A Suggestion about Suggestions

[Mick]

Howdy all,

Right now the system that MC-Market has in place for handling suggestions is pretty slow, and threads do take a while to get accepted. What I suggest is we make a system whereas when users make a suggestion they stay open for exactly two weeks and then after that they are locked and put under consideration which would take a day or two to handle.

If you have any input or changes that would work better let me know.
Thanks

 

[Mick]

no thanks

Why's that? What situation is there that something with more disagrees than agrees should still be accepted?

 

[Mick]

because it still may be good, just the community doesnt like changes

Fair enough. That was something I thought of while just writing it. If it was something like a rule change to make things more strict I do see how what people say may not be in the best interest for the community. Would you be up for it if we don't make suggestions with more disagrees automatically denied?

 

[Mick]

also

I'm fine with that, my intention for updating things isn't to go directly against the community, nor did I say I would make a suggestion about everything that is updated. If there's some fun cosmetic things or whatever like a new name color, that would be the situation where I'd ask the community.

 

[Whiskey]

I'm fine with that, my intention for updating things isn't to go directly against the community, nor did I say I would make a suggestion about everything that is updated. If there's some fun cosmetic things or whatever like a new name color, that would be the situation where I'd ask the community.

it has a good intention

an idea may be good regardless of community thoughts.
51 disagrees vs 50 agrees shouldn't be auto-denied.

 

[Mick]

it has a good intention

an idea may be good regardless of community thoughts.
51 disagrees rather than 50 disagrees shouldn't be auto-denied.

Mhm. I may remove that part since that seems to be the only thing being disliked. Rather than it automatically denying it, it should be a thing to consider when accepting or denying it.

Thanks

 

[FatTaco]

+1 from me. Would definitely be better and smooth.

 

[Ajdin]

Right now the system that MC-Market has in place for handling suggestions is pretty slow

The speed of suggestions is completely depending on you. Nobody else. It can't be faster if you're not there to approve suggestions so I'm not sure what that statement is helping with this suggestion.

What I suggest is we make a system whereas when users make a suggestion they stay open for exactly two weeks and then after that they are locked and put under consideration which would take a day or two to handle.

What difference does that make? You're basically forcing yourself to come up with a decision within 2 weeks of thread creation, quite stupid imo.

The approval process has nothing to do with the system. It has to do with the sillyness of some suggestions and the person handling all suggestions.

During my time my goal was to always stay under 4 pages of open suggestions which worked most of the time. I usually went through older suggestions and handled those.

As for the agree thing, that'd pretty blatant and clueless to even think about completely relying on ratings. Check the sticky in this section:

Just because a suggestion gets a lot of agrees, it doesn't mean it will get implemented. Sure, we do look at community feedback but sometimes implementing something is simply not worth it.

Funny that you didn't even read that.

 

[Mick]

The speed of suggestions is completely depending on you. Nobody else. It can't be faster if you're not there to approve suggestions, so I'm not sure what that statement is helping with this suggestion.


What difference does that make? You're basically forcing yourself to come up with a decision within 2 weeks of thread creation, quite stupid imo.

The approval process has nothing to do with the system. It has to do with the sillyness of some suggestions and the person handling all suggestions.

During my time my goal was to always stay under 4 pages of open suggestions which worked most of the time. I usually went through older suggestions and handled those.

As for the agree thing, that'd pretty blatant and clueless to even think about completely relying on ratings. Check the sticky in this section:


Funny that you didn't even read that.

The speed of suggestions isn't entirely dependent on me. If a suggestion is made, I'd like to wait at least a week or two to get input from the community. For the same reason you started at the back (which goes all the way to June), I'd like to keep suggestions open for a few weeks to get some more opinions on things. Rather than staying under four pages or something like that I just thought to have them open for two weeks, that way I have a set time frame and we're all on the same page with the process.

Like I said in the original post the idea about ratings playing a more significant part than they should is no longer under consideration.

 

[Ajdin]

I'd like to keep suggestions open for a few weeks to get some more opinions on things.

But this suggestion is about closing a thread after 2 weeks?

 

[Mick]

But this suggestion is about closing a thread after two weeks?

By a few, I meant to say two, but it could be however long, it could be a month, but the point is that ideally, I'd want us to have a system in place where they're closed after a set amount of time so as ones from June still haven't been read.

 

[Fire]

Take an afternoon off, start at the last page and take some time to read each suggestion and the replies. Then come to a discission on each one. If the thread is younger than 2 weeks, leave it.

If you disagree with the suggestion, state why like BeBosny did. Before closing it. Try to think of the site, some things will cost, but if they make the site better they will make you more money in time, due to it becoming more popular. Put aside all your own opinions and build an opinion based on the replies. Be as unbiased as possible.

The current system is fine, it just needs you to be there for it. If you don't have time, hire a new staff member to deal with them, or get an existing mod (Doge or M6, since they should be the least bias, and are used to dealing with similar threads (scam reports))

 

[Mick]

Take an afternoon off, start at the last page and take some time to read each suggestion and the replies. Then come to a discission on each one. If the thread is younger than two weeks, leave it.

If you disagree with the suggestion, state why like BeBosny did. Before closing it. Try to think of the site; some things will cost, but if they make the site better they will make you more money in time, due to it becoming more popular. Put aside all your own opinions and build an opinion based on the replies. Be as unbiased as possible.

The current system is fine, it just needs you to be there for it. If you don't have time, hire a new staff member to deal with them, or get an existing mod (Doge or M6, since they should be the least bias, and are used to dealing with similar threads (scam reports))

That is what I am aiming to do. I'm hoping to get all threads replied to and up to date by Christmas. So far with the threads that I've denied or accepted, there seem to be no objections. The reason why some of the suggestions are rejected is that they're such minor things that would require things to be custom developed and that time could be better spent on other things to improve the site. Thanks for the tips