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Lord Barrius -> RE: Reply to Suggestions (11/29/2009 22:29:38)
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There's a few reasons that DF Suggestions doesn't have replies.
Firstly, the board does not have a lot of AKs. Our AKs (while they do an absolutely AWESOME job) can't be online 24 hours a day cleaning the board. They have other priorities. And we don't have a lot of them. So it got to the point where the board was pretty much impossible to moderate. Switching the board to reply-only has reduced the amount of work our AKs need to do drastically, making it easier to get that work done.
Secondly, the board had a lot of trouble with people posting replies. Several members of the forum would post in their own (or their friends') threads to bump them to the first page, violating forum rules by doing so. There were also a lot of issues with users flaming other users. Typically if someone didn't like another user's idea, instead of offering constructive criticism, there was a lot of unpleasant posting going around which didn't always get caught (due to the board's sheer size).
Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, the board's current organization is much easier for the DF staff to read than the one system was. In order to get ideas from players in the old system, they'd have to dive through pages of threads *and* pages within each of those individual threads, making it almost too much of a hassle to do. The streamlining of the DF Suggestions board has made it much easier for DF staff to see and gather ideas from the forum without potentially good ideas getting lost in the shuffle of bad posts.
If you need to interact with another person about their suggestion, you can still use the PM system to accomplish this task. It saves our AKs a lot of work and it's fairly easy to do, too (just hit the "PM" button on their suggestion thread's first post). But as far as DF Suggestions goes, the board could not handle the massive capacity of posters if it allowed replies.
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