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Jonquill Caronite
Tronhadar Free Guard
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.07.07 03:09:00 -
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Honestly I disagree, of course I have such a thread... Ideally such threads are taken down and a Dev or someone that they entrust from the community opens such a compilation, to aggrigate the results and requests people have. Fact is there simply isn't enough time in the day for the GM and Devs to go through every post on the forum, and without aggragates a lot of ideas will get missed.
Now that being said its also important to prioritize ideas which is the purpose of likes... Its entirely possible a lot of people with post ideas that are good, but the reality is posts and excitment about an idea do not indicate agreement with the idea, it can often be the opposite, and more importantly it can often be just that players are throwing out ideas for MUCH later without intent of them being worked on or added anytime soon... This means that even just scanning the forums for the threads with the most posts can be a misleading venture that has no results...
Finally some ideas are just too simple, and even if they are HUGE and have a lot of support there's just not much to be said on the topic... Points for stopping virus upload for example, a big deal, but what more is there to say about it? That's about it... So the like allows us to avoid endless repetition and useless posts.
Now as I said, my posts, others, and all like this should be deleted in my opinion, and one aggregate sticky post should be made that is updated by someone from the community that is trusted, and the devs if they get the time. That way we dont have this many posts.
But I stand by the idea that this idea has merit, when as you said its not used as an e-popularity contest... I personally dont care about 'my likes' just the actually posts themselves, rather mine or someone elses... |
Jonquill Caronite
Tronhadar Free Guard
Minmatar Republic
115
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Posted - 2012.07.07 03:30:00 -
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Alright fine, introduction of polls would be nice then at least. To determine the most immediate suggestions. |
Jonquill Caronite
Tronhadar Free Guard
Minmatar Republic
115
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Posted - 2012.07.07 03:46:00 -
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Nova Knife wrote:
The problem with threads like that is not that they are popularity contests, is that they offer no context from the threads they came from, usually. Someone 'summarizing' can easily be biased and push suggestions they want and ignore ideas of merit from others. CCP actually has people in their community team who do read and summarize all the forum threads as part of their daily routine, and they hold weekly meetings based on these summaries with the appropriate dev departments.
They don't actually need us to make summaries for them, the important thing is the feedback. Likes are not feedback. Likes are arbitrary and misleading, providing no context. Since there is no dislike button, likes are also heavily biased. Sorting threads by likes is mostly pointless because of this.
Touche =), I guess the only other benefit that I could possibly leave is such threads give players a place to see ideas suggested thus far, and elaborate their concepts more clearly once inspired =). But frankly that's the point of taking the time as a player to show interest in what others post, thus a moot point. |
Jonquill Caronite
Tronhadar Free Guard
Minmatar Republic
115
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Posted - 2012.07.07 03:52:00 -
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Well being as I can't delete mine, and I've been smitten might as well link it as an example of failure =P.
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=25451&find=unread |
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