This is nothing for an online forum. Especially a video game forum.
Particularly for how little moderation it gets.
Try a Blizzard board and you'll see the online equivalent to a Roman Coliseum.
It's been years since I posted regularly on one, but I'm pretty sure they actually keep tabs on their forums really well. Which is crucial.
This is nothing for an online forum. Especially a video game forum.
Particularly for how little moderation it gets.
Try a Blizzard board and you'll see the online equivalent to a Roman Coliseum.
Blizzard forumites had broken a Blizzard Community manager who had a very public meltdown. Then they made him a meme. Or you can read League of Legend forums. So I laugh when people portray BSN as a hive of villainy and toxicity. One difference is Blizzard actually moderate their forums.
This is nothing for an online forum. Especially a video game forum.
Particularly for how little moderation it gets.
Try a Blizzard board and you'll see the online equivalent to a Roman Coliseum.
I've played the original DOTA WC3 mod on community servers for years, and people think this site is toxic, lawl. 
P.s.: I'm gonna miss that wizard emote, rip lil' buddy.
Who will you report once we're gone?
Admit it, you'll miss us.
Us? No; sorry....
Not even Busomjack? Or Bunz? Or Plaintiff the bigot man?
You monster.
Blizzard forumites had broken a Blizzard Community manager who had a very public meltdown. Then they made him a meme. Or you can read League of Legend forums. So I laugh when people portray BSN as a hive of villainy and toxicity. One difference is Blizzard actually moderate their forums.
Alas, poor Tseric! I wonder what he's up to these days. That was squarely in my time on the WoW forums, and I remember thinking it was disgraceful.
That said, I don't know if everyone is constitutionally suited to modding a community like that.
In the end, the BSN is the only forum I've stuck with for this long. The way they're closing the book on it is shameful, and when it's gone, I can't imagine anything replacing it. It was the best of its kind, as far as I'm concerned.
I miss Stan, CP, and the devs that used to speak of NWN and other projects. I miss mousestalker and humor, and OT threads like Skyrim. I miss friends, civil discussions and debate, and aiding Bioware products with Player's ideas. I will miss a forum where mature posters can keep a civil tongue; not one that has 20 accumulated pages of a single profane word in 3 or 4 days time.Us? No; sorry....
I have this mental movie clip showing in my head:
An abandoned, dark house, maybe foreclosed but the bank never managed to sell it. On the second floor a Racoon has broken in through a window and made a home for herself and three cubs. Otherwise pigeons in the attic and only mice and maybe a rat.
Alan Rickman comes by, screams an angry tirade of abuse into the darkness through the front door, as if he believed someone was still living there. Slams the door and leaves.
And I'm thinking: What good luck I came by and saw this, otherwise it would never have happened.
And then I'm thinking: No. The fact that the devs never visit this Forum doesn't make it irrelevant. That shouldn't ever have been the purpose. No. Those other internet places are no substitutes. Someone is either very wrong or lying. Probably is very wrong, because that's what EA like to do. And I'm thinking the strange back and forth way these forums have been moderated with hostility and then not at all, is probably a fallout of DA2 and some "polarizing"-people "reporting", making EA-moderators involved, permabanning critics. But I'm not supposed to talk about that, am I? Just as well, I'd be crazy to have a conversation with a Racoon.
Hope Bioware have good luck with ME:A. I'll try briefly check it out sometime, on YouTube.
Oh, my wounded heart!
Will you at least report me on the last day, for old time's sake?
Whisper an f-bomb into his ear, and I'm sure he'll be happy to spank you with that report button.
Maybe MH had the forum closed?
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And thank you mod for deleting my previous post without even saying why.
I'll just post it again.
I still think the forum closure/deletion was not well thought out.
To be honest I don't think it's because some think the forums are toxic. I mean I guess those that do never were part of the battlenet forums? D2+ME3 ending together had nothing compared to the Real ID blowup. It was the stuff of nightmares.
I do miss humour. It made me sad when they shut Off-Topic down. A lot of people may have thought it a waste of time and resources, but many of the people squabbling here played well with each other back then.
And in less than ten days, we will no longer be welcome here as well.
I do miss humour. It made me sad when they shut Off-Topic down. A lot of people may have thought it a waste of time and resources, but many of the people squabbling here played well with each other back then.
And in less than ten days, we will no longer be welcome here as well.
I remember the Tabletop War Stories thread. No debate on Loghain, no debate on Mages or Templars... just people swapping stories about how hilariously weird things get when we play games where the options aren't spelled out for us and we have the power to make our own.
Did Fex back that one up? We might be able to pick it up where we left off.
I've played the original DOTA WC3 mod on community servers for years, and people think this site is toxic, lawl.
P.s.: I'm gonna miss that wizard emote, rip lil' buddy.
Hey, you can save that emote and then use it yourself anywhere
I miss Stan, CP, and the devs that used to speak of NWN and other projects.
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I do miss humour. It made me sad when they shut Off-Topic down. A lot of people may have thought it a waste of time and resources, but many of the people squabbling here played well with each other back then.
And in less than ten days, we will no longer be welcome here as well.
You know, I never once visited off-topic, but even I railed at its closure nearly a year ago. It wasn't hard to see the benefits it brought here. Every good forum has an off-topic section. It's cool to talk to other Bioware fans about things that aren't Bioware-related, but it's not just a fun thing. It's very important to have a place where fans brought together by a single thing can bond over other things. Especially in the long waits between games. An off-topic section means a more active on-topic board.
