Board Thread:Consensus track/@comment-7153552-20130927224851/@comment-7153552-20130929220253

Murkywater2 wrote: Even though there are minor editors and main editor, and people who haven't as active recently (like myself) the point of the wiki is so that everyons opinion can be heard, and so its not just the Admins setting and doing everything without community consensus. Timeoin is right in my opinion. So how are we going to fix the wiki and its current problems? Well, the way to fix all problems within the wiki is to talk about them here, so we're on the right track, lol. I think we have made a good first step. So we are at a point where we seem to be getting a handful of different thoughts going, I think this is as good a time as any to start into some deep stuff:


 * Do we need to include the forums as part of MotM nominations?


 * How vital are the forums, really, to continued existence and betterment of the wiki?

These are, I think, the first two things that need to be addressed. Progression from this point will lead us to the final answers. In my opinion, the forums may not be absolutely required for the continuation of this wikia, but I feel there is a lot of good that comes from them. I actually found this wikia via a google search for something that sent me directly to the forums. So to say that they don't bring in new members would be false. I think, also, that there's a certain amount of personal touch that is felt within the forums, it is my preferred place of residence on the site. I like the ability to help other members one on one with a problem rather than making an edit and never seeing how it affects on the grander scale.

That being said, I don't feel like an RP thread is a place to proffer consideration. Nothing against the people there, or the folks that run them, they're some pretty decent folks. Nait has been involved in other forums besides the RP threads (his and others), I just don't feel like those are contributing to the long-term success of the wikia. They serve a purpose or two, to be sure, so don't get me wrong there. I just feel like there are more appropriate criteria to observe first.