I don’t think it’s even semi at this point.
But I get what you’re saying. There is some value in being able to see it, but my god is it too easy to get stuck on the negatives.
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Which was precisely the goal of those who weaponised it when it was in place on the forums yes.
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Ah human nature, my old foe.
But I’ll maintain that the best thing going forward would be have forums attached to bnet name based posts and have like a preferred character portrait or similar.
at least with the character name under it so you can look them up easily. (but with b net name too)
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Ight, bet. My point remains. How does it relate to anything else ongoing productively, and why does a discord server not suffice?
It’s the same group of people, on repeat, ad nauseam, discussing most often things not relating to WoW or Argent Dawn, posting general IRL updates, cat pictures etc. I don’t see why 12 iterations (after comment cap) of that is any more use than the first 4.
Even more so, then. Why not a server for your social needs?
Other spill-over threads from general forums, be it gameplay related, performance or otherwise gets shoo’ed for less. Why is the Peeve one any different?
Forums are nice and open where everybody can get involved.
Discord not so much.
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I’m just gonna be sort of semi-blunt and say that as has already been said by Distantpeak, if the existence of a thread in which people are just having fun and talking harmlessly is so incredibly upsetting to someone, they can mute it.
I’m gonna be more blunt and say that a vast majority of times (and it doesn’t seem to be any different this time), the only times there’s any complaints at the thread’s mere existence, its from individuals that have behaved poorly there or elsewhere and didn’t appreciate getting told off for it.
It’s just sheer pettiness and spite, which sort of links back to this thread and some of the original points raised with AD’s dramatic forum history.
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Reminds me of that picture where a stick figure is shouting at the others to quit having fun.
They see other people enjoying themselves and get upset about it.
Edit: And besides, while I do enjoy reading the thread, if that or just the people who regularly post there moved to a discord server, I wouldn’t follow. I just couldn’t be bothered, I have too many discord servers I don’t really read, they’re just there.
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Nailed it.
It’s not a problem thread. It’s a fun thread for all lest you don’t want to get involved. Simple. Don’t like it? Don’t look. Mute it. Scream and cry. It doesn’t matter.
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If people don’t like a certain thread… you do realise you can just use the handy-dandy forum controls (one of the few things that works quite well) and just… never see that thread ever again?
Sounds very much like a PEBKAC, frankly.
(Edit: and if people HAVE already done that and said thread is still living rent free in peoples heads? Uh… That’s a bit odd. You realise that’s odd, right?)
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Genuine question: what difference would it make if only people who are subscribed could post? I’ve never quite understood the point.
People used to make anonymous acounts, level the character to 10 just so they could get away with throwing vitriol at other forum goers.
Its died down a lot now.
But also people referred to as “talking heads” apparently only visit this forum and are not subbed so it would stop them posting too (again, most the people labled with this dog whistle do in fact have a sub running)
EDIT:
Wish people would do that with other posters they don’t like instead of sniping at them endlessly.
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That’s sort of how I’ve interpreted it as well.
It has always come across to me as the sort of thing people say when they’ve been in a disagreement with someone and so they feel the need to rationalise/justify themselves by fabricating a scenario where the person who “wronged” them doesn’t even subscribe to the game, thus being unworthy of sharing their opinion on the matter.
But then I was genuinely curious if there is a more sound reason behind it, but like you said:
Can’t say I’ve seen anyone do this since I started interacting with these forums.
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It has been a long while (mainly PCU-hayday) since that’s really happened.
Nowadays its people trying to hide by posting on classic alts.
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Funny how some of those seem to be in agreement with some of the no-posting-unless-subscribed-crowd.
Its extra funny because I was arguing with one of these people who pulled this
On. The. Gen. Forums.
You know-- somewhere you actually DO have to be subbed to post on?
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I’d add spikes.
Birthday cakes, parachutes, infrastructure and - yes - forums. Everything is better when you add spikes.
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Oh, interesting. I had no clue that was the case. It works like Final Fantasy XIV’s official forum, then.
Remove the trust level system and make everyone able to post images, or at the very least, modify it so it’s not entirely based on metrics that you need to constantly upkeep to obtain a feature that has been a thing in all types of forums as far back as the late 90s.
Things like signatures would be neat, but I would especially appreciate things like being able to do polls, and many other tools that would make these forums something more than guild recruitment threads and people slinging rocks at each other over their preferred method of off-topic threads.
Event organizers, for example, could really use polls to check how many people they’d have to cover for, and facilitate a lot of roleplay that’s not bound to guilds or hopping between Discords until you find one of folks that actually roleplay.
Better pinned threads. Make it a yearly check thing. Perhaps one thread with a link to every link to every public Argent Dawn community Discord, as well as other relevant things like addons, and sites like Argent Archives.
And, this is more of a community-related wishful thinking thing - but perhaps using the dedicated roleplay forum section more, rather than just the Argent Dawn realm forums? It might encourage more folks to come to roleplay, and is bound to keep things more in the topic of -just roleplay- rather than other realm-related shenanigans.
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I was not going to mention names.
But.