This site was specifically designed by Grupthink to handle user feedback and has many excellent features and tools that no other feedback application currently provides. Players will be able to create new suggestions and vote on them with ease, and ArenaNet developers will be able to review that... [show more]

This site was specifically designed by Grupthink to handle user feedback and has many excellent features and tools that no other feedback application currently provides. Players will be able to create new suggestions and vote on them with ease, and ArenaNet developers will be able to review that information with little to no moderation involved. [show less]

This is another one posted by Erasculio that I took directly from the GWW discussion page. A group of users read all suggestions and pick the X most popular ones, according to talk page entries/similar suggestions. Those would be presented to Isaiah. Advantages * No voting. It would not require any... [show more]

This is another one posted by Erasculio that I took directly from the GWW discussion page.

A group of users read all suggestions and pick the X most popular ones, according to talk page entries/similar suggestions. Those would be presented to Isaiah.


Advantages

* No voting. It would not require any new extension nor any new kind of formatting, plus it would avoid some of the exploits voters could use.
* No committee to judge which suggestion is good and which isn't, leading to less conflicts as no one would be offended about how his/her suggestion would not have been considered a "top 50" one.
* Could be a quick system, if the committee agrees about what they consider popularity to be.

Problems

* A system that either could be abused (by adding tons of entries into the talkpage of a skill, or making many copies of the same suggestion with just minor changes) or would require considerable discretion by the committee, leading to more claims of it being biased.
* No quality control. Bad ideas could reach Isaiah, as there is no filter.
* The community does not decide directly as they would through voting; it's a more indirect approach. [show less]

Allow players to submit their suggestions on this site, while still maintaining a committee of "Suggestion Masters" to submit the X best suggestions for ArenaNet's review. This option shouldn't be entirely necessary as the suggestions will be just easy for an ArenaNet developer to review,... [show more]

Allow players to submit their suggestions on this site, while still maintaining a committee of "Suggestion Masters" to submit the X best suggestions for ArenaNet's review.

This option shouldn't be entirely necessary as the suggestions will be just easy for an ArenaNet developer to review, though it still may be a viable option. [show less]

I took this option (which was originally titled Committee mixed with Voting) directly from the discussion the GWW site (originally posted by Erasculio). A group of users chosen by the community read all suggestions and pick the 50 best ones each month. The community would then vote to decide which... [show more]

I took this option (which was originally titled Committee mixed with Voting) directly from the discussion the GWW site (originally posted by Erasculio).

A group of users chosen by the community read all suggestions and pick the 50 best ones each month. The community would then vote to decide which 10 of those would be presented to Isaiah.


Advantages

* We have some quality control. The most absurd ideas will be filtered by the committee, so even if people try to disrupt the voting part, the ideas presented to Isaiah would be interesting ones.
* The community gets to directly decide which ideas will be presented, allowing anyone to be a part of the process. Since the system already has a degree of quality control, we could allow anyone to vote here - trying to abuse the system (voting through proxies, etc) would have no considerable impact.
* With a fixed number of suggestions, we could ask contributors to rank the ideas, instead of voting on each of them; it would make the result easier to learn (as we could ask everyone to say what's their favourite suggestion and make a list in a single page, as opposed to having votes on each suggestion's page) and easier to organize (it would make the rating extension for the wiki unnecessary).

Problems

* Voting. There are many ways people could abuse a voting system so the results don't actually represent what the community favors the most. Also, depending on how people want to vote (if not ranking, but rather voting), we could end either flooding Recent Changes or having to instal the rating extension for the wiki (linked above).
* We would end with some users complaining that the committee is biased toward some profession/idea/user/etc. No matter what the committee chooses, it's likely someone will complain about them.
* The entire process (a committee picking 50 ideas, then people voting) could take a long time, meaning we would present suggestions to Isaiah at a slow rate. This may cause some frustration in some people. [show less]