Interestingly enough, one can say much the same thing about the game itself.

@Qalix:

The Mintchip Trollmageddon was a pretty severe throttling of forum activity. I blame that.

I'm not supposed to moderate a thing I'm actively involved in, and trying to get someone else's attention on this thread has gone poorly so far. I'll try semaphores and signal fires next.

I can think of a way, but If I do it, even for the greater good of the thread or to help out an ISD, ill be on vacation for a long while....

Oh, now you have piqued my curiosity. At least PM it to me.

The Eve subreddit is more often than not much more interesting and informative than the official forums.

I could see the "nullsec versus highsec" and the "nullsec/highsec/lowsec" issues getting their own subforums.

~Jita Parks and Assembly Hall

That is spot on. That is the reason why most people who have thought about posting here haven't by the end of it. That is the reason why most people who have posted here have stopped posting here by the end of it.

It's because you can downvote threads there.

You would never see threads like "What would happen if CCP nerfed highsec?" on the EVE subreddit, because the vast majority of people will laugh at the moronic thread and downvote it into the abyss.

Thus, we have a forum where terrible threads are bumped by terrible posters consistently.

The alternative problem exists, though - Politics and popularity and fashion come into play where you have the ability to demote (or promote) threads. Censorship by popularity can be every bit as tyranical as a our ISDs are (falsely, IMO) reputed to be.

Groupthink sets in.

Don't forget that reddit had a wonderful child pornography collection and when called out on it decided to keep it up. Reddit is full of terrible people.

Yes, 6% of all online adults, and 15% of the male 18-29 demographic use reddit [1] and they're all child pornographers and pedophiles.

The Eve subreddit is more often than not much more interesting and informative than the official forums.

A little ironic

It kind of proves my point, doesn't it?.

A little ironic that a topic of this nature had to be closed in order to be cleaned out. It kind of proves my point, doesn't it?

Thank you ISD Ezwal for your assistance.

With a 'slight' delay, yes...

Ezwal points at ISD LackOfFaith. 'He is the good cop, understand?' Ezwal points at himself. 'I however, am not....'

I have removed some rule breaking posts and those quoting them. As always I let some edge cases stay.
Please people, keep it on topic and above all civil!

The rules:
11. Discussion of forum moderation is prohibited.

The discussion of EVE Online forum moderation actions generally leads to flaming, trolling and baiting of our ISD CCL moderators. As such, this type of discussion is strictly prohibited under the forum rules. If you have questions regarding the actions of a moderator, please file a petition under the Community & Forums Category.

30. Abuse of CCP employees and ISD volunteers is prohibited.

CCP operate a zero tolerance policy on abuse of CCP employees and ISD volunteers. This includes but is not limited to personal attacks, trolling, GÇ£outingGÇ¥ of CCP employee or ISD volunteer player identities, and the use of any former player identities when referring to the aforementioned parties.
Our forums are designed to be a place where players and developers can exchange ideas in a polite and friendly manner for the betterment of EVE Online. Players who attack or abuse employees of CCP, or ISD volunteers, will be permanently banned from the EVE Online forums across all their accounts with no recourse, and may also be subject to action against their game accounts.

As said, I let some edge cases stay, but I would urgently ask you to stop bashing on the CCL subdivision of ISD (a.k.a. the forum moderators). We enforce the rules laid out by CCP, noting less, noting more. In that, we do our utmost best to keep a neutral stance in and on the threads we moderate.
But if and when you are perceiving a problem with ISD behaviour on the forum or are disagreeing with the way (your) posts are being moderated, please feel free to read the CCP policies and follow the procedure found under the header 'Complaints'.

Thread unlocked.

I keep expecting this thread to get moved just to prove it's own point.