Forum Posting

Backers are able to read and create posts on the Shroud of the Avatar Forum. However, to combat spam and keep the forums available, starting June 29, 2015 the General Forums will remain open for everyone to read, but you must be a backer to post. Those interested in collaboration, but who are not currently a backer, have the option to pledge at a $5 tier which will provide access to the forums, and can be upgraded to a full pledge at any time.

"For two years, we’ve been able to keep our public forums freely open for both viewing and posting. Unfortunately, recent abuse of our public forums by spammers is forcing us to remove free posting privileges. Our volunteer forum moderators are drowning in the hordes of spam posts that have recently invaded our public forums. For the past couple of weeks, our web dev team (i.e. Tassilo Philipp) had to set aside higher priority game and web development tasks while he endeavored to close the holes the spammers are getting through.

We on the executive management team felt it was necessary to stop spending our backers pledge money on the endless efforts necessary to block spammers, and instead, stop them by making them pay to post. We’ve anguished over this decision for weeks, as it is a compromise of our principles, and we will suffer from the loss of ideas that often resulted from free sharing of opinions in our public forums. However, we believe this is the best course of action to take at this time."

Note that as an alternative, potential users are invited to communicate through the Steam Community Hub for Shroud of the Avatar.

External Links

• Forum Posting Pledge
• Steam Community Hub