That’s fair, but I’d say they’d then rapidly get correct info (probably quicker than they otherwise would tbh, given how the internet works) in short order that drowns that out.
The thing is to me at least the whole ‘they don’t play on this server’ is very much a dog whistle used to scream ‘not one of us’ by certain types against people they don’t like. So I just can’t see it as relevant because of how it’s so often used.
unfortunately, capitalism.
Pretty much, like the in game is pretty large and if you only RP with your guild out in BFN-- you’re still RPing and are still on the server RPing.
What all the forums DO need is an actual human moderator. But that applies to all forums, not just AD.
as bad as this one used to be to police, general discussion would be an absolute nightmare now
General is literally what i’m thinking about, yeah.
Still trying to figure out how a thread concerning “peeves” (where 90% of the ‘discussion’ concerns non-RP/WoW related media and topics) to engage in idle and usually spur-of-the-moment discord chatter belongs on a RP forum. Just make a discord server for it?
I think people are willfully forgetting how bad it could be on the forums back in the day with dislikes.
Like, yes we still got abuse of flagging to hide posts now, but when it wasn’t even a report feature and just something that could be done without harm, it was so heavily abused.
Simply getting in a disagreement with a guild leader could have you stalked for a few weeks and get -90 downvotes on every post by them, their guilds and alts.
That is not healthy for a forum community.
I never bothered with reddit due to the downvote system. It’s so often abused for petty reasons - often trivial stuff like someone expressing a personal preference as to which character they like best in a movie, TV show or video game.
It also establishes very clearly who does it (as you can see the list of characters mass downvoting your posts) as opposed to the current mass flagging that occurs in complete anonimity.
Niether is a healthy practice but in one case you can easily tell which brigade is abusing a forum feature (and thus everyone understands it’s not a majority public opinion) while the other usually turns into malcontent shadowboxing with people who don’t even have anything to do with the thread or post.
I mean that’s true yes, but I still do not think its something thats particularly good to have just for that reason.
They have.
They just continue to post in public too.
Please direct me to this enigmatic server. I would love to know where it is!
No-one said that’s the sole reason, I actually remember the period when groups didn’t weaponize the Like/Dislike system against individuals and it was fine.
You can argue that the damage has already been done and people would just go back to burying posts based on the person posting, hence I suggested that mass downvoting wouldn’t hide anything or act as a soft-report, nor would mass upvoting highlight any post either.
Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning.
Downvotes sucked. It was just people being … not genuine.
Could also dump a cap on how many dislikes it showed. After 10 it just says 10+ or something? Not sure it helps with the mental optics massively but it might.
Yes of course, apologies. That was specifically my wording and something I brought up.
What I meant more is that both systems are currently flawed. I just think the one in the past was more so as despite the problem with moderation today, the abuse of flagging does atleast get somewhat moderated, though how fast and to what extent can vary wildly.
Where as the abuse of the downvote system had no such things in place at all.
It’s a server forum, not an RP forum.
General chat between members of said server is actually perfectly reasonable.
The title is a hold over from what it once was.
And when in doubt, mute it out.
Honestly I’m in the camp where I want to see the detractors and cliques that’d mass downvote posts down to the last person, particularly if its hand-in-hand with their BTags being visible. Not just my posts mind you, any of them.
It would make reporting and moderation requests have a lot better basis too as the average forum user would be able to tell who’s using an army of alts or guildies to demoralize a person, rather than actually getting their posts removed or account actioned by the semi-automated janitors without a hint of who’s doing it.