Friday, July 20, 2007

Community Managers on Lock Forums (U.S.) MIA

I posted a grumpy thread on Bliz official lock forums about the total lack of community management there. If you look at the post tracker, the amount of good community management that goes on in the WoW Europe forums compared to the U.S. forums is ridiculous.

Trolling is against the stated forum policies...I would interpret nerf threads to fall under that category per the bolded text below, and the WoW Europe folks agree. But any time you come into the Warlock forums on the U.S. side, there are always several multipage threads posted by trolls and QQers, and I have *never* seen one locked down.

From the Forum Guidelines:
Spamming and Trolling

This category includes:

* Excessively communicating the same phrase, similar phrases, or pure gibberish
* Creating threads for the sole purpose of causing unrest on the forums
* Causing disturbances in forum threads, such as picking fights, making off topic posts that ruin the thread, insulting other posters
* Making non-constructive posts
* Abusing the Reported Post feature by sending false alarms or nonsensical messages
* Numbering a thread, IBTL, TLDR, or any other fad statements
I am fairly sure that Blizz is paying someone to moderate these forums. They need to fire them.

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