Warrior General Games

http://goallineblitz.com/game/forum_thread.pl?thread_id=5011481

How did this get moved to voting? There's been a lot better suggestions that have a lot more support and that have been around longer than one day.

This process needs to be improved, relying on the mods is obviously not the way to go.

Vote up, vote down needs to be implemented for the suggestions forum.

A mod liked the suggestion so he/she posted it in the mod forum for Bert to see.

This was already brought up a feew seasons back and when I suggested it then. I was basically told that it would end up being nothing more than a popularity contest or that it would be abused such as the way it is used in FFA.

Sooooooooo... you're complaining that a decent Suggestion got fast-tracked instead of languishing in forum-limbo for 7 months like what usually happens?



I think I like it better this way.

Originally posted by Time Trial
http://goallineblitz.com/game/forum_thread.pl?thread_id=5011481

How did this get moved to voting? There's been a lot better suggestions that have a lot more support and that have been around longer than one day.

This process needs to be improved, relying on the mods is obviously not the way to go.

Vote up, vote down needs to be implemented for the suggestions forum.

Originally posted by Dub J
A mod liked the suggestion so he/she posted it in the mod forum for Bert to see.



Who knows.... some of them bastards (the suggestions) have been voted on for over a year, so we can assume the voting public doesn't have much to do with when they get moved to voting.

Originally posted by hatchman
This was already brought up a feew seasons back and when I suggested it then. I was basically told that it would end up being nothing more than a popularity contest or that it would be abused such as the way it is used in FFA.

Yeah, it would have benefited me greatly. Anything I suggest would be brought up for a vote.

Originally posted by dahman32
Who knows.... some of them bastards (the suggestions) have been voted on for over a year, so we can assume the voting public doesn't have much to do with when they get moved to voting.

Suggestion voting is like cute little knobs on children's peddle cars. It looks like the knobs would do something but they don't.

If the mods would just stop drinking so much, it would all go much more smoothly.

Voting is where suggestions go to die.

Originally posted by Dub J
A mod liked the suggestion so he/she posted it in the mod forum for Bert to see.



actually... no mods brought it up... so it probably ended up having an admin see it and decide to throw it up for voting.

We complain that good suggestions sit around too long and never get implemented. Now we are complaining that a suggestion went up to vote too early.

...I see suggestions up for voting that have overwhelming support but just sit there, and other ones that have less support get implemented, or at least show that they are being worked on ...where is the sense in that?

I am guessing some of it has to do with how little effort it would take to implement such a change along with a real low chance of having any gotcha happening because of making such a change.

Originally posted by Chysil
actually... no mods brought it up... so it probably ended up having an admin see it and decide to throw it up for voting.

So a mod brought it up through PM then...'

Originally posted by Dub J
Originally posted by Chysil

actually... no mods brought it up... so it probably ended up having an admin see it and decide to throw it up for voting.

So a mod brought it up through PM then...'



shrug, we have a system for how to put it up for vote etc... guess a mod could have jumped over all of that... but we've been warned against it. I know that most every one that is put up for vote follows that system, or was bipassed by an admin. Mods have been told if we abuse the power to put suggestions up for vote, we'd lose it.


anyways, going to lock this up with the following statements (since changing the way the voting is put up is NGTH. The admins like the system as is).

1) Suggestion Voting is intended for 2 main things. To bring light to the subject and get more people visiting the thread to weigh in, and to have gauge how the GLB userbase feels about a suggestion

2) The popularity of a suggestion up for vote will not effect how often they are implemented (see above for reasons to have a suggestion put up for vote). Bort and catch will decide what to implement and how to implement it.