RIP Forum

Good morning,

I've woken up this morning to a rather substantial update to the forums, or should I say a downgrade...

A huge number of previous posts, many of which are still relevant and referred to daily, have been archived and are therefore no longer available for our use. Posts such as @A-R-K-Y 's Cannon Megathread, Best Cannons for PvP, and Pets Megathread have just been stripped from the forum. These are posts that should really be put into the Seafight Bible as to be honest he does a much better job at informing the players and helping the community in the forum that the entire dedicated forum team!

Do you not want your players to be happy? Do you not want them to have the information they deserve easily accessible and clearly presented, as opposed to forcing them to trawl through thread after thread for scraps of information? Maybe there are Seafight Bible posts being released on these but they have not been released, so why have the current ones been archived?

To add on to this, threads are now closed so quickly when they have only been partly answered. With certain forum moderators you could look through their posts and see that all they do is close threads, rarely contributing to the answer. The number of times I have seen a thread answered partly and know I can contribute to a more satisfactory answer only to see the post was closed by the same moderator every time is just ridiculous. Even times when he/she asks if it has been answered they wont even wait 24 hours before just closing it! I am now having to make new threads to respond to questions and tag the original poster to it just to give them the response.

The forum is quickly plummeting and it seems to me, as well as other players, that its actually a battle between the admins and the players. The players are trying to answer questions and help eachother, while admins are archiving the most useful threads and closing off questions before they can be answered.

The admins and players should both be working for the same goal, to assist the forum and assist the players who ask questions, but right now the reality is far from this.

Thanks,

Des

 

I personally can not comment on why these posts have been removed, however I can say that I do not feel like it is a fight between the moderators and the players. We all are here to help each other and to keep the forum organised.

In regards to my posts which you say are used so often being deleted, these were out of date anyway, and if players ask the same questions, my response will be the updated versions of these threads. Information changes, posts need to change too

-Arky

 

I am glad that you noticed the removal of the posts from the Archives.

This was a necessity as due to an unforseen error chat posts, offensive posts and ones which had been deleted from the main forum were suddenly possible for viewing in the Archive section. As these were removed for a reason, we could not have them on view to all players. We had to act on that matter first, so all the posts were deleted.

However..... this does not mean they are gone for good, this week there will be a review of these posts and those that are useful to players will be returned to be viewed by all.

We apologise for the inconvenience of this, but it was a necessary act at the time. This will be resolved shortly.

 

Thank you for the clarification Seren, apologies if I came across rather hot headed but I am sure you can understand why. I hope that we will see the return of these threads in the near future as they are a great credit to the forum.

With regards to questions being closed before they can be fully answered however, my view still stands. This is nothing personal towards the moderator, but I do think they need to be a little less heavy handed on closing threads. Let them be fully answered, or ask if they have been answered and wait 48 hours for a response, not close it before they get the chance to reply. I expect you know which mod I am referring to here and again I will stress, this is nothing personal towards them.

Thanks,

Des

 

As this has been answered and the explanation accepted, even if it is not the best of outcomes, this post will now be closed.

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