Why was the THF thread Moved?

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Sure. It can all be used, potentially. That does not mean that they commit the human resources to scouring every subforum. For example, the Server-specific forums and New Players forums seem to be very clear in their intent to simply provide an "officially sanctioned" place for discussion and discourse among the playerbase.

I guarantee you the community team is reading and paying close attention these forums as well. To address concerns and difficulties facing new players (they've even responded to a few), to monitor the situations of various servers in the wake of the world merge, etc.

Believe me, the official forums are much more for Square Enix's benefit than they are for the playerbase (this is true of any official forum for any MMO). They are fully aware of all of the community sites where players discussed FFXI before the official ones came online. They made their own in attempt to turn the awesome force that is the FFXI playerbase discussing FFXI into a useful marketing tool for them. It's probably one of the smartest things they've done in a long time (albeit a bit behind the times).

You haven't been paying attention, then. I can think of at least a dozen threads that have been moved out of GD and into JS forums. A handful at least were Dark Knights b'awwwwing about how much they suck.

I have. The moved ones keep their "moved" marker on the forum. The only other one I could find was a RDM one about getting en-spellra or some such thing. I'm sure it has happened before, but I wouldn't agree that it happens a lot.

Then what's the issue with that particular thread being in the THF forum again?

There are a couple: Less visability for one. There is an associated negative connotation with it being moved as well (like it was wrong to post in GD). As Noodles said, job forum posts don't typically get responded to. And as I said I think there is value in the insight of other players that may not browse the THF forums.

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Although I will say I wouldn't want to be the one responding directly to job forum threads. No matter what they say it will inevitably piss people off. It's probably better for them that they don't respond directly and just address job concerns through general posts and job updates. No matter how much we would like to engage them in conversation about these job issues.

There is nothing wrong with using a Dev Tag when they specifically ask for feedback on a job/update, of course. But it does not need to happen in GD

Ah, this is why I created this thread. Because they have said this is the place for feedback/suggestions, and there is nothing in the guidlines to discourage job specific update feedback from happening in the GD forum.

So.....if they said this is the place for feedback/suggestions, and they then created a dev tag and said "give us your feedback/suggestions on this topic, using this dev tag" why wouldn't it happen in General Discussion?

But really, this isn't a QQ thread. I'm more curious for the sake of clarification. This goes here, that goes there etc.