Are the official Sims 3 forums usually as bad as this

[KnightoftheDarkLady]

Yeah, I've not exactly made any effort to hide my identity I would think my distinctive writing style would give it away anyway.

I will say one thing I have noticed over on the official forums is a policy of rather blatant favoritism. Now, let's take a persona which is incredibly nasty to people... say, call them TrannyRedflower (hey, I can poke fun at myself if I want to!) ... and let them play for over a month.

Total warnings: 1, for posting a nice goodbye to Bluebellflora on her leaving thread (that's as far as I've been able to track that down, and that's not entirely reliable information).

Compare that to Kaosgirl00, who got banned for spamming, and Bluebellflora, who faced the fact it was pretty obvious the gurus were gunning for her by the time she posted her leaving post (they even made it a special point to move her leaving post to Pets, where it could do nothing except draw arguments, and I noticed several posters who posted nice goodbyes disappeared for three days after that).

The problem on those forums isn't that there's no rules; it's that the posted rules are blatant lies and no one knows what the real rules are. And there's a lot of unstated rules that one has to learn through the forums, and sometimes the only people who know them are themselves unreliable.

Edit: Huh. Read the full thing Mare's Nest wrote. Obviously, he fails at research. If he even did any research of my posts in the EA forums, he'd find I had made references to test-posts on other forums long before ever joining this one. I joined this one because it was advertised as a community with real moderation.