It’s nice feature you can pin the thread you want, instead seen only this pinned by mods. It’s a nice feature.
But somehow it doesn’t work all the time. I refreshed the second tab with forums by accident (on which I still didn’t pin the thread) and after that, the thread was suddenly unpinned.
And again: I made a post in my pinned thread. After sent, the thread was unpinned.
Isn’t that hypocritical, irrational, and one sided? You want praise to be shown in upvotes while people who disagree/downvote are hidden. That’s an echo chamber and thought policing. Yet you tout “Equality” You hate people being silenced but that’s exactly that new forums are discreetly designed to do.
Imagine a review site for restaurants that only permitted upvoting with no downvoting. It would give distorted view how many people actually like it compared to those who don’t. Yes you can spend hours reading all the comments but the point of a legitimate review metric is to gauge both negative/positive feedback.
I wanted to post this in the original thread and it was locked instantly. Because people couldn’t downvote and people started to refute it. Where did the other posts go?
Topic (You can’t even link back to Blizzard on forums, rofl…so bad)
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Overly cluttered and ugly. No downvotes. No links without “trust”, so no meaningful bug reports from new users. No explanation of what “trust” is. No explanation on how to earn “trust”. No way to measure “trust” gained.
I don’t really play this game as much as I do the other Blizzard franchises, but I did want to come over and say that this is a HUGE improvement over what we had before.
The removal of downvotes, the streamlined interface, and the ability to embed media are huge improvements.
I will say, the new format was super jarring at first, but after reading a few threads I think I like it a little bit better.
One thing I would like to see, however, is the ability to use the old reply box. I’m not a fan of the split WYSIWYG interface. I’d rather just tab between the format and preview panes. Makes it hard to do anything because it’s so small.
Overall though, great improvements. I can’t wait for this new format to reach the other Blizzard sites.
Dev team posts are orange. Other Blizz reps are blue (e.g. community managers).
Skip to their posts by clicking the little blue button top right at the top of the scoll bar. “First tracked post” - then click the “Blizz” buttons to go to the next one.
Or use the “Blizz tracker” and “Dev tracker” links at the top.