Now, being INVITED over here, people falsely assume that their input is welcome, only to find out that if it is not identical to the opinions here then they are labeled as a unicorn, or corporate spy, etc.
There has been a bit of that, but to be fair, it's less about what people are saying rather and more about how they're saying it. This isn't directed at you void, but people showing up out of nowhere and posting things like, "You're all wrong, NCSoft has made their decision, give it up you losers!" in a "Save Paragon City!" forum isn't constructive, and they should expect to get jumped on by those who are trying to do just that. A post that started, "I think doing XYZ would be a better approach, here's why:" is much more welcome.
Posts that are obviously inflammatory and confrontational may get deleted. Those are a lot fewer than you might think. I'm more on the technical side myself, so I leave that to the other admins/moderators, but I do keep an eye on the moderation log. There really hasn't been a huge amount, and a chunk of them were a couple of folks with a thin skin and poor communication skills getting frustrated and deleting their own account. *shrug* Can't make everybody happy.
There was a bit of controversy due to the forum settings that allowed a thread starter to edit/delete replies to their thread. That wasn't intentional and those settings have since been corrected.
I'll say that the one thing Tony has done was to set up the filter -- the one and only word filter that we have. You're right that the paranoia was getting out of hand, so he put that in place as a reminder to people posting accusations like that, that maybe they should take a step back and think if they're really sure it's what they wanted to say. That kind of argument is not constructive either, and if the person they're replying too truly is a "unicorn", feeding them is the wrong approach anyway.
You keep calling CoH "our game", but it isn't, it's theirs. You don't own anything here. They decided to close it, and you can't force them to do anything.
That's exactly that point that we disagree on. Yes, the service belongs to NCSoft. However, the
game is much more than that, and is the part that NCSoft owns,
plus the collective creative works that all of the players have added to it,
plus the community that has grown up around it. They may own the land they're renting us, but the don't own the house that we built on it.
Legally they may be within their rights to kick us off, tear down the house, and give us the pieces of wood, but that doesn't mean it's ethically right of them to do so. And while we can't
force them to do anything, we can
encourage them to do the right thing, and sell the land for a fair price to someone who will use it for something other than a parking lot.