Ignoring the Paladin community?

As I often comment, I cannot answer every thread and that is not my intention. When I get some free time, I read as many forum posts as I can and I try to respond to a few of them.

If you make a post in the role fourms, I'll see it. Chances are I won't respond to it. Sorry, but that's the way it has to be.

When there are so many threads begging for a response, it concerns me that Blizzard may eventually decide that my posts are too disruptive and we go back to almost no posting. I don't want that, but unless you guys chill out the "bump for blue response" that may be where we're headed. :(

P.S. Rogue and mages have gotten far fewer response as far as I can tell, and there are plenty of players who feel the aspect of the game that is most important to them is being ignored. There is not much I am going to be able to do to fix that except stop posting.

Q u o t e:
You know, acknowledging a small child when they throw a tantrum only encourages them to keep doing it, right?

It has been an epidemic in the last few days though. I'm not quite sure the best way to handle it. Deleting "bump for blue" posts is tedious and tends to anger players more than it educates them. Shrug.

Q u o t e:
But how difficult is it to respond to a post with a simple: "We're aware of your concerns and are considering our response" to something as valid as PvE JotM recoil damage?

I used to try that, but in my experience it rarely works. You get a lot of “I poured out my heart and soul and that’s the only response we get?” It also means I pretty much need to do that for every thread or else the couple without blue responses feel really, really ignored.

Q u o t e:
You do realize that the reason we are bumping for Blue responses is because we have gotten almost no communication on the 3.1 ptr patch.

But you only do that because there are actual blue responses in the forums now. If those stop, I bet the bumping stops. :)

Here is the only way I think this is going to work:

1) If you have a question, a concern, an idea or just some feedback, post it.
2) We will read your posts.
3) Sometimes, but not very often, we will respond.
4) Don't give us a hard time about where or when we respond.
5) Be aware that we ban a lot of people who just don't get it. We just don't publicly shame them (most of the time).

Q u o t e:
I know this is kinda redundant, But could you possibly make it to where we can see if you have read a thread?

Players would just assume we had some automated mechanic to flag all of the threads.

And the fact still remains that what many players want (just scroll up to see) is not for us to read the threads, but for us to validate their concerns or provide answers. That isn't what we are trying to do on the forums though. We will announce things sometimes when we think it's appropriate and we will answer a few questions here and there. But by and large if you want to see what changes we are going to make, you should refer to the patch notes.