Board Thread:Staff/@comment-8846246-20180120084249/@comment-5346296-20180121132317

With the seperate article comment areas idea, I think, if it's possible, that we could have two areas to comment? One for suggestions and all that, the other for general on topic convo but in the same layout, like a talk page? I've seen Wiki's add text to their comment boxes before telling users what they can and can't do there, that would leave less room for people getting frustrated. However, if we could only do forums then a great example is the Once Upon a Time wiki, where they have the same system of only commenting on forums, however, they usually have older and more mature fans (not in all cases, but Yansim fandom is definitely an example of a fandom with tonnes of kids that have a tendancy to lash out and complain if, say, a comment got deleted because it wasn't a suggestion). Also the Once Upon a Time fandom is more about theories and all that, rather than general discussion, Yansim is a wave of general discussion, usually due to the differences in the two fandoms and media. I don't know if the forum idea would be realistic with this fandom and how people comment here, it would be a large difference and probably warrants some more opinions. I'm so down for a lot more comment moderation and I don't mind moderating (if we did have the forum idea I wouldn't mind moderating the article comments), I think there should be clear comment rules because the comment areas are a bit of a mess atm, depending on the page, so if a comment policy were to be written up, who would do it? It's probably best this be somewhat of a priority, opinions on periodically deleting comments?, Some pages have way too many.

I'll just follow the same format Grape did ^

Image: I definitely have some stuff in mind, some is a repeat of Wikia TOU, some is unique to this wiki, should I write up a draft here or do what Jack did with the draft council page? (I'm not sure how to set those up)

Articles: I think article guides and general editing tips are a good idea, especially for pages that are a bit inconsistent (like Easter Egg pages), a lot of users come here to edit but don't know how to use source mode and all that, so it might be a good idea to help with that, since we do have quite a limited number of editors who's edits consistently don't need to be modified.

Forum threads: Brill, will wait for a draft.

Chat: I'm definitely not an expert of chat at all so will wait for your draft. If the comment rules include seperating suggestiosn and general commenting then chat could definitely become way more useful, this would give an opportunity for helpers to evolve beyond just helper (which is somewhat its own issue).

Blogs: Even though there's a rule for them to be on topic, it may just be best to vote on whether to keep those rules or not, people usually use them for holiday announcements and all that.

MW: These weirdly seem like staff no go areas, (they aren't but frequent rule 13 breakage happens there often) say if a user breaks the bullying rule on someone else' message wall, usually it's up to the user to report it.