Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1738746-20150507104334/@comment-26269116-20150515002117

Bluesonic1 wrote: @Meresya: In short, the Skyrim board just has way too much traffic, that people can't search for help topics in them, leading them to create more duplicate help topics of ones that already exist. The idea of this board is to dump all Skyrim help topics in one place- makes it easier to search through, read through and for others to offer help & solutions to. Also acts as a solution to AzuraKnight's highlighted issue regarding Topic Search- again, see my first post please!

Yes, I agree the most common problems should be listed on the article page's bug section along with a bug fix- most of them do have this. But this is not an issue of the Skyrim board nor of the solution I proposed- this is a completely separate issue of users not adding bugs to the bug section when they should and needs to be addressed by encouraging new people to edit on the wiki. Besides, this step kinda comes after having a forum discussion where the bug can be discussed, confirmed and hopefully fixed and then later added to articles (so again, not totally relative to this solution's topic).

Thanks for the response BlueSonic. Yeah, at the end I waxed and waned about whether or not to even post it, but since it did have a couple good points I just went ahead. And, again, this is why I say it should be figured out in advance exactly what extent the idea is meant to handle. I fully understand that it is just being used as a dumping ground, in order to centralize the major traffic. However, once implimented I can see it causing other problems, like still way too many repeat posts for the same problems even though it is searchable. Let's face it. A lot of times people are just plain lazy, rushed, or even overwhelmed.

I guess what I am saying is it might be of benefit to go into greater detail and depth. For instance, having "someone" in charge of overseeing the board, who can edit topics of posted queries in order to make them more informative and on spec, move multiple topics into a common topic thread, and oversee the discussions so others know when it would be okay to add a found bug.

[This section contains bugs related to "Something". Before adding a bug to this list, consider the following:

Please reload an old save to confirm if the bug is still happening. If the bug is still occurring, please post the bug report with the appropriate system template 360 ,  PS3  ,  PC. If a fix to the bug is known, please provide it, but avoid use of first-person-anecdotes: such discussions belong on the appropriate forum board and not the article.]

Per the above, the only bugs that are allowable to add are those bugs that persist. Yet there are a plethora of potential bugs listed throughout the board. Most attentive users are not going to post about a potential bug once they reload a previous save and it works just fine. Which is fine, and yet completely wrong. The board seems to be saying don't bother us with bugs that don't stop you from continuing your game. If you can fix it by reloading, then there is no bug. Yet if the bug can hit once, then it can hit twice. By having the whys listed for user created bugs, then the users are more able to reload and not recreate the bug. This winds up being trial and error on missing bugs and the sole purpose of the listed potential bugs. In short, it is a contradiction.

So, in summary again. While I understand the intended purpose of the suggestion, my feeling is that it will most likely create as many problems as it fixes. By stopping for a minute and exploring everything involved, you may be able to lessen the overall created issues while also increasing the number of solved issues. Sorry for not being explicit before. I'd say one day maybe I will learn not to post when I am not happy with it, but I still haven't. It is probably safe to say I most likely never will...

Finally, I have ran into bugs in the game that were kind of listed, yet not. Per the instructions I didn't bother posting about them because of what was listed. I also don't agree with it and I think the board suffers due to it. One example was posted in the first thread - one reason I posted it anyway. Just saying...