ENWorld Edition Bias

[Vyvyan Basterd]

I'd say still slightly anti-4E, solely based on posters, not ENWorld "management". While I have seen 1, maybe 2, "ZOMG! 4E roxxor!" threads, I have seen many more threads started just to tell us all that some guy on the interweb doesn't like 4E. There are of course those that react in the opposite way in such threads, I'm basing my vote on threads started.

Edit: And of course now I see the new big 4E love thread. :doh:

 

[Charwoman Gene]

I'd say still slightly anti-4E, solely based on posters, not ENWorld "management". While I have seen 1, maybe 2, "ZOMG! 4E roxxor!" threads, I have seen many more threads started just to tell us all that some guy on the interweb doesn't like 4E.

That just shows that 4e-haters are vain.

 

[Shadeydm]

To me there is a strong pro 4E bias on the site and has been for some time now. This is most clearly reflected in how the boards are moderated.
Someone who does not like some aspect of 4E and posts this opinion in a pro 4E thread is banned from the thread but the thread continues. While someone who is pro 4E can thread crap in a discussion about a shortcoming of 4E and the thread gets locked instead, a win-win for the pro 4E crowd.
Similarly someone who is pro 4E makes personal attacks against someone who is critical of 4E and they simply get a reprimand. Meanwhile when someone who is foolish enough to do the same to the pro 4E crowd, they not only get a thread ban or site ban but the offensive post actually gets deleted.
Even now there is lengthy thread which basically says that if you don’t switch to 4E then the problem is with you not with 4E somehow I can’t imagine the reverse sticking around long.
Point in case not that long ago there was a lengthy thread discussing the flaws of 3E this thread grew long and stayed civil yet at the same time several threads were started to try and have a similarly calm discussion about 4E’s flaws and those were consistently thread crapped by the pro 4E crowd and locked down by the mods. If this isn’t bias then I don’t know what is.

 

[Psion]

I'd have to say it's slightly pro-4e. It was worse, but never as bad as RPG.net's D20 forum is.

 

[Crothian]

It is biased both ways it seems. There are too many people here that feel strongly one way or another to say the board as a whole is.

 

[Charwoman Gene]

It's the mod's fault that the 4e crowd is full of whiners and thread-crappers? and that the anti-4e crowd tends to insulting vbannable offenses?

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

It's the mod's fault that the 4e crowd is full of whiners and thread-crappers? and that the anti-4e crowd tends to insulting vbannable offenses?

Note that the poll is not about the moderation - though one could probably distinguish between "moderation policy" and "member demographics" or something.

 

[Shadeydm]

It's the mod's fault that the 4e crowd is full of whiners and thread-crappers? and that the anti-4e crowd tends to insulting vbannable offenses?

When the same behavior by both factions is not moderated the same way and in this case moderated in a way which favors pro 4E discussion and discourages the opposite, yes this is a function of site moderation.

 

[DaveMage]

I voted slightly 4E based on the users, not the board ownership/moderators.

I think Morrus has been very fair to all constituencies.

 

[La Bete]

When the same behavior by both factions is not moderated the same way and in this case moderated in a way which favors pro 4E discussion and discourages the opposite, yes this is a function of site moderation.

I think the non-infrequent bannings of pro-4e regulars (Wis, I'm looking at you! ) disagrees with you.