Custom CC Games are way better than Ranked

[Mawlzy]

Previous post was in response to this. I have forgotten how to work a forum in 2024 apparently o_O

Understood, my company like most others moved off forums several years ago.

Since you are here, I'd like to share my experience as someone who joined Revival about a year ago and subsequently left. As Valence notes, there is an attempt to be welcoming which should be commended. The light moderation, OTOH, is IMO a serious problem and very different to the approach I took as a Discord mod.

Because I have modded, I take server etiquette seriously. Different communities work to different standards, and simply figuring out the sort of questions/content being posted, the preferred channels for different content, and so on, is something I like to suss out before sticking my oar in. So I lurk for a bit on any new server.

Revival puzzled me. My interest is primarily FL, so that is the channel I looked at most. It appeared to be being used as a general chat room, despite the presence on the server of a "general" channel. It was cluttered with images of adventure plates, memes and gifs. Typically I would expect pins in this channel to feature evergreen content of interest to FL players, but this was not the case.

You mention you have SE reps on Revival. How are they supposed to take the temperature of the room when so much of the content is clutter?

Communities by their nature develop their own customs and conventions, but looking for information about FL and being confronted by incomprehensible "in jokes" and anime girls with big boobs simply made Revival feel cliquey and unwelcoming to me. And when I asked what I thought was a sensible question about playing WAR in FL, I was again met with random images and nonsense.

One of your mods was kind enough to DM me and apologize, while an experienced FL player also DMd me and we had a very productive discussion about situational-variations in the ordering of skills in WAR's burst.

I should emphasize that this was before anyone had connected my Discord handle to my FF14 character. Once that happened I'm perfectly willing to accept that the rudeness I received was deserved given the sniping I have done here. I also appreciate that nobody on your server is getting paid, whereas as a mod I was. Thus I had greater motivation to moderate channels so that they were actually useful to everyone, and not just a select few using the FL channel as a chat room.

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