Originally by: Stormwind Bloodfeather

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Edited by: Stormwind Bloodfeather on 22/07/2008 03:23:28

Originally by: CCP Mitnal

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The point I was attempting to make was that there is active and ongoing moderation of the forums. Elsewhere in this thread there are complaints of a lack of moderation, when we point to examples of moderation it's either not enough or too heavy-handed.

I'm sure residents of Crime & Punishment will be happy to add their voice on why they think that channel has become a mini-CAOD and how heavy-handed the moderation is there.

Moderation is serious (and subjective) business. It will always be not enough or too much for any individual, my point is that there are dedicated individuals doing it on a daily basis.

Special Agent Mitnal never lets the side down

The other point to be made was that the perception of CAOD is that it's an unregulated mess. On the contrary you could argue that it's over-moderated and that our presence there is too much as shown by the amount of locked threads.

I must be strange to enjoy the moderation process and get to read forums as part of a job and I hugely enjoy interacting in threads. At the heart of the process is making the experience that much more enjoyable, whether it be for a veteran player, new player, missioner, industrialist or POS warrior.

We can all help improve the quality of the community with the quality of our posts. One only needs to look in New Citizens to see that the advice on offer there from veterans, devs, GMs and new players alike is highly appreciated.

The forums may be better or worse than in the past but ultimately its improvement is in the hands of the people that post on them.

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I am just as guilty as others for starting /rant threads, and occasionally for posting some pretty flame based comments. Your right, as well as other posters that when it comes down to it, WE are responsible for what gets posted.

If I see a thread that's full of fail, and respond stating as much, I've simply fed a troll. If I create one that's a rant (like the one you locked earlier today), then I have myself become a troll.

The only thing to do then if I am to be a constructive member of the community, would be to not post or respond in threads or create threads like that.

Unfortunatly, some of them just BEG responses, and some SCREAM the need to have their fragile world views ripped apart. While I understand what your saying, the implementation of it isn't so easy. I have always had a low tolerance for stupidity (even my own) and have never been one to hold back the /flame when it was needed. But i'll try to be more helpful and less STFO and GTFO.

Storm

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