Of the WotC Forums and the OTT

[bone_naga]

With an account I made I could contact him. I couldn't contact other posters before doign some modifications to cloak me. Maybe I found the right formula. So far so good.

Try to lay low with that account until you get a response from him. I sent a message to Dragonette but then I screwed up and posted in the forums and got that account banned.

 

[sabrinathecat]

So far, I've looked at three other sites as potential hosts for my PbP games. GitP was too damn white. Sorry, but I hate trying to read on a white background. Black or Charcoal work much, much better for me. Myth-weavers.com seems to hide their active 4e PbP games extremely well, to the point where I couldn't find any. Obsidian Portal was a maybe.

Supposedly, SWMaybe on the WotC board can "see" the missing archives from PbP, but not access them. Not sure what that means, but hopefully we will get them back.

 

[The_Silversword]

Yeah they have really seemed to make a mess of things over there.

 

[Kramodlog]

It is obvious they care about the forums and forum traffic (why do all these changes if not?). But they manage to mess it up so often it is counter productive. Add all the edition changes, traffic is just not the same as it was say in 2006.

 

[Bullgrit]

Because this thread has grown so long, I'm interested in what exactly happened over at the WotC forums. From the context in this thread, it seems they rearranged their forums, maybe removing an off-topic forum? But they're also deleting/banning accounts?

Bullgrit

 

[PigKnight]

Because this thread has grown so long, I'm interested in what exactlly happened over at the WotC forums. From the context in this thread, it seems they rearranged their forums, maybe removing an off-topic forum.? But they're also deleting/banning accounts?

Bullgrit

They changed forums to a bright, bright "Jesus has returned" white that literally hurts my eyes and I think might be damaging my computer screen. They removed all groups, and ip banned (a punishment reserved for only the worst of scam/porn spammers) everyone in certain groups regardless of mod history (i.e. all of the OTTers that were in the OTTer group were perma-ip banned, including me who only had a 24-hour ban because of a draconian ORC) with an excuse that consists of "The CoC allows us to ban anyone anytime". Sure, the forums were pretty bad before, but they went over the top and purged personas non gratas during their change. Furthermore, they immediately delete anything and everything that they might perceive in a negative light and perma band the offending account. Talk about the white background? Bam! Talk about migrating somewhere? Bam! Ask if there was a computer error on why we can't log in (50% of people could not log in on the first day on their primary account? Bam!

 

[Kramodlog]

Because this thread has grown so long, I'm interested in what exactly happened over at the WotC forums. From the context in this thread, it seems they rearranged their forums, maybe removing an off-topic forum? But they're also deleting/banning accounts?

Bullgrit

OTTers, regulars of the Off-Topic Tavern had a private group for more risk conversations. They didn't delete the OTT section, but anyone in the private group was IP-banned (maybe even more). The problem is that most of the people in the group were nice people, only a few alternative posters lived in there. It is lazy work. Plus they are cowards by refusing to talk about it. Some people had DDI accounts and that was cut without warning. Some didn't get to download articles before they were cut off.

I wonder if previously they couldn't do IP bans and needed a new forum to do that.

Anyway, this seems like an place with potential.

 

[PigKnight]

OTTers, regulars of the Off-Topic Tavern had a private group for more risk conversations. They didn't delete the OTT section, but anyone in the private group was IP-banned (maybe even more). The problem is that most of the people in the group were nice people, only a few alternative posters lived in there. It is lazy work. Plus they are cowards by refusing to talk about it. Some people had DDI accounts and that was cut without warning. Some didn't get to download articles before they were cut off.

I wonder if previously they couldn't do IP bans and needed a new forum to do that.

Anyway, this seems like an place with potential.

They could IP ban but they only used it for spam bots and porn spammers.

 

[Morrus]

An IP ban isn't a "level" of punishment. A ban is a ban is a ban; it's the same measure. The fact that one tool is more effective at it than another is irrelevant.

 

[Cyclone_Joker]

An IP ban isn't a "level" of punishment. A ban is a ban is a ban; it's the same measure. The fact that one tool is more effective at it than another is irrelevant.

Uh, yeah, it kinda is. Maybe not over here, but different places have different policies.