*Add a new wave of monitors and mentors. A lot of these people are inactive. New faces are a good thing *create a new role of veterans who have been on these forums for 9+ years. They are like mentors but also engage with the community in terms of Sherpas and tips and tricks to become legend. Example: The guy who posts the weekly reset information. *make the CoC more clear and not have the hidden CoC that a ninja posted years ago. Then again, not everyone reads so being trigger happy as a ninja may turn a user away bc OP feels like it’s heavily monitored and bans are very common. *improve #help with faster solutions then waiting around for a response by the community or the help team at Bungie. Maybe a FAQ list? *make forums easily accessible on the companion app *memes. Or top 10 kills by the architect clips. Gets the community engaged with laughter and funny moments *community managers AMA. Not everyone knows who you are. And not everyone has a Twitter. *speaking of Twitter, any announcements by Bungie about the game or future content should be posted here too. If you are just going to use Twitter/reddit then why come here? Forums can be active if Bungie is active too. Not just reply on a few posts every once in a while. *release some emblem codes on here. Maybe hide the codes in a few threads so the community has to put it together. Helps get traffic in here I know that I can be a troll and shit post but I enjoy this game and I’m glad to be here.

Plz delete the forums

[quote]Hey all, Pinning this to the Destiny 2 forum, as I'm currently looking through some feedback on our forums and structure. I recently did a quick tweet asking players who may not visit the forums here on Bungie.net some questions, as I'd love to make this place more appealing for the broad community. Now, I'm looking for feedback from those who are on here more frequently, namely you! This isn't a question of what we can do better in terms of making in-game changes to Destiny 2. My goals here are to get some thoughts from you on the current state of our forums. If you could answer the following, it'd be much appreciated. [quote]• What do you find most important to your browsing experience? • Do you find yourself frequently engaging with forums, or more often browsing associated media/group messaging apps for information/discussion? (Think Twitter, Discord, Youtube, etc) • What changes would you like to see that would make the Bungie.net forums a more welcoming place for community engagement?[/quote][/quote] 1) I always go to all then sort by new. Sorting is important. 2) Forums first. Clan discord second. I don’t think Reddit, Twitter, Twitch, or YouTube comments section are worth trying to use for discussion. Reddit mostly because of its moderators. 3) First and foremost the Moderator role needs to be reviewed and updated. It needs to be consistent and it needs to be as basic as possible. Secondly more interaction with developers would go a long way towards getting more discussions to happen on the forums. Even more interaction with the CMs would help. Third you actually need to drive users to the forums. If a CM is going to tweet about a topic they should make a post on the forum and link to it from the tweet. By mainly communicating with the community through other platforms the forums are not considered a good place to have a conversation about the game. You could also add a line to the “this week” and “next week” in game pop-ups about discussing it on the forums.

Your ninjas are the core problem, most of them haven’t played the game or don’t actively play. Foman which I will name and shame is a core problem

I don’t think you can really do much. The issue isn’t structure, it’s the community.

Make all the crucible pinnacle weapons like revoked but double the glory required so it’s still a grind

Please, [b][i][u]PLEASE[/u][/i][/b] allow us to have custom avatars. With moderation of course.

[quote]• What do you find most important to your browsing experience?[/quote] Once upon a time here, the community. The trolls have gotten to rule the roost for so long, that's not really what it used to be. Still visit the forums daily to see how people are experiencing the game though. [quote]• Do you find yourself frequently engaging with forums, or more often browsing associated media/group messaging apps for information/discussion? (Think Twitter, Discord, Youtube, etc)[/quote] I don't post on here very much anymore outside of replies to posts here and there because forever getting shit on by the same people and called a "Bungie -blam!-" endlessly with no consequences for those doing it makes posting not really enjoyable. It's hard to give constructive feedback to better the game when every post's replies are dominated by personal attacks endlessly bumped to the top and muting people doesn't stop them from turning posts into shit-shows, it just stops you from seeing what they're spreading to everyone else. [quote]• What changes would you like to see that would make the Bungie.net forums a more welcoming place for community engagement?[/quote] Moderation that doesn't empower the lowest common denominator and let bnet serve as a right-wing breeding ground would be a great start. The fact that someone can make hate posts against the LGBT community and not have the posts removed or get banned, but calling them out for being assholes does get a ban says a lot about moderation here. The code of conduct has been schizophrenically enforced for years and what is CLEARLY defined as harassment in your own Guidelines is more often than not a-ok with your mods. The second we have enough and defend ourselves, it's insta-ban though. You did improve things when you fixed the forums to actually require playing D2, but there are a ton of farm accounts that are here just to be shit-disturbers. It's also nice that in D2 Y2 you all finally fixed the mute function to where it actually mutes people on the app. That said you all need to institute a full block feature. It's absolutely garbage that in 2019 with all the known issues and real world consequences of online hate and harassment, that you all don't do everything you can to keep your community safe from bullshit. The fact that a group that's existed on these forums who met off-site to plot attacks against specific forum community members and went so far as to plan swatting attacks were never able to be blocked and instead were allowed to stalk and harass with impunity was and is bullshit. The fact that you all let someone who got banned for making child molestations comments in a thread for a community raid day not only stay on the forums, but let them make a post petitioning that myself and our community podcast be banned from bnet and you all to this day haven't taken it down is bullshit. I appreciate every opportunity the studio has given me and I actually had hoped to discuss the forums with you, Coz and DeeJ at the first Summit, but you were sick and DeeJ was always locked in conversations when I tried to engage him. Next, you already know my thoughts on this, but I still believe you and Coz should be more active here. I appreciate what you both do for the community and know you're only allowed to say so much in regards to studio plans, but you're both incredibly active on Twitter and it would be really cool and mean a lot to the community here to have even a quarter of that interaction here. It would also go a long way to ending the Studio 54 vibe where there's the in crowd who you all constantly interact with and then all the rest of the community standing outside hoping to be seen or heard. You both should be regular contributors on here and not just the drive-by "we'll take your feedback to the devs". And last but not least, I've been suggesting this for years now, but it would be really nice to see you all have community Q&A days on the forums every so often where studio devs spend a day answering questions and interacting with the everyday community. The summits are cool and more so when it's new players and everyday players vs a council of influencers that get to speak for everyone else, but it would be incredibly easy to give the everyday player a chance to be heard more by doing Q&As. And the studio did it in D1 Y1 for Crucible Feedback. Thank you for taking time to post this and for actively looking for ways to improve bnet. Have a great day. Edit: also it's great Shackleshotgun made the Destiny Roundup site, but that content should've been integrated into bnet years ago.