Guild Wars 2

“Every discussion thread is welcome as long as it keeps on the topic and free from personal allusions/attacks. This thread has gone rampant in both respects and because ot that, we will proceed to close it. Thanks for your understanding.”

Just a follow up on a closed thread. Given that this is an open forum with people that have differing views on the state of a game they either love or wanted to love, isn’t it a given there will be disagreements? If a Community Manager feels TOS were broken or a personal attack was made, isn’t it easier to delete that post rather than close the thread?

Just curious as there have been quite a few threads I felt opposing sides were moving the dialogue forward only to have a few come in and have the subsequent thread closed.

Evil.9061:

isn’t a given there will be disagreements?

A disagreement doesn’t have to boil down to “ur a white knight y rnt u playing teh game instead of on teh forumz?”

The problem is people going in here going on about how it’s the worst game ever (or, in some cases, best game ever) for some reason or another while offering nothing constructive, and whenever someone, anyone, tries to be reasonable, they’re written off and insulted as a fanboy, white knight, casual, tryhard, no-lifer, etc etc. That kind of stuff doesn’t really belong on a forum.

Yes, I’ve done it to. It doesn’t make it right.

I would assume that would be where the CM removed the post not allowing that particular portion circumvent the discussion. Beyond that, Logic would dictate removing the forums all together as we obviously cant play nice with one another.

Evil.9061:

we obviously cant play nice with one another.

Gen Disc really gets the worst of it. The other boards really aren’t as bad.

I have also noticed this Evil.

I actually made a post regarding the “I’m Bored” topic that was closed. It seems like we are being policed on these forums. Say the wrong thing and your topic is shutdown!

Perhaps the CM’s are stressed, or maybe they are just jumping the gun and forsee a problem before it happens….. who knows.

Of course there are going to be disagreements. It’s human nature to disagree, and wanting to force an opinion on others…. but unless there is outright disrespect, or abuse I think arenanet could back off a little bit…. of course that is just my thought on the subject.