EVE General Discussion

CCP is actually paying you guys now?

Funny that r/eve users are complaining about over moderation and lack of down voting, while I think that the forums are well moderated and can't stand the down voting cliques on r/eve.

Doesn't mean it doesn't have a place in the world, I still read it.

No issues with the ISD here, they're right, it's a thankless job, one I have had to do before.

So, while r/eve folks may hate you ISD guys, I say thank you for keeping the place pretty clean and a safe place for everyone to have an opinion.

r/eve is just a lot of gutter sniper wars that if there was sanity there, that's the stuff that would get down voted. Instead, it's just the lords of chaos having their fun, which can be fun to watch, I just feel like I need a shower after reading it.

I also wish the format was better and more readable. Even the reddit readers I have played with haven't been able to fix its readability.

It would be nice if those threads locked for redundancy had a link to an original thread in them. That would make sure the original thread exists and is unlocked.

Some of the redundant threads are locked and redundant because they got locked in the first place and the poster didn't take the hint the first time.

Player forums seem to reflect the state of the game pretty accurately, whether on Reddit or over here. Dead sub-forums and topics avoided are a very good indication of how players regard aspects of the game. It's not always an indication that those aspects are sufficiently well-regarded not to require comment or discussion.

I come here because - as someone mentioned, above - there is discussion of Highsec, my home. There's not too much talk about Highsec on Reddit. But I do glance over at Reddit, every day. Considering that the bulk of the material doesn't involve me, it says something about the attraction of r/eve. There are some good posters; by which I mean people who have good ideas and can write about them effectively.

I'll probably be unpopular for saying this, but to hell with it. Here on EVE-O I get really frustrated by people who don't do their prep. They don't think before or while they write; they don't consider that someone may read their stuff and that , therefore, it should be presented reasonably. This isn't about poor spelling or grammar - those are merely minor annoyances for me. It's about content and presentation.

There have been many threads where I've thought, 'I want to say something about that'. But I held off, either because one of the forum regulars covered the point or because, on reflection, what I had to say wasn't actually that good/funny/original.

It has become so bad that, good point or not, I simply won't read walls of paragraph-less text. If you can't bother, why should I?

So I think Reddit is ok, but these forums are what I regard as 'home'. I just wish there was more self-moderation...

'Local' is highly suited to carry 'Chat'. These boards seem frequently to be home to a curious hybrid communication system, falling somewhere between Chat and Discussion. It's not very successful much of the time. But still, here I am....

This is probably the best gamingforum out there. Lol. (?)

I just finished reading this entire thread.
Why, I wonder?

Sasha Nemtsov mentioned that some folks here don't do their homework before they post. That's entirely true. Those that don't get schooled/trolled pretty fast and it ends up educating the poster or at least making the thread fun for everyone. I think that's kind of what Ralph KG was getting at but maybe I didn't do enough homework on that first.

r/eve is RIFE with posters that are clueless about what they are saying. There they rely on the downvote system to nerf the post into obscurity. Here, such threads also end up on the back pages by just the passage of time. If they are bad enough they get locked and that's that.

So both forum types have their moderation ways, one is community moderated with the only rule being popular vote, the other is... moderated by volunteers from the community that have to follow rules set by the host.

That, in a nutshell, explains the good and bad of each system. Post where you like, you suffer the patience of the community in either case after you hit that POST button. In that sense, both systems are identical.

Yo ain' talkin' **** 'bout ma gramma do ya?

Only thing that makes these forums horrible are REDDIT people posting here. You REDDITs stay home, you'll never know the difference, but we certainly will. TYVM in advance.