Less and less SE interaction with forums community over time

[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.