Are the FFXI forums going to get their own dedicated staff?Follow

If I was a volunteer admin, Rog's karma would constantly flux from Guru to Sub-Defaulted. Depends on how drunk I am that day.

I'll stock the fridge.

Pssh, that's only a problem if you want to be responsible... which is why I support Chewzer in his quest to become a volunteer admin!

What happens when the inevitable happens and that forum dies right down? Go back to fully supporting FFXI forum again? What if most of your users moved on due to being treated as if they don't matter.

I don't mind staff being moved over but pretty much everyone? to a game that is in a postion no game has ever recovered from and which is causing massive damage to the company that owns it? Idk I think I would try to support both forums a bit better(especially looking at the writing on the wall in regard FFXIV) than this but i'm sure you think the sheep of =10 will stay no matter what, time will tell I guess. Once people get annoyed enough to try other forums they will probably like it there and getting them back won't be an easy thing. This is what happened with the Zam databses and now very few players bother to use them.

About 3 or 4 months now. The main issue at the moment is they lack some of the moderation tools that they will ultimatly have. Modifying the forum software to accomodate that will require a database update and some down time though, so thats been on the back burner for a while. Nasically, the volunteer moderators are picked from people who applied for paid positions but were not selected. In theory, when a paid position opens up, the moderator pool would be tapped to fill it before it gets opened up to everyone else.

Thats a management decision, but again, they send people where the most users are. That includes the most users browsing the database sites, not just the forum components. The forums are very important, but even at their height of popularity they represent only a fraction of the total users visiting any of the given sites. Without new expansiions and new content, the databases for the established games don't tend to change nearly as much as the building of a new game database entails. If there are things that are being missed or need addressed on the database side, please report them in forum=3 so that we can ensure they are taken care of. Your statement that very few people use the databases however doesn't mesh with the numbers we see activly using the sites.

Its all a balancing act. You can't please all the people any of the time. You are doing good if you can please most of them some of the time. We adjust as we go, try to fix things that are broken, mourn the lost users who can't or won't tolerate the changes we make, and then move on.

Sometimes I feel like the only reason the Internet ******* Theory thrives is because of mindsets like this. We need to keep in mind that the age of internet users will vary between little kids to the oldest of seniors where there's very rarely any actual barriers present to keep people away from unseemly content. In the case of children, they may not know better, for better or worse, and be conditioned into believing being an asshat in an anonymous environment is A-OK, which could then bleed into other settings. On the senior end, you can mix a bit of "being set in their ways" with techno-inability and basically create a shoddy experience even if they can understand people are "free" to be stupid.

The in-between gets far more fuzzy, and there's no shortage of cyber-bullying horror stories where the same trolls just laugh at the misfortunes families experience and throw out quips like, "DARWINISM!" and proceed to meme into oblivion. The fact one place condones something while another doesn't doesn't mean one is necessarily better than the other, but when you consider many people may chicken out of their behavior when risk is suddenly introduced... well, perhaps we're onto something in regards to rights, wrongs, and moral implications.

"Do unto others as you would have other others do unto you," is an old, but simple philosophy. I wish more would practice it, but it seems the whole, "It's the internet, being a **** is okay!" mantra is being preached more.

You're obviously a Penny Arcade fan.