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With you on that Cryptic bungie.net is not Youtube.
Posted by: Cryptic
Posted by: dazarobbo
To some degree I agree with some of what you've said, but I disagree that it is not a design issue, at least not entirely.
When you look at the topic listing on the forum page, you have a maximum of seven entry points to each topic: the icon, title, last post link, first two pages links, and the last two pages links. Each of these entry points takes you to either the beginning of a thread or the end. There is no option to, for example, keep reading where you left off.
Inside the topic itself, you have to read each post sequentially, starting with the first post on the page. That's another reason why the focus is on the beginning of a thread (at least when it's on the first page) and in later pages, the first post(s). You can see it happening pretty often in large threads where a number of people will often reply to the first post(s) of the last page, because that's where the focus is.
If there were a way to bring up say, a sorted list of the best posts in a topic, as well as utilising some other options, I think things could be very different here, because users could define the way they want to view a thread rather than always seeing it chronologically as it currently is.In order for the website to know the best posts of a topic, wouldn't posts need to be liked or disliked by the community? I like the idea of improving the search feature to find the content I'm looking for, but am indifferent when it comes to post ratings. I would like the moderators to be able to select a best answer for questions posted.