@nldixon
Yes, the over-moderation is…a tad bit daunting, especially when you get ‘kittened’ for saying: Abolish___it
because the ‘sh’ even with a space between the ‘it’ is still a no-no.
The fact that the moderators aggressively lock down some posts while others derail into spiteful flames wars (as long as the original post was a positive in GW2’s direction) means they know their game is in trouble and are locking it down.
I remember when you could enjoy conversing on a forums about the state of a game, both good and bad, so long as people could hold a civil tongue, and if one person couldn’t the post itself would be minimized (you could still read it if you liked) and the person infracted, but the conversation was allowed to continue.
The over-moderation tells me that either the forum moderators have never moderated the game, or that they are doing so in order to silence discontent players so that ‘new’ people will feel that the game is in good order.
It’s immature way to police a forums.
Actually, most of my posts that received infractions were pro-Ranger posts and I never once disparaged ANet or the Ranger class in any of them. I honestly think that the over moderation is more from a lack of experience than anything else. Or possibly an automated moderation system that is/was broken. It’s been a lot better lately.
I don’t feel like ANet is trying to silence discontented players. It seems more like they’re trying (too hard) to keep people from arguing on the forums, civilly or otherwise.
A discussion is usually two people who do not agree, trying to make the other see your point of view. They can be on opposite terms on a subject, or equal. Its ok to have ‘arguments’ as long as they are civil and don’t devolve into a out-right hissy fit.
The point is, it needs to be done civially, and oftentimes is. It happens, again that two people go back to back, and the original intent of the post is derailed, and THEN having a moderator come in and infract the two, or move the post, or get it back on topic needs to be handled, but usually a word of warning like: “please keep this post on topic and move your squabbling to private channels” is usually enough for people to move past thier debacle, or move it into private channels.
I am pro-ranger, but my faith in A.Net is wavering. I feel lied and cheated to, and I watched the ranger, the ONLY class I feel comfortable PvP’ing with, get trashed in every BWE and nerfed again and again upon release just leaves me feeling like…A.Net wants only one class…warriors. Mesmers have recieved nerfs, necro’s haven’t been fixed, warriors have recieved buffs, and thieves are just so broken that they could nerf it endlessly and they would still be too OP.
Yet, they refuse to fix the rangers, and have nerfed us, and broken us further. Yes, we can compete, yes we can do damage, yes can can but we can’t to the extent that other players can. We don’t shine in PvE (unless your a bot) and we don’t shine in PvP. We are a lack luster class and anytime we find a way to be effective, it justgets nerfed.
It’s depressing.
Even so, I still have a multiude of builds and I have helped out the ranger community, and have recieved several feedbacks about my power builds 30/0/10/30/0 build. It’s a fantastic build, aimed to help rangers, and is highly adaptable (as one replier showed me). The point is, we are not powerless (like mesmers feel in PvE) but it’s glaring all too often that we are somewhat treated like the red-headed step child.
