Why is “AMA” not being held on THIS forum?
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A player-based group “hosting” an official chat gives the appearance of favoritism. Niantic keeps directing us here, to their own forum, for communication.
Why is this (not “ask me anything” but “ask me only what the mods wanna let through limited to 10-15 questions”) not being done here? @NianticBrian
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This really is the best place for it, though I'd settle for Reddit.
Being charitable, I think IUENG may just have made a poor choice of words calling it a Brian Rose AMA. This seems to be an interview with @NianticBrian, in which an IUENG mod will be accepting input from players in choosing the questions to ask Brian. I assume Brian would be open to considering similar interviews with other Ingress news tickers, podcasts, etc.
I think in addition to this it would be great if Brian would resume the tradition of AMAs on this forum (perhaps in the forum category specifically dedicated to that function), since we haven't had one in almost a year, and I'm sure lots of people have questions related to new features like dronenet and portal scanning, among other things that have occurred since last November.
You can ask anything as long as you're not expecting an answer :)
Andrew Krug's AMA may not be perfect but they usually contain good information. Kind of miss it.
Prominent people do private interviews with independent agencies all the time. The only reason the "AMA" is stated is that IUENG is soliciting questions from their readers.
It's not really an AMA. It's an interview with a handful of reader submitted questions.
If you ask *really really nice* you might get RGNN an interview.
My point exactly.
Hello, i'm the Admin of such group/channel. If you read the title of our telegram post, you have certainly seen that the "event" is labelled as an "interview" and here are some reasons why.
ALL THIS BEING SAID, definitely it was not the happiest choice to include the word AMA, we thought of it as a common way to address such short question rounds but, in hindsight, this is not an AMA at all. We'll edit the post but any forwarded message will still have AMA in it.
Questions submitted
EDIT: typo
EDIT2: questions link
To add to the above: we do miss real AMAs as well, and hope Brian or whomever from the CMs will bring them back in some way. It was a great way to have the community's feedback on Ingress in my opinion.
If what I said is your point, then your post is pointless, because this behavior is completely valid and acceptable...
@NianticBrian likely doesn't have the time to do them at the same scale and frequency.
It would be nice to have an Ingress Community Manager again.
It's not really an AMA.
Then why market it as such?
ALL THIS BEING SAID, definitely it was not the happiest choice to include the word AMA, we thought of it as a common way to address such short question rounds but, in hindsight, this is not an AMA at all. We'll edit the post but any forwarded message will still have AMA in it.
Fair enough.
“ALL THIS BEING SAID, definitely it was not the happiest choice to include the word AMA, we thought of it as a common way to address such short question rounds but, in hindsight, this is not an AMA at all. We'll edit the post but any forwarded message will still have AMA in it”
Thank you.
I did not name it and would not have. User-solicited, interviewer selected questions are definitely not an AMA.
We don't want to ask "really really nice". We want the interviews to be had in official communication capacities.
For literally over a half a decade now, Niantic has continued a terrible tradition of putting out answers in sporadic locations, using unofficial forums, chats, and random snippets in various communities to communicate, leaving players to maintain guides, sift through conflicting information, and just generally not know what the heck is going on.
This isn't factional, this isn't, "Well that chat is run by frogs, so we want one for res too", it's literally, "We have these forums, they are official, why aren't we using them?"
You can ask me anything. I can give my best answers but they won't be official.
This is an interview between what is the equivalent of the press corps, and Niantic.
This is not an AMA organised by Niantic.
Jeez, be grateful we're getting it at all. Niantic is under no obligation to do it, and kicking up a stink about the fact that it's not somewhere where you can personally **** them, will just confirm to the 'powers that be' that it shouldn't be done here again.
This is spoken like someone who has never participated in a company and has no idea what user engagement and satisfaction actually looks like.
Niantic as a company that wants to grow and maintain happy customers has an obligation to communicate with its player base. What kind of dysfunctional, abusive relationship do you seriously think this is?
Saying we should be happy they're doing it at all is 100% the wrong response. Stop defending poor communication like we're all orphans who are lucky to get our small bowl of gruel.
Are you subscribed to the telegram announcement channel?
I agree with thesolo. The IUENG "interview" is censored from the start with questions regarding addressing cheating already disallowed.
We will end up with Q&A very similar to before with requests for lasagna recipes or hints about useless new badges. (Don't get me wrong, I love a new badge, but when your player base is dwindling due to rampant cheating it's the least of our concerns).
The player base is starved for material from Niantic and always has been. Krug's AMAs were a good move, however the feedback from Niantic still always lacked any real meat and SoonTM became a byword for the company.
The amount of spoofing going on at the moment is just soul crushing. Recently had island portals spoofed then reset so often I didn't even need to charge them.
How about some statement, anything, on whether Niantic are working on addressing GPS spoofing. At all, anything? Come on people. I don't want any technical info that may help cheats, a simple Yes or No would suffice.
This is the #1 question IUENG should be asking. By avoiding this topic completely, IUENG are just promoting the status quo.
Which one, the official one from Ingress, or the AEIOU feed? Because the official one has no mention of this "AMA".
This is spoken like someone who has never participated in a company and has no idea what user engagement and satisfaction actually looks like.
This is spoken like someone who works regularly in a company that has revenue-negative products as well as high revenue products.
I can tell you exactly where our focus is, and it's not on the revenue-negative products.
Ingress's community has had a long term belief that we deserve far more attention than our revenue stream warrants. I would love to see far more communication and representatives, but we simply can't afford it. The fact that we're getting the Producer of the product to speak to a media outlet is far more than I can tell you those net-negative products I write, would warrant.
I believe Pokemon has a spoofing issue as well as a multi accounting problem.
If this is being ignored because it boosts revenue, please let us know so we can then shut up over the issues.
I mean for communication and announcements.
@NianticBrian doesn't speak for Pokemon, and I think that the Pokemon community managers would be upset if he did.
I realise that. Are you saying the departments are completely shut off from each other or just distracting from the main point?
@carlobolla I don't quite understand why do you request to input the faction in the form. Could you clarify what is that about?
IUENG is supposed to be faction-less. Good job making it a RES-ENL thing. So, even you can even ask nicely and get Enlightened Today an interview. But clearly, being nice is not your strength. Maybe ask someone else to do it and you have a chance.
Faction could be to get a 50:50 question range from both sides.
Good job making it a RES-ENL thing.
Good job assigning blame to me. I'm not the one who's been claiming that IUENG has been ENL biased for years now.
From the OP:
A player-based group “hosting” an official chat gives the appearance of favoritism.
If you don't realize, this favoritism is claiming "ENL favortism", a regular refrain from the poster. I think if an independent group was going to get an interview, IUENG is the right group because it is unbiased.
But sure, go ahead and throw in a few ad hominems.
Are you saying the departments are completely shut off from each other
When it comes to talking to the public, yes, they are directly instructed to limit talking about the other games. I'm sure Brian knows a lot more about Pokemon Go's plans than he says, but he's not going to discuss it for business reasons.