WoW suggestion: enlist MVPs to clean up forums?

Don’t you ever feel that the World of Warcraft forums has gone to the dogs? That’s Popss from Maelstrom’s sentiment. The player thinks that the forums has been overrun by “trolls, rick rolls and all around idiocy” and Popss suggests a solution for Blizzard.

The player suggested that MVPs (Most Valuable Posters, the players that post in green and have Devilsaurs for avatars) be given additional forum privileges that would allow them to delete or lock threads, and maybe even ban players temporarily. According to Popss, the MVPs provide major help to CMs in cleaning up the forums. Blizzard poster Nethaera provided a good answer to the suggestion:

We appreciate the sentiment, however, as much as we value our MVPs, they are not employees. All moderators and Community Team members are and as such, we have tools available to us on site that aren’t available off-site along with the perks and double-checks of being employees of the company. We have systems in place that we adhere to and are accountable for. We have added moderators as you well have seen and get to everything as quickly as is feasible, but we need the cooperation of the players to abide by the Code of Conduct as well as to report bad posts.

There you have it. MVPs can’t be expected to do the same things that the CMs do, since CMs are actually employees. Nethaera did invite players to send other suggestions to make comment modding in the World of Warcraft forums go smoother to [email protected].

Don’t you ever feel that the World of Warcraft forums has gone to the dogs? That’s Popss from Maelstrom’s sentiment. The player thinks that the forums has been overrun by “trolls, rick rolls and all around idiocy” and Popss suggests a solution for Blizzard.

The player suggested that MVPs (Most Valuable Posters, the players that post in green and have Devilsaurs for avatars) be given additional forum privileges that would allow them to delete or lock threads, and maybe even ban players temporarily. According to Popss, the MVPs provide major help to CMs in cleaning up the forums. Blizzard poster Nethaera provided a good answer to the suggestion:

We appreciate the sentiment, however, as much as we value our MVPs, they are not employees. All moderators and Community Team members are and as such, we have tools available to us on site that aren’t available off-site along with the perks and double-checks of being employees of the company. We have systems in place that we adhere to and are accountable for. We have added moderators as you well have seen and get to everything as quickly as is feasible, but we need the cooperation of the players to abide by the Code of Conduct as well as to report bad posts.

There you have it. MVPs can’t be expected to do the same things that the CMs do, since CMs are actually employees. Nethaera did invite players to send other suggestions to make comment modding in the World of Warcraft forums go smoother to [email protected].