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you pretty much just said what I did. Though the biggest mistakes they usually make are using friends who are too close to them and get butthurt easily. And yeah Discord makes it easier, but at the cost of a large portion of your future patrons. I can put a billboard up at a busy intersection or I can open a shop there at the same cost, which one would be better?Discord makes it easier to weed out the ObviousTrolls™, and the "why aren't you doing what I want" crowd though.
I know of some devs that have friends/page moderators that track stuff here for them, while mostly avoiding this site. When they do show up here, it is to make a single post then bounce again without reading/responding to anything here.
Is it the best way to do it? Maybe, maybe not. I'm not a dev (between my lack of talent and my tendency to offer people explicit directions when telling them to go to hell, I would make a terrible dev) so I can't say one way or another. I can say that it is the better choice for some dev's though.
They might be missing out on some useful info cleverly hidden between the "waaaa" comments; but if avoiding this place is what they need to do in order to keep themselves sane, and to keep them happy with their own projects, then it is probably the best thing for them.
I started catching up on the comment sections in a few of the games I follow and I can think of at least two devs that should avoid this place (at least temporarily), because the negativity is getting to them.
But it's not like CleverNameGames isn't here, if you play the game he shamelessly plugs the site as one the MC visits (though parody's it as furryporn). So I'm sure he reads in some fashion.