Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-34795859-20171230110926



I know this has been suggestion twice before, but I am suggesting it again.

No, I’m not suggesting we ban anyone who comments a little thing on an OC page; I’m suggesting that we stop the flood of page comments.

I know this is not a problem much anymore considering how active the wiki is now, but it’d be good for preventing it in the future.

This summer, the activity for the wiki was constantly flooded with comments on OC pages that are joke back and forth roleplaying. This wouldn’t be a problem, if it wasn’t for the fact that every single comment appears in the activity, thus blocking anyone from seeing actual wiki activity such as blog posts, actual criticism on pages and other things.

There are many other ways of roleplaying, such as message walls, forum threads or even discord/other social media. These ways are, in my opinion, much more convenient to both bystanders and participants of the roleplay. With threads and message wall messages, rather than showing each individual comment in the activity, it bumps the original post back up.

Some points made by opposers of the previous threads that I would like to bring up:

-“What if some people are too anxious to ask someone in their DMs/on their wall?” Well, what about if the person could merely start the RP on the page, but after the first couple of responses (if the other responds) it is taken to a message wall, thread or social media?

-“It helps with character development” This point didn’t exactly make sense to me, but I’ll bring it up anyways. It doesn’t help with character development, and in my opinion it hinders it. Would you rather your OC page’s comments be filled with “[OC] walks over. ‘Henlo’ they say.” Or constructive criticism, ideas, relationship requests, etc? The latter seems to be the better choice, as if for example, someone does not have the best grammar someone can ask to have it cleared up, someone could easily find a kisekae code or fan work, or have their OC reviewed and get tips on how it can be revised without scrolling through literally hundreds (I’ve seen it on many pages.) of roleplaying related comments.

-“What if the person wants to RP with that specific OC?” Well, it’s simple. Just ask in your request to roleplay if the person can use that specific OC.

-“Isn’t it inconvenient to make new threads for each new roleplay?” Well, that doesn’t necessarily have to happen. I’ve seen some users make “[User A] + [User B]’s roleplay thread” threads and every time they started a new roleplay, they just started roleplaying again.

-“But it takes less time to comment on the OC page!” It literally only takes a few seconds and a few extra words more to start an RP somewhere else. This shouldn’t even be a point made, but I saw it appear a few times

Obviously, this is optional, but if people could leave their reasons for opposing, it would be very beneficial to me as I can figure out if there is anything to be added!!





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