Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31256456-20190830060531/@comment-27398195-20190902003708

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.'''

Derailing can be restraint, mods are not there to be staring statues, they are there to moderate. There aren't as much derailed threads as there was way back then when Pokechurin tried looking for examples, and that's a significant difference showcasing the effect of mods actually trying to limit or lower the frequency of said issue because they're consistently reinforcing being on-topic and punishing derailing.

'''Derailing can be restrained, yes. Staff can also be more easily alerted through discord now, as more people are using it'''

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*