Wow.  There's a company that actually takes manners and their existing rules half way seriously?

I'm starting to feel like this is the FFXI of forums, whereby if one is a serious jerk they won't survive for long in it.

Originally posted by colddog04

Originally posted by Gorwe

It actually was. Because they started to get flame ready and I stepped in to explain things. It all happened because random guy used my acronym(you'll hear about that acronym soon enough :D) and didn't explain what it actually stood for. Plus if people get offended at stuff like Fool/Plonker/Wallie/Nitwit-it's their fault and not mine. It's my way of speaking so get used to it(and not only mine!)...

Anyhow, use EXTREMELY polite expressions if you wind up there. Behave Like you are at Pope's Palace...

Or just don't call people stupid.

Honestly I got an infraction for telling someone to stop complaining about an issue which could easily be overcome / passed. They really are on a whole other level of bashing their own userbase.

You were not allowed to say something rude, shocker. That was not sarcasm either.

RULES:

- Do not call yourself PORNO, it gives other ideas then playing.
- Do not call players n00bs, they are all anyhow.
- Do not call dev looser, it can be true.
- Do not fart, it gives bugs.

Avoid ban-loving games, and go play something cool, better for free.

Take my post for a real joke (where 50% if funny truth). =XD

P.S. gaming now is not fun, it's way to make money to devs and religion of some kind.=D

Did you get perma banned? Calling people names is not a constructive discussion. It is trolling. You can't speak to strangers the way you do to your friends.

And hugging a stranger? If some random person who I don't know comes and hugs me, I will be like "?????????????????"

Originally posted by Alot

I don't always insult people, but when I do I call them "kittens".

Yes, I was baffled by this at first, so now I just type kittien to save the filter the trouble lol

Originally posted by illyana

made my day reading the official forums

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/support/account/PLEASE-PLEASE-PLEASE-PLEASE

 Now THAT is funny for some reason.

Originally posted by SoulSurfer

Originally posted by Alot

I don't always insult people, but when I do I call them "kittens".

Yes, I was baffled by this at first, so now I just type kittien to save the filter the trouble lol

 Everywhere "kitten" would show up use "puppy" instead and confuse everyone.

Originally posted by Gorwe

I can't believe at the level of etiquette required to post there. It is Like you are at the PM(Prime Minister)'s House. Such nonsense-I am on the net to sound Like me and not Like some random drone.

Anyways, I called another member "nitwit". And that's like a serious offense. If I did there what I had done here, there would be police(ye olde Bill with that signal stripe on the hat :D) on my doorstep...

Sheeesh! Give me a break, will you?

Calling anyone any sort of name is considered a personal attack and rightfullly so I'm afraid.

it prevents flaming quite nicely actually, so I do like the way they strictly moderate their forums.

do what most do and write kitten in it or some other imaginative way that doesn't sound directly pointed at one specific person and you should be fine.

I do think this has to be one of the most overmoderated forums I've ever seen.  I got an infraction for not putting "In My Opinion" in a title.  They also editted my thread.  I was talking about how I felt the Arah Seer path could use a redesign because the dungeon takes at least 2-4 hours and the bosses are boring including one you could sit there and AFK autoattack.  Most ridiculous infraction I've ever received, of course it's my opinion that's why I post on forums I never stated anything as a fact.

Makes you appreciate these forums more and more.

There is one thing I feel that I should point out here though,

the GW2 forums infraction system doesn't always mean you did something wrong.

infraction is more like an intervention by any moderator

the infraction system has several levels and layers to it, for example I've been infracted for posting something on the general forums instead of in a specific sub forum that is more addecuate for my post, now is that a bad infraction ? no ofcourse not it simply meant action was taken by a moderator to move that thread to where it can serve it's purpose more easily.

just saying.

Also this is my 2nd account on these mmorpg forums and while it's sometimes nice to say what you want to people w/o any moderation at all, let's face it this is the internet and annonimity breeds dooshbags, I closed my 1st account because I was fedup, I have this one now for the occasional good topics and ofcourse for the key giveaways and contests :D

It's funny how the OP is complaining about people with thin skins and yet the OP apparently has a thin skin too...

Learn to look at it from another perspective... you're only looking it at it from your own... thus... your perspective is skewed.

Good!

Sometimes I would call out people I thought were acting stupid, or use sarcasm on them.  After a while what I realised is that as soon as you do that you become part of the problem that has reduced forums from useful gathering places for like minded people to the petty, bile infested one upmanship contests that most forums have become, rather than part of the solution.

Originally posted by Gorwe

It actually was. Because they started to get flame ready and I stepped in to explain things. It all happened because random guy used my acronym(you'll hear about that acronym soon enough :D) and didn't explain what it actually stood for. Plus if people get offended at stuff like Fool/Plonker/Wallie/Nitwit-it's their fault and not mine. It's my way of speaking so get used to it(and not only mine!)...

Anyhow, use EXTREMELY polite expressions if you wind up there. Behave Like you are at Pope's Palace...

I seldom bother with many official forums.  They are welcome to use what ever policy they wish, its a private forum. I'm also welcome not to use their forum.  On the subject of forums, Sanya Weathers is one of the best CM's I've run across. She has always been even handed and fair, but keeps the trolls under their bridges, and the biting flies out of the forums.  Its all in how things are handled.

Originally posted by kurosenshu

There is one thing I feel that I should point out here though,

the GW2 forums infraction system doesn't always mean you did something wrong.

infraction is more like an intervention by any moderator

the infraction system has several levels and layers to it, for example I've been infracted for posting something on the general forums instead of in a specific sub forum that is more addecuate for my post, now is that a bad infraction ? no ofcourse not it simply meant action was taken by a moderator to move that thread to where it can serve it's purpose more easily.

 

just saying.

 

Also this is my 2nd account on these mmorpg forums and while it's sometimes nice to say what you want to people w/o any moderation at all, let's face it this is the internet and annonimity breeds dooshbags, I closed my 1st account because I was fedup, I have this one now for the occasional good topics and ofcourse for the key giveaways and contests :D

This. I think a lot of people don't make the distinction between the two.