Until they get fired because Blizzard needs to post profits to their investors like the last guys.
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In all seriousness it was nice seeing blues post yesterday. I hope it keeps happening 
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I miss Ghostcrawler! He used to talk to us all the time on the forums! I didn’t agree with all of his opinions, but I really loved the amount of feedback he gave.
I hope he is doing well over at Riot, but I hope he comes back to WoW one day!
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Thanks CMs!! Please keep responding to us daily !! 
We have those things still?
We don’t have a cave, but it would be cool if we did. 
We’re in the process of updating comments on our blogs, which (when finished) will automatically create forum discussion threads for those posts for us. Until then, I’m here taking care of those manually. That said, as we did on blog comments on the front page, I’ll be around to try to answer questions and engage in our published content, which is what I handle these days. It isn’t a snub if I don’t appear as much after that transition. 
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No offense Nethaera, but not sticking around is sorta just expected at this point. I can only speak for myself, but there really hasn’t been much of any community engagement for some time now from what I’ve seen.
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A rare Blue post appears!
Go General Discussion!
What will General Discussion do?
General Discussion uses Harass!
It’s super effective!
Blue flees away for multiple months.
That’s why
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It’s because we are Americans…we would um, eat the cheese before the race started.
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Yes yes, a few people harassed people hired to engage with their customers. Clearly the solution is to not engage with their customers and punish everybody for the actions of the few rather than just ban the harassers. Nevermind people being jerks as a customer is pretty common across all industries.
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Ah, the age old lie that CMs have thinner skin than the average GD forum user and can’t handle the bog standard scuttle butt. You’d think people would be tired of iterating this garbage by now, but some things will never change even though they probably ought to.
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They get criticized if they hide or they don’t.
Awhile back when one of the blues back in MoP, he posted a happy reply towards someones thread, was about that big thread “The Sha of Happiness”
Not moments later did he get countless people saying “so this is what blues do, talk in fun threads but not addressing MoP issues!” Followed by many more.
Now it’s at a point where people are like “Where are the blues at 
”
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Lawnmower Races and Come As You Are parties are a better idea.
Put yourself in their shoes. If someone actually crosses a line you have the power to either personally yoke an MF up and chuck em in the ‘time out pile’ - or shoot a moderator an email and get them to do so, however that works. Would you really, really care what anyone on these boards says? Would it really chase you away, never to post again?
If it would, you probably have growing up to do. Let the thin skinned mod lie die already. I think it’s more likely someone higher up has the bright idea that the best way to manage a community is to read but not respond. Personally I don’t think that’s so bright because you end up with a community that feels shunned and ignored.
But I doubt the predictable GD responses (I literally clicked the thread containing a blue post just to see if someone posted the 'GD hurt the model’s feelings lie…look at that) bother them as much as the pity party would have us believe.
I’m not offended, I’m just clarifying that my role (these days) isn’t regular engagement. I’ve been focused for quite a while on front page content (writing, scheduling, formatting etc. on a global scale) for the site. I’ve been here since pre-Burning Crusade and am coming up on 14 years here. Not seeing me just means I’m focused on getting my work done.
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Congratulations on nearly 14 years! This’ll be my 12th year playing so you definitely have me beat.
Pardon me if I’m stepping over a line, but would you be able to tell us if we can expect or hope for more Blue engagement on the forums? They have felt pretty barren for a while now. Not to say you haven’t done great work with the front page and your duties! But it has been a little off putting to see such little interaction.
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We engage where we can. I can’t promise more than that and the rate of engagement (how much is enough or too little) is subjective.
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i wish you guys could engage with us about the stuff that actually affects and upsets a lot of players instead of just fluff feel-good filler.
i mean, every place on the net needs a touch of positivity from time to time, but so many topics that we get vocal about are just ignored. account wide essences, pathfinder, not to mention lore and story writing issues. i’m race changing my DK to void elf after 8.3 because i feel like my night elf has been betrayed by the writing team. so much potential for story there, only to be written off as a plot foil and obviously set up for tyrande to be a villain screwing over everybody else in the next expansion by chasing her vengeance at the most innopportune time for us to stop whatever the threat is in the shadowlands. it’s so predictable i feel like i’ve already played it.
I agree with this wholeheartedly.
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it feels like the main point just got avoided there…
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