08-01-2019, 05:35 PM
Yesterday (and also over a year ago) some people hinted that unless something is submitted in the player request subforum, it is likely (or even destined by standard staff procedure) to get ignored by the staff, even if it's a suggestion that everyone seems to agree to in the discussion forums.
This isn't really mentioned anywhere on the public forum, and it seems more like a back door through which those "in the know" can get their ideas, suggestions, or demands in more easily than others.
That also seems to go for things that affect the entire community and not just the player posting the request, such as rep hacks for an entire ID, removals of an entire ID, things that are meant to benefit new people and not the person submitting the request.
The later two points are problematic for several reasons:
It therefore seems desirable to:
This isn't really mentioned anywhere on the public forum, and it seems more like a back door through which those "in the know" can get their ideas, suggestions, or demands in more easily than others.
That also seems to go for things that affect the entire community and not just the player posting the request, such as rep hacks for an entire ID, removals of an entire ID, things that are meant to benefit new people and not the person submitting the request.
The later two points are problematic for several reasons:
- People who aren't aware of this will get frustrated why their seemingly good suggestion is being ignored by the staff
- Useful ideas will be overlooked by the staff
- Submitted ideas can not be viewed by a large number of people, who could have better ideas or ways to improve them even more
- Posts can get lost by forum glitches or misclicks, or by forgetting whether they were already submitted or not
- People wont know why someone else's request was rejected will submit the same thing again
- Useful ideas will be overlooked by the staff
- Submitted ideas can not be viewed by a large number of people, who could have better ideas or ways to improve them even more
- Posts can get lost by forum glitches or misclicks, or by forgetting whether they were already submitted or not
- People wont know why someone else's request was rejected will submit the same thing again
It therefore seems desirable to:
- Have at least one "player request" subforum that is not invisible, for requests that affect more people than the person submitting the request.
- Give reasons publicly for why something was rejected
- Explain the mechanism for submitting such requests (more) visibly on the forum
- Give reasons publicly for why something was rejected
- Explain the mechanism for submitting such requests (more) visibly on the forum