Syrus Terrigan |
Well, they weren't really "digital heartburn" anymore -- more like "digital xenomorph blood IVs" . . . . Sure, I was a rotten jerk usually always on the political stuff, and always will be, but I'm not gonna miss those threads. AT ALL.
Not a fan of my posts gettin' ghosted, but of a thread locked? Meh.
Wei Ji the Learner |
I don't care about threadlocks - they're locked for good cause most of the time. The disappeared ones though, are puzzling and highly out of character for Paizo.
Depending on what the material and topic was in the thread, though.
Several of those post-election threads were... exceptionally inflammatory.
Haladir |
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Turin the Mad wrote:I don't care about threadlocks - they're locked for good cause most of the time. The disappeared ones though, are puzzling and highly out of character for Paizo.Depending on what the material and topic was in the thread, though.
Several of those post-election threads were... exceptionally inflammatory.
Agreed. The threads that the mods decided to delete in their entirety really deserved to go, IMAO.
Honestly, I've just been hiding the purely political threads. If I want to get fired up/rant about politics, there's always Facebook. I come to gaming boards to escape from reality.
Pan |
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Wei Ji the Learner wrote:Turin the Mad wrote:I don't care about threadlocks - they're locked for good cause most of the time. The disappeared ones though, are puzzling and highly out of character for Paizo.Depending on what the material and topic was in the thread, though.
Several of those post-election threads were... exceptionally inflammatory.
Agreed. The threads that the mods decided to delete in their entirety really deserved to go, IMAO.
Honestly, I've just been hiding the purely political threads. If I want to get fired up/rant about politics, there's always Facebook. I come to gaming boards to escape from reality.
IDK, I find I have a much better discussion here at Paizo than on FB about......anything. Clearly YMMV.
Wei Ji the Learner |
I do not Fakebook.
I'd be posting every five minutes, would be late for work, miss work, get fired from work, lose the Internet, in very quick order.
IN ADDITION:
When the *head of the company* attempts to prevent his information getting out into the *company*'s offering, that's a decided show of lack of faith in the product.
Kobold Catgirl |
Turin the Mad wrote:I don't care about threadlocks - they're locked for good cause most of the time. The disappeared ones though, are puzzling and highly out of character for Paizo.Depending on what the material and topic was in the thread, though.
Several of those post-election threads were... exceptionally inflammatory.
I know of one of the deleted threads. It was designed to start a flamewar. Frankly, the poster should have been banned for that, but I think Paizo's walking on eggshells for now.
Crusinos |
Wei Ji the Learner wrote:I know of one of the deleted threads. It was designed to start a flamewar. Frankly, the poster should have been banned for that, but I think Paizo's walking on eggshells for now.Turin the Mad wrote:I don't care about threadlocks - they're locked for good cause most of the time. The disappeared ones though, are puzzling and highly out of character for Paizo.Depending on what the material and topic was in the thread, though.
Several of those post-election threads were... exceptionally inflammatory.
I hope they're not. If I'm being a jerk and don't realize, I fully expect one of the mods to slap me and say, "Stop being a jerk!"
They can consider this post my consent to do that. I may not like it, but I'd rather have that than destroy the community.
Walking on eggshells isn't good.
Kalindlara Contributor |
AlgaeNymph |
Kalindlara wrote:And so much of it is endlessly dissected, especially obvious off-the-cuff responses. :(Yeah there were a few posters over the last year who drilled down on the minutae or seemed to enjoy pointing out some sentence in some random product that seemed to contradict some earlier statement of James or question his creative control. I don't know if its a RAW mentality creeping into how some folks view the setting or what.
I hope I never got that bad with all my Sorshen questions.
Haladir |
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I think PFS fosters that. With so many things banned or unusable, people rely on their RAW definitions to play what they want. So, they milk it for all it is worth. Obviously not all PFS players are like this...
Unfortunately, there are enough of them that they've pretty much turned me off PFS.
AlgaeNymph |
On a different note, I'm really bummed that the trolls chased the Creative Directosaur out of his AMA thread.
I wish I knew exactly what happened. Hopefully, it's just "bummed about election, annoyed at snarky posters, taking a break for a while." One of the parting comments expressed about James' seemingly declining creative control, but now we're getting into rumor territory...
Plausible Pseudonym |
I'm not sure it was trolls. No inflammatory posts were obviously deleted, but it could have happened by stealth overnight, I guess.
I imagine it was the election and a seemingly growing dissatisfaction or disillusionment at work. He replied to a few how are you questions in a negative way the past few weeks, and seemed to take the revelation of some elf culture bits in Strange Aeons really badly. I hope he feels better and he doesn't rush it.