Guild Wars 2

The suggestions sub-forum is bad because:

1. They stifle conversation, suggestions get very little traffic, therefore it’s impossible to develop consensus or vet an idea once a thread is moved here.

2. The ignore that suggestions are frequently topic specific. Frequently suggestions pertain to a very specific sub topic. For example, “make rangers not be total kitten” only applies to Rangers. If I don’t run a ranger I don’t care.

3. It annoys paying customers who spend a fair amount of their free time thinking of ways to improve the game only to have their ideas sent to die.

Its a forum.. If you don’t like it move to another forum or sub-forum. No reason to remove something no matter how many kittens feel the need to repost “mounts” daily.

1. I’d argue that the Suggestion forum gets too clogged with similar suggestions (read: use the Search bar people!) that the good suggestions get lost. If anything, the Suggestions section needs sub-sections (Profession, Content, Dungeons ect).

2. See above.

3. The only people who can use the forums are people who have paid for the game, and so have every right to suggest improvements. Also, consider that what someone might consider is an improvement, other people might not.

Sorry, I wasn’t clear.

I feel like when suggestions get moved from another part of the forum to this part, the suggestions die. There is no more discussion, no consensus can be reached etc.

I think they should let people have a discussion in the topic forums instead of instantly moving anything the hints at a suggestion to this forum.

Yeah I did notice that a few threads in other forums that were having great discussion and forum participation got moved to this forum and then the mod that works on this forum without hesitation locked the thread.
Some threads that got moved, got buried within an hours time, making it not possible to get more discussion because of the lack of visibility.

But I don’t agree that this forum should die cause of the lack of of those things you have pointed out. However, one thing I can point out is that a certain thread topic here in the suggestions gets closed down moments after a new one appears with instructions from the mod to post in a thread that is open. That is all fine and good, except that the mod has closed down all possible threads for you to try and continue a discussion on this topic. Most of the suggestion on this topic is repeats but even when a suggestion gets a new twist on the same idea it gets shut down without much thought or even a read though from the suggestions forums mod. And the part of the community that is in opposition to the topic, call foul and demand the thread be closed even if the the newer topic shows merit for adding new ideas to the older topic.