Everest
Moving Mountains
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You do have the opportunity to suggestion improvements to the forums here, but I do want to add that many of the posts in this thread come dangerously close to spam or complaints. Moderate your tone if you wish to post here, or I'll have to do it for you and the thread will most likely end up locked. As to the actual content of your suggestion. I recently responded to a similar suggestion which you can find here. It isn't the exact same suggestion, so I'll go into more specifics tailored to the requests of this thread, but it does include some information I believe would be useful to you. Suggestions aren't allowed in ED GD, or any General Discussion for that matter, because of the simple volume of them. They would inundate (and have in the past) the GD forum. In effect, a GD section that allowed suggestions would be completely disorganized. Why suggestions and not questions? Or bug reports? Sub-forums are created to compartmentalize replies, and a GD is a default forum meant to catch the more general discussion. Therefore, removing sub-forums reduces the effectiveness of a GD and ruins the organization of a forum area. Furthermore, even if that were to be ignored discussions of suggestions have caused numerous problems of trolling, flaming, and complaining. I'll pose a question: why would we desire to allow discussion of suggestions anywhere if those have been the results so far? Before you disagree that there have been large numbers of problems, keep in mind that we are the ones moderating and deleting those replies and threads. A large part of the reason the ED Suggestions forum is reply-only is the wishes of the design staff. It is easier for them to look through suggestions that way, and that is after all the ultimate purpose of a Suggestions forum. So, while I do think it's more reasonable for a Suggestions forum to be opened for discussion than a GD forum allowing suggestions there, the facts that 1.) there have been problems with discussion of suggestions and 2.) the format as it currently exists best serve the designers, and by extension you, show me the system is unlikely to be changed. At least in the short-term.
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