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DF Spoilers Reference child board
Serack:
This suggestion is a place for things like some of the DF spoilers stickies to live and otherwise be born and grow. The FAQ section would be a good spot for stuff like this if it were allowed to be dynamic, but since others can't contribute there, the most useful things there had to be moved over to spoilers.
One of the points of making a seperate home for these, is that ones that are deemed particularly significant can be saved from oblivion via the sticky function without cluttering up the main Spoilers discussion area.
Remember the topic built a year ago that listed every time there was a Soul Gaze? It would have been perfect for this section, but now it is gone. (I think I archived it on another computer though, I'll have to look later)
Priscellie:
The question is how to avoid clutter. If folks are allowed to post there freely, what's to prevent this board from becoming functionally identical to the Spoilers/Books sections? If folks want to nominate certain threads for inclusion in the FAQ, that's awesome! Frankly, that's how it was designed to work. :D Folks come up with awesome things in the main boards, then the best bits are culled out and preserved under glass. Then if more awesome stuff on the same topic is generated on the main boards, a mod can merge it in.
We want to make sure the most brilliant and useful stuff is preserved, but we need the whole community to help us identify what that is.
Serack:
--- Quote from: Priscellie on May 01, 2012, 04:54:00 PM ---The question is how to avoid clutter. If folks are allowed to post there freely, what's to prevent this board from becoming functionally identical to the Spoilers/Books sections? If folks want to nominate certain threads for inclusion in the FAQ, that's awesome! Frankly, that's how it was designed to work. :D Folks come up with awesome things in the main boards, then the best bits are culled out and preserved under glass. Then if more awesome stuff on the same topic is generated on the main boards, a mod can merge it in.
We want to make sure the most brilliant and useful stuff is preserved, but we need the whole community to help us identify what that is.
--- End quote ---
Well the FAQ is kind of off on it's own and lonely... And without member contributions, it kinda seems to stagnate... (and now has inertia towards this trend continuing IMO) Having it as a "child board" would kinda pyscologically make it more closely associated with the discussions in the spoilers. However I'm not confident of the best way to strike a happy medium between a behind glass museum that might be prone to stagnation and irrelivancy, and a dynamic discussion that might become functionally redundant to the other similar boards.
One possibility is to have a locked "child board" to move away from the FAQ's inactivity inertia, with multiple designated mods that actively suggest topics for porting (and ensure that they don't fall off the radar in the spoilers section) and then do whatever maintenance that might be necessary for presentation purposes. Maybe call them curators. My experience with my work on the WoJ section is that I can sometimes burn out and lose interest, letting some details go unfinished for a little while (I still have one GS release Q&A that I had missed in the latest big set of updates and have now been sitting on for over a month, and before that I spent quite a few months from August to Febuary mostly inactive) so having a number of people working in this capacity might be a good idea (and it is quite enjoyable to contribute in a capacity like this).
I have an image of a function of the "Curators" where they maintain a "significant theories" thread, and when a "Curator" sees a new theory that seems particularly significant contributed in the spoilers section, they say so, and suggest to the OP that they spend some time tightening up the wording and support and such for "preservation." Then the "Curator" either requests an admin type to port over the tightened up version into this new, under glass, topic or copies it over and gives credit kind of like I do with the transcriptions.
Similar with "lists" and other reference threads like the aformentioned list of soulgazes.
Priscellie:
That's a really awesome idea! Bringing this to the other mods' attention.
Serack:
Other "Curator" functions
After a new book is released, someone in the regular spoilers section might post a topic with new instances of X that has a topic in the "Reference" board, and one of the curator can copy over those instances into the topic under glass.
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