Quit Ruining The General Discussions

[Sigma-Astra]

We are on the forum for a game. Users have a right to provide feedback to devs. End. Of. Discussion. The forums ARE the most direct way to leave feedback.

Which you are right in that aspect and that's fine. But, did it ever occur to the people having a problem with SE that we do have a "Website Feedback & Suggestions" sub thread? Did anyone know that it existed at all? Wouldn't it make more sense to voice your complaints there where it's easier for the moderators to find it and then possibly send it off towards the director/developers instead of 10 different General Discussion topics all talking about the same thing that all get bumped in and off the front page like crazy daily sporadically? I want to also add that you've cherry picked one comment from my entire paragraph just to suit your own narrative for that stance when I elaborated much more than just that one set of lines you seemed to want to use. I never said that they couldn't complain on the forums, just that 10 different topics is a little much for any moderator to shift through.

They didn't really state that those people couldn't complain honestly, just that the constant bandwagoning effect is getting a little old which I think we can all agree on here. If you're unhappy with a company and/or its products, then leaving and letting the company directly know why you're leaving is the best course of action that you can take, instead of sitting there and making 100 forum posts over the course of a week voicing the same complaint over and over in various different ways acting as if the reps will actually bother to look through a Sea of Threads for your feedback.

Being a moderator on any kind of public forum is more or less a voluntary position that pays nothing and rewards you with nothing and quite possibly the most mindless and numbing thing to do. No moderator is going to want to shift through 10 different threads all voicing the same complaints being spoken in several different ways and tones...nor want to compile all of that information from 10 different threads and put it together into one cohesive feedback report to the director/developers.

"Website Feedback and Suggestions" sounds like it's asking for feedback and suggestions for the website and not the game. Additionally, feedback at times can make valuable use of back and forth discussion. If General Discussions is the most active area, seems like it would be the place to bring something up. If something is misposted, we do have moderators who, as we have seen, move topics to appropriate areas.

Edit: I've looked in that thread, you have people suggesting things about chocobo barding, the mogstation, PvP queue and rankings, etc. It is most certainly not just for the website, but also for the game. All kinds of stuff really. And since none of those topics were moved by the moderators, clearly, they belong there.

Who on earth puts a posting limit on a forum? Seriously, SE? No other forum does this and it's so annoying when you're trying to have a discussion with people and you're cockblocked by an archaic forum design. >_<;