AKradian

Aggraphine wrote: »

@AKradian how many users, posts, etc are we up to now and still not a further word on custom avatars?

We are up to 10109 posters on the forums, of which 126 made more than 100 posts each.

Nexon's web team has not yet found the time to convince Vanilla to accept custom avatars.
Or, for that matter, to block certain unscrupulous users from obtaining avatars that are not on our list of 52.

Forum Code of Conduct wrote:

Old Maple
- Do not create threads pertaining to Old Maple Servers, Legacy Server, Pre-Big Bang Servers, etc. You can talk about previous verions of MapleStory for memories and nostalgia's sake, but discussions surrounding starting up new services or servers are not allowed.

Fuhreak wrote: »

Edit: We can have this thread, sure. But why is this the issue that gets an official thread first?
Is this really more urgent than Kanna's Kishin/Rework? Is this really more important than false bans?
Nexon can address this issue if they want. But they need to give us official threads for the other issues which already have countless threads.

Precisely because those issues already have countless threads, they don't need an "official" opinion-gathering thread.
Nexon is aware of community opinions and suggestions about those topics (and other frequently-raised issues), and SavageAce has even commented on them in his memos.

On the other hand, this ranking issue is new, and there was little said about it (other than old threads asking for the separation, which seemed satisfied by our getting the "Reboot" and "Non-Reboot" options), so the CM wanted to gather some more feedback quickly.

It's a LOT older than 4 years.
I remember the NLC potion shop running out of potions on all channels before 2x EXP events before Big Bang. That's over 8 years ago.

Fuhreak wrote: »

Bulbasaur wrote: »

Welcome Ghiblee

Can you please consider removing this from the forum rules?

Old Maple
- Do not create threads pertaining to Old Maple Servers, Legacy Server, Pre-Big Bang Servers, etc. You can talk about previous verions of MapleStory for memories and nostalgia's sake, but discussions surrounding starting up new services or servers are not allowed.

The only reason it's there is because one of your juvenile predecessors a few years back who went by the name KThxBaiNao decided to ban the topic outright for being brought up every few weeks, rather than four very specific forum users (one who is currently a VFM for the love of god) who always came into those discussion threads and verbally harassed anyone reminiscing about the early iterations of the game and instigated all the drama in the first place. I believe it has been more than 2 years since this ridiculous rule has been implemented.

Thanks

Protip: Don't be like that predecessor.

I am pretty sure community mangers only enforce and suggest rules, not make them. There's honestly no real reason for this kind of thread.
Nexon isn't going to do it. It's too much risk for what seems like far too little reward. If talking about old versions is pointless (Because Nexon won't do it) then why remove the rule?
If you can defend the idea well enough they might decide to reverse the forum rule, but I don't see it happening any time soon.

Community Managers do make the rules for the community platforms (forums and Discord).
In general, there is no rule against suggesting things Nexon would never implement.
This particular topic has a bad history in the community. The old forums are gone, so you can't see the threads that developed every time someone raised the idea, but you can go on the subreddit and see very similar flamewars, despite none of the participants being the same people as argued on the forums. A community of people who are playing the modern version of the game, is probably not the best place to insist that the old version was better.
On the other hand, the official Maplestory facebook page is full of nostalgic ex-players who do yearn for the game-as-they-remember-it to come back. Perhaps that is a better platform for that sort of reminiscing.