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And nowhere did he say that he was going to start banning those who create these posts, not did I see a post where he implied that.

So unless you link a specific post, you're a liar.

I just saw that on the General Forums, along with a few locked posts. I am glad there is going to be more moderation over there. It was getting out of hand. Tseric is a good CM.

Moderation? If they wanted to moderate the forums any one who posted FIRST, an ascii art image, or participated in those retarded "repeat the same phrase" threads would be suspended and banned.

Until then...

I like tseric alot, he doesnt just get all cute and try to be buddy buddy with people like some CMs.

You actually try to read the general forums?

Amen.

I don't know -- the guy-holding-his-head ASCII really does have a certain poignancy to it....

But yes, this is either a good thing, or a sign that Tseric is a week away from a nervous breakdown and a resignation letter.

I've long said that Blizzard should just permaban the fuck out of half their forums. If your first instinct upon reading an informative blue post is to type "omg first" and hit submit, you will never contribute anything useful or constructive. If you start a thread flaming a guild/player with a level one alt and then respond with your three other alts to draw attention, you will never contribute anything useful or constructive. And so forth.

Posting on an MMO's official boards should be a privilege, not a right. Everyone can read dev posts and follow along with the discussions from home, but the ability to participate in those discussions should be very tenuous. Right now the forums are largely just a festering cesspool that serve no constructive purpose.

B.net forums 2.0?

They also need to add "Itemization", "Lore" and "Graphic Design" forums for those interested more in how their toons look than how the fights work out.

I'm sick of looking for interesting things in the R&D forum and Rogue Forum to be assaulted by 50 posts about the little heart on the Tier 3 Rogue Belt, to which Drysc replied very helpfully that it was really a diamond, and how Thaddius doesn't look "monstery" enough, and how "C'thun's an old god, zOMG. He shouldn't be killable!".

I play this game as an MMO player, not a Warcraft fanatic. Ideally, the R&D forum should be for discussions like the ones that I happen to be looking for.

Many of us have largely held that bringing in a moderator from the Something Awful boards would result in genocide the likes of which schadenfreude has never experienced before.

Still, anything to get it off that wretched forums software that GFraizer(?) wrote is A-OK in my book.

Please don't use this word, it's what people say when they want to sound smart.

He's that shrink fella with the cigar, right?

This is the first thing that came to my mind.

But yeah, moderation would be nice. The Druid forums make me very sad seeing "T3 is horrible!" and "OMG take the Feral AP off of the Legendary Staff!" I would like to contribute to debate in these instances, but it would just be drowned out by stupidity.

I've never even really looked at the shaman boards until recently, when I've posted a bit of stuff hoping against hope that it gets noticed and somehow conveyed to the devs. But the whole experience was made worthwhile when I saw this post in reply to one of my suggestions:
Followed by:

WTF Gurg? You obviously are not focused on the end game challenges!

I read that thread today and wondered how long it would be until you posted it here Gurg... :)

Some amazing comments there! You had better learn to heal!

This is what happens when every 15 year old starts playing a game. At release the boards actually had alot of good information and contributors. You didnt get the cliche'd "first!" and "l2p"cause it didnt exist yet. Then people learned that bitching gets attentions by the masses and of course you can find 30 other idiots that will agree with your point and if you push it long enough you get a name for yourself whether dubious or not. I really only take quick looks into the R&D boards for any info and do a bit of trash talking on my server boards but that is about it.

Im pretty sure Tseric is gonna kill 50 small kittens soon.

I read Realm forums hoping for some decent drama and I poke me head into the rogue and R&D forums to see if some golden nugget is still floating atop the shit heap. I also like reading when people post about their eviscerate hitting harder, but that's just a guilty pleasure.

Then I remember I can just come here and read theorycraft.

I'm pretty sure the R&D forum was pretty good for like 45 minutes when it opened. I naively thought it would be a bastion of hope, boy was I wrong.

For me, it was right around that "Mages' Union" debacle.

At the risk of not contributing to this discussion I would like to state I just disturbed several co-workers with my laughter.
Thank you.

Between Ippon and that guy, Ruin takes itself waaay too seriously. And yes, it's sad that I remember them.

The druid forums were actually far and away the most down to earth of the lot before 1.8 and the locust swarm of lolferal kiddies assaulted the place, lingering ever afterward like some sort of fetid piece of decaying meat. I miss that community.

It's common knowledge that raid leaders just aren't that focused on raiding.

Every once in a while, I go on the WoW boards and try to make a few (hopefully) constructive posts, mostly giving advice on specs and healing strategies. Within minutes, I get so discouraged by the sheer volume of FUD that I just stop what I'm typing and bail. You could spend all day every day simply correcting misinformation and responding to ignorant opinions presented as facts. It sucks because there are plenty of people there who either (1) have something valuable to offer or (2) are willing and eager to listen to what others have to offer, but the task of identifying those people in the morass and successfully engaging them is simply exhausting.

The bit that saddened me the most was the thread with the "Amazing" Bloodthirst suggestion had more peopel clamouring for it, and more bumps, that Gurgs.

The novel idea for Bloodthirst was :

"Costs x mana, lasts 30 minutes. Target player's attack speed and casting speed is increased by 5%, and attack power is increased by 5%. Target generates 30% more hate".

And then a huge group of idiots applauding this masterful idea. Because it's not like, uterly and completely out of balance in every respect? And *still* isn;t as good as Salvation either?