Add pinned acknowledgement thread of past suggestions and their status that gets updated weekly

[teGreyalP]

and has status as being worked on, completed, or denied. To prevent repeat posts.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Not likely to happen.

Valve won't acknowledge who or where an idea has come from as it may pose legal issue.

Many times ideas used don't come in the form the users intended as well, so may cause more issue.

Valve may also not take an idea now, but more open to it at a latter date, so no point in denying an idea/suggestion.

Repeat posts are always going to happen. No idea or suggestion can ever prevent them from happening.

[Seretti]

People don't read pinned threads. If they did, they wouldn't keep bringing up stuff covered in these pinned threads.

Also, we have no idea what Valve is working on as they don't announce these things.

[Mad Scientist]

I knew this was familiar, slightly changed
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/2963922521565968656/

[ElvisDeadly]

Originally posted by EyeoftheCovid:

and has status as being worked on, completed, or denied. To prevent repeat posts.

0 are being worked on
0 are completed
0 have been denied

[Odra]

Originally posted by EyeoftheCovid:

To prevent repeat posts.

This is rather optimistic, to explain why I have to start by observing the behavior of users.

Many times you get increased activity when people experience an inconvenience and take to the forums.

A game or update gets released ans people's initial reaction is to create a thread rather than looking for an existing thread. Then you have users that are not content with being a replier, they are aware that there is already a topic but they create a new thread because they want attention on their opinion exusively.

Then you have trolls and lazy people who see spam as a form of activism.

Now, people also ignore pinned threads, patch notes, etc with the usual excuses of "Well, excuse me for having a life outside of Steam/forums".

Let's say such an idea is implemented, someone makes a suggestion to make all the fonts italic and is met with a resounding NO. This someone just keeps reapplying the same suggestion because "well, it is the suggestion forum and just because Valve said NO it doesn't mean they won't change their mind"

What about that type of user who attempts to be clever and follows the letter of the law rather than the spirit of the law (which there are planty) and simply reword their suggestions to seem different but are functionally the same.

Some would simply suggest for Valve to monitor the users and threads, but that is another story that begins with the notion of "Valve has so much money, why don't they just... " and ends with a lesson in economics.

[Mikoto]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Valve won't acknowledge who or where an idea has come from as it may pose legal issue.

Nor should they. Imagine the toxicity that would be bred if they did? It would be insane. You would have every user fighting over who should get original credit for ideas. It would be pure chaos.

This idea will never happen and it is a good thing it won't.

[Mikoto]

Originally posted by Mr. Gentlebot:

I knew this was familiar, slightly changed
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/2963922521565968656/

Wow...well...um...that is....very much a coincident if I ever saw one...

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by Kai:

Originally posted by Mr. Gentlebot:

I knew this was familiar, slightly changed
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/2963922521565968656/

Wow...well...um...that is....very much a coincident if I ever saw one...

Coincidence and patterns

Originally posted by Odra:

What about that type of user who attempts to be clever and follows the letter of the law rather than the spirit of the law (which there are planty) and simply reword their suggestions to seem different but are functionally the same.

Originally posted by Kai:

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Valve won't acknowledge who or where an idea has come from as it may pose legal issue.

Nor should they. Imagine the toxicity that would be bred if they did? It would be insane. You would have every user fighting over who should get original credit for ideas. It would be pure chaos.

This idea will never happen and it is a good thing it won't.

Given the two identical threads on this, I wouldn't be surprised if this was one of those cases where people would fight for credit, etc. Not to mention ultimately the pure number of people that exist; often entirely unrelated people that never communicated with each other or saw anything of the other, can easily have the same idea. It's a low chance, but it has happened before. If valve implemented something one of their employees came up with but there happened to be a suggestion they never saw, even that could cause a fight for credit.

It's one thing when it's a Dev open to suggestions, then makes a roadmap showing what's done, being worked on, then planned and suggested - but for something like Valve, NOPE.

[Haruspex]

Sometimes, posing a suggestion to a company is a great way to reduce the chances that suggestion actually gets implemented. If a feature is implemented that can be veritably traced back to someone's suggestion, it's possible that person can now try and take legal action to demand compensation.

It's best if any suggestions made remain unable to be traced back to the person who made that suggestion.