Quote Originally Posted by Bayohne View Post
We are aware of the issue that you're posting about. It's hard for us to say "yes, we will only respond to topics in posts that are made in the correct forum." We usually respond to topics that have major discussions and as I'm sure you can see, that is more often than not the General Discussion forum. "Why don't you move the threads to the appropriate forums then?" Because then we'd be spending most of our day doing just that. I'll make sure we try to strike a true balance on where we respond, but I assure you that even the "small topics" in the right forum are being seen. You can be sure that those view numbers next to the topic, 9 times out of 10, one of them is us.

We'll try harder!
Forgive me if it sounds like I'm trolling here:

Given the differences between FFXI/FFXIV and many of the other games in the genre, I'm certain that there is a sizeable pool of friendly people with OCD willing to take on thread-sorting on a volunteer basis. I complained about this very issue in the Website Feedback forum, and less than two weeks later, my topic was off the first page because of all the misplaced topics and banal requests for implementing various things from FF7 into the game.

The GMs already have plenty to do, tasking them with BB-management duties as well seems to be just piling it on. SE needs to either hire more people to the community team, or they need to start recruiting some unpaid volunteers.