Two things to help increase the visibility of Dev responses

[entelin 13]

It's fortunate that Rocket makes a significant effort to read and respond to many posts. Often these responses are to the same questions or variations of a question repeatedly. While one can never eliminate the need for that, it is I think important to at least ensure that it's easy to find Dev responses to any given post, both while browsing, and more widely on the forums.

The forums already has a good feature to view all the posts of someone, here [searchInKey]=&userMode=content"]http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=user_activity&search_app=forums&mid=199&sid=99a19207da0d85c5c8238039739d4d39&search_app_filters[forums][searchInKey]=&userMode=content

However many users will not know about that since it first depends on knowing who the Devs are, and then navigating a few options deep to get there. Remember, many forum visitors will just lurk without even signing up for an account. New players may not know who the devs are to begin with.

So I would suggest initially to have a prominent button at the top of the forums to this link for a start. Ideally it might be something more custom, but even this I think would have a positive effect.

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Secondly, and more importantly I think, there should be a button on the side of any forum topic that has a dev response. Clicking this button should bring you directly to the dev's post. At that post, should there be another dev response in the topic, there would be another button which would bring you to the next, and so on.

This is useful because it allows readers to skip over much of the inevitable noise / fighting / worthless content, instead of having to actually skim it. This doesn't diminish ones ability to read everyone else's posts, but it does give proper attention and accessibility to the devs.

Example of this system in action: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=topics&f=258 (I had actually recommended this there before they implemented it, probably not related, but I do think it works very well.)