I'll play the odds and remain mostly here. My blood pressure doesn't need to be raised unnecessarily the way it gets when I read Stratics much. I'm sorry, but it really looks like sometimes they are competing to see who can insult who faster and harder.

My fellow LS'er, the blood pressure does tend to rise when attempting to read anything other than Dev posts "over there" for me also. I don't know why, but the large amount of posts containing "!!!!" and similar, just to get a +1, irks me incredibly - all it does is bump what would have been trash to the top, and squish down the good suff that makes an appearance or two.

I risk sounding like a 'yes man' but yes... It certainly clogs up the info and makes for time wasting.

I'm glad i'm not the only one who feels that way

Half the time they're like a bunch of kids desperate for attention and/or a higher post count
You get one post, then 20 replies with "!!!!!!!!!", it's pathetic.

It's stratics' fault though, people break the rules there on a daily....hell....an HOURLY basis, yet nothing is done
Yet you have some moderators who punish others who break a rule once a year purely because they dont' like that person.

there does seem to be a lot of favoritism there.
yet ANOTHER reason i like it over here better! *gets comfy*

Exactly! Hear hear!

I don't get it though, why do they allow it?

I also don't get why mods there see the need to lock a thread, but reply beforehand with a sarcastic comment to belittle the posters?

I know dealing with an out of control thread can be abit stressful, but I try and lock a thread without making sarcastic or rude remark.

There are a few mods that I really liked there, but there were also a few that I didnt find all that appealing.

When they have to sticky specific complaint threads that have been readily recognized by the EA staff people, there is a problem...

Because UOForums favoritism favors you, and Stratics favoritism is against Deimos?

UOForums has the exact same problems Stratics has, they are just on a much smaller scale - that is why I say UOForums would be the same as Stratics if there were more users.
The reason for the "bad" moderation on Stratics? Mostly because there are very few moderators and admins per user on Stratics compared to how many there are on UOForums. This could work to Stratics' advantage if more people used the tools available to them. Almost all of the posts I see people complain about on Stratics nobody reports. There's a nice button at the bottom of each post there - it says "report to moderators". Click it, and you can know the moderators will check it. If somebody has already reported it, it will tell you when you report it. The rest of the posts I see that are bad? Usually deleted or locked before I can reply or report.
The reason for the "favoritism" on Stratics? Because a dedicated moderator that will show bias for/against 10 people out of every 100 is much better than no moderator or a moderator that might check the forums once a day. Why is that their choice? Because very few people are willing to volunteer to moderate there.

You sure love to be the devils advocate don't you Sahra?

Like what? we don't have any problems to my knowledge.

That's the problem though
If you report a post, the same poster continues to break the rules over and over regardless of the number of times he or she is reported
I don't agree that a mod be biased against anyone, it makes it unfair
To be honest though, it's EA's fault for shoving the title of "Official" boards onto stratics
Personally I find it rather disagreeable that they'd let a volunteer site like stratics host their boards, I think it says alot about what EA's corporate bodies think of UO.

All their other games have their own EA messageboards to my knowledge.

Official does seem a "heavy' word. Why not just have the designation be 'An Official", which allows for more than one site?