Jawohl 3 Report post Posted February 22, 2017 (edited) Greetings. As a Guild master of an old and massive Finnish speaking community i have experience about the hardship of information sharing, what to say, what not to say, when to say it and how to say it. Staying "professional" in this regard is truly an exhausting task and it takes on your nerves. When you are working in a position where people expect you to have certain level of discipline and professionality you are almost forced to live up to that and it is hard. People who disagree with you or despise you can easily attack you from all directions with words, insults and accusations from wich you cannot defend yourself because you have this position of yours where you cannot give out light minded replies. Especially leading a large community like this one there are people and will always be people who want to harm you and what you believe or work in. The best means and tools for getting under the skin of somebody or inside their head to apply pressure and stress are the Voice programs because they are fast and in direct sight. Nostalrius devs Daemon and Viper were both super professional and made all the announcements and such as professional possible but STILL 3 out of 4 people commenting them were hatred and despise. Thats just how forums and social media work, the loud minority are there seeking attention to get their daily doze of endorfine. I understand you want to be "transparent" and "in touch" with your Community and thus Discord but i truly believe its giving you guys more harm than good. It is a direct tool and highway for the kind of people seeking attention or intent of harm to get in touch with you and therefore get under your skin. How many times now have the Discord population started a "riot" on wich more and more people will attend, growing it in a size on wich you are eventually forced to take up action and say something? The point at where you are forced to react and minimize the effects caused by the riots enflamed by these people is the moment where you give them what they want, attention, and you endanger yourself in saying something "unprofessional" or "unintended". Now, the second kind of people are the ones who seek for that exact moment of you giving out statements wich they can use for whatever their intention, rumormongering and falseflags. So not only that you would take a more "cautious" approach in announcing stuff.... I would advice you Elysiym developers to end the public Discord and separate yourself from the people you let there. It is not serving you any benefits to stay in touch with the people in Discord it will not make you any more aware of matters of importance. It would make the stress levels more moderate for admins and devs for them to be only reachable through forums where things are more easily manageable. We have Forums, Twitter, Reddit and whatnot. You dont need Discord. Discord is currently serving ONLY those who seek gossip and intent harm. You end up giving "announcements" in Discord where only so few listen and those "announcements" you give are every single time used against you by the people who lurk in shades waiting do to so for 24/7. Edited February 22, 2017 by Jawohl 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
qbradq 0 Report post Posted February 22, 2017 I hate to say it, but I agree. Discord seems to be overwhelmingly populated by the attention-seekers. At least #general. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marska 0 Report post Posted February 23, 2017 21 hours ago, Jawohl said: You dont need Discord. Discord is currently serving ONLY those who seek gossip and intent harm. Actually have to disagree party. I ONLY use their discord to see what's going on (the news channel).You might say, that we can find the same information from twitter, well I for one, and I know there are several others, who despises twitter and other social media sites. It's just handy to have the information on a something you use on dailybasis. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
qbradq 0 Report post Posted February 27, 2017 Totally agree with the above post. I am a member of many Discord servers so I have it up anyway. I get my Elysium news from their Discord. I also find the server-specific channels useful from time-to-time. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rckstr 6 Report post Posted February 27, 2017 (edited) Agree with OP Forums and Twitter is more than enough. Edited February 27, 2017 by Rckstr 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheDruidCode 28 Report post Posted February 27, 2017 Would be great if they could use only one for news and stuff. As there's a twitter feed on the front page I would suggest to only tweet. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Owondyah 8 Report post Posted February 28, 2017 (edited) 100% agree with everything he said. Boss should never get too close with employee, thats where problems start. Edited February 28, 2017 by Owondyah 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
