Hey guys, I did vanilla for a bit and like a month of TBC back in the day and was fairly new to the internet. Online forums were intimidating to look at and websites were just disorganized and hard to read back in the day.
Anyway were old forums and discussions pages like they are today? Folks are still talking about the level boost being available. Were people constantly complaining about the same thing and making new posts about stuff that already happened? My impression is that the internet is a better place to hang out these days and a lot less cruel without purpose in comparison to the wild west of the internet days.
Yeah, that is true. There was also a flood of “I quit” threads. The traditional answer was “…you’ll be back…” and “Can I have your stuff”
I’d argue it’s because there were plenty of subforums for the negative parts to be taken, and were actively moved as well. And discord has basically replaced the majority of subforums, so players coming through for those no longer come through here.
And yeah, much more active forum mods. So far, I’ve only seen one forum mod step in on a topic during TBCC, and that was to silently remove some comments (and edit mine that quoted them) a few days or so after the damage had been done.