The new EO forums.

Ok, I give up. I'm posting it here because ANY criticism of the forums, ON the forums, is deleted. Here we go.

Basically, Vult is making a huge mess for nothing. I understand that the new features are for security, but they're just not working. My 3-paragraph wishlist posts get ignored as spam while the same old people post 'lol at this' topics in the Lounge. The image tag and quote tag limits only hinder the people who have a lot to say. The minimum message limit is too long. The sig limit, too short.

I really can't see what the point is. Why couldn't he just IP range ban Sausage, move onto the new phpBB forums and be done with it? There's no need for all these filters, detectors, limiters, etc, nevermind the fact they're about as effective as a chocolate fireguard.

This is why he needs moderators. HUMAN moderators. Even the best filters and detectors are easy to get around for people who want to spam, while those who just want to post and discuss are caught out by it time after time. If there's just two or three moderators who read the forums regularly, they can delete the relevant posts. Every other forum on the internet does this, and it's 100 times more effective than this crap.

Final note. If this is the kind of filter/detection overload that Vult is going to put into the game itself, then there's real problems ahead for EO. I just hope this will make him wake up and realise. And not just ignore the complaints, delete them and carry on with his head stubbornly stuck in the sand.

This is make-or-break for EO now. Vult, drop the detector plans and go for the conventional human moderators. The reason no other games do things the way you're aiming for, is because it simply DOES NOT WORK.