Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26486187-20160630135008/@comment-26172435-20160702073713

Regarding suggestion posts @ the wiki & originality:

As we now have the overview board of all community endorsed suggestions in place we will only close a new thread for being unoriginal if the notion brought forward is already exactly covered in an endorsed thread.

In the past, the community and staff often shouted out 'not original', based on the fact that a notion had been proposed once or more often before, regardless of whether anyone could still find it anywhere. In past year that mostly lead to threads and discussions getting killed, but they were left open and cluttered the wiki forum, distracting attention from other potentially meaningful posts while not getting enough support to justify keeping them up. For this reason we started to close such threads a few months ago, be it with a less strict regime than some people think: only when we're certain that a similar notion had been posted before ... not just hear-say. Now we have a fullh compiled overview of what is in the endorsed threads, we can finally have a fully verifiable check on originality. I personally also keep a copy of the late List of Doom for reference, but an exact mention of a notion on that list is no reason to tag a new suggestion unoriginal.

For further discussion on this, please post in the announcement thread on the way we now deal with suggestions on this wiki.