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[Illinois Farmer]

But as an aside, if you don't mind me asking (not to derail the thread), this game seems pretty popular on the Xbox system being on game pass and all, and in fact, the Top 20 Most Played Games. But, nobody seems to post about it.

Are there more popular sites and areas people onconsole are posting about this game? I'm just asking, being this site seems pretty dead for a game seemingly doing well.

Yes, discord. Moderators are active on there.

[Guil]

Have any of you reported said posts?

[don_apple]

How many moderators are assigned to cover the "community" and how many are active in conversations? Specifically the English forums.

No moderators are "assigned" to anything on this forum, because the moderators are not GIANTS employees.

Moderators here are forum members who either volunteered themselves to be a moderator or were asked by GIANTS if they would be interested in being a Moderator.

The only GIANTS employees involved in moderating this forum are the ones who are the forum admins and their Community Managers/Coordinators.

Does anyone even know whom or how many moderators there are?

You can easily find out yourself by clicking on the text "The Team" in the read bar at the bottom of each forum page, which leads to the following page showing all the Forum Admins, Moderators and also the GIANTS employees who have a forum user and their roles: memberlist.php?mode=team (you can find out how active they are by clicking on their username which leads to the user profile, and the check the "last activity" field and when they last posted something)

[Lazarus99]

That list is a joke. Most of those names hang out in the other language sections or some havent even commented since 2020. My guess is most dont show up until someone receives a report from a user. None of the folks with Green names are regular posters in a vast majority of these threads

[Lazarus99]

Have any of you reported said posts?

My point is we shouldnt have to report it if we had active moderation on the site

[Indiana Farmer]

You're right, moderators come after the fact, ban some, and turn a blind eye to others that are part of the same bickering. Easy to tell who the reporters are.

[UncleRico]

Have any of you reported said posts?

Yeah Guil, started with that. You’re unable to report if someone already has. Nothing will be done until Monday so it spiraled out of control which in a way is fine because it also stopped the OP who was being harassed to be left alone.

[JohnDeere318]

What did you want a moderator to do? Ban a guy because he called me "senile"? I'm not gonna report him for that. Or ban people for having an opinion on a thread? Those aren't bannable offenses. People could have opinions. The mod could move it off topic, but i don't know what else you want them to do. We can't call the forum police every time we see things we don't want to see or hear.

I think a much more important question, is what's going on with this game, when only one post was posted in 24 hours? Not gonna need a mod for that. Nor a "time out" being everyone is already timed out seemingly lol. It's not the end of the world.

Careful, I once got a week ban a while ago (2017 I think it was?) for debating with an abusive user, everyone who involved in it was banned, as well as a couple getting a permanent ban. All I'm saying is, back then, some of the mods would ban you for minor things, couldn't say if they lightened up or not now.

[JDMFarms]

My point is we shouldnt have to report it if we had active moderation on the site

Why do you want bureaucracy (aka: tyranny)? Why cant we police ourselves? It's pretty simple.

[Eische]

Isn't it similar to the "hen and egg" problem?
Which one was first? Badly behaving users that would require moderators to get them under control or moderators because there could/will be users going off rails?

If everyone would stick to forum rules and behave like a decent human being, moderators would not be needed to maintain a good language.

My opinion:
Use the report function if you feel like it's needed, but do not react to those problematic posts!
That will only reassure those users to post more stuff like this as they are only here for getting/creating attention.

[Urinal2001]

Why do you want bureaucracy (aka: tyranny)? Why cant we police ourselves? It's pretty simple.

Tyranny!!

You really are hilarious.

Watch out moderators, you have been branded tyrants. Be careful not to declare war or send any undesirables to reeducation camps.

[Lazarus99]

My point is we shouldnt have to report it if we had active moderation on the site

Why do you want bureaucracy (aka: tyranny)? Why cant we police ourselves? It's pretty simple.

I am advocating for more representatives from the community to enforce the rules and regulations and make people aware before they step over the boundaries and get themselves banned.

Tyranny?. A governing body made up of elected representatives of the people would be a...




A Republic

[Airborne82nd]

"I am advocating for more representatives from the community to enforce the rules and regulations and make people aware before they step over the boundaries and get themselves banned".

Well, the Mods came in, took down a few posts and locked the thread. What did that accomplish? Anyhow, the mods are here.

[Chaki]

Why do you want bureaucracy (aka: tyranny)? Why cant we police ourselves? It's pretty simple.

Tyranny!!

You really are hilarious.

Watch out moderators, you have been branded tyrants. Be careful not to declare war or send any undesirables to reeducation camps.

Horrible, as if that didn't happen almost anytime a warning is written.

Anyway, this thread has run it's course and the only thing that needs to be said has been said here:

My opinion:
Use the report function if you feel like it's needed, but do not react to those problematic posts!
That will only reassure those users to post more stuff like this as they are only here for getting/creating attention.

If you see something, report it. And remember that you never see the things that have already been taken action on.

/locked