Originally posted by Julian1224
I don't mean to come off as sarcastic when I say this but you realise you can actually post the known issues in a text thread? I never meant 'post a direct link to the known issues'. At the end of that thread you can post a link to submitting a ticket. This would mean that you would have to scroll past all the known issues first.
At that point if people still don't read the known issues then that's just human nature. Some people don't like to read or something like that. It's not fair to direct criticism at this sub just because these people exist. Maybe it is the responsibility of support to weed out the bad tickets. OR you could improve the process of posting a ticket.
Since this really annoys me I'm going to make an example of a better system.
What I have in mind is a system similar to a questionnaire.
You click on "Having issues? Post a ticket" and you end up on page one out of whatever many.
This first page simply explains what is expec...
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I'm not directing criticism at just the sub, I was just trying to explain and provide a bit more clarity on why things aren't really easy.
And yes, you can post a text thread of known issues and I'll admit that that didn't totally occur to me because we are constantly updating the known issues list and that would require constant updating by OP and there's no guarantee people will want to maintain threads like that.
I'm not claiming the current system is perfect, we're aware it's not. We'd love to make changes and see things done differently but it's not always as simple as, "Hey we should outline it this way!"
I can't really get into more of the why behind the way things are because it's above my level but there are many moving pieces and things that limit how we set things up.
And yes, fields are required because they help on our side. It may seem pointless to the customer side but it helps with bucketing and triage on the dev ...
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