Do devs post on the English forum?

[Lauront]

The more the community team ignores the EN OF, the more it festers. The more it festers, the less anyone wants to do anything with it. It's like cleaning your room daily vs cleaning your room once per year--perhaps the work is similar cumulatively, but spreading it out over time makes it less effort overall. Especially when after a year grime gets into places.

If there's a problem with the way users interact, community managers should enforce against it. If EN users are too boisterous, loud, obnoxious, trolly, working too hard to mini-mod, spamming posts or threads...the EN community team and moderation staff should work to fix it. If that's not what they're paid to do, and the EN OF was meant to be left like this, well...

This is literally what they're asking for.

Agreed, this is their venue at the day and they bear partial culpability here. Definitely something where they themselves would get more value out of it were they to improve how the place is run.

I know certain posters are desperate to paint this place and utterly terrible though some of us have been posting around these parts for years and the hostility is almost exclusively coming from those desperate to stifle feedback despite that being touted as this place's primary function.

Twitter and Reddit are far worse and far more hostile. I'm really not sure how people getting a bit heated and testy here is meant to compare to people spamming inboxes with links to explicit gore/hardcore adult material which is hosted elsewhere on both sites.

Yeah, agreed. Less of it survives on reddit because the mods (sometimes over-zealously) clean it up, but not always, and as you say that can morph into very strange stalking/harassment, often using throwaway accounts, with people you may only ever have interacted once, all for expressing a view they disliked. As for Twitter? That place just isn't built for discussions like a traditional forum is. Very cliqueish, discussions trail off through being nested and plenty of hostility. If SE staff can review these sites for feedback, and perhaps even more hostile ones, I fail to see why they are incapable of putting in place better moderation and interaction with their players on this site.