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Taking a quick look at the state of the Server Gala, I am confident that the owners of popular servers advertised there will agree that the conditions of their threads are toxic. Rather than being a valuable promotional tool, these threads have become plagued by a discontent minority of players voicing their opinions with damaging rhetoric and slander. I couldn't immediately find any exceptions amongst the larger servers advertised.
My suggestion to change this is essentially for all Server Gala threads to be locked in future.
This will bring value back to the Server Gala threads beyond what they offer in the lead-up and first week or so after release.
With the way it is now, I actually think these threads are likely a net-loss for the servers.
Edit 01/04/21:
Key points worth considering before responding:
My suggestion to change this is essentially for all Server Gala threads to be locked in future.
- Thread locked after posting
- Posting enabled for OP only, maximum 1 post per week to summarize updates etc. (Or if an auto-merge system can handle this, that'd work well too)
- All current threads to be archived (like 'archived distributions')
- New threads to be created by the server owners
This will bring value back to the Server Gala threads beyond what they offer in the lead-up and first week or so after release.
With the way it is now, I actually think these threads are likely a net-loss for the servers.
Edit 01/04/21:
Key points worth considering before responding:
- Server owners choose to post in the Gala - it is not some right of the players for the threads to exist (Roughly 60% of top servers, including Medivia for example, don't bother to have a presence and only 20% of top servers have an active presence.)
- Nobody else is allowed to create a Gala thread for a server - only the owner
- I am not suggesting that discussions about servers shouldn't exist or that anything should be censored
- "There's no such thing as bad publicity" Yes there is - that's just an age-old saying that holds little truth
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