Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-27978481-20180312172612/@comment-31507215-20180319180202

AlteOgre wrote:

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.

I generally agree with what I believe you are trying to get at, however I disagree with "No point in adding any suggestions regarding features that aren't already in the mod, or planned." Some of the suggestions that are about things that are not in the mod (or planned) are more helpful than many that are on current features. For example, you kudoed my post on grappling hooks - they aren't on the planned features list or currently implemented.
 * 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.

The point I am try to get at is that such actions may cost you some helpful suggestions from people who care, and you will probably still be swamped with unhelpful suggestions from those who don't.  (The latter may be inevitable.)