Anyone who signed up to be part of a forum that silences the community, certainly is not representing the community. Anyone who thinks silencing the community to get community feedback is the way to go is as out of touch as Blizzard is.
None of those community members represent me because I believe everyone should have the right to respectfully engage in any conversation in forums, especially when it comes to feedback.
I like that the topics are visible; shows WHO on the CC is even putting forth effort into bringing up topics. Also can see if the CC is just as out of touch with the player base as the Blizz employees are hehe Making it invisible defeats the whole ‘community’ idea…blizz is simply copying other mmo’s who have used such program SUCCESSFULY–albeit, much more organized and guided than blizz’s rollout.
Why? All you have to do is not go there. I’ve never been there myself.
That’s patently false. They rejected lots of people.
Like whom? I have not heard of anybody being rejected…nobody has complained about that as far as i know
did you apply? and why aren’t you posting on your CC character then.
There are 39 members do you honestly believe only 40 applied (one got kicked out lol)?
Maybe because it was a dumb idea to begin with ?
Literally all they need is to pay someone to read their forums. We do it for free day in and day out and I’m pretty sure you can take any person who’s a GD regular and he can tell you all the pressing issues plagging the game at any moment.
A paid intern could do this job easily.
But their CM team is apparently too busy to do Community Management.
Being that none of the reps were screened, seems like it was an automated system that picked players?
All of them were screened.
oh? what was the screening? asking for a link to your character is not screening lol
We were told they received over 10,000 applications.
Probably because many of the posts on these forums come off as a bunch of whiney babies. I certainly wouldn’t want to sift through all that to find “one good post” in a sea of 
. (No offense to GD, yall my homies).
Just saying I can understand why they would want one.
I dont think anyone here NEEDS to have a “job”. We’ve got one already.
We’re consumers of a product. As such, it is our absolute right to vocalize either pleasure or displeasure with the product we have purchased.
But since we’re on the topic of who shouldn’t have what jobs, it is assuredly not your job to tell other people what they can talk about or under what conditions they can express their particular emotion.
Anyone, always has the option to ignore it.
So let’s assume that the declines for apps were done because of the following:
-not enough forum posts (hard to tell with the EU players, but the NA CC members have at least 1k forum posts)
-your account was reported in the past for various reasons
-your achievements–seems like you must have over 15k achieve points to qualify
-how many posts you liked that aligns with blizz
I doubt that was the criteria.
One of the questions on the application asked why we wanted to be a part of the council.
While I don’t remember my exact wording; it was something along the lines of “I represent a mythic raiding guild on a small server, have tried to help the server identity by creating events and discord servers for players to communicate, and want to make the game better for both that group and the rest of the community.”
I still feel that way.
I think there are plenty of folks in GD who share the same mindset…but we will forever be ignored since nobody pays attention to GD. Next best option is to work with the CC rather than against it.
That makes it all the more interesting that (as i recall) someone recently got booted from the CC because of a discord server designed to “make the game better for both that group and the rest of the community” in some attempt to give rise to their voices into the CC. Im still on the fence about whether or not it was a disingenuous attempt, but if i take it at face value, that was the presumption.
I agree with you, I do too.
That would not be part of it. They are perfectly fine with people who disagree. They only care that they can do it without profanity, insults, threats, etc.
I don’t think so. A lot of people are active in their own guild and groups, but don’t really use the forums. It might have been a better metric to do that, in some ways. It would have provided Blizz with a larger sample of the types of things the person says.
Yes, that usually factors into it. You can still get selected for Blizz programs even if actioned, but it depends on what it was and how long ago. Someone spamming Trade chat with murloc movie games vs someone engaging in ongoing harassment. One is not like the other.
This also means they aren’t beyond getting threads made about what they say just like people make threads here about what someone says in a thread.
No special treatment 
Agree 
Hopefully that’s no ones goal when they make their threads.