Record Of Misuse Of FFXIAH (By Us The Users)

Hello folks! The FFXIAH.com development team has been traveling and doing otherwise generally year-endery holiday stuff for a little over a month now, so you may have noticed we haven't been around. Forum traffic and overall usage seems to be continuing to grow exponentially, and we are very appreciative of our many users who have continued to use and support our site over the years. However, this has come with one major downside: a significant increase in disruptive user behavior that requires our intervention. We're back now, and I just wanted to post this friendly reminder:

We are a small site written and maintained by only three people, two of which no longer play FFXI, and all of which have full-time "day jobs." We are not a large corporation. We do not have full-time moderators, nor even customer service staff (given that we do not have any paying customers.) Advertising is out-sourced to external placement agencies. We run a very small operation.

As such, our attitude towards much of the site operation, design, and administration is very "hands-off." We do not have the time, nor the interest, in spending all day policing the behavior of our users. We will not be posting excruciatingly detailed rules, regulations, and acceptable use policies, and then arguing with you all later over the technicalities in those rules.

That having been said, all areas of this site (forums included) operate under one general friendly golden rule: "Don't Be A Douchebag." Please use your common sense when using this site, posting comments, forum entries, screenshots, etc. In general, if your behavior on the site causes us to spend a significant amount of time cleaning up the messes that you make, we will not hesitate to remove your account access. Our many other users prefer that the majority of our time be spent improving the site -- not chasing you around the internet. In summary: if you are disruptive, the offending material will be removed, and we will typically do it quickly, silently, and without further comment. If you fail to get the message after you have been warned in this manner, we will be forced to remove you from the site.

Otherwise, we are thrilled and flattered that so many users have decided to make FFXIAH.com one of their primary destinations for FFXI-related information. We hope to continue providing a site that's quick, clean, powerful, and useful for all of you through 2009 and beyond.

Thanks!

You can always spend your time on other forums if you have issues on this website.

You can always spend your time on other forums if you have issues on this website.

That was the simplest way I could put it, lol.

I still don't think she gets it though, oh well.

So why are you complaining, and essentially trying to change the rules?

You seem to be asking for a thread, in which all the trolls are named and shamed or something, but what makes you think that said trolls won't come in and troll that thread. And the only way you could do that would be to lock the thread for anyone but yourself, ie. become a mod, which isn't going to happen.

Either that, or some kind of voting system on who stays and goes, which would never ever work, and furthermore has already been stated that it won't happen by the site owners.

Rule breakers!!!!

You know you've done something wrong as a woman on a forum when you have no white knights defending you with your crusade.