Cleaning Up Our Collective Act

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Originally Posted by jilena [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The board is probably seeing twice its usual postings because the server is down but once it's back up, the average joe user will go back to playing the game and the same people who sit here calling each other fags all day will go back to calling each other fags all day.

There is absolutely a degree of validity to this. I certainly wouldn't be posting *as much* if playing were on option this past week.

Originally Posted by jilena [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

People are here for the server, not the message boards.

A point you seem to have missed is that playing EQ is, with infrequent exceptions, a game that RELIES on SOME notion of community. Engaging with and being a part of that community is often expected of you so that a guild, for instance, knows what kind of players they are going to be recruiting. It seems you're doubting the usefulness of the boards to begin with, which may very well be a question worth asking. But there is definitely a good amount of useful info to be found here as long as you don't wander into BS land, which is decidedly hard to avoid.