Well, our forum was much smaller and we all knew each other. It worked for a while, but our forum is pretty dead right now. You, me and Dogma post there. If anyone else visits, its rarely. The reason our forum is dead isn't because of how we handled the moderation, though. It had more to do with everyone being tied to the forum by ESF and people losing interest in ESF. I obviously think that our approach is better, but you and I both know it'll never happen here.Yeah, it was sarcasm. The official story at the time was the Open Beta had been in the planning stages long before the Minion thing, and was certainly not a result of the leak. Of course, we knew we were being lied to (as usual), and a lot of people were irritated by it. That irritation builds up over time and becomes anger and dissatisfaction, and then we have threads like this popping up.
I can understand people wanting a stable community, but the fact of the matter is, we're not attracting very many new people to the forum, and those that to come don't stay for very long. They usually sign up just to ask if they can play ESF with a pirated copy of HL or to ask about EVM. At this point in time, we should be worried about retention. There's nothing any of us can do to attract new people until 1.3 comes around, but there are steps and measures we can take to keep ESF's hardcore base happy.
This is probably a horrible example, but our clan forum is unmoderated except for if someone signs onto the forum with the intention of starting problems with someone or posts 2 girls 1 cup or something like that. You have to go out of your way to get yourself yelled at or banned by one of us. However, if there's a discussion that turns into an argument, and people start lashing out at each other, we let them be. Know what happens? They burn themselves out. At the end of the argument, they both look like morons and everyone laughs at them. I know that isn't going to happen here, but it works and it works well.
I completely agree with the anti-4crap sentiment, though. Some people think it's my generation's crowning achievement. I'm just not one of them.
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