PSA: Forum Structure - Our Plan Moving Forward

Brigby

Hi Everyone,

As many of you might know, I recently posted a thread asking for feedback regarding the structure of our forum. If you haven't seen it yet, you can find that thread here: PSA: Forum Structure - How Would You Organize It?

We received a lot of suggestions from players, and we have been reviewing them all carefully. One frequently mentioned aspect of the forum structure was not the forum categories themselves, but rather the moderation of posts to enforce organization in those categories. 

Organization is important in any forum, because it allows players to efficiently find topics they want to discuss. Having said that though, organization should not come at the expense of maintaining active conversations; the same ones players are searching for in order to participate in.

We understand that players view General Discussion as a central hub of communication, and the other sub-forums are utilized as more of a library of resources. In light of this information, please find detailed below our plan of moderation moving forward.

General Discussion 
This will be the home to where *almost all MPQ topics can be discussed. Want to talk about how you did during Thick as Thieves, or which 4-Star character is your favorite? Perhaps you want to brainstorm a new idea with the community before submitting it to Suggestions & Feedback. Feel free to discuss all of that here.

We will no longer move any threads to other sub-forums. Instead, if we think a thread would be more relevant somewhere else, we will post the link to that sub-forum within the GD thread, merely as a friendly reminder of where additional resources can be found.

*Alliances
Players will still be required to post Alliance recruitment threads in this section. 

*Bugs & Technical Issues
Since Tombstone works directly with the QA team, as well as specifically in this sub-forum, keeping bug threads in this section will allow for faster investigation and resolution times. Due to this, we will still be moving General Discussion threads discussing bugs to the Bugs & Technical Issues section, however we will sure to leave a redirect link upon moving.

With this moderation plan, the intent is to give players the flexibility and visibility of discussing the topics they want to talk about, while still encouraging players to visit the other categories our forum offers. At the end of the day, this is a forum for players by players, and we hope this direction echoes that sentiment. 

As always, please feel free to leave your feedback and comments, or send me a private message with your thoughts.

Thanks for being a part of our D3 Go community!

Cheers,
Brigby

//Edited because correct idiom phrasing is important -Brigby

halirin

That sounds perfect. Thanks! 

JHawkInc

If it's not broke, don't fix it.

Sounds like a step in the right direction (rather than "fixing it", doing some necessary maintenance, metaphorically tightening screws, greasing hinges, etc, so it all does what it's supposed to a little better).

We could probably use some work fixing up some of the archives (stickied archives have links that don't go anywhere from the forum move, some stuff isn't kept up to date, etc), but that's more about users taking some initiative in managing the content we like/use here, not a "forum structure" issue. One thing at a time, right?

xdogg

That's great, thank you!

RedLion

That'll do Brig.

(and I'll see myself out...)

snlf25

Perfect! Not only did I hate the over sorting and moving of topics but I hated how the characters, tips and guides and event forums were getting cluttered. This is exactly the solution I hoped for.

Brigby

RedLion said:

That'll do Brig.

(and I'll see myself out...)

Sigh.. *insert-BahDumTss-gif*

Jsh2014

Woohoo

Brigby

*Edited because correct idiom phrasing is important

Wumpushunter

I am surprised and amazed. This is the best solution. Thank you!

DapperChewie

This is great! Are the various subgroups sticking around for guides and other non-discussion topics? 

Carnifexx

Yay! Can't say more. 

revskip

Excellent decision.  This place was becoming really hard to visit with the over moderation.  

DapperChewie

I have a bit of renewed hope that this means that you guys do listen to us and take our feedback into account. I understand that a change to the boards is way different than a change to the game itself, but it still means a lot to see something that had a lot of public outcry addressed with input from the effected community. 

jredd

can we now have a thread on suggestions for fixing the game that is actually read and acted upon?

Beer40

@Brigby Thanks! I think you all made great decisions! Thank you for listening to us! It's very much appreciated.

DFiPL

Just wanted to chime in with 'yes, this is the correct decision.'

DarthDeVo

I've griped a bunch over the Heroes for Hire change, but am more than willing to give credit where it's due. 

This is a very welcome change, and thank you for seeking our feedback and implementing it. 

Lystrata

Great choice. 

I didn't bother posting my views in the feedback thread (which would have echoed basically everyone else), as in all honesty, I'd kind of given up hope that forum users opinions would really be taken into account here.

Glad my doubts were proved wrong.

Brigby

DapperChewie said:

This is great! Are the various subgroups sticking around for guides and other non-discussion topics? 

@DapperChewie Yes, the various sub-forums/categories will still be available. As of right now, we do not have any plans to change the category structure of the forum itself.

MissChinch

I like it, good process, good result.  Thank you.   I'd be down for a PR team / Game design team switch for a week.  (And having been an engineer now for ~15 years, I cant believe I just wrote that)