sadboys2002 wrote:
darexius2010 wrote:
sadboys2002 wrote:
Yikes, every post that doesn't praise the game 100% in this thread is hidden... no wonder it's a dead forum
lol Go back to school and take reading. Clearly you're not good at it or haven't spent any time looking at this forum with your 1 post.
It took me 5 minutes of browsing the forum to realize why it's dead. Any post that isn't brainless fanboying gets hidden from view. What an awful system, of course people dont want to bother posting in a forum where if they post an unpopular opinion, it will get filed away/hidden from view. What an archaic system to have, even the official forum would be much better. Zam should restructure its fansite forums.
Even my first post got hidden. What a great way to welcome a new member *scoff*. Of course no one is going to acknowledge my questions about the games popularity and the likelihood of an expansion/utility&rogue classes. My post got hidden because I didn't say "I LOVE SQUARE ENIX & ZAM!!!" How very very sad. Even 4chan would encourage more intelligent discussion than this overly filtered & censored drivel
Edited, Apr 21st 2014 8:43am by sadboys2002
A long time ago the Allakhazam boards had a good name. Back in the Everquest days, and early FFXI, we used to share information on mobs, tactics, drops, etc in conjunction with Ilia and it was very rare to see a Default rating let alone a Sub-Default. Sadly, the years haven't been too kind and after the original owners sold the board on the place went downhill fast which is when most of the contributing members worth a damn moved on to pastures new. The forums are some select little clique now where any view that opposes the prevailing mob mood is rated down in short order in some pathetic attempt at censorship. Even sadder is the figurehead of this mood all too often appears to be an admin who seems of the opinion he is always correct and literally spams the everliving crap out of every thread I seem to view. The general result being any views counter to his own are continually rebuked until his cronies rate the replies down to Sub-Default. He'll presumably claim he's a player who just happens to mod the forums but I personally feel he's doing a pretty bad job of it by dominating threads and turning a blind eye to mob rule.
Briefly, the more posts you have to your name the harder it is to rate you down, so you'll find that the most prolific spammers of these threads are protected pretty much from ever dipping below decent but, as you found out yourself, people less inclined to post every 5 seconds are far more easily silenced. Admins, also, are locked at Excellent, which means regardless of what he posts Thayos's opinions will always remain visible.
So, in short, welcome to the forums but don't build your hopes up of finding any real discussions here that may happen to involve any real criticism of S-E.