So this is what I don't get...

[furbs]

yes, one action from the mods would please alot of people here.

[snwkill]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Again, i won't single out anyone in particular, but i urge everyone to keep this in mind next time one thinks their personal, often repeated opinion is doing some sort of service to the community or represents a majority because according to my collection of PMs it certainly does not in most cases, it usually has the exact opposite effect and the feeling can be summarized to "moderetors, torches and pitchforks please and oh, we need it yesterday"

I agree with you for the most part, and believe me there was time that if you guys started "cleansing" the forum, I would have been pissed... But that is back when FPS was at 25 fps max, and things were just generally horrible on a frequent basis. It has gotten to the point that most of the negative posts just aren't a true sense of the game. This game really isn't that bad, it has problems here and there... But the community is aware of them, the devs are aware of it.

Demoralizing behavior catches on quickly, and so does being upbeat and excited. I just think that it is time to clean up the head forum, that is it... When new players come here to figure out why no new servers are listing or why their sound went out in multiplayer... The first post they should see is "sound is buggy, luthier fixing it, this is the workaround for the moment," instead of more bitching with no solutions, especially for problems where solutions exist.

[Blackdog_kt]

I hear you snwkill. I also think we should focus on keeping things functional and promote a kind of "laboratory" feeling for the forums, at least for now, to help people with workarounds and solutions for potential issues.

However, the technical sub-forums already serve that purpose for the most part. They also have quite the wealth of information accumulated already, it would be way too time consuming to move most posts in order to make things instantly visible on the front page and it would also make it harder for people who contribute in those threads to follow them as they slip below the front page of the forum.

I think the front page is more for posting stuff like "my campaign after action reports", "screenshot thread", "gameplay videos", in other words sharing our gameplay experience with others and discussing ideas to promote more interesting gameplay potential, or announcing events, etc.

It's just that in the absence of sufficient playing time accumulated by some in the community (for whatever valid or imagined reason), people took advantage of the fact that it's the most visible section to vent their steam there. I don't see it continuing for much longer mind you, for a variety of reasons:

1) We just got a solid development update.
2) I've been personally "stalking" potentially troublesome threads and posting cautionary recommendations on a just-in-case basis, if that fails posts are moved to the arguments megathread.
3) My patience will run thin at some point and judging from the amount of reported posts and PMs we get, i guess i'm not alone.

In other words, if two weeks from now we get the same craziness despite the fact that we just got an updated development roadmap, i can probably clear out the entire front-page of such posts and have a clear conscience that i'm actually acting according to what the majority wants and not out of personal whims