Categories of Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE, Part V!

[Matsume]

I noticed that the >> links aren't leading to the specific posts. I hope this isn't happening for all the quotes >.<

It's working for me :O did you notice one in specific it did not work for? I just tested ou the first few and they brought me directly to the questions thread.

[Vilhem]

Well mine lead to one of the troll questions...it might have to do with people deleting their questions or mods removing them or something, shifting up the queue some

[Matsume]

Well mine lead to one of the troll questions...it might have to do with people deleting their questions or mods removing them or something, shifting up the queue some

hmm which one is that? I did incorporate one of psexperts questions despite the majority of his being troll questions, but the one i incorporated was a serious question. However, I don't know the technical issues involved when a post is deleted, if the post count gets bumped up or not etc.

[Vilhem]

Mine's under Misc, very last one. The one about them making a decision on same sex marriage or not

[Matsume]

Mine's under Misc, very last one. The one about them making a decision on same sex marriage or not

Works for me, went directly to your post in the official questions thread. I wonder if it's bugging because you are trying to view your own post? I don't know... Still got another 60 questions to incorporate. Going to omit the blatant duplicates from now on...(will dark knight, thief, bluemage be in ffxiv for ex...)

[Vilhem]

I gave up after page 20 lol props to you for trying to make sense of all the randomness in that thread

[Matsume]

I gave up after page 20 lol props to you for trying to make sense of all the randomness in that thread

@.@ the duplicates are making duplicate babies! I got the majority of the 283 posts in though, minus a few clones.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

I was going to do something like this except I was going to make a 'top 20' list of the most 'liked' questions. Maybe you could add a section to your list like that.

[Matsume]

I was going to do something like this except I was going to make a 'top 20' list of the most 'liked' questions. Maybe you could add a section to your list like that.

Although this might seem like a good idea at first, there are a couple of reasons why I haven't yet done this:

First off, I've come to realize that the likes are skewed primarily towards the posts in the beginning of the thread. The reasons being that most people likely only read the first few pages of that thread and like the posts they are intereste in but after seeing duplicate posts appear they probably tell themselves "hell no i'm not gunna read 20 more pages of duplicate posts" and just "post quick reply" with a question they have in mind. This also has the effect of making it such that duplicate posts are ever increasing in the latter pages of that thread.

The second reason I don't want to make such a post is that I fear doing so will only enforce the aforementioned bias. That is, by singling out the top 20 posts and letting everyone know "these are the most 'liked' posts in the thread" I fear that people will be further incited to "like" those posts (social/peer pressure) even though there may be more interesting posts they wish answered.

However, I may consider doing this in a few days given enough interest.

[Exn]

Although this might seem like a good idea at first, there are a couple of reasons why I haven't yet done this:

First off, I've come to realize that the likes are skewed primarily towards the posts in the beginning of the thread. The reasons being that most people likely only read the first few pages of that thread and like the posts they are intereste in but after seeing duplicate posts appear they probably tell themselves "hell no i'm not gunna read 20 more pages of duplicate posts" and just "post quick reply" with a question they have in mind. This also has the effect of making it such that duplicate posts are ever increasing in the latter pages of that thread.

The second reason I don't want to make such a post is that I fear doing so will only enforce the aforementioned bias. That is, by singling out the top 20 posts and letting everyone know "these are the most 'liked' posts in the thread" I fear that people will be further incited to "like" those posts (social/peer pressure) even though there may be more interesting posts they wish answered.

Good call.