Web (Pointless) common suggestions

[Quis]

Okay, this might be one of them, but I feel like we need to do something about this topic since it’s pretty annoying.

Every week I see many suggestions about things like bow spamming and other kind of common topics.

This doen’t bother new people, but the active forum members and staff members see this every week.

I don’t want these suggestions to be punshable, but I want staff to close them instantly and allow people to report them in staff-help to lock them.

I’m not gonna name topics that I want to be locked, ‘cause people might disagree. Staff will name the topics if this gets escalated.

 

[Vrachtschip]

Totally agree with this. Personally I hate the "bedrock add 1v1 bridges" threads because you can literally see them already exist underneath the titel "similar threads".

 

[zMigi_]

Usually, people that report this are somehow new to the game either from bedrock or java so is kinda understandable point of view, best we could do is advise them to research if the topic they want to talk about has not been suggested before they make a thread

Totally agree with this. Personally I hate the "bedrock add 1v1 bridges" threads because you can literally see them already exist underneath the titel "similar threads".

this is exactly what I mean

 

[Quis]

Usually, people that report this are somehow new to the game either from bedrock or java so is kinda understandable point of view, best we could do is advise them to research if the topic they want to talk about has not been suggested before they make a thread

Staff can tell them when they lock the thread.

 

[Maaarijn]

I really don't agree. The people making these suggestions are innocent. They often have just joined the forums and don't understand it's workings yet. Therefore they don't know how to see if something has been suggested before. They just want to share their idea and don't realise that many others have thought the same thing. Punishing them would be unfair and it also wouldn't solve the problem as new members wouldn't know that it's punishable, so they would still make the thread before getting punished for breaking a rule they didn't know excisted.

Upon that I don't see a big problem in those threads being created. I personally don't mind reacting to them and explaining that it has been suggested many times before and isn't a good idea. If you do mind it, just don't read the thread and do something else.

There is no big deal in this for me.

 

[_The13thDoctor_]

Can you add a poll?

 

[Quis]

I really don't agree. The people making these suggestions are innocent. They often have just joined the forums and don't understand it's workings yet. Therefore they don't know how to see if something has been suggested before. They just want to share their idea and don't realise that many others have thought the same thing. Punishing them would be unfair and it also wouldn't solve the problem as new members wouldn't know that it's punishable, so they would still make the thread before getting punished for breaking a rule they didn't know excisted.

Upon that I don't see a big problem in those threads being created. I personally don't mind reacting to them and explaining that it has been suggested many times before and isn't a good idea. If you do mind it, just don't read the thread and do something else.

There is no big deal in this for me.

Staff can explain why they locked the thread and tell them to look at older threads.

Since indeed many of these people are new to the forums, it shouldn’t be punishable.

Can you add a poll?

Done.

 

[Maaarijn]

Staff can explain why they locked the thread and tell them to look at older threads.

Yes but that wouldn't solve the problem. New members will come and make the exact same 'mistake' every time again.

 

[Quis]

Yes but that wouldn't solve the problem. New members will come and make the exact same 'mistake' every time again.

So why can’t we lock them?

 

[Maaarijn]

So why can’t we lock them?

Ooh I see you edited it to lock instead of punish. Locking the threads with a brief explanation why they're locked seems like a good idea to me. But I also wouldn't mind if the threads are not locked. If you don't want to see them you could also just not read them.

 

[Quis]

Ooh I see you edited it to lock instead of punish. Locking the threads with a brief explanation why they're locked seems like a good idea to me. But I also wouldn't mind if the threads are not locked. If you don't want to see them you could also just not read them.

I never said I wanted to punish them.

I don’t want these suggestions to be punshable, but I want staff to close them instantly and allow people to report them in staff-help to lock them.

And about not reading them. I’m someone (like a lot of other people) who loves watching and reading suggestions. Therefore I constantly look at this subforum and it’s annoying if there are a lot of common topic’s which already have been answers a million times.

