silly thing to do. People only remember the trolls but don’t remember the good things the forums encouraged. Friendships between cross server guilds and friendly rivalry. The trolls will still be there when you delete the forums.
I think the mod team were doing most of the work in the WvW section modding the match-up thread and have now given up on all this effort.
Deleting the sub-forum won’t really help. Those people that you need to moderate will still post in other threads and match-up conflicts will bleed in to other threads.
Threads to promote a single video with be more I think since there is not a centralized place to post them like the matchup thread.
Threads that point out a grievance against one server or the other (hacking, exploiting, 2v1ing, zerg chasing roamer etc..) will increase because again people will not be able to post in a match up thread.
I agree with other posters that people will try to make match up threads on their own.
Honestly I mostly view this forum for the match-up threads and with out them I think maybe I will only view this forum once a week or maybe once a month. Furthermore I think this move gives me a very poor opinion on how Anet views the WvW community.
I hope another site will rise up that will take the place of the official forums. If Anet had not noticed that most of the websites we use is not by Anet. Server forums are run by server communities independent of anet. ranking and map websites are also independent of Anet only using the API. My link to Anet as a WvWer who could not care less about PVE is the WvW forums (which are now getting smaller)
What is stopping the WvW community to just leave this forums and set up their own that all servers use and abandon the official site once and for all?
come on Anet TESO is coming out next year, Wildstar has warplots for their large scale PVP , and CU is from the creators of DAoC do you really want give people more reasons to abandon your game?
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