@ the @GC people:

Q u o t e:
I'd agree but a lot of the time when GC responds it's when they were fishing for a response...

This is exactly the reason we ask you not to do it. I want to be able to respond to the issues I want to be able to respond to and not have to play the game of "Hmm, what kind of message about the "rules" will I be sending if I answer this thread but not another one?"

Make posting for me as simple as possible and I'll be able to do more of it.

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Q u o t e:
If you are fished at, do not respond no matter how good the topic is. Every time you do post in a fishing thread it creates more fishing threads because people know you post in them.

There are a lot of good threads out there that weren't fishing for blues when they were created. (ex. strawberrys ele post 'ele musing for a lvl 6 mage' a couple weeks ago that had great discussion) Granted, the new ele threads are pretty much fishers but the other one wasnt so much as is was class discussion.

If you don't want fishing threads, then you have to either temp ban people who create them (regardless of the topic or how legit it is) or just refuse to post in them. It really is your choice, not the communities.

I understand that logic, but again it then makes posting something that is a lot more effort for me to do because I have to pay more attention to the title and the original poster's text. You still see plenty of "I'm glad they responded to the issue, but I wish they had picked a better thread to post in." I don't want to play that game. I try to fit in posting when I can and don't want a blue post to indicate that a thread somehow won a contest.

As to why we don't post in good threads, it can often derail them. Players see a lot more links to a thread with a blue response in it and that can sometimes attract undesirable elements.

You don't need a blue post to make a good thread good.

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