I don't know if this has ever come up, but I think some restrictions need to be placed on the "Feedback Requested" system. The whole point of allowing a section like this was to give users who seriously wanted a genuine opinion about a legitimate squad they had created, and people are taking advantage of this; at the time of this post, there are 661 squads under "Feedback Requested." This flood of squads is taking away from the purpose of the section. Not only are the same people posting countless squads, but some of them really don't even warrant being posted. So many of these squads are not rated because other users don't feel like digging through and/or commenting hundreds of squads just for the sake of being nice, so they avoid the section altogether. To extrapolate the problem, users often leave their unrated squads up for considerable periods of time expecting to eventually receive feedback, and this further clutters the section.

I propose that some sort of limit be imposed on the "Feedback Requested" section. The first thing that comes to mind is to limit the number of squads users can have posted at any given time to some small number, like three, as well as set a squad size limit, say 400 points, so that users don't just post 1000 point squads whose use really isn't ever even feasible (after about 450-500 points, there's no point in asking for feedback because you can put just about anything and everything into a squad). This forces people who have numerous and/or large squads to seriously consider which ones are worth posting, will reduce the number of users who "spam" squads, and improve the overall quality of posted squads. I also think it would be a good idea to limit the amount of time a particular squad can be posted to something like no more than one month. If users haven't received squad feedback by then, it's a good sign that the squad really isn't worth the time to look at. Conversely, if the squad receives an ample amount of comments, the user will have the information they need to edit the squad and can remove it so that others can receive information about their squads.

Sorry about the rambling, but I'd really like to streamline this great new function on the website so that users can get serious and helpful feedback about their squads. Although it had a low rating (<7), one of the squads I posted in this section at one point actually made it into the "Top 200pt. Squads" box for a time with something like 17+ comments. I'd love for every user to receive this kind of feedback on their squads, but the current setup of the system deters this kind of support.

I'll be honest, I hadn't really looked at it before, but I agree, some grouping/filtering would help a lot.

I noticed that clicking on the column headings does not sort the list. Having that working would be an improvement until a better system can be implemented.

I agree that the Feedback Requested section really needs work. When I get a chance to work on it, I'll consult this thread. So keep posting ideas and suggestions here.

After seeing this thread get revived, I have another idea

Maybe make it so that squads that don't receive feedback after a certain amount of time automatically get deleted.(I'm doing it myself now)

Edit: also notice that since the section was made, the squads part of the forums has been getting less attention.

Well...a lot of my squads don't usually get feedback and I have a lot of competitive ideas.

Edit: and yeah, when you said there are some people posting more than 20, that kinda screamed my name.

Shinja, I now you're reading the forums because you just recently made a post in this section. We're nearing 1,000 squads now, and if something doesn't get done relatively soon I fear nothing ever will. I know that revamping this section is not something that can be done quickly and I know you have plenty of other things to do, but it would be nice to at least know if you're trying to work on addressing this issue at the moment.

Holy smokes! Thank you soooooo much, shinja!!!

One thing I didn't mention before that I think would be kind of nice is if the columns used for sorting categories were "fixed;" right now, if you click on them to change the sorting, it causes the browser to reload the page. It would be nice if it would change without reloading the page, like the character search does right now (let me know if you don't know what I'm talking about).

How did you manage to remove so many squads by limiting it to three, yet some people still have more than three squads posted (i.e. after the change, many users who had more than three squads posted now just have three, but others have more than three still)? I'm not saying this needs to be fixed, as it will fix itself in time. I'm just curious as to how you actually got the fix to work from a programming standpoint.