New Forum Policy: No Hateful Posts

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This announcement was just all about blowing leafs, I guess.

If I was a developer and would see General Discussion, I would turn 360° and leave.
No payment on earth justifies reading so much unconstructive, repeating bullshit.
I sincerely hope that the developers stay away from this place.

ghoghswagyolo <--- Who is this person? I find it funny that I've been in game all day talking to people in group chat and all of a sudden this person pops out of the blue and says I'm muted w/e. Honestly whoever this person is deserves to go back to high school and re-learn some vocab. Why is it that because this ONE person doesn't like what i say out of the whole server that there is a problem?

Oh yea and might i add that there have been dozens of other people saying the same thing i have. So I'd appreciate it if something were done here cause i don't like being singled out for proving someone wrong and them abusing their power. I find that very ignorant!

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DarkWindscar321 escreveu:

ghoghswagyolo <--- Who is this person? I find it funny that I've been in game all day talking to people in group chat and all of a sudden this person pops out of the blue and says I'm muted w/e. Honestly whoever this person is deserves to go back to high school and re-learn some vocab. Why is it that because this ONE person doesn't like what i say out of the whole server that there is a problem?

Please contact us at support@grindinggear.com and we will discuss this issue with you directly.

Am I allowed to hate GGG for making a game so darn perfect and addictive?

Everytime I double click on shortcut to client.exe, my life is ruined.

I should just uninstall, and not just PoE but all the games. But then the withdrawal symptoms would turn me insane.

PoE is literally drugs, it needs to be banned!

Thumbs up GGG.

I love well-moderated forums ...

This brings the fundamental quetion:Is it worth to sacrifice some freedoms,for the "greater good",or not?
Noam Chomsky has not a real answer to that,leave alone myself :P

EDIT: I d love a similar move towards the economy,but i am not seeing it happen

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INEXFadeXFHONOR escreveu:

What's this madness?!


If i understand well, GGG says that support is going to simply delete hate non-useful comments because devs have feelings like other humans..

What do we have now? Support deleting and locking threads that had no hate or useless hate feedback toward devs, deleting any thread/comment speaking frustration out ( like discussing bad moderation)


What's even worse? Now the are DELETING off-topic comments, not only "hate off topic" ones but simply "off topic" comments. Why is this worse? Because now they are not even doing the [removed by admin] for comments containing half-"off topic" half-"on topic" content, i spoke with a mod the other day and he said like : Yeah because the comment contained a large portion of off-topic i chose to delete it..


Expect to have any hate thread deleted from now on even if it has good feedback on it, yay for radical moderation.

Rip forum.

Honestly the moment someone begins relying on hate in their post I view their entire argument as suspect at best- any "good points" become irrelevant. If people want to be taken seriously they need to retain a measure of composure and at least the appearance of impartiality at all times. The moment you fail to do so you undermine your own credibility- at which point the only people who think you had "good feedback" are the people who already agreed with your from the start.

When it comes down to it there's a whole lot of conflicting feedback, and if want a chance at the devs ear or even to cultivate a productive discussion environment, keeping things polite is completely indispensable.

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Poutsos escreveu:

This brings the fundamental quetion:Is it worth to sacrifice some freedoms,for the "greater good",or not?
Noam Chomsky has not a real answer to that,leave alone myself :P

I think broadly classifying specific actions as intolerable is largely a backwards convoluted approach towards advancing towards a purpose(more on this later). Law, as has been traditionally mandated across mankind's history, has mostly been about 'ruling the populace'. It has very little to do with 'the greater good', that is merely how authority attempts to sell the law.
Although the 'greater good' aspect is not entirely irrelevant. I expect a large portion of laws are made with this aspect in mind. If nothing else than to obfuscate and give the authorities some artificial moral high high ground. Although im not so cynical as to believe every law with good intentions truly is so sinister.
As you examine law closely i think you will find that in any given situation, there will be exceptions where breaking the law may be better for 'the greater good'. So even if we have a 'well intentioned law', we cannot always rely on it to guide us towards the 'greater good'.
Earlier i mentioned that laws were backward. What i mean by that is that they are very narrowly attempt to limit available actions of its populace. And in doing so try to guide the citizen to travel in paths which aid towards 'the greater good'. But its backwards as instead they would be much more effective if they just clearly elaborated on 'the greater good' and how each citizen is expected to help further that purpose. Its like with laws, blinders are placed on us, limiting what we can see and do. And without the blinders we could conceivably have more information to make better decisions which are more closely resemble the aims of the authorities 'greater good'.
But then there is a curve ball. In the history of mankind has anyone ever succinctly and completely described 'the greater good'? The answer is of course no. And the premise that it is even possible is flawed. Flawed because human language itself is inherently flawed; full of contradictions, full of circular logic, and irrational.
Does that mean a 'greater good' doesnt exist? Perhaps.
Another factor of 'the greater good' is time. If you have some mathematical equation to determine it, time would have to be among its most important variables. So how far ahead should we look? a day? a century? a billion years? The closer you limit the greater good to the immediate present the less and less 'the greater good as a concept' becomes. And as you approach infinity, the individual human life's value becomes minuscule and the propagation (or limitation) of ideas become much more important in relation.