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Why wouldn't you want the forums to be active?
tugowar
Member, Phoenix Initiative, Royalty, Kickstarter, Alpha One
Some of you may remember.. there was a time when people lit these forums up with memes and pointless posts in order to earn points and badges. It drove activity and traffic. Now, the forums are a few replies a day. If gamification drives traffic, why wouldn't you want that?
Virtue is the only good.
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Discord is simply a more popular form of communication it is pretty much real time and far more interactive. My own guild gave up its official website and forums because discord simply became a better option, more convenient option might be the case.
I tried to participate in the discord in the early days but found some of the people there to be so toxic and full of themselves with the then mods being some of the worst amongst them. Thus I gave up any thoughts of trying to contribute to discord as it would simply be lost in the senseless spam. Fortunately now discord is a much better place and I follow every day to see if there is any nuggets of information amongst the spam and cat meme's.
It is nice to see new people being treated with somewhat more respect and their questions being answered by the longer term members of the community though from my own perspective I tend to wait until Jahlon or Unknown show up to hit people with their wisdom and links rather than possibly get something wrong myself.
Things will pick up on the forums once we get closer to launch, there are no doubt so many people out there who have yet to hear about AOC. I find it amusing to see people lamenting the loss of their special little discord community once the unwashed masses flood in closer to launch.
Isn't that the same argument for giving Asmongold an alpha 1 key? "Any traffic is good traffic."
Virtue is the only good.
Both have their own uses and thus I think both of them should continue to exist.
I myself am more of a Discord user and I may or may not use the forums more once the alphas are live or the game is live.
Come take a look at ashesofcreation.wiki!
i like your signature seal. discord doesn't have that.
Virtue is the only good.
Not exactly
Giving Asmo a key will generate a lot of traffic to the game.
But having to babysit the forums is a boring job as a moderator. The old forums were like the wild west and we had some pretty vile people.
How is moderating discord any better?
We should keep it fair and make a Discord wipe.
Alternative response, that’s just practice for launch.
Virtue is the only good.
I still post so the forums aren’t all better...
It was Belle who gave me my alpha 0 key way back when for my forum activity.
Always stopped to read what Belle had to say as it was usually putting the smack down on some fool.
I only attempt to try and sweep it up, at best. However, sometimes it just can't be stopped no matter how far the toxicity reaches. People that actually keep in the mindset of fantasy are more than likely people that are poor or perhaps want to escape reality. If the "trash" becomes the mainstream and reaches the top, it can have perhaps a toxic effect and people will just lose interest into the people that have the "creative" minds, but have turned trash...
Virtue is the only good.
The above is one of the main reasons there is not as much activity here there simply is not a huge flow of new information at the moment. This will change in time.
Virtue is the only good.
My point I was trying to make is that people are so blatantly arrogant nowadays you can already see the outcome. Pig-headed opinions that you gotta keep making puns to get around and ponzi-scheme ideas that have no base. The lack of intelligence and creativity harbors no real estate in the end, so it fails gain again and again. Ofcourse I have no basis to back this up, but just look at Ebay. Members followed by 20 different collections accounts and bidding on my shit.....I can't even sell nothing. I am just observing real life scenarios and putting the puzzle together.
This post has the [Staff] tag on it because @StevenSharif commented above.
Virtue is the only good.
In this thread Steven said he reads the forums, so I think he got your thanks.