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When will a MMO Forum be open for both Good and Bad theards?
Bafucin
Member Posts: 276
I been around for many years playing MMO's and all Forums have good and bad theards. The Good ones stays and the negative ones are locked. If you don't like the game or asslick the people behind it, then all your posting are Trolling. Why?
Today we have AoC and same thing again. Angry players and a forum with negative threads that are locked. Locked for trolling over and over again. What do people ask then? Well it's all from "when will we get next patch" to "what about the content on the box" etc. Sure it might look like stupid questions, but why lock them and call it trolling?
Is that a good thing to do? Or is it better to have the Forum open for all. Sure some threads might need to be locked...
Myself, if I had a MMO or other game.. I would keep it open for all. I think thats the best thing to see what people like and not like. Why? We are not the same, so we act and think different. A good thing we do.
And people change. Maybe the angry person starts to like the game, but he was called Troll, so now he is not sure about playing it again. Thats not good right?
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For starters, normally, the bad threads are less then well created. I mean, one can hardly understand if it's trolling or not. Posting stuff like "lol, game suckzz, stay aWayzz lolzz!!" (seen it be post), is useless.
Then again, some of the 'pro' posts also can be quite bad, but since it's given a good opinion, it's much harder to see if it's plain trolling, fanboi, or just a new kid with less then perfect grammar.
All in all, "freedom" will only exist if someone makes a forum wihtout sponsors/publicity/ads, or anything that involves... tcha tcha... Money!.
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The best writings and plays come from anger or despair.
That only proves what medicine has claimed and proven for years, that it enhances blood flow to the brain and stimulates the thought process.
I'm of the opinion that "positive fans" don't actually benefit the game, but it's often people upset with something who should have a right to speak up and should be listened to and be taken into consideration instead of the HERD mentality people have nowadays, which frankly just annoys the * out of me. But this doesn't just pertain to MMO, it's the general internet herd mentality that is so stupid when you see it at work in a discussion.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'm talking about people posting "I agree", forums that use a voting system where you can vote a person down, like Digg, and their opinion just becoomes non-visible, etc. The whole culture of the internet is favorable towards a majority that has a positive outlook on something. It's detrimental to a discussion that results in a good change.
As a person who has mostly just played City of Heroes, I find all these forums posts about Nazi forum moderations really weird/funny/unbelievable.
It really makes me appreciate the mod team that CoH has, since we don't see this type of behavior. Oh sure, they have locked threads before, but its always because a thread has descended into pages of flames, because its blatantly been thread-jacked, with no signs of recovering, or because they are actually consolidating several threads into a central issues thread.
But they have allowed plenty of threads complaining about changes to the game - about how the devs are getting it wrong, about how these changes have ruined the game and the poster will be leaving post-haste. There was even a catchphrase that people started using for these changes: 'the game has gone to the Americans'.
I really should head over to the CoH forums and make an appreciation thread for the moderators.
-Shakesphere
Well the thing is, I don't think shutting an opinion off actually helps.
It doesn't help because you fail to hear the person out and you don't get any negative feedback, feedback that helps developers or people decide what's wrong.
Secondly, you actually infuriate that person. The first thing you should do when a person is upset is hear him / her out. If you don't even do that, then you might as well not exist to that person because the only reason people will act so upset towards someone is to be heard in the first place. I think locking every negative thread like some MMO companies do lately really doesn't help at all, and has an adverse effect really.
If you allow overly negative topics then make a seperate forum just for them.
For example - not locking bad topics would lead to the WoW forum being 90% "WoW sucks" "WoW is going to die" "WoW has ruined all MMOs" and lastly "WoW raped my dog and stole my bible".
Another example - "AoC has not content" "AoC has awful PvP" "AoC runs like crap on my PC" and "Funcom are crooks"
Well, what about the people that like the game and just want to talk about it in peace? MMORPG.com has pretty inconsistent mods but they at least keep some semblence of order. With no boundaries or regulations a forum(like society) will fall into chaos.