Moderation over at Bioware’s TOR forums has always been a bit dodgy, but it’s getting worse.
There are some moderators, who hide behind the “CommunitySupport” account over there who clearly couldn’t moderate their way out of a wet paper bag if they tried.
Check this out. This happened to me today:
- A guy posts some nonsense poll about who we’d rather fight alongside (in the upcoming game presumably), and lists some random Sith names, which I don’t even recognise.
- Thing is, the poll is posted in the Guild forum.
- So I post, “What does this have to do with guilds?” and flag the post to be moved.
- Next thing, a moderator hands me a warning. Not an infringement with points attached, but a warning, nevertheless, for “being rude”.
What a load of bollocks. Asking, “What does this have to do with guilds?” isn’t even rude — it’s just a question. And a fair question at that, actually, given the thread’s topic versus forum location.
I’ve escalated this matter to the community manager, Sean Dahlberg, as yet another example of how the TOR moderators are drunk on power and will warn and post infringements apparantly at the slightest whim — usually without even understanding the basics of the situation.
Oh, and the icing on top? The thread got moved from the Guild forum so, clearly, I was right in what I said. The moderator just wanted to have a swing at me for no apparent reason, it seems.
It’s reaching the point, quite honestly, where you don’t know whether to say anything to anyone on the forums anymore for fear that some mod will decide to misinterpret your post and whack you with a warning or an infringement for no good reason. And when the environment feels like that, the moderation is clearly of a poor standard. There’s no other way to really look at it, is there?
Today’s effort is probably on par with the time I got a warning for posting a thread in the “General Discussion” forum and a mod thought they knew a better place for the thread and put it in the “Suggestion Box” instead! It was a subjective call to begin with — let alone one that required an official warning on top. And people wonder why I don’t rate the TOR forum mods?
I could moderate those forums better with one arm tied behind my back. Got any jobs, Sean?
And that is why sadly most of us avoid the official forums like the plague.
Yup, you got that Reivax. Mostly ever since blur has been getting bothered by these mobs, and he always has good topics, like why should i bother?
I see them only hurting themselves
Check this out for more stupidity. This is fresh from earlier today. There’s a thread on the forums where I disagreed with a poster’s POV. He called me a troll. So I replied:
“LOL, ahhh yes, the typical refrain on this forum.
If someone disagrees with you, just call them a troll.
Sorry, but it’s not that simple. Just because I have a different opinion to you does NOT make me a troll. Please learn what trolling actually is. Your first lesson is here: it doesn’t mean people who simply disagree with you.”
Obviously that poster reported my response and, without any brain activity going on between the mod’s ears, my response has been deleted and a warning given. Ridiculous.
Absolutely insane blur. Those mods must have something against you. I totally agree that they are drunk with power although it makes me wonder what does an infringement/warning really mean? If they hand them out like sweets then the action has lost most of its usefulness.
Ori’buyce, kih’kovid.
Least it isn’t as bad as the darkfall forums, I got perma banned and ingame abnned for reporting a cheater. KEpt everything very civil, took a fraps video of it and all. The moderator said “I wasn’t allowed to take videos of other people”…….
Well lets hope it isn’t as bad….