Less and less SE interaction with forums community over time

[Wolwosh]

Why is criticising your fav game considered such a bad thing on this forum?

[Hysterior]

Who would want to moderate this forum? XD
Even as a paid job I am sure they are swamped with tickets and get enough feedback from there directly.
+ Have you seen the topics on Page 1?

[Theodric]

Who would want to moderate this forum? XD
Even as a paid job I am sure they are swamped with tickets and get enough feedback from there directly.
+ Have you seen the topics on Page 1?

I'd be willing to do it.

I'm sure many others would as well, especially as a paid role.

[Hysterior]

I'd be willing to do it. I'm sure many others would as well, especially as a paid role.

I was (half) joking. CMs probably have a laundry list of stuff to do and forum moderation is at the bottom of that list.
But keep an eye on their recruiting page, you never know

[Loony_BoB]

I'd do it for free. I ran/moderated a massive vBulletin forum (Eyes on Final Fantasy) when it was getting over 50,000 posts per month (SE's FFXIV forums get approximately 20,000 posts per month). I've got tasked with cleaning up CricketWeb and other forums back in the day too and did it with easy success. Moderating doesn't require you reading every single thing, and with a team of ~5-10 people you can generally cover a huge amount of posts. The more you moderate, the more you set a standard, the less you have to moderate in future times. Back when SE Europe had a CM position open in the UK I wanted to apply for it but I'm based in Edinburgh and have a cat and flat, and didn't want to move, so stuck with my current job.

Honestly, moderating for some people is just a way to pass time, but getting a solid team together is very tricky, especially when you're a company and everyone represents you (I'm unsure if it's easier or harder if you pay people - you can tell people what to do easier if they are getting paid, but, well, you have to pay them and it's harder to let them go for that reason too).

Personally, I'm not as bothered about the moderation of these forums (although it would be great to see an active team setting a standard) so much as getting feedback from SE on the issues being raised and discussed. Or, I suppose a better way to say it, is that I'd like to see SE acknowledging issues and ideas here more often.

[Kes13a]

Why is criticising your fav game considered such a bad thing on this forum?

criticizing is completely fine.

criticizing without supplying a way you can think it could be improved is just complaining.

that and some people cannoy agree with what would be considering improvements in someone else's opinion. so its not inherently bad, its just on forums, where there is often little inflection received from the written words, I think some may take it as just a horrible idea. I mean lets face it, while we may have a game in common, not all people can agree on what an improvement could look like, or entail to implement.

and some "criticism" is, lets face it, designed to cater to one persons play style, and since its teh forums, is likely not something a majority of players actually think, or want. and people conveniently forget that part.

[Kes13a]

Or, I suppose a better way to say it, is that I'd like to see SE acknowledging issues and ideas here more often.

I disagree.

people will easily be given and inch and run with it for miles. especially on forums. a developer says something, and suddenly its either a controversy or an EXPECTED future implementation simply because a dev mentioned it. look at all the fuss generated over an icon for a job not even in the game yet that has ZERO history.

[Theodric]

I disagree.

people will easily be given and inch and run with it for miles. especially on forums. a developer says something, and suddenly its either a controversy or an EXPECTED future implementation simply because a dev mentioned it. look at all the fuss generated over an icon for a job not even in the game yet that has ZERO history.

They don't need to say much beyond a polite acknowledgement that feedback on a subject is being given to the development team.

It's not like they aren't already engaging with the community over on Twitter, at any rate - and this place, despite its flaws, is by far the more civil domain.

[gotaname1]

Why is criticising your fav game considered such a bad thing on this forum?

Because people don't want their honeymoon period with the game to ever end.

[Kes13a]

They don't need to say much beyond a polite acknowledgement that feedback on a subject is being given to the development team.

It's not like they aren't already engaging with the community over on Twitter, at any rate - and this place, despite its flaws, is by far the more civil domain.

I agree, but when was teh last time on twitter some fool necro's something completely out of date?