Question answered, thread closed. = New Rule

[The Evil Within]

Originally Posted by Mykel

It isn't exactly that thread in specific. It has been done over and over again. It's the rule (or lack thereof) in general that we're talking about. That thread just happens the be the latest and most blatant example.

The thing is, its been stated that you guys get off topic after the question in a thread is answered. If you want to have an off-topic conversation about something then why not create a topic about what you want to talk about in the non-graal related section of the forums? What they are saying is that the question was stated, that is what the topic was made for, to get an answer to a question. Then later in the thread the question was answered, in which case there is no more purpose to the thread. It really doesn't hurt TOO terribly much to let off-topic chatter go on, but the point is that in their opinion, they believe it would be better for the thread to be closed so that in the future when somebody has a similar problem/question and they find that thread it would be better to have the thread ended somewhere around the point of where the question was answered so that there's not 10 pages to sift through when somebody wants to find an answer to their question.

I said before I really don't want to take either side, you guys are right for wanting to be able to uphold conversation, and there is also the fact that they should be trying to make an enviornment that pleases their paying customers, but you are not paying for the forums alone, the forums are just part of what you get by paying for Graal and there are rules to these forums just as there are rules in the game client, but Darlene has stated several times that all she is doing is her job, and all you guys are saying is that because the rule isn't written down that she has no right to lock the topic, but the fact is that the rule is written down. There is to be no spam on the forums, what is spam? Well not only is spam random posts, but it is off-topic conversation, and that is exactly what she has closed these threads for: Off-topic conversation.

If you want to go to forums with a more lax set of rules then like I said before: either make your own Graal related forums, or you can visit the Delteria forums or some other Graal servers forums, although I'm pretty sure that the other servers forums are pretty inactive.

its not so much that you warned them its that you warned them for something thats not in the written rules.

That is what warnings are for, to let somebody know that they are breaking a rule.