Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26172435-20190318125819/@comment-25550759-20190417153736

I'm not going to lie, these changes, quite opposite to how it would seem, probably actually make things better for suggestions. I have repeatedly seen highly thoughtful suggestions beat out by far less valuable ones, and the Community-Endorsed Suggestions Forum never really did what it was supposed to do anyway. I made a suggestion several years ago that managed to get endorsed, but it's practically been untouched since, and if anything the act of endorsing it seemed simply archive it, never actually letting it reach the eyes of anyone significant, let alone Mevans.

Further, I have always dislked the expiration of suggestions. I once made a suggestion to add the feasting mechanic, before it had been added (I even used the word "feasting" once in my post), but it only received 5 kudos, and then was cleared due to expiration.

Really, this decision changes the suggestions forum very little, but rather it merely admits to the way it essentially already functioned, and abandons the pretense that suggestions can actually be heard based upon quality.

Of course, I would love it if it were possible to design the suggestions forum in a way that allowed for more successful moderation of suggestions, but I think that for the present situation, this was a much needed decision.