Duffman

May 7 2007, 12:07 PM | Post #1

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(Let me stress that the following is just MY opinion).

Well, as many people, I used to be a large user of the Offical RS Forums. I believe I obtained almost 3,000 posts throughout my time there. But also, like many, I moved on from the forum for many, many reasons.

I want to know what your opinions are on the Official forums. Do you like them/dislike them etc?


My opinion:
I find that it comes in a few groups of people:

* Jagex Staff
* Forum Moderators
* Spammers
* Flammers
* WBMs
* Good Posters (The rarities).

Now, the Jagex staff are those who decide the fate of every person on the Forum. They are the ones who enforce a punishment given to you and can move the punishments to your ingame account. But they seem slightly hypocrytical when they break their own rules.

The Forum Moderators, one of a kind. Some of the only few people that put effort into that forum. And yet, there are only a handful that actually do a good job. A lot of them were randomly picked by Jagex for being WBMs, and others were picked and then don't do anything. I personally know a few Forum Moderators, each of which I see doing a good job, instead of "Please do not spam", "Please do not spam", "Please do not spam" etc.

Spammers, every forum has them. But this forum is unique. I could probably take a wild guess that around 90% of all the Forum Members spam. Look in any topic and you will see a post saying one thing like "lol" or "yeh". Then you have the annoying ones who make around 20 topics within a few seconds because of the lack of Flood Control pushing all the decent Threads out of the Forum (being deleted).

The Flammers, the lowest of the low. These ones seem to weave in and out of threads just looking for someone to irritate. Once they then find their prey, they begin their annoyance and start their flamming (Whilst the majority of their posts are "*******************" with the odd "noob" comment.

Seems funny how the Spammers & Flammers are rarely ever punished.

Now, the WBMs. Goodness gracious me, these are the most annoying people within the confines of RuneScape. These people look in and out of every thread looking for Rule Breaking, like a Sniffer Dog searching for Drugs. Once their aim beackon picks up a Post out of place, BOOM. They're on the job. "(Name), you have posted this thread in the wrong forum, I advise with my non-moderator powers that you use the (forum name here). Can a Moderator (those Gods) please close or move this thread?" These are the ones that like to comment on all Rule Breaking. Then there are the ones who aren't as tedious, yet still annoying. They find a post out of place and with another 1,000,000 WBMs, they post in the Forum Emergencies thread detailing every single thing that is needed to close this thread down.

Of course, they do this all in hope of one day becoming a Forum Moderator. Although you'd think that them being hyprocrites and breaking the Forum Rules whilst telling other people to follow them that they wouldn't become mods - yet they do. Funny that. Hence why some Moderators are just on another Planet.

Now, the lack of anything-good on the forum. When you post, you are forced to use plain writing all the time. No difference between posts, just the same ol' writing day in and out. You can't make your writing bold, Italic or Underlined.

Now, let's talk about Jagex's expectancy of their Forum Moderators. They have around 150 Forum Moderators for around 750,000 people. It's no-wonder there are soo many rule breakers. They expect the Forum Moderators to do EVERYTHING. It's rare to see a Jagex staff member do something on the Forum.

Then again, once they do post, all you see is "OMG A Jagex Modulator is liek posting in mi thred lul!!!! ow cool, can u mak me a mod pls pls pls, i pay u ingame lul pls??!?!?!" - so I guess that explains their lack of major activity.

Signatures and Avatars.
Well, isn't it great to see FREE FORUMS (Invisionfree) with the ability to use Signatures and avatars. Truly a miracle. But wait, what the devil is this? The RSB do not offer this, and they are a multi-millionaire company. It just creates a sense of everyone being a clone. Everyone has the same writing, and same posts. Boring.

Images
Images, I guess it is understandable that they don't want images being posted - because of Pornography and all. Then again, don't they have mods to stop people from looking at that? And surely at age 13 (Minimum age to play), if you see that, you aren't going to be that offended.

No offense is intended to any Forum Moderators there, the ones I know are actually really good at their job. But Jagex seem to be hiring pointless candidates. I know one of my friends was recently picked for the position, and he definatly deserved it - one of the few.

Summary
The RSB have no features, the members are out of control, and Jagex rely too much on their moderators.

Opinions?
(I'm unlikely to reply to any comments, but I might).

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T-Ball

May 8 2007, 12:26 AM | Post #2

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My question is, do you actually plan to stick around this forum? Or are you just hopping forums posting your opinion? Because judging by your closing sentence there, it would appear as though you are just going to every fansite you can find and posting your rant. It would be nice if you stuck around this forum though, you seem like a fairly intelligent human being, alot better then alot of other people this forum has aqquired. Stick around, get to know the community, have a good time

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spikey188

May 8 2007, 01:29 AM | Post #3

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QUOTE(T-Ball @ May 8 2007, 01:26 AM) [snapback]93864[/snapback]

alot better then alot of other people this forum has aqquired

is that pointed to me and my spelling.....

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Makoto

May 8 2007, 01:35 AM | Post #4

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First of all, I feel your view of the Official Forums a bit too sketchy. Forum Mods are something like us regular users and/or Player Moderators; they're not under any obligation to do anything. Those that do just like their job, or they're not burdened repeatedly by nonsensical reports.

Wanna-be Moderators are an annoyance, but quite easily filtered out. Just remember what the topic at hand is, and from there you'll be fine. Trust me, the only thing that brownnosing will do for anyone anywhere will just give them a way to clear their sinuses.

