[2023] Moderators merging all A21 critisim and suggestions into a single non-pinned thread?

Originally posted by LostFate: Think it says it all above... Wrote a decently long pros and cons for A21 with at least a handful of unique suggestions that haven't been talked about elsewhere and my post was merged in and buried at the end of someone else's. Is this a tactic to keep A21 criticism invisible to potential new customers? Feels kinda scummy. Maybe it's just to keep the boards clean but this doesn't seem like the way to do it, comes across as "we don't care what any of you think, this is the direction we've decided to go in (consequences be d***ed)".

Lets review.

You posted a thread titled "A21 - Good, Bad, Ugly".
Since we already have a thread for the impressions of Alpha 21, it was merged into that appropriately, because that is exactly what your thread was.
Part of our job as moderators is to try to reduce the clutter, so that discussions don't get buried. More people are going to be likely to see your post now, than if it sat all by itself on page 5.

You also posted inside of a topic called "Question about rendering in alpha 21
Since it was a question/answer thread, it was moved to the appropriate section of the forum.

You'll also notice that we have a number of different criticism threads, all on different subject, but they aren't being merged into a single thread. Each is left alone. However, if someone posts another thread that is the same exact topic, it's going to get merged into the already existing thread. Because in all honestly, they should have spent a minute looking around to see if the other thread existed before posting.

Originally posted by High Lord Denix:

Originally posted by Ogami: I mean, this is pretty much standard practice across the Steam forums, be it games or official.
If a topic creates a lof of contentious threads who all basically talk about the same thing it gets merged into one mega thread.

It's really not standard practice, in my experience at least, I browse a lot of steam forums and this is the only forum I've seen merge threads, moving threads to different sub-forums is more common but still pretty rare overall.

I don't want to think they're doing it maliciously but I've only seen posts talking negatively about the new systems being merged, though to be fair those are the most common posts right now, not many people talking positively about them.

The only way you could blame people for being annoyed by their posts being merged is if you have zero empathy though, someone spends time writing multiple paragraphs about the new systems because they want to start a discussion about it (even if its one that's already happened 100 times already) just to have it buried in a 100+ page thread never to be seen, I would also find that pretty frustrating lmao.

No, most steam forums don't have many moderators, if any. Which is why they have a lack of organization, and order. Hell, most game developers don't even care to look at the Steam forum because they have their own websites and forums. More of those should take a page from Funcom's book.

Originally posted by Ataxio: I wouldn't say suppressed. But the general tone of those that run the place seem to be casual indifference when there is a mob of pitchfork and torch armed people banging on the gates.

I'm guessing this is fairly normal for 7d2d, I don't frequent these forums enough to say. From what I recall most communication happens on their own forums elsewhere and I cannot attest to that either. Just having posts moved isint a huge deal, but to a degree it does mitigate the overall message people are trying to say and in a small way buries it.

Honestly, I don't care whether you post you like the game, hate the game, or whatever. As long as you're following the forum rules.

Part of the real issue here is that Steam's forum notification system sucks major donkey balls. It just gives you a bland "Your post was moved or deleted" message, and the only way for you to find it is to go through your post history. (Link on the left side of the forum for those who haven't found it yet.) Instead it should just re-direct to the new location like every other forum has done for the past 30 years.