Originally posted by tyrannis
When you decide that moderation of your fourms should be done with care and consisency and not what your mood is at the time, the position of the moon is in the sky, or whether or not your team wins the super bowl i'll remove my add block.

I agree heavily with this.

I used to look at the moderation on this site as pathetic but figured hey it must be volunteers so it is what it is. Hearing that you need money because you pay for these moderators is a complete and utter shock. I cannot believe this level of inconsistent and outright terrible moderation is being paid for.

For that reason I will be installing an ad blocker immediately. I have never used one ever, I have always let all of the annoying ads from every site on the internet show up. However, I do not appreciate my views funding such terrible moderation so I will truly be installing an ad blocker to block all of the ads from this site. I left MMORPG for a couple years due to the craptastic moderation and will probably do so again soon anyway so I guess my ad blocker doesn't change much, but I will make sure to never look at ads from this site again.

And who really comes here for the "content"? Most of the content is news taken from other sites. You know who does that 10x better? Massively.com. The other content is reviews which are, quite frankly, the worst reviews in the whole industry. Most people come here for the forums and the moderation is pathetic. I would suggest simply getting rid of all of the "content" and leaving the forums up. You just shaved off some costs and maybe you can pay for better moderators.

1 million+ viewers a month? Yeah ok, save that one for the sales pitch. The majority of the time there is 200 or less signed in users on your site at one time and 2000 guests. So even if through out the day there are 2 full sets of people for a nice round up of 5000, that is still only 150,000 a month and that is without factoring in how many of those are the same people day after day which is probably most of them.

I don't have facts to substantiate it, but it "feels" like the forums have been MUCH less active after this thread started...

I wonder if people left for better waters... 

It fascinates me how threads seem to deterioriate over time.  I actually went back and read the beginning page or so again, because my memory was that things started off fine.  Two polite, carefully worded requests, with full explanations and some reasonable comments in reply.  A few posts straight away about flashing ads, which I can sympathise with as they drive me nuts.  One post I think threatening to not visit the website again.  So, overall, pretty reasonable.

Still can't puzzle out what happens to a thread once it has gone one for more than a couple of pages.  Seems to be there will then be the odd decent post, but most will be range from bickering to complete raging.  Is it that people see a negative trend developing and then jump on the bandwagon?  

I remain continually puzzled by people (not just here, of course) ^^

Well, I think this thread has about run its course at this point.

Thanks for the constructive feedback for those who gave it and thanks to anyone who added us to their whitelists!