SE needs to make a test server that the players can help test

[Molly_Millions]

Most people that demand test servers do that not because they want to help test the game. They do so because they can't wait and want to see patches before they are implemented live.

...and it doesn't do anyone any real good, so I'm totally against it. Like it or not, it'll take at least one person time to deploy changes to the test server. It's probably the same person who deploys changes to the production servers and to the internal test servers, which will inevitably take up actual dev and testing time. I just can't see any scenario where a fully public test server is a good idea. A test server for some hand-picked individual volunteers, maybe, but not a test server accessible by all.