Clarify Suggestions Forum Information
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Clarify Suggestions Forum Information
Suggestion Summary:
Right now, the suggestions are confusing and the pinned posts are not often updated. I would like to propose a rework alongside an announcement post of the suggestions forum. Here's how I personally would do it; First things first; I would sort through the suggestions in the "Under Consideration" section and remove suggestions that will no longer be added to PokefarmQ and have no chance of being in PokefarmNew. Ideally they would be moved to rejected alongside a brief, copy paste post by a moderator in each one, explaining that there is a rework of suggestions being done and that this suggestion no longer fits into Pokefarm's development path. Second; Right now, suggestions are not necessarily for PokefarmQ, and getting them into "under consideration" does not guarantee them to be added to PokefarmQ.QUOTE originally posted by Terabbit
...Furthermore everything in 'under consideration' is not guaranteed to be implemented on Pokefarm but may be considered for Pokefarm new ...
Positive Points:
- Improve user experience when using forms
- Improve staff transparency
Negative Points:
- Would draw attention to the already-made changes in these forums that users previously didn't know about, potentially sparking confusion and annoyance.
- Would involve sorting through old "approved" suggestions and potentially upsetting users who expected their "approved" suggestions to be put through.
Reasons for Consideration:
This would be a massive improvement for quality of life, users would be able to understand the suggestions forum much better. This would be a massive rise in transparency between staff and users, and I belive many users would appreciate the honesty and attempts to make things more clear, even if they're not happy about the actual changes themselves.★ Zachary ★ They/He ★ 22 ★
Quiet nature collector.Fully support. As the creator of the “update the summary” suggestion I’ve felt this way for awhile. This site seems to have a strange balance between keeping everything as G-rated as possible “because of the children”, but also expecting a LOT out of these children? Most 8 year olds who want to suggest a new feature might read an “IMPORTANT: READ THIS BEFORE SUGGESTING” thread or notification that pops up when creating a new thread, but there is ZERO chance they are going to dig through 10 years of rejected suggestions to see if it’s been suggested before because they just don’t think that much about it.
So like, either a notable chunk of the site’s users are children and we need to make accommodations for them (like banning any google-able acronyms that may refer to inappropriate content, AND making the suggestions forum more accessible to them), or there aren’t that many children and we need to tailor to the teens and adults here (allowing such acronyms, art & talk on the forums, AND expecting users to put in more work and use more critical thinking skills before suggesting). Those are just some examples but right now there seems to be a weird mix of both.
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The team is actually working on this, ideas are being discussed. So this is definitely "Under Consideration" and even "Underway"!
That's fantastic to hear! I look forwards to it <3
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Just wanted to say that with the balance updates coming, a great chance to clean up and fix the suggestion forums would be after all the 2024 updates are pushed.
Revamping suggestions for the start of 2025 would be a great oppertunity, since a lot of the balance updates address current suggestions, approved or not.
I would add on to this to suggest maybe some third party or locally hosted solution outside of PokeFarm for rejected and under consideration suggestions be used. Most of these services I'm referencing use tickets which are much easier to track and label the status of, and are easier to search than this forum.
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