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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike_Lescault" data-source="post: 3590441" data-attributes="member: 51916">The legalese cited above is for the current forums; that aspect of Gleemax won't be available until close to launch. As far having no plan, I can see why you'd think that, but i'll try and explain why we went about it the way we did. The current gleemax.com is a promotional site. We decided to start the promotional site for a few reasons. We wanted to give people a heads up that this was in the works and was coming, so our communities weren't caught by surprise. We also wanted to build up some anticipation since a community orientated site without any critical mass of community will have a tough time starting out. Finally, we wanted to engage the community to take feedback and suggestions on what they'd like to see.With those upsides, we also encounter some downsides. Some people hate the design/art/layout of the page. Some hate the color scheme (and some have trouble reading those colors). Some are frustrated because they're only receiving information and no actual social networking site features. So I think there's plenty of legitimate criticism, I am just not sure that avoiding those problems wouldn't have created even bigger problems.Authors can often be even more thin skinned then game designers! But seriously, sometimes authors have specific requests as part of their contracts and we have had to adhere to those agreements with our current forums. As far as intermittent banning of an issue, I've never seen that on the Wizard's forums.I agree that you can't be trying to promote open all inclusive talk on one hand, while trying to ban or censor on the other. Does WotC have the stomach to endure? I hope so. Otherwise a lot of us are going to be in serious trouble.Currently there is search for the forums, only I think it's still limited to a subset of forums users as they make sure it's stable for full search to be turned back on. When the actual gleemax.com site launches, search is something that's being built in from the beginning as we design the architecture, so our goal is to have more robust search capabilities then most other social networking sites out there.</blockquote>

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