GM_GooglyMoogly

No.

These are both pretty restrictive towards players and would require a lot of GM work. We don't want to shut people up, just keep them respectfully discussing the topic at hand.

Mentioning anything that may or may not be in closed beta is not allowed. Quoting a post that has been hidden will also get the responding post hidden.

Mentioning anything that may or may not be in closed beta is not allowed. Quoting a post that has been hidden will also get the responding post hidden.

You can, if you wish. But privately, please.

Also:

Can you point me to the thread where that happened? I can still see hidden posts, but not deleted ones.

I don't know what that one or the rest of the back half of emotes mean. In my head, I think of microphone as "mic drop!" Whether that's what's intended . . . *shrug*

I'm not talking about multiple people. I'm talking about individuals going on and on saying the same thing usually as they argue with others. That said, thumbs up & down are perfectly valid forms of feedback.

I forgot to comment on the Focused Feedback stuff. Those threads are not just a discussion among players but between players and the devs, specifically on new content. I moderate Focused Feedback threads a little differently. To me, it's not whether the feedback is positive or negative; both types are important and that's where we find bugs and other issues. "I love it!" is just as valid as "I hate it!" But I will move or remove arguments, bickering, insults, and even negative feedback if that feedback is "you did it entirely wrong, scrap that and follow my 12 point plan" much sooner than I would on a normal thread. Nobody likes to get criticized, let alone having work, which you sank hours of sweat into, criticized. But the devs really do want to have constructive criticism that will help make the content better. Calling them idiots, neckbeards, poopyheads or snollygosters is not constructive and just adds noise that makes it harder to find the constructive criticism. For them, the best feedback is a video or data showing that there's a problem or demonstrating why you hate it. But even constructive criticism has limits. Posting the same thing over and over is not helpful. It does not make your criticism more weighty. It's just adding noise that makes finding the other constructive criticism harder. PS - I'm not accusing Peregrine Falcon of doing any of that. I just quoted it to explain focused feedback thread moderation.

GooglyMoogly might be a snollygoster, but at least I ain't no lickspittle!

You can certainly use any of those methods to contact a GM. But submitting a ticket creates a record that all the GM staff can see. We do recuse ourselves if the complaint is against us individually . You should always get some response to a support ticket, but that response may only be that we got your complaint and are looking at it. A private message here or on Discord may get a quicker response, or no response, but only that person has that message unless they decide to share it with the group. Personally, I have referred PMs to me complaining of a decision I made to a higher authority. We do share things and seek each others advice if we think the decision is a close call or controversial.

It's not that my opinion is more important; it's that I can only be in my head, not anyone else's. I can't tell if a poster meant cup of flat diet coke as an insult or a joke and I can't tell if the person reporting that post and telling me that they were personally offended is saying that because they are really offended or trying to get back at the poster for one reason or another. It's also hard to know if the two posters are friends and tend to talk to each other like that. For example, I love my sisters, but when one of them calls me on the phone I say, "Hello dummy!" And they respond "Hello stupid!" And then we chuckle and start our conversation.

It's not a "us vs. them" thing. Everyone is responsible for their own posts. But this should be a fun place. A lot of people could relax and not take everything personally.