Thread:CDRW/@comment-25494824-20150317104228/@comment-1820055-20150318034738

I went back to the Suggestions page and reviewed Arteria's replies. It wasn't as bad as "shooting down" everyone's opinions. The large resistance I saw was one for the Recent Updates lockdown, and one for the closed case of frontpage overhaul, but I saw a decent amount of and  count, so there are suggestions that exist where Arte is fine with it.

It's probably because it's rare for the new admins suggest something (refers to recent updates lockdown), and got shot down aggressively by Arteria (usage of word "aggressive" taken from my point of view, not forcing anyone to believe the same).

Though I can probably guess why it seems that he is shooting down opinions. His replies tend to be long and linky. To the point I don't know if people would still follow the thread. When that happens usually only he and the original poster remains. This gives an effect that suggestions die down when seeing long replies that seemed to be an argument that no one else tries to involve themselves.

I think, sometimes you think too much, that many others will be unable to follow. There are people like Mathiaz and Ck who will read, but I admit sometimes I drop topics because I don't want to read anymore. See the latest suggestions, they're long in the form of multiple user involvement where many people replied by just stating what they think and an support/oppose template.

IMHO, the Suggestions page should be just a gateway of ideas. You just say if you like it or not with a few comments. When we get enough feedback from enough people, we start sanboxing or cancel it. If we start it, that's where we start point-to-point analyzing on its dedicated Sandbox page. (Discussions on some suggestions like rename / navbars, etc. cannot be avoided for they do not have sandbox pages. Though we can probably create forum threads for it). At least that is MY subjective vision for the Suggestions page.

This is my one-time point of view. It is not to be taken as standard, reference or evidence of implementation or action for or against any party.