What's great/bad about EoFF?

[Del Murder]

You know what else is bad about this place? Guilt tripping.

You know, saying we guilt trip just enables it to be so. Way to be part of the problem.

[Sephex]

You know what else is bad about this place? Guilt tripping.

You know, saying we guilt trip just enables it to be so. Way to be part of the problem.

How could you say such a thing?! OF COURSE a former mod WOULD say stuff like that!

*speeds off listening to KoRn*

[Ayen]

You know what else is bad about this place? Guilt tripping.

You know, saying we guilt trip just enables it to be so. Way to be part of the problem.

How could you say such a thing?! OF COURSE a former mod WOULD say stuff like that!

*speeds off listening to KoRn*

Beating me down,
Beating me, beating me,
Down, down,
Into the ground,
Screaming some sound,
Beating me, beating me,
Down, down,
Into the ground.​

[Laddy]

I disappeared for about a year and I can't really say why.

The Good: The people. Seriously, the people here are some of the wittiest and nicest people you can find on the internet.

The Bad: No events recently. It's frustrating because they are often among the most entertaining things we do around here.

[Shauna]

When we have events people whine that there are TOO MANY EVENTS, and then when we cut them down a bit (there have been things going on) there are NOT ENOUGH EVENTS.

Make up your minds people.

[Psychotic]

Events for some, small chocobo smileys for others.

[Shoeberto]

Bad? I think that EoFF isn't always a place that allows for a lot of diversity. It's been stated a million times before, but we get a bit echo-chambery at times. I've been on both sides of it, and I don't really see any way to change things, either. People are going to feel how they're going to feel.

I echo this. Makes it hard to have an opposing viewpoint, even presented in a relatively calm fashion, without getting steamrolled.

Bad: The ratio of words to ideas is too low. I have changed and I don't fit in anymore.

Very apt, and succinct.

Playing off of that, I think my least favorite part of the community is the forum software. It feels like an antiquated and non-natural way of interacting with other humans. I think it contributes to what Neel mentioned as a lack of ideas, because all conversations are shoehorned into "topics." I don't look at GC 90% of the time because I don't really care what anyone's favorite color is, nor do I find the low-effort joke responses all that funny anymore. The serious forums likewise make it hard to interact because it's all in a bunch of interwoven paragraph-heavy posts.

Generally I like the people though, and there are certain magic moments where the community as a whole does incredibly memorable things that keep me from totally moving on. I just find it hard to stay engaged, and I think that's a result of the interaction medium feeling limiting for me.

[Cloudane]

Events can be really cool, they just need to be done via the forum through some mechanism like announcement threads. The only time I've ever thought there were too many is those times like "OMG a PM! " only to find that it's another spam (for lack of a more polite description) for a ciddie award thing where I don't know anyone well enough to nominate them for things

[Shauna]

Ciddies happen twice a year and have done for some time. Pretty much the biggest event, which is why PMs go out for nominations and votes.

And events are done through the forum - most of them, actually. There is a thing happening right now in Wonder Square - the Newlywed Game. EoFF rates the music of FF has just finished up. Before that EoFF ranks the FF games went on for a while.

Lots of little events like this happen. You just have to keep your eyes open for them.

[Del Murder]

Pro: The people are great and I really like them.
Con: The people can be such jerks to each other sometimes.

Pro: There's a lot of activity and posting.
Con: Too much spam and not enough new ideas, mannn.

Pro: Lot's of great events.
Con: Too many events when we should be focused on Final Fantasy discussion.

Pro: Forums have an old school feel that has stayed consistent for years.
Con: Software/website is so archaic!

[Shauna]

We just didn't do a big thing - we did do a fake article.

[noxious.sunshine]

The Bad: No one will give me the Big Pink Truck forum back for even a day ;_;

[Ayen]

The Bad: No one will give me the Big Pink Truck forum back for even a day ;_;

The Big Pink Truck forum lives on in our hearts.

NEVER FORGET! NEVER FORGIVE!

[chionos]

SPECTRUM:

Great -- The fact that it's still kicking. Seriously, I'm surprised.

Good -- Peoples. Nostalgia.

Bad -- Some of the best people have long since gone away, which is a little sad. The tech.

Awful -- Admin tyranny. Bubba's ego. How cute shion and sharkythesharkdogg are.

I like my on again off again relationship with EoFF. It's always still here when I come back after being gone, which is...comforting, I guess?

[Night Fury]

Ok I have a real answer to what is bad about EoFF: name changes. I'm not talking about the I'm A Smelly Armpit temp changes but the semi-permanent (until they get bored of it and change again) changes. I only discovered yesterday that Night Fury or whatever she's called now is Lockharted. It's fine if the new name is a play on the old name (Lockharted -> Locky for instance) but your screen name is your identity here and you shouldn't be able to change your identity. I've been ignoring Night Fury's posts all this time because I thought she was some random unimportant oldbie I didn't know and not someone who I actually enjoy. Sorry Lock!

Ha! Thank you for the compliment

I changed my username to something entirely different because people were calling me Locky in real life after me telling them multiple times that I DON'T LIKE IT. It was also done because I use Lockharted for other things and I wanted to dissociate myself from here for personal reasons.