Well, most of the time, I rather think they're a waste of time. Good faction leaders can take responsibility when faced with poor feedback. Most people (me included) sometimes have some trouble with that. Most of the problems are probably better talked about in PM with a leader anyway. All in all, Feedback Threads? Not really that great.
I feel like it would be better if factions were required to update their leadership status and people were told to PM faction leaders with problems. If rule-breaking problems persist, this is what the administration is for. This way, there is no public face or anything. No one feels like his faction is on trial in front of the community or anything. I think that we're all a little more honest in private.
EDIT: Oh, yeah, and they're mostly just for silly jokes like this one.
[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.
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Mephistoles
If you've something nice to say ... > Kudos Thread
If you've got some Mimimi to share ... > Feedback Thread
A factions Feedback Thread though is a nice laugh most of the times. Either people are agreeing with each other, which quite isn't that funny, or the faction members are not sharing the view of a community member that had a complaint. Most times it's shrugged off, or... that's when it gets funny imo, disregarded. Maybe some nice argument arises until a moderator locks the thread for a while.
But honestly, it's a place for people who disagree with the way a faction is run in their eyes, to vent off.
If holders of the thread don't want to listen, they won't listen, regardless of how loud one's shouting in their Feedback Thread. That'll just get it, see above, locked.
Uh, useless Feedback Threads are useless, si? Dejavu or what, I think I said that already.
Oh ye, and... Feedback over Skype, or Forum-PM, lulz...
(wait)
Deal with it. Jeez. Don't like it? Shoot it. Red is dead, already forgotten?
Actually, I'd suggest that the majority of feedback threads are turned into flames by people refusing to accept that sometimes people act in a manner which is not on their terms. Infact this is where literally all disagreements here stem from.
' Wrote:Actually, I'd suggest that the majority of feedback threads are turned into flames by people refusing to accept that sometimes people act in a manner which is not on their terms. Infact this is where literally all disagreements here stem from.
I still think [LN] should have escorted gold ore shipment. Don't you? =D
Anyways, I agree with Joe on this one. Basically people wanna be the winners of argument. Wanna be right and uncontested in their mind.
I don't see why it's hard to friendly answer the post. Even if post was unfriendly itself, nobody forces you to fall to porter level.
... unfortunately immature behaviour turns them into flame-wars sometimes... sometimes they are no flamewars at all even - but labelled "flame-wars" by ppl who don t want to face the critizism.
all in all.... the negative sides are:
- people who have recent grudge against the faction - usually for disappointing RP experiences and or disappointing pvp experiences
- factions who do not like to face critizism and just defensivly state that wahtever was written is caused by some lost pvp only.
generally - what i have seen - it is sadly more often the owning factions being WAAY too defensive who turn critizism into a foul "no u" discussion.... it is one thing to back the faction up - but another thing to turn blind against everything that might cause a negative picture.
on the other hand - ppl critizising also need to be more objective many a times. mistakes are often done by both sides - even if a mistake is to expect more than is possible / reasonable.
no matter what - feedback threads show the "bad" sides - which simply have to be addressed - sometimes not publicly ( in the thread itself ) - but it usually suffices to address it behind the scene and work on it. - when those things are NOT addressed though..... a faction may often not know what goes wrong on a small - and sometimes a large scale.
There's no perfect way to do things, but transparency needs to be in place. It's you, the admins' and mods' job to control the flames that may ensue, but you accepted the job, didn't you?