Problems with the Queues
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 1:06 pm
Hey.
So the site is dying. I don't think that's a controversial statement. The topic's been talked to death in the Long term health thread. With the combination of users leaving/migrating, users restricting themselves to modding, newbies not sticking around, and games not firing, just in the span of 6 months the site is noticeably quieter.
I think that can largely be attributed to queue management. Significant overhaul to the queue system has been repeatedly suggested in the long term health thread, and nothing happened. So here's my try.
It pains me to make a cliche thread like this, because it's hard to detach a queue with the listmod(s) running that queue. I can't pretend I'm not specifically complaining about the administration and listmod team, all of whom I think are fundamentally decent people. I don't know if it's ruder to say "I'M NOT NAMING NAMES BUT" or to specifically call out specific mods. I'm more comfortable not naming names so as to not make this personal.
It specifically pains me because I was a mod on a gaming site where every decision made from higher up drew everyone's endless complaints. I get that you can't please everyone. People would regularly make threads saying stuff like "The site's dying, it isn't what it used to be, thanks to the admins/mods". But people got over it and moved on, and the site grew larger as the community evolved.
The difference is that that site grew through the changes, while this site shrunk.
So the site is dying. I don't think that's a controversial statement. The topic's been talked to death in the Long term health thread. With the combination of users leaving/migrating, users restricting themselves to modding, newbies not sticking around, and games not firing, just in the span of 6 months the site is noticeably quieter.
I think that can largely be attributed to queue management. Significant overhaul to the queue system has been repeatedly suggested in the long term health thread, and nothing happened. So here's my try.
It pains me to make a cliche thread like this, because it's hard to detach a queue with the listmod(s) running that queue. I can't pretend I'm not specifically complaining about the administration and listmod team, all of whom I think are fundamentally decent people. I don't know if it's ruder to say "I'M NOT NAMING NAMES BUT" or to specifically call out specific mods. I'm more comfortable not naming names so as to not make this personal.
It specifically pains me because I was a mod on a gaming site where every decision made from higher up drew everyone's endless complaints. I get that you can't please everyone. People would regularly make threads saying stuff like "The site's dying, it isn't what it used to be, thanks to the admins/mods". But people got over it and moved on, and the site grew larger as the community evolved.
The difference is that that site grew through the changes, while this site shrunk.
I think there's a major sentiment among the community that the administration/listmods just don't care.
Whether or not they actually
do (shouts out to everyone improving the back-end of the site), the vast majority of the evidence says otherwise.