I know nobody likes me right now, but just want to point this out.
[h=3]Sticky:
Dev Tracker[/h]
Stickied at the top of the News and Announcements section. Which should be the section most people looking for news would go to naturally.
There is also the relatively often updated first two posts of the current Dev Diary thread that contain a full list of known information, along with links to relevant posts for more information.
The dev tracker is somewhat better than following
that thread and I used it occasionally, but it's inconvenient. Even when you bookmark the tracker itself, you have to find the dev you're interested in, then it does not even show the full post, so you have to click again to get to the actual thread and you only get a few of their recent posts and then not everything a dev writes is automatically interesting or relevant.
Roland's approach is much better, it's just one thread and then you can scroll through all the posts. It's still not the bee's knee, because you have chatty posts and jokes and irony that kinda distract, sometimes you don't really understand the context, particularly when the post, that the dev responds to, is not quoted.
People - "everybody" knows that - are used to getting information served on a silver platter. If you're the one who's expected to serve, that's inconvenient for you, I understand. But usually you are the one who makes a living off of those expecting people, so... It's a pretty good idea if you follow current conventions. And if you're a multi-million dollar company, particularly when you never get tired reminding people that you are, people will never accept that you don't spend a couple k's per year to provide an expectable service.
So I can assure y'all that there are two way you can approach the information issue: #1 give a damn and say so, like Roland does every now and then. #2 do as I layed out earlier in this thread.
Not if we could convince Kubikus, Meganoth, and Jedo to go post there...
Ha ha you have 12,000 posts Roland maybe you should post there. But seriously the suggestion forum is merely a decorative element at this point.
They were there once. It killed the thread.
Actually, you killed the thread. It's kinda weird if you think about it, guys talking, along comes another guy like "nuff already". Why not just move off topic posts to the off topic forum.
Forbidding people to talk is a concept that is generally frowned upon. It's particularly delicate if there is an ongoing issue or controversy, as it tends to look like the company wants to suppress criticism, so potential new customers are not alienated. Many find that borders at deception.
It's just too much ad hominem and too little reason. As usual.
This is what "ad hominem" means:
Ad hominem (Latin for "to the person"), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.
We were having a bit of a personal conversation, so much is true, but I don't attack you.
But of course I'm perfectly fine to end the "discussion" with you, let's say we have different understandings what "reason" and "argument" means.
