Stoopid N00b Question: What's the Best (ie. Dev-Desired) Way to Facilitate Change?

[loramin]

As this is my first post ever let me start by saying that Project 1999 is awesome, I'm having a TON of nostalgic fun playing on it, and I'm incredibly greatful to "the devs" for putting the whole thing together and maintaining it (even when annoying stuff like hard drive failures happen). Kudos.

I do have a (stoopid n00b) question though, and as with all stoopid n00b questions please feel free to tell me "you dumb F*ing *OFFENSIVE TERM OF CHOICE* this is already answered in another thread" [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

My question is this: from the devs perspective, what should the community do to make changes happen to Project 1999? Is posting on this forum the best bet? Private messaging the devs with well thought out ideas? Should people get polls together to show how much support there is for an idea? Or do the devs feel (and they would totally be justified in feeling this way) that they don't want community feedback, so any of the above would basically be a waste of time?

I ask all this because not because I have any particular rules change I want. Rather, I read a lot of posts on this forum that advocate for a rules change (usually, but not always, to raiding), and people get very ... passionate, but it feels like everyone's just wasting time arguing with each other. Of course, online forums will always have a ton of unproductive yelling, but I have to think there's a more productive way to harness all that passion, and channel it towards making Project 1999 better for everyone, so I'm wondering what (if anything) that is.

Or, if the devs really don't want feedback, at least knowing that might save people some stress. Just curious ...