And then of course there's the infamous case of posting that they'd shut it down 12 minutes before doing so 
Oh, and the fact that they didn't close the off-topic boards on the non-English sections, as I mentioned, which negates any legitimate reason for closing the English ones.
I joined the Bioware forum back in 2007, when the first Mass Effect was released. I remember it fondly because I have the slider settings for the 'Megan Fox' Shepard (which has become my default) still saved to my hard drive
Perhaps it is because I am not a massive poster but I've never seen the toxic elements of the forum overwhelm the people who like a decent conversation. Even when the fuss about the ME3 endings was in full flow the people here were still overwhelmingly good people.
Being the official forum for Bioware games this was always going to be the place where the most vile 'fans' would spew their hatred. Yet despite being in the huge minority these were the people that Bioware and the press seemed to focus on.
I had a brief conversation with Spider-Man writer Dan Slott yesterday on Twitter, but we had a period where I seemed at odds with his anti-abuse stance simply because I couldn't fit what I wanted to say into the 140 character limit, so it came out wrong.
Twitter is great, it gives fans a direct line to talk to creators they otherwise would never get to speak to. Yet is character limit is such that what you want to say does not always come across.
It's hard to drive the Mako on youtube bEVEsthda I mean how bad can Andromeda be.
He isn't going to see this is he. Nope.
Who will you report once we're gone?
Admit it, you'll miss us.
Forget missing us, what is he going to do with his time when he isn't spending all day tracking every post and reporting anything he deems unworthy?
We really have very little time left. It feels so strange to think about it.
There are lots of people that work for Bioware that I respect and I am appreciative of Bioware's art, work, and efforts over the years. I'm a fan. A lover of their products.
I am just merely of the very fervent opinion that closing this forum is a bad move. 
The only thing annoying me about the forums closing is that old argument of "the BioWare forums are toxic" still being trod out by people who believe it because some cranky dev/writer gave it as reason to end discussions. People repeat it and blame the users for the forum closing, as if it's their fault that BioWare has done very little here in the past 4+ years.
Compared to other similiar forums this one has always been civil and polite. Yes, there were some posters who threatened the devs over controversies like DA2 or ME3. But... unlike other incidents known to us from other sites... they didn't -actually- threaten people. There was no "Hey, I know your home address and what car you drive" or "That's a cute pet you've got there, would be a shame if something happened to it." The truly nasty things never happened here. That doesn't mean what people did in response to a game was in any way okay but the actions of a few didn't turn the entire forum toxic.
Maybe the discussions in here didn't meet the personal standard of someone with a fragile mind and if you already faint from a single f-bomb then maybe the internet, no... public life... isn't for you. "Profanities" happen. Get over it, there are worse things in life. There are worse things people could do to each other here without once violating the forum rules or using a single "profanity". Such a silly word and so misused. It's a profanity to use God's name in vain. Simple insults, swearing, cursing etc... aren't profanities. A certain biblical scholar should know that.
Yeah, I get it. I used to be a BioWare fan, too. Being a fan doesn't mean that you have to blindly agree with everything they do, it doesn't mean you can't criticize, it doesn't mean you have to be always on their side no matter what they do. Being a fan means being a friend, and sometimes friends need to tell friends when they screwed up.
@Bryan: Any idea what management will call the new iteration of the forum when they open it again for ME:A? It'll happen, the only surprise will be the creative explanation to justify their actions. 
Forget missing us, what is he going to do with his time when he isn't spending all day tracking every post and reporting anything he deems unworthy?
The only thing annoying me about the forums closing is that old argument of "the BioWare forums are toxic" still being trod out by people who believe it because some cranky dev/writer gave it as reason to end discussions. People repeat it and blame the users for the forum closing, as if it's their fault that BioWare has done very little here in the past 4+ years.
Compared to other similiar forums this one has always been civil and polite. Yes, there were some posters who threatened the devs over controversies like DA2 or ME3. But... unlike other incidents known to us from other sites... they didn't -actually- threaten people. There was no "Hey, I know your home address and what car you drive" or "That's a cute pet you've got there, would be a shame if something happened to it." The truly nasty things never happened here. That doesn't mean what people did in response to a game was in any way okay but the actions of a few didn't turn the entire forum toxic.
Maybe the discussions in here didn't meet the personal standard of someone with a fragile mind and if you already faint from a single f-bomb then maybe the internet, no... public life... isn't for you. "Profanities" happen. Get over it, there are worse things in life. There are worse things people could do to each other here without once violating the forum rules or using a single "profanity". Such a silly word and so misused. It's a profanity to use God's name in vain. Simple insults, swearing, cursing etc... aren't profanities. A certain biblical scholar should know that.
Yeah, I get it. I used to be a BioWare fan, too. Being a fan doesn't mean that you have to blindly agree with everything they do, it doesn't mean you can't criticize, it doesn't mean you have to be always on their side no matter what they do. Being a fan means being a friend, and sometimes friends need to tell friends when they screwed up.
@Bryan: Any idea what management will call the new iteration of the forum when they open it again for ME:A? It'll happen, the only surprise will be the creative explanation to justify their actions.
Amen.
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