Guild Wars 2

I’m going to start off by saying that I’m pretty new to these forums, and I don’t know a lot about how they work. This is where most of my suggestions stem from.

Regarding the ‘bubbles’ to the left of posts in the forum… could someone in ANet’s forum department put a description of the meaning of the ‘preview bubbles’ somewhere within the forums? I assume the red bubble with the ArenaNet logo on it means a dev response, but what does, say, the red ANet bubble with an arrow on it mean? Put it in the FAQ section, or better yet, put it into the icon’s tooltip!

Now, in terms of those threads that have received a dev response, I’d like to be able to easily find that response without having to search through dozens or even hundreds of pages, as they tend to be incredibly informative on the subject at hand. Perhaps you could make it so clicking the ‘response bubble’ gives you a list of permalinked dev responses to the topic, or you could even put it in the top “Add Reply / Subscribe” tabs inside of the topic. It would make finding and acknowledging ANet responses much easier.

TL;DR: please add info about the ‘response bubbles’ next to topic title to either the FAQ or the icon’s tooltip, allow easy linking to dev posts

EDIT: Just figured out that the white arrow denotes your own reply. I think it would still be beneficial to explain this to newcomers such as myself, however.