I feel like the CPM tries to read of them. Then picks the good ones to send them to CCP. You may see SocksFour and Vegas around though.

+1 This couldn't do anything other than benefit the Community at large!

I have no doubt in my mind that the CPM are doing their jobs and relaying good threads to CCP for viewing, and I really appreciate CCP LogicLoop popping into the IRC chat to talk with us. I've just been seeing a lot of threads being created asking for more communication from CCP, and I think that by having people know that their content was at the very least viewed by a staff member, it would help the community feel like they are being heard.

How do you guys get conversations with the CCP guys? I've heard some people talk about their conversations with CCP but never found out how to actually get a hold of them.

I think this is probably a pretty bad idea, I think you may be dissapointed with how many post they actually read.

I remember reading a DEV post once where they put, loose quote "We made this person read every post in this one thread" and it was a pretty big thread, but only took 20 minutes to go through.

If they are proud of that, I doubt they even look at the forums except to lock your junk.

Tbh, we could be very disappointed with how many threads they look at. We also could be very surprised to see this tag on every thread. We won't know either way unless there's some indicator that the thread was looked at.

Also, this idea only extends to the original post. For each additional post in the thread to have this tag would be a bit overkill.

Plus if I was CCP, I would just develop a script that basically marked all post as Viewed by CCP

I'm pretty certain that either a dev or GM reads every single thread on the forum, so there'd be little point in having a notification for this go out to every thread that gets posted.

I will tell you now: every single thread created on forums is being read. I also mentioned the future CMR dev blog that will explain how feedback collection process works and I think it will be exciting for you guys to get more insights into the process. But until then - keep posting! :)

The posts being read has never been the problem.


The problem lies mostly within CCP not encouraging the designers to engage the community themselves, using the community team as middle-men instead. No matter how good the community team and the CMR process are... This will always be an un-ideal feedback process.


Though, ask yourself this : Reading the forums as a whole... Do you see a whole lot of encouragement for activity? Granted: The forums would be a whole lot less 'toxic' if the designers would talk to the players, and the game would be a whole lot better off. Yet, taking one glance at the forums, can you blame anyone who isn't a masochist for not bothering to take the plunge?

It's a catch-22. The forums wouldn't be (as much of) a cesspool if the devs would just interact and feed the community with the engagement and attention they are desperately craving. Yet, that very cesspool is one of the things that keeps them away. Face it, while there are a few awesome posters... The majority of us here on the forums went full tard long ago under the mistaken premise of 'trolling' (Hint: If you need to make yourself look like a moron or be obscene to get attention, you're not a troll. You're just a moron.)

Coupled with the people acting out over the general over-moderation of the forums (Which again, is a result of itself in a vicious circle)


Basically: If we want to see CCP employees WANTING to spend a lot of time on the forums and not posting the bare minimum because their supervisor told them to... We need to make a conscious effort as a community to stop going full tard over every little thing. We need to show CCP that discussions with us with actually bear good fruits and help the game progress into something we all love.

It's safe to say that after all this time, CCP's not going to make the first move here. As a community, we need to police ourselves and grow the **** up. Being assholes to CCP has done nothing but drive them further away. We might be pissed at CCP, and with very good reason to be pissed at CCP in most cases. But... if all they see when they look at the forums is a bunch of entitled, whiny, impertinent brats... That's exactly how we can expect to be treated.

Instead, Help show CCP that we're mature, capable of holding reasonable and productive discussions, and that actually talking with us will improve the game by MILES more than they would've done on their own by excluding us from 'the process' until it was time to spoonfeed it to us. Fact of the matter is : If someone likes you, they're far more likely to engage with you more than their job requires, because they actually enjoy it.

/Rant

Instead, Help show CCP that we're mature, capable of holding reasonable and productive discussions, and that actually talking with us will improve the game....
/Rant