Chris is responding way too much on Reddit

Posting less there doesn't mean he'll post more here.

Reddit has a great way of pushing relevant topics to the top. A desync topic only gets popular there if it's intelligently discussing it or brings up new points to the discussion for example. With reddit, Chris can also see what the majority think and respond to that.

Reddit is a superior form of conveying information compared to the standard forums is my point.

I also don't believe Chris posting there less correlates to him posting more here. He's comfortable with the reddit format and specifically created the PoE subreddit himself to communicate with players more easily. It should be expected that he'll like posting there(even on his free time).

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Xavderion a écrit :

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CCR5 a écrit :

Reddit is good because of downvoting.

ftfy

fyi

it _may_ feel better if you're only reading it
for news, gossips, rip videos it is excellent

for non-trivial discussions of anything -- not so much

because any anonymous softcore n00b can downvote anything not matching
let's call it "collective subconsciousness".
if you say something factually correct but even remotely controversial -- boom!

it applies to both individual comments and whole topics
(less so because auto downvoting by reddit itself)

in the end this removal of anything that crowd don't like becomes self-enforcing
and it starts to remove way too much
basically you need to be Unhost or someone like him to express freely and expect to be seen

"At the risk of getting downvoted ..." -- classic phrase
if downvoting frightens you, well...

i'm not even mentioning Kripp's opinion of reddit :-)

so here we have free speech with arguably overzealous moderation, post editing by mods and players

and on reddit we have pink-colored glasses

basically it is "don't like something? close your eyes and it will go away"
and upvote/downvote button transforming into "like/do not like"

have yet to see a forum where downvoting is used for plain spam only

Reddit is good because posts like this get voted away.

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Deankar a écrit :

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CCR5 a écrit :

Reddit is crap because of downvoting.

It is the essence of reddit though, the endless circlejerk. Why would he visit the forums, where the problems of the game are constantly pinpointed, when he can just visit reddit where anyone who says anything bad about the game gets instantly downvoted and filtered?

Hahaha, you mean endless tears and 'game is dead' bullshit while not giving one bit of constructive feedback? That's how problems are usually 'pinpointed' around here. Shit like that thankfully gets downvoted on Reddit, yes, while constructive criticism gets upvoted. Working as intended. Reddit just saves you a lot of time when you don't have to sift through all the bullshit before reaching a good post.

Chris answers in Reddit because on Reddit popular topics are highlighted (when on forums the non-important things and the garbage pretty much cover the good stuff as there are no community ratings). On the forums someone can also have a quality post screwed by random trolling easily. And someone making a thread like "y u nerf my CoC build imma buy D3 on PS4 nao" is as visible as a good quality post.

And forums are much more toxic. And redundant. GD is 75% QQ about nerfs, legacies, and a random hot periodic subject that lasts a week and comes back once in a while (dsync, SFL,...).

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Xavderion a écrit :

Also Chris personally made that subreddit (wait, isn't that against the Reddiquette? lol), so you could look at it as another official forum.

It wasn't when he made it. That's part of the problem, I think -- he DID make it, but of course has long since been forced to leave it in others' hands. But deep down, it's his baby. Of course he's going to frequent it.

Reminds me of a certain guild leader who can't quite let go...

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This is such a tired subject now. We've all felt this way at some point, when it emerges that Chris has casually dropped a detail on reddit that forum users wouldn't have heard otherwise.

GGG should nuke these forums from orbit and restructure them like reddit. It's the only way to know if it is the 'ease' of reddit's system (and the self-filtering nature of it) that prevents Chris and co from posting more casually here, more frequently.

Personally I doubt it. It's the third party mentality. When Chris posts here, it's GGG gospel. When he posts there, it's far more conversational and personal. There is an unspoken 'this is what Chris Wilson has said' rather than the 'This is what GGG will do/thinks' that comes with a Chris post here.

Either way, I'd be all for this forum getting a total overhaul. Have felt that way for over a year now. This was a fine CB forum but under the OB and now Live weight, it sags like a motherfucker. Other than the announcements board, and maybe the dev manifesto, there's nowhere for the devs to 'hang', and given the cavalcade of shit responding to most announcements, they're sure as hell not going to 'hang' there.