Just curious - to me the Feedback forum is used as a way to shove disagreements with the moderators/management of Mobile Read off into a corner where no one will follow and discussion will be killed.
In the two or three disagreements I've had with the management of the forum, this is what has happened. And in each case, a lively discussion has been killed, and, of course, suggestions or complaints were ignored and nothing changed.
A great example is the recent stickies discussion from the Deals forum. That thread had 23 posts in the approximately 2 days from the time it was posted (by a moderator!) in the Deals forum on June 18 until it was moved to this Feedback forum on June 20. In the more than two days since it was moved, there have been all of 2 posts.
I suppose one could try to argue that, totally by coincidence, everyone in the Deals forum had said everything they wanted to say, so moving it wasn't what resulted in the quashing of the discussion, but if you read the posts, it certainly doesn't seem that way, and I don't believe it. Moving the thread to this hard-to-find forum, buried at the bottom of the forum list, and followed by almost no-one, killed the discussion. On the question of whether this is a deliberate kill-off or not, I won't venture an opinion right now, but each time it happens, it makes me think more and more that it is.
It's even more ironic that this thread was moved only three posts after Lynx-lynx praised the moderators for having posted it, providing info and responses and allowing discussion about what happened:
I totally get that in a privately run forum, moderators and management set the rules, and can quash discussions/disagreement as they wish, but it leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. I still very much value the forums, and will continue to make my posts, and hopefully contribute to the well-being of the other forum participants, and benefit from their posts. But each time this happens it dulls my enjoyment of Mobile Read just a little bit, and makes me less likely to come here first, or spend an extra few minutes to make a post.
So, back to my original question, does anything ever happen as a result of something posted in this forum, or is really just a place to send disagreements so they will die?
Image may be NSFW.In the two or three disagreements I've had with the management of the forum, this is what has happened. And in each case, a lively discussion has been killed, and, of course, suggestions or complaints were ignored and nothing changed.
A great example is the recent stickies discussion from the Deals forum. That thread had 23 posts in the approximately 2 days from the time it was posted (by a moderator!) in the Deals forum on June 18 until it was moved to this Feedback forum on June 20. In the more than two days since it was moved, there have been all of 2 posts.
I suppose one could try to argue that, totally by coincidence, everyone in the Deals forum had said everything they wanted to say, so moving it wasn't what resulted in the quashing of the discussion, but if you read the posts, it certainly doesn't seem that way, and I don't believe it. Moving the thread to this hard-to-find forum, buried at the bottom of the forum list, and followed by almost no-one, killed the discussion. On the question of whether this is a deliberate kill-off or not, I won't venture an opinion right now, but each time it happens, it makes me think more and more that it is.
It's even more ironic that this thread was moved only three posts after Lynx-lynx praised the moderators for having posted it, providing info and responses and allowing discussion about what happened:
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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
(Post 3337470)
My comments are addressed generally - not directly to Issy .... (but, of course, include Issy :))
First off, I want to applaud the existence of this thread :2thumbsup. Too often in the past a change has been administered with no explanation or concomitant thread in the same sub forum for comment. Thank you to the mods who realised that communication is essential to the pleasant administration of a forum. :thanks: RE the Kobo Discounts thread, my reasons for it remaining stickied include:
As a by the way, I have no problems with the volume of 'stickied' threads, and wonder why the removal of two threads makes a difference? |
So, back to my original question, does anything ever happen as a result of something posted in this forum, or is really just a place to send disagreements so they will die?
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