Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-31507215-20170406163015

In this post, I will be talking about the Community-endorsed Suggestion Overview threads, and possible ways to improve them. I am sorry if this comes across as a little blunt. That is not my intent, I just want to get to the point.

The overview threads, in my opinion, need work. Please don't get me wrong, I am very grateful for what AlteOgre has done, but I think that they could use some improvements.

Here are my thoughts. Currently, (please correct me if I am wrong) because the Overview Threads are forum threads created by AlteOgre, and therefore can only be changed/fixed/updated by him. That is not bad, but that puts a lot of weight on one person, especially with all the suggestions that have been flowing in recently. So, I suggest that the Overview Threads be instead put on a normal wiki page. That way, I believe, (A) normal users can help with it, and (B) there would be a little more freedom as to how to sort things.

Please keep in mind that I have very little experience in using wiki code, so I don't know if this would be possible, but here is how I think the page should look/work. As opposed to the 7 or so separate threads that there are now, there would only one page, but it would have a number of drop-down menus, with the same general criteria. In the drop down menus, there would be headings separating the different, smaller categories. The threads would then be sorted under the headings, like they are now, with the title, author, date, etc. I think (but I don't know because I haven't tested it) that this would help people find things a little more easily.

The last thing that would have to happen, is that, in the suggestion forum, a notice would be posted asking people to post a comment on the page with the overviews letting people working on the page know that they posted a new thread.

Those are my thoughts. I am totally open to criticism and suggestions, but I wanted to get that out there.

Thanks for your time.

S'moregoth , Demise of all that is Edible  , Lord of Autumno  the Toasted    (Feel the Power!) 