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Funny, Plenty of people seem to have no issue finding, reading, and engaging in posts moved to other sub-forums.... I suppose you'd prefer to have 100% of all topics right here in General Discussions then, So that everything recent gets buried under several pages of topics you have no interest in?

It's not rocket science.

You wanna read or answer question? Go to General Questions.

Wanna tell a story about something you experienced, Or read someone elses stories? Go to Survivor stories.

Reporting a bug or issue? Put it in bug reports.

Searching for an answer to a particular question? Search the General Questions subforum instead of the General Discussions one- We try to move all the questions with actual answers to the general questions section so it's easier to sift for answers instead of being inundated by 1,000 other topics that are just discussions on some other totally unrelated thing that a passing mention of what you're searching for came up in.

If ya'll actually put it in the right sub-forum in the first place instead of dumping everything in general discussions, It wouldn't get moved.

It's called organization. You put the spoons with the spoons, the forks with the forks, the knives with the knives, and noone comes up with a fork when they wanted a spoon.

If it was censorship, We would just delete. Why bother with tricks?

Edit: and if the explanation above doesn't make it clear enough, 'General Questions' is a separate subforum to act as a repository of knowledge that is more easy to search through for the answer to questions you might have; And a place to go when you have a question where people who are interested in answering questions will go in order to answer them. Again, Organization.

Originally posted by aY227:

Originally posted by Shurenai: ba bla bla

one person makes a mistake - his fault
hundreds of persons makes a mistake - bad design


You are 24/7 here, you just dont understand how this forum looks for a normal peoples.

MING: no one moved my post

So, Let's just go to a shopping center then and throw everything into one big disorderly pile. After all, Hundreds of people make the 'mistake' of just tossing stuff they decided they dont want onto shelves in random places. Must be bad design to organize.

That's some dumb logic right there, No offense intended. It's not that people make mistakes- It's that many people are lazy. But laziness should not mean that any sense of organization goes out the window.

There are numerous games out there where everything just gets dumped in General Discussions because there is no suboforums, And most posts don't get answered because Noone wants to sift through 50+ topics and 500 posts of ♥♥♥♥ they don't care about to answer one question for the one guy five pages back. Most are much more willing to glance at the first page and answer something if it's relevant to them; Which sub-forums facilitates.

When it's too much work to dig through, People won't dig through it and you end up with a dead forum.

Originally posted by SiEgE:

Originally posted by Shurenai: Funny, Plenty of people seem to have no issue finding, reading, and engaging in posts moved to other sub-forums.... I suppose you'd prefer to have 100% of all topics right here in General Discussions then

Many forums(including most Valve's products forums) do that.
Would never advice to participate, say, a CS:GO or TF2 forums, as it is mostly a ♥♥♥♥ show and a mish-mash of people just posting nonsense. The only 2 moderations done there is "moderation by report" and "moderation by locking".

Precisely. When everything is in one place, regardless of it's content or intent, Most people couldn't be bothered to engage in the forum because it's too much trouble to find something relevant to them.

It's like twitch chat for 100 people, vs twitch chat for 10,000 people. One is readable, and engage worthy. The latter is a hot mess that noone can read, let alone be bothered to carry a conversation in- So it just devolves into anarchy.