Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4544033-20150210213900/@comment-15617815-20150212192141

Thehornydovahkiin wrote: This is not necessary but could be an additional kind of category in case someone was looking for people with a certain class. The new gamers will not even look at the NPC classes but some advanced ones might need that because of REASONS. I don't suppose you'd like to state those reasons, instead of being rather vague to the point that you give none.

I agree it can be a checkbox in a search, I just don't see the purpose it would serve, so perhaps instead of stating that there are reasons, maybe list those reasons to support the argument.

I consider myself to be an advanced gamer (been playing games since literally the rebirth of games), and I still can see no purpose for this kind of categorization, given that I can just look up an NPC by name. It might be a good idea to list them by location (i.e. the city they're in) in such cases where one cannot remember the name, however.

Saying that there are reasons to do something in and of itself, is not a supportable argument, and in my opinion it shouldn't be considered enough of a supportable argument to take action towards that end. If there were really reasons to do something, one can simply list them (I might even agree with them, having seen the reasoning myself), in order to prove their point. And while this has nothing to do with right or wrong, we do have the workers in this community to think about, so we have to ask the questions; "Is it worth the time and effort for them to make this change?", "Is it something that the community as a whole can benefit from, or is it a feature that would only mean something to the few, and instead be a waste of effort to put in?", "Does it actually benefit the wiki in any justifiable way?".

This is my personal stance on this:

For the first question. It's been stated that new gamers wouldn't really find a use for this function, whether it's true or not, we've already seen most people in this thread state that there'd be no reason to implement the idea, and I have to assume that is indicative of the wiki's users' opinions as a whole (even though there are a few who like the idea). In that, I do not see it as a worthwhile change, and in my opinion it could waste the mods' time by doing it instead of changes that could positively impact the wiki (in that time).

For the same reason listed above, for the second question, I do not think it would benefit the majority of users here, and once again, given how many in this thread don't have a reason for using such a feature, we have to assume that's how it will be received by the rest of the community, therefore it would not mean anything to most users.

The last question, when I ask myself this, I can only come to the conclusion that would not really benefit the wiki as a whole, and even the apparent 'advanced gamers', who advocate that there are indeed good reasons for this change, have yet to list those reasons. In my opinion, I don't think there is enough reason to do it, given how the community feels about it, it would just be one of those time consuming things that nobody feels the need to use. In fact I'd wager that most of us (like me) don't care either way, and that should tell people just how meaningless it is to those users (and by extension, how unused it would be, by those same users).

I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, I'm being realistic and objective here, this is based off of practicality for the site, as well as what's already been stated.