The Queue: Flashback to me
by Alex Ziebart 
Apr 18th 2012 at 11:00AM
A reader by the name of Boven sent in the video above to be used as a Queue header. I have no idea what the heck it is. Enjoy!
i.see.what.i.did.there asked:
Can anyone confirm that one of the many awesome glyphs druids will be getting in MoP will be a permanent tree form glyph?
Yes. Also, your name was super annoying to type. I suppose I could have copy/pasted it, but where's the fun in that?
coville asked:
Any word on Worgan mounts? I remember hearing that a horse mount was going to be implemented, is there an update to this?
That already happened. You can buy them right now in Darnassus with the appropriate reputation.
ash asked:
Are quests within the new zones on Pandaria strictly linear like they were in Cata? Or is there a set of "main" quest chains, but plenty of stand alone quests to do as well? I really hope they went back to the TBC model on this...
There are a few core storyline quest chains that guide you throughout the zone, but then you can find all sorts of nonlinear quest chains scattered throughout. You can do most of the questing content in any order you'd like. Cataclysm's supreme linearity is gone, thankfully.
Drokka asked:
Will this comment system get comment editing anytime soon?
No. Hopefully, we will never have comment editing. Comment editing is a minus to us, not a plus. We would specifically avoid comment systems that allow it, if we can at all help it. Allowing comments to be edited by users allows people to maliciously alter the flow of a conversation that has already happened and completely change the context of a discussion. If someone posts about one thing, 10 people agree with it, then the original poster changes their initial comment ... those 10 people are suddenly agreeing with something they may or may not agree with at all.
Comment editing would also make moderation more difficult. Rather than checking new comments for abuse, we would need to eternally monitor all existing comments to ensure someone didn't take their perfectly innocent comment and edit it afterwards to include spam links or other such things. Even if there was a time limit on editing -- say ... 10 minutes -- that still adds significant moderation time. Rather than skimming each comment once to make sure it's OK, we need to start making a point to babysit every comment for 10 minutes each. That's a colossal waste of time. Time that we could be using to do other things, such as producing content for you to read every day.
The only legitimate use for an edit feature would be to eliminate typos, but that benefit doesn't outweigh all of the potential cons. If you make a typo, reply to it with another comment correcting that typo. It's the same level of effort, really. Or don't correct it. We've all been on the internet long enough to figure out when someone accidentally dropped a leter from a word.
And since we're on the topic of comments, I might as well pounce on a couple of other issues I've been seeing crop up recently. Avatar caching issues are being investigated, and Open ID logins should be fixed in the next platform update within a week or two.
jonyboy666 asked:
Where is my promised LOLCat queue?
Adam ran off with it, never to return.
quietkjun asked:
If I decide not to buy Mists, but continue to play the existing content, will my level cap still be raised to 90 or will it stay at 85? i know I wont be able to visit Pandaria or engage in pet battles, etc.
You're stuck at 85.
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