Community Portal/Debate on Discussions
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Decision: Keep active discussion on the Community Portal. Archive in a sub-page when necessary.
Debate on DiscussionsEdit
When Wrye made the original page, he decided to include debates within this page. I prefer to keep them on a separate page, and simply have blurbs here about the decisions that have been made, to keep things concise. So I'm putting this debate here (since this was the style currently in use before we lost the Community Portal), please post your comments. --DragoonWraith TALK 00:02, 27 June 2007 (EDT)
- The approach at UESP is that discussions start on the Community Portal and then move to a subpage if they get very long. The advantage of starting them on the CP is that people who watch it may ignore a first post, but will notice if a discussion becomes contentious and then pay attention. Whereas if you only have the subpage, there will just be one notice when the subpage is started -- and thus your regulars may fail to notice a discussion that they would like to contribute too if they knew it were contentious.
- The downside of this approach is that the CP page tends to grow in length and thus require more active pruning to archives and subpages. And countering argument in preceding paragraph, if it's the norm for longer discussions to start on subpages, regulars can adjust to that.
- Either way, links to subpages should be in an easy to find place. I've recreated the Contents section that got lost earlier to facilitate that. --Wrye 19:07, 28 June 2007 (EDT)
- Hmm... That sounds reasonable. And it seems to be working pretty well with us here. Alright then, unless we have any objections, I'm amenable to that. --Dragoon Wraith TALK 19:30, 2 July 2007 (EDT)