Hey yall, hope everyone is having a fantastic Monday Evening! I wanted to post a real quick but relevant aside to this thread.
While differing opinions are great and the best part of GD, please be mindful of your conduct guys. I am in no way saying not to have a differing opinion or disagreement but please try to keep civil and constructive as well as on topic. I see a lot of posts taking it personally and going WAY too far that I want to touch on. Mind you, these are only a few out of a rather extensive laundry list of examples I could have pulled from the 46 pages of this thread.
Note: I will be snipping out the names in these quotes because my intention is not to draw attention to specific users but instead to the content of the posts in question. Please do not try to point out who posted what, lets keep this civil.
@-snip- could you please post more of these logs? I'm finding them quite fascinating.
If I run into anymore I'll definitely post them. Most of them have really tried to clean up their act on what they post that everyone can see. After posting these little gems no doubt they're going to keep more of their obscenities private. They can still be hypocrites but at least less people will know.
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To give a little context to this one, one user was actively posting logs from the High Elf community Discord that included user names and such. The posts containing the logs themselves have been deleted, either by user or mod thankfully, but this posts remains.This series of posts has literally NOTHING to do with the discussion itself at all and its entire purpose is for creating drama and unrest. Specifically, this conduct falls under both "Harassing & Defamatory" as well as "Spamming or Trolling" in the CoC. These kinds of posts are going out of their way to create issues, defame members in an attempt to invalidate, and are a blunt attack on members of the community especially when names are linked which also falls under 'Naming and Shaming'. I really shouldn't have to say why that's a problem and yet it exists in abundance in the High Elf Threads.
What happens on another platform, website, ect. such as a community Discord is their own business. If you don't like it, then don't go there. If you can't create any relevant, civilized, or constructive discussion without going out of your way to sling mud and attack others then you honestly have nothing to say. Its their Discord Community and they can say whatever they like there. Its their Discord and its neither governed or does it have any relevance here if outside the context of actual, on topic, discussion.
Thread reported for spam.
The other thing I have noticed is a mass are comments like this one. This is not an opinion, this provides no discussion, its blatant low effort trolling and spam with the sole purpose of creating drama. If you guys don't like High Elves then that's one thing, just because Ion made a statement on High Elves does not mean that any further discussion is now spam. If that were the case then we would be seeing a whole lot less 'Flying', 'Pathfinder', 'Azerite Gear', ect type threads.
You have every right to disagree and say why you disagree, this is a Discussion thread on High Elves, it does not need to be an echo chamber of support or lack there of. If you dislike High Elves then you have every right to say so, but please keep it constructive and civilized.
You were not promised a damn thing. The lore went a different direction, as did many things. WC3/TFT have the high elves leaving the Alliance and becoming blood elves.
Speaking of civilized discussion, please guys be mindful of profanity. That includes masked/censored such as a combination of shift-number symbols, First letter then series of dashes/underscores/asterisks, ect. Its not that hard to say "darn" or "dang". Outside of that, there is nothing seriously wrong with this post. Personally, I would suggest expanding a bit more but they have a right to post his opinion as long as its done in a civilized fashion.
Finally (no specific quote for this one), and this goes ESPECIALLY for both sides on this, just because some one does not agree with you or has a differing opinion does not mean they are trolling! This is a discussion thread and the primary purpose is for discussion and in discussion there will always be differing opinions. While there are certainly trolls here in this thread, in fact there are far, far, FAR more trolls than other Allied Race fan threads, I see a lot of people posting genuine discussion being labeled trolls here from both sides. Please try to be civil and constructive guys. If you can't discuss something without taking it personally and being nasty then its better to not say anything at all.
I am saying all of this for everyone's benefit here because out of all the Allied Race threads on GD, there is a lot of pretty poor conduct going on in this one. If you are unclear with the CoC then I highly suggest giving it a serious read, you can find it at the bottom right corner below the text box whenever you go to post. I will also post it down below, along with the community guidelines.
If you feel a post or poster needs to be reported, please pause and consider the Code of Conduct before making your report to avoid false reporting based on personal feelings. Disagreeing with someone is not a valid reason for reporting. When making a report please also be clear and concise in the report and what rules you feel it violates. Also, please do not try to start witch hunts, you don't need to tell the world about your report of someone.
So again, please, everyone lets be mindful of our conduct in this thread. I am seriously begging you guys here, please try to keep it civil on both fronts because I honestly know you are all better than this.
With that said I am not a moderator nor am I attempting to be one. I am just another post on this forum like you guys, but as an MVP (and as Ornyx and then Ythisens refreshed) it is my position to do the following.
MVPs promote constructive posting wherever they can. They contribute to the community and encourage polite discussion throughout the forums. When you see an MVP post, listen to what they have to say—they were also chosen for their knowledge of the game.
As directly quoted from post 4 of the "Welcome - Please Read!" thread. So again, I am making this post for the benefit of everyone here in a desperate attempt to prevent any poster from having an unfortunate time because of their own conduct.
Lets try to have some good and civil discussion guys and try to keep our passion from getting the better of us.
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