As for signatures and avatars, why the hell should they do that? For one thing, anyone could post ANY kind of image on those forums, and I doubt that Jagex would want to put the resources into removing certain images that they wouldn't want on their forums. Shock images and images with VBScript attached to them could cause havoc to users, or people who aren't prepared to see them. Sure, we use them for everyday things such as posting accomplishments and signatures, but someone malicious could use them for another purpose. It'd be quite possible to make something appear as a signature, yet appear as a shock image in about (60*60*24) seconds.

In short, you get what you pay for in terms of moderation and service (on the RS forums), you receive the full brute force of the community, and you get the bare necessities. A community can and will function entirely without signatures, you know...

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T-Ball

May 8 2007, 01:44 AM | Post #5

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QUOTE(spikey188 @ May 7 2007, 08:29 PM) [snapback]93866[/snapback]

is that pointed to me and my spelling.....

Not necessarily, I am just saying that this forum has seen many complete fools come and go. I'm not naming any names. I'll leave that up to you to decide whether or not I am infact pointing the finger at you though.

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Splatman

May 8 2007, 04:18 PM | Post #6

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yeh ;D




Hah, yeah.. I know what you mean, it's the lack of functions on RSB that makes it poopy for me.
I only go there for the market.

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Duffman

May 8 2007, 04:36 PM | Post #7

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QUOTE(Makoto @ May 8 2007, 01:35 AM) [snapback]93867[/snapback]

Wanna-be Moderators are an annoyance, but quite easily filtered out. Just remember what the topic at hand is, and from there you'll be fine. Trust me, the only thing that brownnosing will do for anyone anywhere will just give them a way to clear their sinuses.

As for signatures and avatars, why the hell should they do that? For one thing, anyone could post ANY kind of image on those forums, and I doubt that Jagex would want to put the resources into removing certain images that they wouldn't want on their forums. Shock images and images with VBScript attached to them could cause havoc to users, or people who aren't prepared to see them. Sure, we use them for everyday things such as posting accomplishments and signatures, but someone malicious could use them for another purpose. It'd be quite possible to make something appear as a signature, yet appear as a shock image in about (60*60*24) seconds.

I agree that being able to add any old image to your Signature and Avatar would be stupid. But if Jagex perhaps provided a small Gallery of Pictures designed by their Graphics Staff, for the Avatars, and allow a certain amount of text (No images) for Signatures, then people could feel at least a little bit unique.

And the part about the WBMs, I feel that even though they are breaking the rules, they are rarely even punished. I've seen Moderators Suspend people for pety Rule Breaking, yet WBMs run rampid all over the Forums, posting Quotes posts of Moderators on every thread which could potentially be breaking some type of rule, hidden away in the Code Of Conduct. yet the silly thing is, at times their brownnosing actually pays off, and they are offered the Role Of Forum Moderator.

But thanks for the detailed reply.

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vadeka

May 8 2007, 08:12 PM | Post #8

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I hated those forums, you post something and 5 seconds later its already on the second page.. I agree with makoto on the sig/ava but a small image selection as an ava would be nice but wouldn't realy improve the forums a lot

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Dark Angel

May 8 2007, 09:35 PM | Post #9

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Those that do just like their job, or they're not burdened repeatedly by nonsensical reports.

Agree completely

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Pineapple

May 8 2007, 09:42 PM | Post #10

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QUOTE(vadeka @ May 9 2007, 06:12 AM) [snapback]93899[/snapback]

I hated those forums, you post something and 5 seconds later its already on the second page..

That is so true!! I remembering posting once on there to get a d skirt, a day later i tried to see if anyone has posted on the topic and i couldn't find the thing. The spammers on there , what i wouldn't mind to break a few of their necks. Runescape Forums are usless, you can't find your topic that you posted 5 minutes ago, you can't find any topic you want that doesn't have spammers.

There is no point trying to buy/sell or get your opinions across on Runescape Forums, they just go unheard.

Pineapple

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Duffman

May 15 2007, 05:26 PM | Post #11

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QUOTE(Pineapple @ May 8 2007, 09:42 PM) [snapback]93904[/snapback]

That is so true!! I remembering posting once on there to get a d skirt, a day later i tried to see if anyone has posted on the topic and i couldn't find the thing. The spammers on there , what i wouldn't mind to break a few of their necks. Runescape Forums are usless, you can't find your topic that you posted 5 minutes ago, you can't find any topic you want that doesn't have spammers.

There is no point trying to buy/sell or get your opinions across on Runescape Forums, they just go unheard.

Pineapple

Too true. Marketplace threads disappear within minutes. And Suggestions are normally spammed upon, then ignored/locked, therefore disappear within minutes.

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T-Ball

May 15 2007, 11:57 PM | Post #12

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The average IQ of people who play Runescape is quite low, therefore the IQ of the people that post on the forums is quite low, and since Runescape has around 200,000 people playing at any given time, you have thousands of children posting the most useless and random crap on the forums, so it is only expected that it takes a very short period of time for a topic to be bumped to the 2nd, 3rd, or even 4th page within minutes. The combination of spammers and unintellectuals on the Runescape forum makes it a very undesirable place, so i avoid it and post on a smaller forum, which has a considerablly higher percentage of intelligent members.

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Cafebcs

May 16 2007, 04:56 AM | Post #13

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The inteligent people uses rants, future updates, recent updates, etc never suggestions.
Jagex is doing a great job with the highlights at suggestions, hovewer, they don't have the 'go to the page' link.
You need modify the url for access to the page's desired post.

EDIT: Sorry if i mispelled something (They should have a fix word also)

This post has been edited by Cafebcs: May 16 2007, 04:57 AM

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