We need a community rep that interacts with the community

[kikix12]

If your only goal is to silence people, then yes, deleting threads without any word sounds like a wonderful idea.

Deleting threads is not done to silence people but to remove violations and flaming! That's what my entire post was about, so how did you get the idea of it saying that it's to silence valid concerns!

Deleting anything won't silence people. But it will make people reflect on what they wrote and 'just in case' post their complaints in a toned down manner, possibly in a different thread that ALREADY exists instead of making a new one.

But that is not a goal a community should want to endorse.

First and foremost the community should endorse actually paying attention when reading in each other. That'd remove majority of arguments right off the bat.

And without those stupid arguments based on someones inability or unwillingness to read correctly, communications from the developers and community managers would have much lower risk of backfiring, making them far more likely.

As for your talk about dev tracker and what not...just read my previous post. I won't waste time repeating myself.

People are going to vent however they need to, and deleting a thread is not the right way to go about it.

Like above, there is nothing wrong with complaints. But there's a difference between a 'constructive criticism' and 'senseless bashing'. Deleting a post is a localized countermeasure against localized drivel like that, deleting a thread is a nuke when the tread as a whole is the problem.

Just look at the forum. There are numerous criticizing threads. They're not removed because they manage to not cross the border. If a thread was deleted then it clearly means they were somehow different from the ones that were not removed, in a negative way.

It could be encouraged by the mods to keep all related criticism and concerns into a megathread - but that would require the mods actually communicate in the first place. And no, just having forum rules pinned somewhere is not adequate.

That's the problem. You think that you have the right to decide what's adequate and what's not because you think you somehow are some sort of oracle on what people should do with their property.

Forum rules being publicly available IS adequate. IT IS VERY MUCH ENOUGH! If you went to, say, Saudi Arabia and drunk alcohol in public, you have only yourself to blame if you end up being executed. It's YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to learn what is allowed on another persons property! Stop making excuses for lazy, inconsiderate, egoistical, self-centered people!

And in spite of what you and another poster said, advocating for reporting people just for stating their opinion on content in a manner that honestly is not offensive in nature is not the right way to go about handling things.

I didn't advocate any reporting. All I said was that moderators would need to be far less lenient and far more active in enforcing the existing rules if the community managers would actually interact with people on forums. And even then, stop taking things out of thin air. No one said anything about reporting people for opinions, sans you and possibly people that side with you.

And yes, I've grown rather irked here so I won't post beyond this on this thread. Suit yourselves.