Player commendations with meaning?

[Xephier]

[QUOTE=ChameleonMS;2538723]Actually, what people will do is not read the question, and take the first option on the list automatically. I see this at work all the time with our surveys.

I guess you missed the part in which I said the first option would be "I just want to do this before people leave" as to filter out those people and render their commendations meaningless as they should be.

While I don't doubt that a good amount of people actually put thought into the commendations I am willing to bet that a lot do not and I see this more now that I am playing a tank (tanks generally go to the top of the list by default). The one dungeon I ran I got 3 commendations and that's when I had to stop and think "Did I really deserve that or were people just trying to get it off before others left."

That said 2 other changes could be made:
Remove the challenge log for commendations that way people aren't just giving commendations in order to reward themselves (sure the amount of commendations given out will drop drastically but I'd rather have 5 commendations I deserve than 2000 that I don't).
Create a 10 second pause before people can leave the dungeon (it just took half an hour or more to run the thing, what's an extra 10 seconds?) That way people don't feel pressured to hit the commendation before everyone bails.

[Kassiekane]

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I understand what you're saying, just realize you are suggesting they remove an easy challenge log. "How dare you take away free exp!?"

Maybe if they replaced it, like instead of giving 10 commendations for exp, you can instead receive 10 commendations for exp.