We need a community rep that interacts with the community

[KaivaC]

No, it won't. Moving BLU threads in the DPS discussion is not going to make the threads go away until the frustration over this starts to die out. The other problem is that it almost feels as if the mods are trying to silence the negativity. Which just causes more frustration for players. Addressing the comments at the top of this page, I wasn't looking for having the mods look at my particular thread - there are multiple threads out there that have come to the same solution of either making it OP since it's lacking as a solo job outside of the Carnivale, or unlocking it for players. For me personally, yes, it pissed me off that it pretty much got moved with nary a word, so that was my personal tipping point.

But best believe that the leveling exploit got highlighted very quickly and was announced rather quickly. It didn't take long for them to notice that chocobos got boosted xp with BLU and hotfixed it in a week's timeframe (admittedly, though, that was a nice QoL change and I do thank the devs for actually buffing the xp for other jobs). So I know the mods are paying attention to what is being said. If they can't or won't speak, fine, not a problem. But some kind of acknowledgement would actually go a ways towards curtailing some of the frustration that I know a lot of us have felt. Maybe not particularly with BLU, but certainly with many things that have occurred through the entirely of 4.x. They're apt to post things on the Lodestone - that would've sufficed, in my opinion.

[kikix12]

No, it won't. Moving BLU threads in the DPS discussion is not going to make the threads go away until the frustration over this starts to die out.

Yep, banning of the people making those threads in General would stop them from popping up...in general anyway.

The point here is that general discussion is NOT for everything under the sun. The reason why all the other places are abandoned and dead is because everyone posts everything in general, whether or not it have a spot it should go to. Talks about Blue does have their place in DPS section. It's as simple as that. By posting them here, in general discussion, the person KNOWINGLY breaks forum rules.

So...ask yourself. Do you want them to actually be more practically active?! Because I can tell you now...if you'll get your wish and they'll be forced to actually enforce forum rules to contain the results...you'll only learn how fast people can get banned on the forums. And this time...for a good reason.

The other problem is that it almost feels as if the mods are trying to silence the negativity. Which just causes more frustration for players.

Maybe the players should learn more about forums. General discussion in every single forum I have ever come across is for the topics that do not match any other sub-forum.

And to quote from a sticky post:

The purpose of this forum is for players to hold discussions on DPS roles and its tactics with other players.

DPS roles forum is most certainly the place to talk about Blue Mage now that it have released. Before it was fine in here because...well...it was all speculations and "what if's". Hence why stuff was not moved back then as far as I know.

What is reasonable in general discussion is the Limited Job discussion. One could argue it being fit for the "Other Battle Systems"...but it's a different version of a job system. Not exactly a "battle" system. So it's more a "case by case" basis.

You thinking that moving threads to where they should have been in the first place is some sort of "stealth mission" to hide shows how absolutely horrid your understanding of forums structure is. Nothing more, nothing less.


Now, those flawed aspects of your post aside, I agree that Square Enix's side SHOULD have more "contact" with the community, but not on forums and not directly. More specifically, I do believe they should make regular news on what was brought under consideration in respect to "hot" topics among the community, what is currently being worked on (in general, not details) and some random trivia from the development/management of the game.