Debate this: Community Rep Forum Involvement

[SenorPatty]

Side-barring cultural differences ever so slightly...

Is anyone curious as to why Community Reps are more active in responding to questions posed over at the Jpn forums (They usually post a link that answers/explain the Op's request) than ours? I mean, we do have some decent threads here that address legit concerns in civilized manner. Then three more pop up about the same thing more or less. Again some civilized, others...not so much. From what I've seen over there, the opinions are not shutdown but rather consolidated.

Maybe at the time of forum creation, someone decided it'd be better not to step on NA toes and just let us be free (so long as it doesn't break ToS). That I could see as the actual cultural difference?

I guess what I'm also getting at is whether or not moderators have de facto orders let us live and let live.

[Driavna]

Side-barring cultural differences ever so slightly...

Is anyone curious as to why Community Reps are more active in responding to questions posed over at the Jpn forums (They usually post a link that answers/explain the Op's request) than ours? I mean, we do have some decent threads here that address legit concerns in civilized manner. Then three more pop up about the same thing more or less. Again some civilized, others...not so much. From what I've seen over there, the opinions are not shutdown but rather consolidated.

Maybe at the time of forum creation, someone decided it'd be better not to step on NA toes and just let us be free (so long as it doesn't break ToS). That I could see as the actual cultural difference?

I guess what I'm also getting at is whether or not moderators have de facto orders let us live and let live.

Blizzard has a similar problem, Devs are only really active at NA forums while other regions are like this one.

[Fawkes]

Is anyone curious as to why Community Reps are more active in responding to questions posed over at the Jpn forums (They usually post a link that answers/explain the Op's request) than ours? I mean, we do have some decent threads here that address legit concerns in civilized manner. Then three more pop up about the same thing more or less. Again some civilized, others...not so much. From what I've seen over there, the opinions are not shutdown but rather consolidated.

I can't say for sure, but I think our reps are lower on the totem pole, so to speak. They have less access to the devs and therefore less ability to answer questions and engage with the community.

And we have a lot of inane threads that probably drive them nuts. They'd have to wade through a lot of garbage to find things worth responding to. And any post they make is like a shining beacon on a thread that drives activity into it and probably gives them even more work to do.

[ExKage]

And we have a lot of inane threads that probably drive them nuts. They'd have to wade through a lot of garbage to find things worth responding to.

This is probably the biggest thing.