Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-27978481-20180312172612/@comment-26172435-20180319163902

Gruntxx wrote: This isn't about things that should be added, I was discussing that, we could use voting. Also, on wikia it would be more useful, since more players see it, than on Facebook I really don't think that would work for the way Mevans and his buddies go about with the development they have in mind, whether planned or unplanned. I really don't think it would benefit the mod teams work if they would let their course be affected by the whims of the community. They did a good job with the recent questionnaire, but will not be beneficial to them if they would do that on a regular basis. All valid, unless they would change the way they organise the modding work, but I don't expect that will happen, at least as long as Mevans is not graduated.

I do have an advise for the mod team though, regarding the way they utilise the power of the populous:


 * Close the present suggestions forum. Why? It's saturated. No point in adding any suggestions regarding features that aren't already in the mod, or planned. Focus the community efforts on what is planned on short term and on improving of what is already in the mod. I will gladly round up the endorsed suggestions by updating and completing the overview threads if I knew there would be an end to the ongoing madness.


 * Open a feedback board aimed for non-obvious, concrete, specific and original proposals on improving existing features only. So, similar to the past feedback forum, with a very restricted scope, and with moderation and rules in agreement with the present suggestions forum.


 * Open a mod team managed planned feature community input board where only the mod team can post (and moderate?) threads, aimed at gathering input for subjects (planned features / future mod adjustments) they want the communities input for. Assuming the present suggestions history (many thousands of suggestions) may sometimes not offer enough community input on features the mod team works on, they may wish to launch a thread to gather input for a new feature they are working on. These threads would all have an individual expiry date, upon which the thread will be closed and the community is kindly thanked for their input until that point. Of course, moderation can be delegated to the wiki staff, just as they now delegate the present suggestions forum management and moderation to us.