08-18-2009, 11:17 PM
Look I know you all like to act like little children on the forum at times but lets keep this serious and clean. Either discuss a viewpoint on this or do not post here.
I know some people don't care or realize that certain posts can be harmful to the shard but its becoming an issue.
It truly seems like its team A and Team B, both have their group of friends and they both try to get the other side to leave so that they can have the shard run their way. Thats the only rational thing I can come up with as nobody would be dumb enough to chase off the few remaining players for no good reason.
Anyway, as I said, this thread needs to be taken seriously as this is an issue.
I do like the idea of moving all the crap posts to a "garbage can" section.
I don't really want anyone to rule the forums with an iron fist though. I do believe in freedom of speech here but there is a line when it makes the shard, staff or players look bad and that line has been crossed too many times now. I suppose we could start censoring the forums to some degree... not with **** or @^%#& but if someone gets out of line we can rewrite their profanity to something embarrassing and change their font to pink.
someone posts something like: F you *****!!! and we could change it to:bends over and waits for the big one
Nothing like embarrassment to get a point across :p
Seriously though, I don't want to be a forum nazi but I just don't see how moving or deleting posts will change anything as they will continue to accumulate over time and the staff team shouldn't have to be paged for a cleanup on post 6 like we are janitors.
Is it really too much to ask that the bickering be taken to off topic? Is it too hard to act mature once in awhile, even if it is just an act? Seriously, a strong community builds a shard to what it is and ours couldn't be any weaker. Work together to get friends here, to suggest new ideas, to help each other out and you guys will see that it will help you all in the end as new players will actually stay and old players may come back as well.
I know some people don't care or realize that certain posts can be harmful to the shard but its becoming an issue.
It truly seems like its team A and Team B, both have their group of friends and they both try to get the other side to leave so that they can have the shard run their way. Thats the only rational thing I can come up with as nobody would be dumb enough to chase off the few remaining players for no good reason.
Anyway, as I said, this thread needs to be taken seriously as this is an issue.
I do like the idea of moving all the crap posts to a "garbage can" section.
I don't really want anyone to rule the forums with an iron fist though. I do believe in freedom of speech here but there is a line when it makes the shard, staff or players look bad and that line has been crossed too many times now. I suppose we could start censoring the forums to some degree... not with **** or @^%#& but if someone gets out of line we can rewrite their profanity to something embarrassing and change their font to pink.
someone posts something like: F you *****!!! and we could change it to:bends over and waits for the big one
Nothing like embarrassment to get a point across :p
Seriously though, I don't want to be a forum nazi but I just don't see how moving or deleting posts will change anything as they will continue to accumulate over time and the staff team shouldn't have to be paged for a cleanup on post 6 like we are janitors.
Is it really too much to ask that the bickering be taken to off topic? Is it too hard to act mature once in awhile, even if it is just an act? Seriously, a strong community builds a shard to what it is and ours couldn't be any weaker. Work together to get friends here, to suggest new ideas, to help each other out and you guys will see that it will help you all in the end as new players will actually stay and old players may come back as well.