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Wed Dec 03, 2014 5:22 pm
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Re: Forum Policy After Release
^Well-said. I'm inclined to revise my vote to openness; this discussion does seem quite premature.
Agreed, provided that that worksScytale wrote:Well, there's no harm in initially being open - if the system becomes toxic we can flush out the bad eggs.
The last word would have the mods/josh, yeah.Scytale wrote: Question is: who defines what a bad egg is? I think the answer should be only the moderators and Josh - no one else. Certainly not the "old community".
Oh sure, I think it makes sense that the old community could provide insight to Josh and moderators, but making the rules and enforcing them is not our job.Cornflakes_91 wrote:Agreed, provided that that worksScytale wrote:Well, there's no harm in initially being open - if the system becomes toxic we can flush out the bad eggs.
The last word would have the mods/josh, yeah.Scytale wrote: Question is: who defines what a bad egg is? I think the answer should be only the moderators and Josh - no one else. Certainly not the "old community".
But we could (and should i think, more eyes see more) take on an assisting role
I also was a member of the MechWarrior Online community. I personally don't mind the forums being split if we happen to have a closed beta here. If not, keeping it open through release sounds good. But if we start getting a lot of negativity, complaints and trolling I'd like to either have the offending people removed from the forum or separate the good from the untrusted with a legacy forum. High quality posts are hard to find among spam topics. Go to the MWO forums and try looking up "how to balance sniping" to get the idea.light487 wrote:My position would be to leave it as is and welcome all people. If there does come a time when a new forum structure is needed, then it can be done.
Limiting access to a discussion board "after release" seems ridiculous.. I could understand limiting beta discussion areas to those with beta access.. no point having people who haven't even played the beta discussing it.
As much as I loathe what Mechwarrior Online ended up being, the way they did it was to have the main forums for everyone regardless of who they are. Most people stayed in those forums, even long-term members and people playing the closed alpha and beta etc. Then they had a hidden forum on there for the beta testing. It would be no different really..
I just can't see any justification for treating people as trolls/bad until they prove otherwise... you're essentially saying they are guilty until proven innocent.
Going to put my $0.02 in here, but before anything, the above statement is pretty much the way it's going to be.Cornflakes_91 wrote:I would also prefer an "innocent until proven otherwise" approach...
We revere iron fish around here, just generally. Someone did a study on the forum demographics a while ago and found that, by some freak of probability, we all share a bizarre interest in treating iron fish with the utmost respect. It's... a little hard to explain.HappyGhecko wrote:pardon, i dont get the iron fish reverence. Is there a story?
I have an iron statue of a fish in my hallway. Most ducks do.Scytale wrote:We revere iron fish around here, just generally. Someone did a study on the forum demographics a while ago and found that, by some freak of probability, we all share a bizarre interest in treating iron fish with the utmost respect. It's... a little hard to explain.
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