Debate this: Community Rep Forum Involvement

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Originally Posted by Valinis

I'm here right now reading this one. You also made no effort to answer the question.

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because it's a stupid question... or a literalist interpretation of what i said, which just kind of makes you trolling.

Side-barring cultural differences ever so slightly...

Is anyone curious as to why Community Reps are more active in responding to questions posed over at the Jpn forums (They usually post a link that answers/explain the Op's request) than ours? I mean, we do have some decent threads here that address legit concerns in civilized manner. Then three more pop up about the same thing more or less. Again some civilized, others...not so much. From what I've seen over there, the opinions are not shutdown but rather consolidated.

Maybe at the time of forum creation, someone decided it'd be better not to step on NA toes and just let us be free (so long as it doesn't break ToS). That I could see as the actual cultural difference?

I guess what I'm also getting at is whether or not moderators have de facto orders let us live and let live.

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Originally Posted by savageink

because it's a stupid question... or a literalist interpretation of what i said, which just kind of makes you trolling.

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My question isn't "stupid" just because you think it is. Do you go around calling everyone names from behind the keyboard? Perhaps the problem lies with people like you.

I don't understand why they'd go thru all the extra effort of condensing everything just to appease people who are anal about order. The community reps are more active and comfortable with the Japanese forums because they can be a little biased if you haven't noticed. I doubt just organizing and self-policing ourselves better is going to get us any additional individual attention.

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Originally Posted by SenorPatty

Side-barring cultural differences ever so slightly...

Is anyone curious as to why Community Reps are more active in responding to questions posed over at the Jpn forums (They usually post a link that answers/explain the Op's request) than ours? I mean, we do have some decent threads here that address legit concerns in civilized manner. Then three more pop up about the same thing more or less. Again some civilized, others...not so much. From what I've seen over there, the opinions are not shutdown but rather consolidated.

Maybe at the time of forum creation, someone decided it'd be better not to step on NA toes and just let us be free (so long as it doesn't break ToS). That I could see as the actual cultural difference?

I guess what I'm also getting at is whether or not moderators have de facto orders let us live and let live.

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Blizzard has a similar problem, Devs are only really active at NA forums while other regions are like this one.

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Originally Posted by Valinis

My question isn't "stupid" just because you think it is. Do you go around calling everyone names from behind the keyboard? Perhaps the problem lies with people like you.

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Yeah. Probably. But I'm a jerk in person too.

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Originally Posted by savageink

Yeah. Probably. But I'm a jerk in person too.

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Safe to say the forums would be a better place without jerks.

In line with MomomiMomi - also adding our forum is not only spiriting that freedom sense but that we also have a /massively/ more diverse culture pool meaning we will more often not see eye to eye. It would be difficult for us to conform even if we wanted to... where to start the line itself would be confusing lol.

Would be nice to see our community leaders more often though. I'm sure they have a lot of hoops to get through but if we could lower / make easier / more often that would be cool.

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Originally Posted by Valinis

Safe to say the forums would be a better place without jerks.

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and irony, don't forget that one. we can't have any irony.

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Originally Posted by SenorPatty

Is anyone curious as to why Community Reps are more active in responding to questions posed over at the Jpn forums (They usually post a link that answers/explain the Op's request) than ours? I mean, we do have some decent threads here that address legit concerns in civilized manner. Then three more pop up about the same thing more or less. Again some civilized, others...not so much. From what I've seen over there, the opinions are not shutdown but rather consolidated.

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I can't say for sure, but I think our reps are lower on the totem pole, so to speak. They have less access to the devs and therefore less ability to answer questions and engage with the community.

And we have a lot of inane threads that probably drive them nuts. They'd have to wade through a lot of garbage to find things worth responding to. And any post they make is like a shining beacon on a thread that drives activity into it and probably gives them even more work to do.