[META] Mods - start cleaning up this forum. seriously.

[photon]

This thread will probably will be deleted (would probably show that mods still enter this forum) but I think I can speak to many people who are passionate about just creating community heroes, some of which go as far as to create or even commission art just to get their idea out there, only for it to be lost on page 3 with no views after a few hours due to spam and/or irrelevant shit (e.g, feedback being posted here for gameplay or art for existing heroes) with 0 moderation. Seriously mods, start moderating this forum.

You're driving creative people out of here, who try to help out the devs implicitly by giving them ideas for new abilities or heroes.

 

[photon]

Take a good look and count all the feedback that's misplaced in this forum. There literally 4 community heroes in this page compared to a dozen irrelevant shit that should be in the appropriate forum

 

[gibnewitems]

100% agreed. Off-topic has been a plague on this forum for ages.

Sadly, the only person with moderator tools that visits regularly is a valve developer. All of the other mods are community volunteers, and I haven't seen most of them online in ages. I really don't see this changing anytime soon, and that's a real bummer.

 

[ToastedPotato]

There also just isn't a forum for new ideas for existing heroes. Leaving private feedback on existing heroes is fine, but it is better for the community to get their heads together and discuss things. As an example, take my recent post about Silver. It involves brand new mechanics, and I wanted community feedback on it, so – as far as I understand the forums – the only option was for me to post it here. What we really need is to split up the Community Hero Ideas forum into ideas for brand new hero concepts and ideas for existing heroes.

Forgive me if an appropriate forum already exists for this. I couldn't find it, so in that case I guess the correct solution would be to make that forum more obvious for silly people like me.

 

[SilverLover67]

There also just isn't a forum for new ideas for existing heroes. Leaving private feedback on existing heroes is fine, but it is better for the community to get their heads together and discuss things. As an example, take my recent post about Silver. It involves brand new mechanics, and I wanted community feedback on it, so – as far as I understand the forums – the only option was for me to post it here. What we really need is to split up the Community Hero Ideas forum into ideas for brand new hero concepts and ideas for existing heroes.

Forgive me if an appropriate forum already exists for this. I couldn't find it, so in that case I guess the correct solution would be to make that forum more obvious for silly people like me.

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