Borstock said: Look at the names and keep on scrolling. That's about it, aside from what you've already listed.
This forum isn’t as bad as many I have been on. Maybe I’m the common denominator here.
entrailbucket said: If they did that, the forum would just be a blank page!(Hmm, that might be passive aggressive negativity).They enforce the rules about insulting or abusing other posters pretty aggressively, [redacted].**Mod note: removed inaccurate information regarding the forum rules and moderation. - fight4thedream
liminal_lad said: entrailbucket said: If they did that, the forum would just be a blank page!(Hmm, that might be passive aggressive negativity).They enforce the rules about insulting or abusing other posters pretty aggressively, and ban for it, but there's no rule about insulting the game or the developers. Thanks. This is a good reminder that the best way to deal with toxic people on an online forum is to ignore them, starve them of the attention they're not getting elsewhere in their life, and hope they move on to troll somewhere else.
entrailbucket said: If they did that, the forum would just be a blank page!(Hmm, that might be passive aggressive negativity).They enforce the rules about insulting or abusing other posters pretty aggressively, and ban for it, but there's no rule about insulting the game or the developers.
Godzillafan67 said: liminal_lad said: entrailbucket said: If they did that, the forum would just be a blank page!(Hmm, that might be passive aggressive negativity).They enforce the rules about insulting or abusing other posters pretty aggressively, and ban for it, but there's no rule about insulting the game or the developers. Thanks. This is a good reminder that the best way to deal with toxic people on an online forum is to ignore them, starve them of the attention they're not getting elsewhere in their life, and hope they move on to troll somewhere else. Hey! We’re people too!!…I mean, negative people suck.
Bad said: ...It must be because my dark side is that I am kind of bad and agressive too....
Akoni said: Bad's dark side is kind of bad? Please tell me that pun was intentional.
fight4thedream said: **Mod note: While we understand the need to vent sometimes regarding design choices and game changes, it's never ok to insult the dev team, whether it be a specific individual or the team in general. Insults, attacks and abuse against the dev team are treated with the same weight as those against forum members.Additionally, please keep comments and criticism in regards to the game reasonable and constructive. Toxic remarks that are profane, unreasonable or unwarranted are also grounds for moderation. We appreciate your cooperation and understanding. Thank you.
liminal_lad said: fight4thedream said: **Mod note: While we understand the need to vent sometimes regarding design choices and game changes, it's never ok to insult the dev team, whether it be a specific individual or the team in general. Insults, attacks and abuse against the dev team are treated with the same weight as those against forum members.Additionally, please keep comments and criticism in regards to the game reasonable and constructive. Toxic remarks that are profane, unreasonable or unwarranted are also grounds for moderation. We appreciate your cooperation and understanding. Thank you. So, you'll take action if something egregious happens but being an unpleasant poster who toes the line but doesn't cross it is ok. Group attacks against forum members aren't a problem but individual attacks are. Got it. Thank you for the clarification. This is what I was looking for. Appreciated.
acescracked said: liminal_lad said: fight4thedream said: **Mod note: While we understand the need to vent sometimes regarding design choices and game changes, it's never ok to insult the dev team, whether it be a specific individual or the team in general. Insults, attacks and abuse against the dev team are treated with the same weight as those against forum members.Additionally, please keep comments and criticism in regards to the game reasonable and constructive. Toxic remarks that are profane, unreasonable or unwarranted are also grounds for moderation. We appreciate your cooperation and understanding. Thank you. So, you'll take action if something egregious happens but being an unpleasant poster who toes the line but doesn't cross it is ok. Group attacks against forum members aren't a problem but individual attacks are. Got it. Thank you for the clarification. This is what I was looking for. Appreciated. See what you did there! An example of a passive-aggressive comment with a side of snark!
KGB said: General Discussion is where you come to get the snark, abuse, passive-agressive conversations. It's not for everyone. The Character Discussion can also get heated when a new release is mediocre to bad On the other hand the other sub Forums, especially Help, Tips/Guides, Bugs, Events, Alliances etc are quite civilized.KGB
BlackBoltRocks said: liminal_lad said: fight4thedream said: **Mod note: While we understand the need to vent sometimes regarding design choices and game changes, it's never ok to insult the dev team, whether it be a specific individual or the team in general. Insults, attacks and abuse against the dev team are treated with the same weight as those against forum members.Additionally, please keep comments and criticism in regards to the game reasonable and constructive. Toxic remarks that are profane, unreasonable or unwarranted are also grounds for moderation. We appreciate your cooperation and understanding. Thank you. So, you'll take action if something egregious happens but being an unpleasant poster who toes the line but doesn't cross it is ok. Group attacks against forum members aren't a problem but individual attacks are. Got it. Thank you for the clarification. This is what I was looking for. Appreciated. @liminal_lad while I fully agree with the sentiments you mentioned in your OP, this very quote of yours that I quoted is an example of the behaviour you singled out and are trying to eradicate. It really doesn't help your case when you practise the opposite of what you preach. @fight4thedream has been doing a great job here on these forums, and being sarcastic isn't going to help anyone. I recently had a private chat with fight regarding datamined spoiler info, and I appreciate the tough situation fight tends to find himself in with regards to moderating posts, whether to remove or amend them etc.As for unpleasant posters...well, there will always be such people around, sadly. Best we can do, as others have mentioned, is not give them any control over us. If you really feel like something has to be done, call them out (civilly, of course), and/or report them.
liminal_lad said: The point I should have made in a less passive-aggressive way was: "That wasn't my question and it feels like my actual question was deliberately ignored." But is outright hostility better than passive-aggression? I feel like it's probably worse. @fight4thedream is definitely better than some other mods in other places. I'm just wondering why it's tolerated that the overall tone of some folks here is consistently unconstructive, snarky, and toxic. If the answer is "Sorry we don't address that sort of thing. You need to just ignore it, bro." I would have appreciate that being explicitly stated.The people constantly whining about people not being punished for posting potentially data mined information is tedious. What drives someone to be a Marvel match 3 game Karen? The people who are still really mad about the Shardpocalypse are also fairly exhausting. When was that even? Two or three years ago? What I am taking from reading between the lines and the helpful responses of some other commenters is the best thing I can do is keep my ignore list updated. I can work with that. I would delete this post entirely, but it doesn't look like that's possible at this point, which is unfortunate.