HydroBuzzed Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 server forums build server community. Server threads get buried by other server threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taekoma Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 this is not a solution.....individual sever forums. Stop the fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThinkIdentical Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Who thought this organization system was a good idea? It's so disheartening that Bioware doesn't understand how important individual server forums are - it makes me not want to subscribe. If this is their idea of how to do forums, I shutter to think of how they will handle other things. Community = Longevity. If you want your game to stick around for a while, you're going to want the players to create communities. This is part of what keeps people logging in day to day. You have to give players the tools they need to make this happen. Has Bioware came out and said specifically why they did it this way? I know I have read theories stating that they don't have enough moderators, but that seems ridiculous. As a moderator, you have X number of posts to review each day; these people can't review those posts across multiple forums? The number of posts doesn't change, it's just how they're organized. This is such a horrible scheme for organizing forums, I'm banging my head against a wall trying to figure out what BW was thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lifeshield Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 We need individual server forums please Bioware. Not groups of servers lumped together. Please listen to your community on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awesomeplata Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Why server groups instead of each server having it's own forum? Could you possibly be lazier? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSpin Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 (edited) I agree - laziness. Is this the type of brilliant solution we should expect from now on from BioWare? Seems like there is a trend emerging. Lets take the mediocre route. You know, the one where people will be upset... and learn to live with it. bleh... BIOWAREWHYUHATEUS? Edited January 21, 2012 by BlackSpin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironwillaa Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Please give us real server forums, this is way too confusing and messy. Other servers kick our threads down etc, so hard to find anything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Attilious Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 server group forums is a bad idea plain and simple do we raid,pvp or group with other servers? then why do i need to know "i eat sith" is recruiting on another server or there doing HM EV to me this just spells one thing bioware LAZY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Offended Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 My personal favorite is that they're using Prefix Tags in vBulletin to designate the server for the post. This is OK and i did this on my guild forums for wow professions, class and raid posts. HOWEVER, vBulletin allows you to sort and filter in the forum display by prefix, which Bioware did not allow us permission to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antario Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Please but the person that made up this abomination back on getting coffee duty im afraid of the damage he might cause otherwise alphabetized server clumps >.< just give us what we all want.....individual server forums i really dislike to actually have to ctrl+F 'my servername' just to get relevant topics where just splitting them up into their own board would be enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxcar Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 I am amused and enraged by how heavily moderated these "server forums" are. It's ridiculous. So what if a discussion goes off topic? Wouldn't wanna clutter the innovative group server forums! And they are innovative, because no other MMO has been dumb enough to implement them. Can we get Hello Kitty avatars please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxcar Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 please but the person that made up this abomination back on getting coffee duty im afraid of the damage he might cause otherwise alphabetized server clumps >.< just give us what we all want.....individual server forums i really dislike to actually have to ctrl+f 'my servername' just to get relevant topics where just splitting them up into their own board would be enough but then how could they lock all the threads filled with playful banter and smack talk?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jendor Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 I agree, there should be forums for each server, there may not be a community large enough for every server, but given the chance im sure most would flourish, such as trade forums event forums and recruitment for each server, sure thats a lot of forums, but to each user its highly valuable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBil Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Putting my vote on the individual forums for each server team. Also, 15/31 posts in the general Ke- L forum are guild recruitment or "Looking for Guild" threads. If that's true across even 1/2 the server forums you'll need an army to moderate and move every post. In the short term you might add a notice to the top of every "post new thread" page that directs to the proper sub-forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monjiay Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 (edited) Oh, I see them. But they're not server forums so they're useless. Why bother doing EVERYTHING half way? Edited January 21, 2012 by monjiay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forsbacka Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 So are you gonna give us server forums someday like people asked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monjiay Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 So are you gonna give us server forums someday like people asked? Sorry, they're too busy listening to their customers to do that. There just aren't enough hours in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hushia Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 These aren't server forums. Please try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchyld Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Did I miss something somewhere? Innovative server forums? *blinks* How would you prefer we spend our time Bioware? Sifting through threads to find those that are related to our individual servers or hmm, actually playing the game. This entire thing is a fustercluck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Offended Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 I am amused and enraged by how heavily moderated these "server forums" are. It's ridiculous. So what if a discussion goes off topic? Wouldn't wanna clutter the innovative group server forums! And they are innovative, because no other MMO has been dumb enough to implement them. Can we get Hello Kitty avatars please? Wait what? Server forums are moderated and closes off-topic? *** kind of topics do we talk about in the server forums? How do you promote community but close topics of discussion that bring community together? This just proves how stupid bioware is when it comes to MMOs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlaid Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 (edited) We need our own server forums, not this server group half-arsed effort crap. Also, please ease up on the moderation of the server forums when you do. People need to be able to have off topic discussions, a little trash talk, and so forth in their server forums. We need room to breathe with our community. We don't need heavy handed moderators deciding how we're allowed to interact with our own server. That's the whole point of server forums....to get to know each other. Not to get to know the child-proofed moderated version of our server that isn't really what our server is like. Edited January 21, 2012 by Vlaid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incomprehensible Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Couple things... Because of your failed interfaces I have to mentally filter and sort: GTN results Crafting recipes Vendor lists ect... Now everytime I look at the server forum I have to filter out the posts from several other servers. (thank you by the way for at least giving us server forums) Also, your moderation needs can be relaxed by one simple change, stop reading every bloody chatter post between characters. We have a report button, if something is out of line enough that it is bothering someone, it will get reported, thats what the report button is for. Worried you do not have the manpower to read everything? STOP. Concentrate on the threads in the suggestions and bugs forums, those you have to read every one of... A post in a server specific forum by a healer titled <I'm the greatest healer evar!> does not need your attention unless someone draws your eye to it with the report button. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HagbardCelin Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Stop trying to reinvent the wheel. The forums as they are at the moment are a complete eyesore, difficult to navigate, and threads constantly disappearing due to being [Moved] to wholly inappropriate locations. I make a PVE progression thread for my server, and it gets moved to the "Guild Recruiting" thread.... ***. Just leave well enough alone, give us individual server forums and get over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taurusaud Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 (edited) Still no server forums... well I guess it would look kinda bad to have half of the forums empty... Edited January 21, 2012 by Taurusaud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HagbardCelin Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Also, nice touch that once a thread is [Moved} it no longer generates post views, lists updates or sorts properly, so it is effectively relegated to the last page by default. Charming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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