Quote Originally Posted by Daeriion_Aeradiir View Post
Our thread is growing faster sure, but I'd be more interested to see how many posts in their topics are filled with non-useful posts like 'delete DRK' without giving any sort of constructive criticism vs ours. Not that our thread doesn't have good constructive criticism, but if they employ word scraping programs, there's quite a fair share of dead posts in this thread as far as information gathering.
Yeah, that's one of the big unfortunate differences between us.
I went back and did some more skimming (which is why I'm responding a few days later haha). I've gone through about a 8th of the thread, skipping about and sampling posts from all across it/ And I think I saw 1 posts that looked off topic (but maybe I just didn't understand it) and only 2 posts where people were just venting, saying they were sad, and contributing nothing else.


I also noticed that people don't randomly swing in out of nowhere and go
"I'm just gonna post this and hope the devs take notice."
or
"Here are my adjustments and additions."
And then drop a mountain of text, sometimes pages long, about their homebrew kit for DRK and ask for people for feedback instead of discussing the job as it is / could be in game. I don't think I saw a single post like that. The closest it got to that was something more akin to how we try and sum things up by saying "let's list the items I think could be improved" or "I have a few requests." But the "what do you think of my [job]" kind of stuff (for better or worse) seem to get their own threads.


You're right Daeriion, they've def got us beat in that department : (
And after actually spending time looking through their threads... yeah... they are def much cleaner than ours. I can totally see both that SQEX is getting feedback from the forums and how someone would use them to best gather feedback in the first place.




Also, if I may go on a tangent for a sec, the weirdest thing about it all is how differently they communicate to each other. I'm struggling to put it clearly, but maybe this will convey the difference:

Here on the English forums we do a lot of quoting each other. Person A says something, and Person B clips their quote and directly responds to something they've said. And the way we format discussions is directly responding to things people have said to get a kind of back and forth going that people drop in and out of.

But over there, someone will say they should bring Scourge back, and the conversation about Scourge will largely be people is largely people posting about Scourge in a way that loosely directs the conversation without people needing to respond specifically to each other.
Like, they still quote each other, and respond directly to each other's ideas. But that's not the primary way the discussion is... hosted? Even when Person A directly responds to Person B, A won't quote B if B's post was the previous one, and a lot of small things like that.
Writing that way is def facilitated by most of their posts being literal hours apart, as opposed to here where I've seen hot threads get 3 pages in an afternoon.

Not that either is a better or worse way of doing things. But man I am not used to reading discussions like that and it made it kinda weird to follow but also really... natural(?) because each post works off of previous ones more generally in a way that's kind of more reflective of spoken language than written communication.





Also, someone there says they wished TBN made a noise when it broke and that's a great idea and now I really want that too!