Originally by: flakeys
CCP changed it so we need to try and make it work the best way we can and curently we are not. {...} You see a post you don't like you either ignore it , give tips on how the op should improve it or state your view on it in a decent way without starting to break the person down to the ground just for making a comment you find either 'stupid/false'.
I agree with you. In fact I think that almost all of the "old timers" do agree with you. We all occasionally get a bit snippy here and there but, as everyone keeps saying, most here only post to provide real content. (Be it criticism or advice - still content.)
The problem is that this area is being destroyed from without and from within.
From without: all those morons who either don't have anything better to do than to alt-troll or those impatients who don't want to learn how to fish, just give me food already dammit.
From within: I can not, due to forum rules, discuss the internal destruction of this forum. Suffice to say that the science of psychology readily predicts the effect of variable rule application and inconsistent authority application on the individual human psyche as well as on the condition of a community.
In any community with an acknowledged authority figure the environment is controlled from a "Top down" perspective. Work, home, hobby. If those at the top make a concentrated, diligent, and objective effort to cultivate the community. Good things happen. When the top down effort is lackadaisical, arcane, arbitrary, and simply negligent the outcome is ... ... well... self evident.
Given the two factors, the without and within, this board is held hostage to the biggest jack ass. This includes the current "report trolling" especially on dual-purpose posts. Far too many people feel the need to report anything that might marginally relate to some other aspect of Eve and get it moved. IMHO they don't do it for the betterment of the thread or the forum but just because they know that the "within" is not, lately, all that swift.
Thus, the reason many people are leaving is because if we can't all play be the same rules, we simply won't play at all.
(I can't tell you how many of my recent posts [
me or my alt] have been nuked for reasons as of yet unidentifiable. And yes, I know that I troll and flame. I also know when I do it. Equally, I never shy away from the consequences of having done so.
Furthermore Emails to mods@ccpgames is a black hole. The one I sent yesterday was "
Who do I have to suck to get this thread cleaned/locked?" Result, this thread is still troll infested, flame ridden, but yet we see that threads still get [
wrongly] moved to other forums when only certain people complain.
The truest frustration of all is that we can not discuss moderation here [
even saying this much is against the rules!] but when all other forms of moderation discussion is absent... what the **** can anyone do but simply abandon these forums.)
PS: You may, shortly, have to use eve search to find this post.