More community feedback for suggestions?

[AaronD]

@8BitCrab

One thing we (the mods) could perhaps start doing is pinning good suggestions, of course that would bring up the problem of what makes a suggestion “good”, along with a bunch of other things.

Well, a solution for this would be a suggestion guide with fixed criteria. Players who want to make a suggestion that can be pinned could use these criteria when making a suggestion. Furthermore, one of the criteria should be that the suggestion must be liked from the devs (or by a huge part of the community). If someone meets the criteria, but the suggestion itself doesn’t fit into the game or is not in line with the vision of team radiant, then it won’t get pinned, no matter what. I think these would be accaptable terms for pinning threads.

@nikosthefan

In the KSP forums, there was a threads of the month thread, that elected the best threads of the month (word choice, I know) and pinned them for a month. It kinda does what you want, but only for a few select threads every month.

This could work. Quite similiar to what 8bitCrab suggested. Combined with the suggested criteria, it could keep some of the good suggestions up.

@coasterspaul

I think long, thought-out posts tend to be skimmed by people who don’t have the time to read them when first checking them (which of course you can’t really check beforehand), and then never revisited.

This may be true, but it’s only one of many reasons why people don’t reply in suggestion threads. I started a suggestion some days ago myself and added a TL;DR version at the end of the post so that people with less time can read the suggestion. But it didn’t change much when it comes to replies. Here it is:

Exciting new Job for late game: The Adventurer!

Hello everyone, I would like to see the adventurer as a new class. Here it comes (TL;DR version at bottom): Adventurer - What is his function in the hearthling community? The adventurer, like the names suggests, takes on adventures. His job is to travel far away lands and bring new things to your little town. At the beginning, when your adventurer is still level 0, he can only go to very easy adventures. Of course, those will not bear big rewards. But when time passes and the adventurer has e…

I got 2 replies effectively. Maybe someone else suggested an adventurer already, but I think my version of the adventurer would fit good into the game and is well thought out. I also tried to format my text as good as possible and like I said, I added a TL;DR version.

@YetiChow

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Great post. And I agree. Even if you don’t have much to say about a suggestion, just giving a “nice suggestion” or “I like it” is already a good contribution. It keeps a thread up, it shows that you are interested in the suggestion and it will certainly increase the attention a thread gets, when enough people reply. And with more attention more mods/devs will read the thread and also more people who want to contribute even more (a more analytical post) will recognize the thread then.