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[Sifr]

As far as we can tell. Maybe the responsibilities are split between people but I don't know of anyone who holds the title since Jessica Merizan held it.

 

Which is more than a little telling, eh?

 

Not meaning to suggest that those who've succeeded Jessica haven't been up to snuff, because for all we know, the new CM's have been working themselves ragged behind the scenes this last year. But unless we rename the Community Manager to "Wizard of Oz", we desperately need them to poke their heads out from behind the curtain once and a while to let us in the community actually know who they are and what they're doing for us?

[LPPrince]

Which is more than a little telling, eh?

 

Not meaning to suggest that those who've succeeded Jessica haven't been up to snuff, because for all we know, the new CM's have been working themselves ragged behind the scenes this last year. But unless we rename the Community Manager to "Wizard of Oz", we desperately need them to poke their heads out from behind the curtain once and a while to let us in the community actually know who they are and what they're doing for us?

 

And who we need to go to when we have concerns. It just makes me miss Jess more. She was super friendly and always incredible to me;once she left I was afraid of losing that connection to someone here, not sure how I'd interact with whoever replaced her. And then no one did from what I could tell which just made it worse.

[Fast Jimmy]

And who we need to go to when we have concerns. It just makes me miss Jess more. She was super friendly and always incredible to me;once she left I was afraid of losing that connection to someone here, not sure how I'd interact with whoever replaced her. And then no one did from what I could tell which just made it worse.

Jessica was nice, but her presence was never felt. Heck, if people didn't even knew she was gone for over a year, then her contribution was hardly substantive.

I know some liked her, but her hands-off approach to these forums is what led to a climate of not needing to replace her here when she left.

[Fiery Phoenix]

Any developments?

 

This can't seriously be happening.

[Elhanan]

While I could not attend, some of the Bioware Devs hosted a small party with our global NWN campaign group. I received some swag from the meeting here at home. Of course, that was before the move to the new offices, as well as BSN and the thousands of new posters.

Sometimes quantity is not as good as quality.

[LPPrince]

Jessica was nice, but her presence was never felt. Heck, if no one even knew she was gone for over a year, then her contribution was hardly substantive.

I know some liked her, but her hands-off approach to these forums is what led to a climate of not needing to replace her here when she left.

 

She did A LOT behind the scenes. I'll never have a bad thing to say about her, likely because I know she did a ton. But I get the desire and need for someone to be around more;she wasn't around as much as some would've preferred. Hell I would've preferred more of a consistent presence here.

[ratzerman]

 

But now.... Bioware can go to hell. 

 

No, see... by taking away our ability to get to know one another, Bioware is providing a better forum experience, and building a stronger community.

 

They only hurt us because they love us. 

[LPPrince]

Any developments?

 

This can't seriously be happening.

 

None.

[Reznore57]

Jessica was nice, but her presence was never felt. Heck, if no one even knew she was gone for over a year, then her contribution was hardly substantive.

I know some liked her, but her hands-off approach to these forums is what led to a climate of not needing to replace her here when she left.

 

Yeah , this is what I posted last year on Jessica AMA on reddit

 

I wonder if you will be more active on the new BSN Jessica? To be honest I have mixed feelings , yeah the BSN can be hostile...But I post there almost on a daily basis and I rarely have problems. I got quite upset when Bioware employee said the place was a cesspool. I mean we spend months with only a QA guy (Allan Schumacher) trying to bring back some more positive dialogue.

I may be wrong but I got the feeling you were more interested about interacting on Twitter or with the Cosplayer community. I don't think it's bad at all. But I'm a bit puzzled about bringing change to a community you tend to not interact with.

Anyway I hope things will improve for everyone .And I'd be glad to see you hanging around the new BSN

 

No reply of course , I wasn't expecting one back then.

But anyway she was around the forum when she made some changes to smooth the process then she vanished.

She was nice and full of energy but I doubt she wanted to hang around the forum.

[Liamv2]

There hasn't even been another comment on what's happening.

[LPPrince]

There hasn't even been another comment on what's happening.

 

 

What do you want them to say? I'd still like to see bullet points of what they learned in 24 hours but I doubt we'll get it.

[Sylvius the Mad]

Was once asked to be a mod; that would have really pleased so many posters....

Many many years ago, so was I.

That would have been different.

[Liamv2]

What do you want them to say? I'd still like to see bullet points of what they learned in 24 hours but I doubt we'll get it.

