Yes, if you're going to have a user discussion forum, then there should be rules about decorum and such. And yes, these rules tend to be poorly defined and vague, by and large. The part that worries me is the application of "Comments meant to be destructive to the community, any individual within the community, the game company, or its staff". This whole thing about comments that are destructive of the company. I really don't think such a thing is possible. Please somebody, give me an example of a comment that will destroy SOM. Are they really that weak, that they will no longer exist because of comments made here? I believe they are more worried about their facebook page. And, I have seen nothing in the comments that would come even close to being destructive of the community, individual, game company or staff, other than some individuals trying to shut up the complainers. The greater threat to the company is its own behavior (companies are people too, as one of our presidential candidates has reminded us
). Do they respect their customer base? Do they give any indication of hearing their customer base? That is, other than declaring a clear threat to delete unruly customers from the SOM community, based on a vague notion of inappropriate behavior, that will be defined and enforced by unknown people, behind a magic curtain.
As I've said in other forums, I've had good responses from the email help, regarding simple technical things (like why did the semifinal schedules get screwed up?). And I know that they had a reasonably quick response to another manager having his team salary cap go from $200M to $165M right when the waivers frenzy started. They fixed his salary cap, but not before he lost out on key opportunities to upgrade draft holes in his roster. Have they "made things right" by him yet? Not holding my breath. Do they really not understand the level of frustration that exists here? OR are they just doing the "weather the storm" kind of thing?
I'm wondering who will be the first person to get kicked out of this forum, and what will be the statements that are deemed unacceptable. Nothing so far has met the proposed standard, that I've seen, and I tend to watch these forums pretty regularly. But then SOM might have a pretty quick delete trigger.
Fri Aug 24, 2012 4:04 pm
