Nova Knife
Seituoda Taskforce Command
Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.07.07 02:48:00 -
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This button is actually really unhealthy IMO for constructive feedback during a beta. I'm seeing more and more of these "Like my post if you think XXX should happen" when the majority of these posts are features that are already being worked on but they did not bother to search the forums for. A couple of them have really nice ideas and I do not want to detract from them.. but seeing those threads simply breaks my heart.
'Like farming' posts are fostered from laziness or people seeking e-popularity, and they are not really helpful in the slightest. Even if an idea is cool, without a like button it forces people to actually post a response with their thoughts on the idea. You don't need to write an essay about it, just give a sentence or two on why you like (Or dislike) the idea. This gives CCP a MUCH better idea of how the players feel about an idea.
Likes on the forums are nothing really but an epeen tool. This is coming from the person before the wipe who had the most likes overall, more than twice as many likes as the people close to me. The forums are for ideas and discussions, not 'Like my status' posts. This is not facebook.
After the game launches popularity contests and e-peen drama is awesome. But for actually making the game better during beta, this is something I would rather not have.
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Nova Knife
Seituoda Taskforce Command
Caldari State
789
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Posted - 2012.07.07 03:32:00 -
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Jonquill Caronite wrote: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.
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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.
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