Re: Status Updates

[RicePigeon]

After a discussion among the staff here at MFFA, we have made the decision to permanently remove the ability to post status updates for all users, effective immediately. It should be noted that there is no single action or event that prompted this decision, and rather, there are multiple contributing factors that have become more apparent over time, all of which can be categorized as an abuse of the status updates function. From our observation, the majority of status updates fell into one of four categories: requesting content outside of the requests area, personal attacks/insults, self-promotion, and detracting forum activity.

 

1.) Requesting Content Outside of the Requests Area
This is an issue that has become more frequent as of recent. For the longest time, MFFA has had a rule in place not to request content outside of the Request section of the forums, and status updates are no exception. Despite our best efforts to curb this behavior, status updates continued to be the go-to for this type of activity.

 

2.) Personal Attacks/Insults
While personal attacks and/or insults are already prohibited under our forum rules, it seemed that the system of choice for getting these attacks across was through the use of status updates.

 

3.) Self-promotion
Rather than using the respective forums for releases and videos, many users opted to drop download links and/or youtube videos of their creations in status updates.

 

4.) Activity Detraction
This last issue encompasses the previous three issues and is perhaps the biggest of the fours issues so far: status updates detract activity from other areas of the forum. Rather than using the forum for its intented purpose, the majority of activity on the forum was a result of people abusing the status updates functionality as if it were a dumping ground for everything akin to a social media platform, rendering the rest of the forums pointless.

 

For these reasons, we have made the decision to remove the ability to post and view status updates for all users, effective immediately

[OldGamer]

I have to say we need this big change in our community. but also its hard to maintain it. I approve these changes for the best.