Do people feel comfortable using the content request system?

[Enkidu]

I'd like to add that the mere fact that you're even asking the question makes you look like you havent been paying attention, like, at all, to what has been going on between staff and community for the last 10 years.

Karlotta, we're all getting older. Take people at face value.

- People who aren't aware of this will get frustrated why their seemingly good suggestion is being ignored by the staff

Would be the purpose of this thread.


- Make their decision in secret and anonomously, and are not willing to give the reasons for their decision

Every time I've asked for an explanation for a rejected request I got one. What are your experiences?

- Keep the process as obscure as possible to keep outsiders in the dark

It's a vote of people within the relevant implementation teams. Ameliorated by IRL availability of those people to vote and implement.

- Will use outsiders "ignorance" of the process, of knowing who in the staff voted for what, and of the reasoning the staff has, as a leway when it suits them later

That smacks of conspiracy. It's a game.

- Keep the request and all the information withing a secret from the rest of the community

Nothing is stopping people from talking about what they've requested. The request subforum is secret to prevent people starting drama over other people's ideas, and also to allow people the element of surprise, prevent metagaming, there's numerous reasons.

- Assure themselves the possibility to totally ignore any sort of logic and argument that may be thrown at them for their decision.

There is a minority within this community who equate 'logic' to 'things that make me angry'. They are surprisingly not the majority playerbase of the game. Which is why we have a request system, and not a development process based on discussion threads. So it has been, for the last ten years. You know that too, Karlotta, you've been here as long as me.

What is the root cause of people not using the request system?

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