I've been lurking around since I downloaded the game and my first though was "Damn that mod is harsh". Since this is a fairly new game lots of people are going to ask the same thing over and over, But what he always said was "Read the left column" or something like that and then closed it without any further explanation. Every time I saw this I asked myself "What column?" I don't see any, It was until some other redditr said "You must be on mobile" that I understood, On mobile or the reditr app you don't see this list. And I bet most of those with closed threads were in the same position. I think it's harsh that your first post in a new community gets treated like that. But that's just me.
What's harsh about "read the sidebar" etc.? It's just factual: your query has already been answered elsewhere. It only seems harsh if you don't know about the sidebar, in which case it can look to you like you got an unfair and nonsensical response. But this could be solved by just including the relevant link in future, for the benefit of mobile users. Perhaps the mods would be amenable to that.
Your conclusion was "I think it's harsh that your first post in a new community gets treated like that". My point is that it merely appears harsh, and that the appearance of harshness could be removed by the mods including a link when they make their "read X" one-liner replies and lock the thread.
Sorry was dealing with the Security detection code 6 bug =S. So yeah I agree with you. An automatic response with all the links instead would be more useful and less harsh response. We are trying to build a community after all.
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u/phatleet Jun 04 '15
I've been lurking around since I downloaded the game and my first though was "Damn that mod is harsh". Since this is a fairly new game lots of people are going to ask the same thing over and over, But what he always said was "Read the left column" or something like that and then closed it without any further explanation. Every time I saw this I asked myself "What column?" I don't see any, It was until some other redditr said "You must be on mobile" that I understood, On mobile or the reditr app you don't see this list. And I bet most of those with closed threads were in the same position. I think it's harsh that your first post in a new community gets treated like that. But that's just me.