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While I don't believe that the new True Mass Forwarding report method (where you can send 40 reports, and a player gets a mail asking to accept/decline the receiving of reports), is the correct way to go, if it gets implemented, I do think it still needs some work.
There are two issues I see with being able to Mass Forward Reports, and I believe they are something we should try to correct prior to launching the new feature.
1) With more efficient tribes, players will get mail bombed, there will be 30-40 mails every other day asking if they'd like to accept forwarded reports, which means their regular mail is going to start getting missed, especially for leadership who seem to have oodles of mail in their mailbox at all times.
2) As people can now truly mass forward reports, peoples reports folders are going to take a serious hit, and they are going to start losing their reports in a mix of forwarded reports. (my tribe on .net already suffers this as we do forward reports regardless of not being able to do it en masse.) Yes we can click on forwarded, and then move them all into an archive, but when you log in after a weekend away with a sitter, and have 50 pages of forwarded reports, it's a real pain.
So in order to correct these, I'm proposing two ideas:
1) a slice from my other idea on a tribal report database:
Have a hardcoded folder for Forwarded Reports, which all forwarded reports will move into automatically upon receipt. This way forwarded reports will never hassle a player again, and they can view them at their leisure, without losing the time cleaning up their reports box, to get to their own reports.
2) Add a filter on your mail box, which will allow you to auto accept or auto decline, any forwarded report request, and delete the mail. This way we won't have to suffer mass mails unless we choose to turn this filter off.
There are two issues I see with being able to Mass Forward Reports, and I believe they are something we should try to correct prior to launching the new feature.
1) With more efficient tribes, players will get mail bombed, there will be 30-40 mails every other day asking if they'd like to accept forwarded reports, which means their regular mail is going to start getting missed, especially for leadership who seem to have oodles of mail in their mailbox at all times.
2) As people can now truly mass forward reports, peoples reports folders are going to take a serious hit, and they are going to start losing their reports in a mix of forwarded reports. (my tribe on .net already suffers this as we do forward reports regardless of not being able to do it en masse.) Yes we can click on forwarded, and then move them all into an archive, but when you log in after a weekend away with a sitter, and have 50 pages of forwarded reports, it's a real pain.
So in order to correct these, I'm proposing two ideas:
1) a slice from my other idea on a tribal report database:
Have a hardcoded folder for Forwarded Reports, which all forwarded reports will move into automatically upon receipt. This way forwarded reports will never hassle a player again, and they can view them at their leisure, without losing the time cleaning up their reports box, to get to their own reports.
2) Add a filter on your mail box, which will allow you to auto accept or auto decline, any forwarded report request, and delete the mail. This way we won't have to suffer mass mails unless we choose to turn this filter off.