Guild Wars 2

Currently, moderators are combining legitimate player posts about Ascended gear into a giant thread where all the discussion is supposed to occur. I understand the desire to “tidy up” the forums by combining redundant topics. However, when the topic is this huge, all it achieves is to end the conversation since the posts from different topics get all interleaved. This especially frustrating when the topics were all slightly different, even if they were all related to the same general topic. A monster thread of that magnitude makes effective communication nearly impossible. Perhaps it would make more sense in such situations to create subforum and move posts into there? That way the posts stay separate and its easier to follow the conversation you are interested in.

Also troubling is the policy of locking a thread where players were trying to show that their objection to an incoming change was not from a vocal minority, but rather the until-now silent majority of players. I understand that it’s against policy, but that thread was a nice way for players to feel heard and an easy way to avoid a lot of smaller posts. Does it really distract other forum users when people /sign inside a single post? It’s a lot less intrusive than having multiple threads where people all post more-or-less the same thing.

Please consider reviewing how you moderate these forums.

Even worse: The forum can’t handle long threads. Instead the page a post is on, and the page the forum thinks it’s on gets out of sync. Ever opened a thread to only see the page numbers ?
That’s because the bug has hit.

ANET, we are your customers. If we are upset, trying to sweep out messages away only makes us angry. Make us angry and we stop being customers.