Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26172435-20160430224645

There has been a lot of discussion in the past months on how to proceed with the suggestions forum.

After a few unfinalized attempts earlier this year, the admin team has requested the lead forum moderators to work out a final procedure. As we have come to a number of conclusions and decisions we are now ready to roll out the first phase of the adjusted procedure on how we deal with suggestions aimed to improve the mod.

Main set-up

 * Users post their suggestions in the Suggestions forum. They shall comply with the Forum Rules & Code of Conduct, and not include planned or 'What not to Suggest' features.
 * Suggestion threads will eventually get the status tag [Rejected], [Expired] or [Endorsed].

Rejected

 * If a thread doesn't meet requirements, it will be closed and tagged [Closed:Reason]. It will remain visible on the forum until after 2 weeks it will be tagged [Rejected:Reason] and removed from view.
 * The way we interpret the requirements and judge on it may change gradually as we may raise the bar in the future, dependent on other decision making related to this. For now, assume that the way we dealt with this in the past few months will be exemplary.

Expired

 * After 2 months (for now) we will check if a thread is generally appreciated by the community or not. If not, the thread will be tagged [Expired] and removed from view.

Cleanouts

 * We will perform 'cleanouts' for removal of [Rejected] and [Expired] threads, twice each month. These are scheduled on the 1st and the 16th day of each month. These must be finished within a week.
 * The lead forum mods, see below, will perform these cleanouts. For the time being they will be the only 3 persons tagging any suggestions thread.
 * The first cleanout of [Rejected] threads has just been finalized. The first cleanout of [Expired] threads will start on May 16th. This means each original poster of older active threads that run the risk of getting a [Rejected] tag, still has two weeks to add a link to their suggestion threads on their User profile page, or anything similar under User domains, to prevent their suggestions threads from no longer being visible / easy to find.

Endorsed

 * Sufficient support by the community will lead to the status [Endorsed]. This will be achieved when a thread has received 20 kudos or more.
 * Kudos granted by moderators and admins have a higher weight. Moderator kudos have a weight of 2, and admin kudos have a weight of 3. This is to ensure that less popular and/or discussed, but potentially very valuable suggestions will also be able to achieve the [Endorsed] status if sufficient staff support is acquired. This puts higher demands on the objectiveness related to staff kudos. We trust staff members will act responsibly and use their kudos with care.
 * Suggestion threads that got sufficient support will be moved on the Endorsed Suggestions Board. Threads moved there will not be closed. That board will function as main archive for the mod team to use as source of inspiration.
 * Endorsed suggestion threads may still be used for discussion and further improvement of the original post. We will encourage this as these threads are the most likely potential source of inspiration for the mod team. Note that we will therefore be extra strict on moderating these threads: no spam and on-topic!

Issues still to be addressed

 * Update texts on various forum and rules pages to thoroughly implement and communicate all of the above.
 * What to do with potentially [Endorsed] threads that got removed from view in the cleanout upon launch.
 * What to do with the List of Doom.
 * Cleanout of the Endorsed Suggestions Board.
 * Several other minor and major issues.

Closure note
This thread will be used to inform you all about the procedure we will implement in the coming weeks.

This thread will remain closed until further notice. We're still working out some relevant details we need to properly communicate before we can unleash a flood of your questions and feedback. ;)

On behalf of the wikia staff team,

Lead forum mods: Ithilion, WarPig and Alte

Supervising admin: Grievous 