“We don't respond? You guys think we're ignoring you. We do respond? We're building up expectations that won't get met.” -starsmiley Forget the quoting command I am never going to remember it! Well, if you are going to respond, don’t just promise that you are going to do or fix that right away if that is not true. Instead, admit that you might take a while to get that done or may never going to get that done nobody is going to hate you for that.
[quote=MarioCerealFan]Forget the quoting command I am never going to remember it[/quote] You just put "quote" and "/quote" in [brackets] around the dialogue being quoted. You can add an = after the "quote" to identify the poster you're quoting—as you can see, I used "quote=MarioCerealFan" above.
[quote] And generally a lot of the things you guys are asking for are extremely minor. Would following a person on the site be really cool? Absolutely. But wouldn't you rather the site be more functional and available for users and game moderators before we do cosmetic stuff that would be cool but is overall useless in actually keeping a database for speedruns? [/quote]
I mean, "minor features that would be p cool but are useless in actually keeping a database for speedruns" basically defines everything the average end user would notice about the site's changes in the past 9 months (not counting the obvi negative changes). Things like being able to set pronouns, opening up donator perks to all, adding a barebones articles section, etc. aren't really at all required for a speedrunning database.
[quote="Garsh"] An overwhelming majority of people are just asking questions like "What is Elo working on?" or "Is Elo working on _" and not necessarily for an exact date when a specific feature is going to be added (although it happens occasionally). I think most people just want some form of transparency from the company (specifically the people who know what is happening internally) which so far has been lacking. [/quote]
Yes that's what I meant, if you guys (star, Meta, Cam, lewis etc.) don't know then why can't the people that work on the programming side respond? I don't want to believe that there isn't a single programmer in the entire staff team that doesn't have enough free time to respond to those threads. Me and so many others truly do appreciate the effort that you're doing for the website but in these situations your responses aren't what we truly need (although they are welcome).
[quote="Garsh"] I don't think people are referring to you and Meta when we criticize Elo (at least I'm not). [/quote]
Same here, I didn't refer to you, Meta and the several other staff members that actively respond to threads.
[quote="Garsh"] The creation of @SpeedrunCom was a big step in the right direction and I don't think people have been appreciating it enough, so thanks to whoever's idea that was. [/quote]
I don't agree with this and I'm not the only @1 that doesn't. Maybe they had the right idea but I simply don't like there being an anonymous staff account that you can't even refer to in any way responding to those threads, I'd much rather know which staff member responded instead.
[quote=1]
Yeah we shouldnt bully them over every single message they send, but there is plenty reason to not be happy with them. From my perspective they acquired the site out of commercial interest and not because they have any care for speedrunning. Most of the staff dont even speedrun. Atleast Pac was a member of one of the oldest speedrunning communities out there lol[/quote]
100% of Pac's reason for having the site too.
[quote=EmeraldAly] 100% of Pac's reason for having the site too. [/quote] Did you read the last sentence of the pharagraph you quoted though? [quote=1] Atleast Pac was a member of one of the oldest speedrunning communities out there lol [/quote]
[QUOTE=shenef] [QUOTE=Garsh] You two are truly what keeps speedrun.com running. [/QUOTE] The curse of the backend developer. [/QUOTE] The curse of the sysadmin.
[quote=Hi]why can't the people that work on the programming side respond? I don't want to believe that there isn't a single programmer in the entire staff team that doesn't have enough free time to respond to those threads[/quote]
They're kinda busy programming.
edit: shoutouts to merl for teaching me how to use quotes properly
[QUOTE=starsmiley] They're kinda busy programming. [/QUOTE] Everyone knows that programming is 20% coding and 80% plagerising/browsing the internet with 10 irrelevant tabs open that are only causing distractions.
[quote] They're kinda busy programming.
edit: shoutouts to merl for teaching me how to use quotes properly [/quote]
I get that to an extent, but when I was doing database management out of college for a certain fortune 500 company, they set aside us all 5-10 hours a week to respond to community and internal customer inquiries. No one is physically sitting there coding 50 hours straight a week with no stop, the brain needs breaks from that kind of monotony to be truly productive in a valuable way.
I dont think any of us are saying they're not doing a good job, or are blaming them specifically for the lack of response; but the management really should look into having their devs have more community engagement on a basic informative basis. This is the world today, instant and evolving information; and our desires for further knowledge and insight can never be fully quenched. That's the human condition; but a glass of water from time to time would be nice.
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