Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Different mods and different forums work in different ways, you just gotta figure out how they work and then, as bad as it may sound, play them off themselves to allow yourself an enjoyable experience.

Some mods don't like to be told they are doing a ***job and will immediately try and call you out on "whining" and "being butthurt" in order to distract everyone else from the fact that they are ***to begin with. Other mods will just find an excuse within the fine print to ban you and explain why later. Some mods react better when you send them a PM about how they could improve and others will ignore it and only react/listen if it is posted in a public place. Once you know what the best way to interact with the mods you can get a little more progress done with them when it comes to asking to have a thread closed, or reporting another person, or even in some cases having them actually show you some respect as a person instead of just treated you like a two year old with an internet connection.

When it comes to forums, you gotta realize that FFXIAH is a *** mess. I help out as a mod on a tech forum and I am used to the ask/answer/close way of doing things. Sometimes a new troubleshooting method for a problem pops up and then we merge the threads, reopen it briefly, and close it again. Things don't get sidetracked, we delete duplicate topics and PM links to existing threads, we do our jobs as moderators. Here the usual formula seems to be ignore it until it is on fire, wait to see if the fire burns out on its own, wait some more, come in and vaguely make people aware that you have noticed the fire, then once the thread is burned all the way through you start banning people and eventually nuke the whole thread, so now the fire is out and the original question and answer is gone as well, so we all get to enjoy another thread EXACTLY LIKE IT later on.