Kindly read
my previous post before continuing to embarrass yourself with completely misguided and entirely unfounded notions. Thank you.
-Mal
you realize that it's unreasonable to expect every person to read every post in every thread before they say anything, right? the worst-case scenario is that the new person says something invalid due to context they're not aware of. thinking it's reasonable to put a ton of energy into making sure you aren't wrong when the consequences of being wrong are nominal is a sign of low self-esteem.
All the best,
textbook7
i won't lie people have started to see f95zone moderators negatively lately and moving off forum to discuss stuff
i've had several negative experiences. for one, i can't see what gets removed, so i have no way to identify what i did wrong. i THINK the majority of them were merely cited as "off-topic", which strikes me as pointless forum dogma. if your forum is for discussing time-intensive automotive projects, yeah it's probably advisable to be pretty severe about keeping people on-topic. but if your forum is about fetishist erotic indie games, why on earth would you stamp out the casual socializing online forums are designed to facilitate?
i'm all for removing stuff that detracts from the quality of the experience. like if somebody starts talking about how they went to the grocery store today, that's valueless to anyone who isn't personally acquainted to them, so that i would purge. but i've had posts about piracy, DRM, even other hentai games get removed for being off-topic. if you remove stuff like that, what are we here for? asking for save files and individual troubleshooting? sounds like a recipe for a barren wasteland
overvaluing focus is far and away the most common thing that kills forums. well that, and the bizarrely consistent pattern of escalating severity and eventually overzealous authoritarianism that literally 90% of forum mods seem to exhibit