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Man if only I had a button that I could quickly convey which points I agree and disagree with while not clogging up the thread... Bring back reputation, the whole rep manipulation thing can be solved easily and the suggestions have already been stated. And rand's point about the usefulness of having forums for discussion alongside discord is a great.

1. What should the forums be for?
The obvious answer from a staffing standpoint is essentially anything directly server-related, and leave anything community-oriented to the discord, but I will always entirely disagree with this notion. Discord is good for more in the moment conversations. If you miss a conversation in the discord, you probably won't even know it happened. That's how it's designed to be, fluid ongoing conversations, with certain specific places being infinitely static. The forums are a great place to have an ongoing conversation about a very specific topic. Relegating the forums to be specifically for specific server issues means you're not utilizing a large part of its allure anymore. That's why people come here to complain about stuff, or make posts about people being retards, because here it will stay at the forefront, anyone can look up a thread and see all the relevant comments about it in one place instead of having to sift through them. So saying that all of the communal use of the forums can go to the discord is just wrong.

I am one of probably a handful of people who will take the time to go through the channels I care about and read the hundreds of messages that happen while I am away but the forums ability to keep certain topics on topic and in one place is such an underrated feature that people don't utilize anymore. There were many good points brought up and I hope that y'all actually take what the community wants into consideration.