Dear SE, please stop ignoring the bigger threads.

Does anyone else realize that the forum "admins'" job titles are the likes of "Community Representative?"
They ARE devs. They are the mouths of the devs. By that token, they cannot confirm, deny, or comment on anything without explicit approval from the higher ups.
This is why you only see Bayohne and the others post links to developer blogs or news pages, or make clarifications on translations and feature lists. Until the full dev team makes a decision and it's ready to implement, they can say nothing.
They can't comment on your RMT thread (for NUMEROUS reasons)
They can't comment on your glamour thread.
They can't comment on the au ra horns thread.
Unless they're given information they are permitted to convey.
The fact that some of these threads get "cleaned" of offending posts (personal attacks, etc.) should show that they ARE reading and conveying the info within, and thus aren't IGNORING you. They just can't do anything.

Oh yeah...and the thing about developers is they're often not trained in Public Relations. In fact, a lot of them suck at it. Take a look at some games where the lead developer decides to get his "feet wet" by commenting on forum posts or Twitter. They're not typically trained in PR, and it's often best if they get it "filtered" by someone who is.
If you want a visual representation of what can happen, watch the sandstorm scene in Mad Max: Fury Road (and go see it anyway. It's awesome)

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Originally Posted by Zabuza

Yeah, I didn't even know about that dev reply until I read this thread just now. It's not even about it being my thread in particular. You'd just think they'd post in the largest and most relevant RMT type thread, though they haven't posted in any of them at all. I truly hope all the voices in that thread have not gone unheard and something is done come HW.

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The Dev tracker is there for everyone to observe. So are the notices every few weeks about how many Bans/suspensions are dolled out for RMT. What exactly would you have them say in your thread that would be useful to you and not end up helping prepare the RMT for whats to come? One thing off the top of my head that I can see really helping with RMT is the requirements to get in to the Heavensward areas (where all the big ticket popular items will be that can be gathered and sold on the market for loads of gil.) I'm pretty sure by now SE might have a vague idea that there is an RMT problem. They have the RMT screwing up their game and they are also getting inudated with complaints from the players. They are getting the worst of all ends of this deal, If you think you are annoyed by the RMT spam, compound that by every player who comments about it, everyones problem is their problem.

Considering the contents of most of the long threads in this forum, I don't blame them.

I glad to see people actually defend the administration and devs.

I'll just add that I have seem them do some things in game to cut out RMT spam. Unfortunately it only lasted for an hour or so.

This just in: no response from staff in thread means they are ignoring it.