 

I want at least a basic rundown on the thought process behind the decision.

[LPPrince]

I want at least a basic rundown on the thought process behind the decision.

 

Well yeah, that too. Pipe dream.

[Fast Jimmy]

She did A LOT behind the scenes. I'll never have a bad thing to say about her, likely because I know she did a ton. But I get the desire and need for someone to be around more;she wasn't around as much as some would've preferred. Hell I would've preferred more of a consistent presence here.

Consistent? She had barely over 400 posts. There were threads on these boards that got that IN A DAY.

The only thing more pathetic than that is Conal's 200-ish posts. Heck, his five posts in here represent over 2% of his entire BSN career. And he's a member of the Community team? BioMod01 has more posts just from stating they are closing threads.

[Fast Jimmy]

Many many years ago, so was I.

That would have been different.

Ha! I would have been on board for that. Sylvius the Mad Mod. It's got a nice ring to it.

[NRieh]

 

That section is a place for the community to unload about everything outside of Bioware. Without it, every other section is gonna get muddled.

Nope. People will just stop posting\reading. They've broken their own community. First blogs, now this.  'BSN' has lost its former meaning....well, as long as we assume that 'S' stands for 'social', not other 'S'-words.

 

 

Every forum needs its own legal 'off-topic' zone, it's a powerfull social tool.

I'm having a hard time imagining that someone would ever wish to get rid of their 'hardcore' community, but here we are.

 

We still have groups, but it's really hard to navigate those, new members are very unlikely to find what they were looking for.

[LPPrince]

Many many years ago, so was I.

That would have been different.

 

Imagine if all of us that were asked or promoted as a viable option back then were made mods. hah

[Avejajed]

Jessica was nice, but her presence was never felt. Heck, if people didn't even knew she was gone for over a year, then her contribution was hardly substantive.

I know some liked her, but her hands-off approach to these forums is what led to a climate of not needing to replace her here when she left.

Agree. Maybe long ago but by the time they were prepping for inquisition, she was riding the nerd TV train to fame. We weren't even on her radar.

[Fast Jimmy]

Imagine if all of us that were asked or promoted as a viable option back then were made mods. hah

I imagine you all wouldn't still be posting here anymore. Most of the volunteer mods left when their jobs were taken from them by the bot mods.

[LPPrince]

I imagine you all wouldn't still be posting here anymore. Most of the volunteer mods left when their jobs were taken from them by the bot mods.

 

I imagine most would've been stripped of the positions before then.

[Fast Jimmy]

I imagine most would've been stripped of the positions before then.

Heh.

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
- Abraham Lincoln

[LPPrince]

Heh.

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a men's character, give him power.”
- Abraham Lincoln

 

Oh, not even on purpose. Just stripped of the responsibilities because of small issues here and there.

[DaemionMoadrin]

Being a CM on a forum takes up hours of your time, every day. Even with a dedicated team to read and analyze posts you're likely to spend most of your work day just in the forum.

The return simply isn't high enough to justify that, not when there are more accessible venues like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Instagram, reddit etc.

 

To make it worth their while they would have to be more active in the forum, they could poll us, they could ask for our feedback, they could answer questions and snuff out most of the volatile discussions by giving us real information. But that would require an investment and carries a risk... so why do it if they don't have to?

Especially since now the fans are spread out over several social media sites, you'd have to have a CM for each one and then put it all together at the end of the day.

That's a lot of work and I can see why they cut out out the most demanding part (the forum).

 

Many many years ago, so was I.

That would have been different.

 

You would have made a fine pair of mods.

 

 

Consistent? She had barely over 400 posts. There were threads on these boards that got that IN A DAY.

The only thing more pathetic than that is Conal's 200-ish posts. Heck, his five posts in here represent over 2% of his entire BSN career. And he's a member of the Community team? BioMod01 has more posts just from stating they are closing threads.

 

Honestly, I didn't know she was the CM for a long time, I always thought she was just a cosplayer.

 

When I think of Community Managers, I think of people like Sanya Thomas (EA Mythic) or some of the CMs working for GOA. I know one of them (Sterntaler) joined EA Mythic, then was merged into BioWare and I think now he's working for Bethesda. Those people connected with the community, they were the ones who would get answers from the devs and who brought issues of the playerbase to the developers.

 

I have never seen anything like that here.

[LPPrince]

I would. I've sent my own ideas to them over the years quite a few times. I wish others did the same on their own accord.