"[META] This sub is becoming Niantic's suggestion box. Can we stop that?"
#PokemonGO: There have been a lot of posts about what Niantic should do and how the game should work lately. Right now 10 of the 25 posts on the front page are suggestions about what Niantic should do about bots/gyms/pokestops/etc. Suggestions can be interesting, but they're becoming a venting ground and drowning out actual research.On the other hand, any posts with "IV" in the title is autodeleted. There are plenty of ongoing, substantive questions about IVs (How exactly do they effect battle performance? Is there really a bug where they're tied to pokedex number?) that are ghettoized to a sub no one reads because it is 95% elementary questions.So this one part of actual game mechanics, completely interconnected with all the other parts of the actual game mechanics we talk about here, is banished, while the sub is overrun with "suggestions" that no one but Niantic could act on. I'm frustrated by this. I don't feel like it reflects the sub's actual priorities, and suggestions are so much more separable from the rest of the content on the sub. It feels like the sub is becoming shallower.A separate sub for suggestions for Niantic would let us focus more on research here. Or they could be temporarily discouraged—I think the prevalence and dominance right now reflects the general discontent with Niantic (and contributes to a more negative atmosphere on the sub).What are other people's thoughts?ETA: Another possibility would be to allow suggestions on one day day per week ("Suggestion Sunday," etc). via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2aZ8V0q
"[META] This sub is becoming Niantic's suggestion box. Can we stop that?"
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