 

[KitsuneToru]

I've addressed this countless times, and I agree massively. In fact, I've had staff members who have said they agree completely but it's just up to management to change it policy wise, as moderators don't have much say afaik.

 

[Maaarijn]

I never said I wanted to punish them.

Oh sorry my bad, I thought you suggested to punish them.

And about not reading them. I’m someone (like a lot of other people) who loves watching and reading suggestions. Therefore I constantly look at this subforum and it’s annoying if there are a lot of common topic’s which already have been answers a million times.

But with this addition this won't change. The threads will still be made every time so you will still have to see them everytime, the only change is that they will be locked every time.

 

[KitsuneToru]

Oh sorry my bad, I thought you suggested to punish them.

But with this addition this won't change. The threads will still be made every time so you will still have to see them everytime, the only change is that they will be locked every time.

They can be deleted instead then.
Locking the threads then also prevents people from essentially messaging and like farming by posting the same reply that was sent by the past 20 people.

 

[Snowwyyy]

People too lazy to take a look at is this already discussed thing and I think they post similar threads to encourage staff on realising their suggestion

 

[Zathelas]

Well, I don't agree. For me you have to be free what you can post, and with that I mean appropriate things ofcourse. For example "Bow spamming". Indeed, you see a lot of people who hate to be bowspammed and try to get it stopped. So they just try to suggest it on the forums and they created a solution. Most of the time, nothing happens which is okay for me. What @Maaarijn said above, I agree with him and I see a lot of forum users don't really know how it works, same happened to me when I joined. They already lock it when it got posted about the same topic. About punishing them though, like, they already get a warning.

 

[Quis]

About punishing them though, like, they already get a warning.

I Don’t want them punished, because they don’t know it’s a common topic. But we can let them know it’s one and then tell them they should check out older threads. They won’t get other kind of responses then the older ones, so why shouldn’t we lock them?

 

[Lozora]

I very much understand that it's annoying if there are a lot of the same threads, but those threads are there for people to share their opinions on things and there might come some really good things out of it.

People should be able to start discussing things about for example Blockwars Bridges or 1v1 duels on bedrock without their thread getting locked just because there are tons of the same threads about it. I don't feel like this is how the forums should work and giving them a brief description of us locking their thread because there are tons of the same threads about it already might make them feel like they did something wrong which they absolutely didn't.

Again, I understand that it's annoying but I don't agree with locking them instantly.

 

[_The13thDoctor_]

I very much understand that it's annoying if there are a lot of the same threads, but those threads are there for people to share their opinions on things and there might come some really good things out of it.

People should be able to start discussing things about for example Blockwars Bridges or 1v1 duels on bedrock without their thread getting locked just because there are tons of the same threads about it. I don't feel like this is how the forums should work and giving them a brief description of us locking their thread because there are tons of the same threads about it already might make them feel like they did something wrong which they absolutely didn't.

Again, I understand that it's annoying but I don't agree with locking them instantly.

If there is an active thread on the same or close to same subject why not reply to an active thread? Making another seems pointless and unnecessary. Also again, a lot of thread sometimes struggle to get attention cause there are so many duplicates. If we focused on one instead of multiple maybe more good ideas would be implemented and more ideas would be focused on.

 

[Quis]

I very much understand that it's annoying if there are a lot of the same threads, but those threads are there for people to share their opinions on things and there might come some really good things out of it.

People should be able to start discussing things about for example Blockwars Bridges or 1v1 duels on bedrock without their thread getting locked just because there are tons of the same threads about it. I don't feel like this is how the forums should work and giving them a brief description of us locking their thread because there are tons of the same threads about it already might make them feel like they did something wrong which they absolutely didn't.

Again, I understand that it's annoying but I don't agree with locking them instantly.

People should be able to start discussions. But in that case feedback & suggestions isn’t the right place to do so.