How would you make the game and the community better?
Дата: 28.01.2019 14:44:59
SuedKAT, on 27 January 2019 - 01:49 AM, said: As someone that have enjoyed hanging around on forums since Windows
95 was a thing and have been or currently is an admin and/or head
moderator on some forums I'd say that it's quite hard to achieve
something like this, what tends to happen is that some kind of new
rule and/or initiative is set in motion which in the end just ends
up as just another moderation rule that have the opposite of the
intended effect. WoT is also a special case on it's own, the games
mechanics is rather complex and it's very common for a person
that's not understanding something to label what they don't
understand as cheating and/or unfair, over/under-powered and it's
often quite hard for them to shift that view towards the truth,
just as it is when you're discussing real-life subjects.
I don't think there is much we can do for the community it
self, we got our three types of regulars, the ones that know most
things related to the game or at least can look it up, the ones
that don't know as much but are happy to help the best they can and
the ones that will continue to blame WG/WoT for everything and
anything. Regardless of what happens those will remain the same and
I doubt anything will happen regardless of what you improve on,
however there are things that can be done to avoid having more
people ending up in the clueless corner, improving the newcomer
experience, not just in terms to information but also their welcome
and experience. For example, why don't we have big obvious links to
the Wiki (or a condensed version of it) in the newcomer section,
why don't we have WG's own videos explaining mechanics and so on.
Also when someone first come to a forum they are often quite
inexperienced and they don't know what information is good and what
they should ignore so moderation in this section is very important,
being new and asking for advice should result in advice, not stat
bashing, "becuz rasha", similar or even worse bad advice.
However in the end it's always good to encourage good
behavior just as it is to discourage bad, plenty of forums I'm
active on have reputation systems, badges, achievements and so on
to motivate people, something which often is enough to not only get
people to strive towards the positive but also acts as a quick
validation for newer forum dwellers that the one replying to their
post is not just a random troll which helps quite a bit in the
end. eekeeboo: The wiki links is something I have plans for in the
future. videos we're working on and trialing numerous
ideas!
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