where I can't even tell if you're real, because the main culprit who has a small army of alts has made high effort "new person posts" that we believed to be genuine, only for the forum account to start necroing their threads a few months later.

[Orinori]

It's genuinely hard to tell if this is real.

If you're a different person then you have my apologies. The forums has a ton of alt accounts posting attempts to bait the forums, and honestly, we don't know how many bad actors there are either.

It's at the point where I can't even tell if you're real, because the main culprit who has a small army of alts has made high effort "new person posts" that we believed to be genuine, only for the forum account to start necroing their threads a few months later.

Thats pretty intense, no I'm no alt, I play very regularly this is my main. Although it does spread some light on all the alt comments lol I was very confused, and if thats going on I could understand everyone being on guard
You can feel free to check my mediocre logs kekw

[Jeeqbit]

It's genuinely hard to tell if this is real.

If you're a different person then you have my apologies. The forums has a ton of alt accounts posting attempts to bait the forums, and honestly, we don't know how many bad actors there are either.

It's at the point where I can't even tell if you're real, because the main culprit who has a small army of alts has made high effort "new person posts" that we believed to be genuine, only for the forum account to start necroing their threads a few months later.

I know it looks suspicious given the language and tone of the OP, but the join date isn't this year and other details look normal and not like an alt.

[Stormpeaks]

I know it looks suspicious given the language and tone of the OP, but the join date isn't this year and other details look normal and not like an alt.

Yeah nah this is an alt of you know who 100%, he has alts from accounts he's had in the past, not the first time

way too obvious

[sindriiisgaming]

Yeah nah this is an alt of you know who 100%, he has alts from accounts he's had in the past, not the first time

way too obvious

is it somebody whos name sounds like numerous? ive been thinking its them just not sure

I don't find the behavior acceptable and I have an extremely poor/comical vision of how I imagine such posters behind the screen. But...I can't put the energy in caring more than the moderation team, so here we are.

I am impressed with how disruptive ONE person is to an entire forum...not impressed with that person, but that it's allowed to continue.

once zepla/mr happy or xenosys catches on and exposes it the mods will deal with it and actually moderate the forums

Oh.. o.o thats definitely not what I've picked up but I've only been on the forums a few months now, so maybe I'm just seeing a small slice

not buying this bruh. been on these forums 2 weeks now and this an neumenons other post is only time i ever seen u around

I know it looks suspicious given the language and tone of the OP, but the join date isn't this year and other details look normal and not like an alt.

as soon as i saw the character's face and the lack of a certian presence on this particular thread i too was sus it could be an alt. That person has been getting constant backlash here latley and i figured they just went mask off on an alt out of frustration

[Rufalus]

People are just now discovering that this forum was built over an Indian burial ground and it's literally cursed. Sometimes vengeful spirits inhabit the accounts of frequent forum posters like how an Ascian takes a new body as its host. The goal is much the same. When the confluence of chaos reaches its peak, the one true troll shall be reborn. That highlander guy, I guess. As we speak his dark servants work to rejoin his alts.

[Renalt]

People are just now discovering that this forum was built over an Indian burial ground and it's literally cursed. Sometimes vengeful spirits inhabit the accounts of frequent forum posters like how an Ascian takes a new body as its host. The goal is much the same. When the confluence of chaos reaches its peak, the one true troll shall be reborn. That highlander guy, I guess. As we speak his dark servants work to rejoin his alts.

Sounds like we need White Auracite. Or Scrubbing Bubbles.

[sindriiisgaming]

I'm really not baiting, though in hindsight I didn't mean to have the rude vibe the OP had, I was more or less in a joking manner trying to explain the demeanor and how ridiculous it is given the assumed average age of forum users.

I was actually genuinely curious why the forums just seem like an entirely different atmosphere and why this exact thing you're demonstrating here happens. There has been a ton of super interesting and helpful answers, basically summing up to lack of moderation and anonymity combined with a lack of punishment being tied to SE account.

honestly? ballony sausage.. like really im not buying this lame excuse. u dont just post something so provocative and insulting to your fellow players without a modicum of self awareness to even read it. if u had any self respect ud delete or at least TRY to necro this thread. ull find nothing of value on here with a post like this, only anger and spite.. and unless u genuinly enjoy negitive attention, i cannot fathom why youd encourage it your way. you're not proving some point about the community being toxic, ur being the very toxicity you claim not to like