Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31256456-20190830060531/@comment-28112409-20190902004555

HAWAIIANpikachu wrote: Vertroyer wrote:

HAWAIIANpikachu wrote: Few thoughts so far.

-There's no real point in removing the Offtopic board, if they want to post Offtopic stuff people can easily do that in message walls and blogs. Merging it with the fun and games board is probably the best option.

-Currently I don't really see it clogging the Recent Wikia Activity. I can still easily find posts. New users would probably go around through the categories at the top (ToS roles, about the game) or through the Main Page.

-Derailing.... happens a lot. But you can't really restrain that, it happens everywhere online and in life.

-Out of the 7 staff we have, I would probably say yeah we might need to work on maybe discussing to do with a few members (example: Rex) Don't see why Vert called out Ghosty though. Rocket I get, but not Ghosty. Message wall shitposts die a lot faster, threads on the off-topic board can stretch for much longer and are even encouraged since the board is entirely around going off-topic. Message walls are for a variety of uses that require contacting a user, they're not specifically made for being off-topic and that's why they're not as severely affected as the board itself

'''That’s kinda true, but also there’s the other side of the coin that there’d be more in quantity due to how fast they would die, further filling up RWA. Most people also generally allow offtopic stuff as well on their Message walls.'''

Define and specify how easily you find posts in the RWA, and bear in mind that experienced long-time users don't have their conveniences generalizing to everyone else.

'''it’s a good thing we have a tool called CTRL+F, you can also just normally scroll through it. Not many things happen daily, so it’s easy to keep track.'''​​​​​​​

In hindsight, voting on TotM is a pretty good use on its own considering how the competition has shifted its judges from the community to the staff. I'm not pulling the statements against Rex and Rocket though.

Still don’t get why you called out Ghosty *shrugs* Some people allowing shitposting is better than a whole board openly inviting everyone to come and go off-topic though. If off-topic activity is de-emphasized, there is a plausible possibility for general off-topic activity to decrease since the wiki is now missing an entire devoted board for the activity. Discord servers and other forms of media can turn out to be more appealing and they get highlighted when the board gets removed.

The RWA is a fair point, but what about the times where consecutive activity on off-topic threads and accumulates and properly clogs the page beyond what ctrl + F and scrolling can do?

I saw from Zed that he was only doing TotM votes but it also said he was doing nothing else wiki-related. I initially thought that was lack of activity, but I suppose voting is still a fair degree of activity.