Should BioWare migrate from Twitter to this forum?

Only when the mods here ban any Bioware employees as soon as they sign up, unless they apologize publicly for the moderators of the original BSN.

I tend to agree with Fredward- what would be gained by connecting this forum to BW in an official capacity at this point, especially since, as Gileadan notes, they would almost certainly want to take over and run the administration and moderation functions themselves?

This forum has taken over as the de facto BW social network, and the people running the site have done a better job than BW did back on the old forum, so if it ain't broke why fix it?

To be clear, I wasn’t calling for BioWare to take over moderation of this forum. I suggested they get two dedicated threads in the Dragon Age and Mass Effect sub-forums for official announcements and advertising merch, but they would have no power over the rest of it.

But I guess they can just move that shit over to Mastodon if Twitter finally implodes.

It wouldn't happen for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that ProBoards reserves the right to deactivate a forum at any time.

I believe a move won't ultimately be necessary, but should the company decide to make some kind of adjustment, I expect they would do something similar to Funcom or what some of EA's other studios have already done, and migrate to a subforum on reddit with employees serving as moderators (this is "mildly controversial" owing to it technically being a violation of reddit policies, but has become an accepted practice regardless.)

If I put myself in their shoes, I slot that in as a backup plan, have a community-related employee set something up with private privileges (not unlike what we did with one of the versions of The Shelter) and have it ready to go in case of a future decision.

Then I would pretty much carry on as usual unless the situation compelled a change. What may seem to be chaos and madness in some areas of Twitter contrast with the relative calm in other areas. If things are business as usual for their sphere (I wouldn't know if that's the case as I barely use twitter) I wouldn't make risky changes prematurely.

But I'm saying it now so that it's a matter of record: If they go back to moderating a website of their own as an alternative...



I will LAUGH FOR DAYS

(Then I'll sign up, because you know I will. Someone has to keep an eye out - I've seen some of you eyeing France and thinking, "We could take it... and found our own kingdom!")

Sure, I was just saying that I think BW would would demand administration/moderation powers if they were going to be involved in an official capacity. Its not even that unreasonable a demand, from their perspective, I just don't think it would be a change for the better since, all the nostalgia for the old forum aside, this site's staff has done a much better job running this forum than BW ever did with the old one (imo, at any rate).