State of Bungie Forums (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, February 08, 2018, 06:45 (2268 days ago) @ Achronos

Looks like the change to DBO was completely benign in comparison to what is happening at bnet:

https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/242827681?sort=0&page=0

Several forums are now restricted to those with Destiny accounts, and some to people who have gotten to the farm on Des2ny.

So if you haven’t made it to the farm on Des2ny, you are locked out of the ‘gaming’ and ‘off topic’ forums. This makes sense for the ‘feedback’ forum, partial sense for the ‘Destiny 2’ forum, but no sense at all for gaming and off topic. What am I missing?

The Offtopic and Gaming subforums in particular have an outsized impact on the number of necessary moderator actions when compared to their active users. In addition, the vast majority of users already meet the D2 posting requirements, this is primarily a way to make "alt" account usage less impactful and bans more meaningful.

Bungie.net gets far too many posts to pretend that it is some backwater 2004 forum with unlimited accounts for each person like has been doing for years. Linking to the games are the only way we can reliably deal with the scale of posts, let alone the toxicity that seems to have only increased in the last few years.

I'm actually kind of surprised you guys maintain forums at all. Why do that, when the moderators of places like reddit basically do all that for you? It would be much less burden to you guys to simply frequent large community sites.