So long, young AldoFollow

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Wouldn't be a surprise if they're starting to close down the forums.. since they laid off most if not all known admins.

You actually play your games? Such a noob.

Yea, don't think I'll hit 10k before everything is shutdown.

I'll be sad to see this place go but it does seem to be moving in that direction.

Also sad I will probably never reach 10K. So close, yet so far.

Edited, May 29th 2015 9:18am by Olorinus

In case you guys haven't saw, guess the forums might not be shutting down after all but I agree with flameflash's post the layoffs due to relocation is very bad form.

The reason most people left Alla is because the Rate down button.
People like others to read what they have to say, when people are defaulted end of getting skipped even if they have something good to say.

Back when I used to come on here once in a great while and have opinions or wanted to talk about something, I always noticed this happening.
I have seen it happen to others and the more and more it happened, I seen less and less people coming here and they all jumped ship to another forums board.

Like FFXIAH or BlueG, I believe I said the same thing a long time ago also about the Rating, giving someone the power to shut down someones comment just makes people feel not welcomed.

I remember what I said that alla was filled with sharks, doesn't matter if those people are friends for a long time, if you strike and draw blood, all the other sharks attack and leave nothing left.

I don't believe the mass's stopped coming because of FFXIV or because FFXI slowed down.

Most left back when I played FFXI to FFXIAH that was a while ago.

Tough pill to swallow I might be defaulted for this as well I just was bored noticed the news and decided to put my 2 cents on the subject.

Epic funnay maymay. :^) gr8 b8 m8, str8 8/8

About time this ghost town gets put to pasture

That's the pie in the sky ideal, but the potential to blindly downvote someone you don't like/disagree with is ultimately what people took issue to. Could also say there was a sort of a domino effect where if one person had a bad post in a thread, any other they made were likely to get hit, too. The actual swing between a good post and a bad one really isn't all that dramatic. If you're someone like me, only one green arrow would nab an excellent. Someone in the gray, but still decent by default, would only need 3-4. That's really not a lot to accurately sway opinion, but at the same time, also empowered the negativity. Especially if they had socks or a couple buddies.

Basically, there's a reason some places only instituted systems with upvotes. Good posts still get highlighted, but there's less subversive trolling to be done. I think in Alla's case, the ability to rate in a thread should've been restricted to having a posting in it. Those who frequently made +1's just to do that could've been more easily hammered out. But again, this would've required more active admins than we had. The report button would otherwise remain for the handling of spam/****. Thanks to users being listed at the bottom, it's not too hard to see who might've rated one way or the other these days if you check in within a half hour or so. It's basically how I know about my stubborn "friend" that I probably should've contacted someone about a while ago, but have been lazy. They think I'm wrong no matter what and that's that. And this really isn't me trying to spin some personal conceit, it's just pattern recognition.

The XIV section is likely more quiet for a combination of reasons, those being that XIV is more self-contained in not needing so many guides or outside resources while the dev process itself is more transparent. Some tend to spin that as hurting the game/community, but I think those of us who played XI enough knew there were people who either didn't know about forums related to the game or didn't care to waste time on them due to their own being more limited. XIV also launched with its own official boards from the get-go. So, while some may treat them as the scourge of the internet, it's still the "right" place to vocalize anything toward SE.

The FFXI portion began to die following the outcome of Rog v Catwho.

Also told ya so.

But now its "dead" because FFXI is "dead". All the other sites are dead too, comparative to the past.