Lubriderm the Hand wrote:
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Seems pretty natural, to me.
What does? People overacting to mistakes and dumb questions by treating people like total cretins?
Hi, you must be new to the internet : )
Just messing around. I agree with you, of course. And I try to do my part in the FFXIV forum in my own way. It's just that I'm not surprised that things devolve into flaming with relative frequency. Frankly, that's what I'm used to around here...and it used to be far worse, in my recollection. I may be a bit more cynical, but that doesn't mean I don't try to encourage positive change.
Majivo wrote:
Yet the majority of the community isn't transitory - they're holdovers from FFXI, a forum section which has long had complaints and required heavy moderation. Occasionally outsiders come and agitate in other forums too, yet they aren't torn apart with the sheer ferocity displayed in the FFXIV forum. Speculation and daydreaming shouldn't be met with outright hostility except in cases where it's clearly just someone trolling. Unfortunately the community has apparently decided to assume that anyone who asks even a mildly outlandish question is just posting flamebait. I don't know if different sorts of players play FFXI, or if we got a bad initial seed and they've scared off most of the potential replacements, but it's hard to say that these problems come from any status of the FFXIV forum, because the FFXI section shares the exact same issues.
I pretty much agree. Like I said, I haven't been by forum=10 in years. I wouldn't even know who in the FFXIV forum is from the XI forum, either.
I don't agree with Aurelius' policy on dumb questions...we had a thread in there recently where I asserted that the best course of action is to point someone in the direction of the proper info source, and leave them on their way. There's also a tendency for people to rate-down anything they disagree with (but I highly doubt that's limited to the XIV forum).
But I chalk most of the negative stuff up to the fact that the game still hasn't come out yet. I think once it's been released people will be occupied with sorting out game things, so it'll be more cooperative.