Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24325144-20141001194150/@comment-17114085-20141003113540

XDEnd00 wrote: I didn't take a position since I felt both sides have good arguments, and the Hub Comppromise seems aan extremely well-fitting idea, but could someone explain more about it? Like, will this wiki hold the RP's first parts, or only the introduction and character forms (which would be posted on this wiki's thread whenever someone entered the RP at all, no matter when they do so; or (let's say the second part is already going on at the other wiki) on the current part of the RP?) ? Also, will there be a voting on which wiki the RPs are supposed to take place, or would we be directed to the TESRP wiki? This Wiki will hold the main/original post, the one that establishes the premise, the setting, the rules and the character form for the RP. It will also include a link to the Wiki that is hosting the RP, the link can either be on the main/original post or on another post under it. The main/original post will also be posted on the Wiki that is hosting the RP. Any links to future parts would also be posted here, so users that want to join an RP that already has, like for example, 5 parts can click directly on the link to part 5 instead of going to part 1 and then scrolling down to click the link to part 2, and then scrolling down and clicking on the link to part 3, etc.

Yesterday in the chat Daedraborn made a very good analogy for what the RP threads would become if this Compromise were to be adopted. They would basically become book covers and indexes, with all the pages of the book being stored on another Wiki. That way the RPs' presence on the Wiki is greatly reduced but not removed. So it no longer would become a problem for the recent edits as it would spam it less than any other Board.

As for voting on which Wikis will host the RPs, no there won't be a vote. Because we aren't picking one Wiki over another. We are giving the RP community the option to go to whatever wiki they want, and even let them make new RP Wikis should they want to. The decision falls onto the users as to where they want their RPs to be hosted. The main three we have in mind are the Sandbox Wiki, the ESRP Wiki and the Skyrim RP Wiki. Anubis has also stated that users can use the Apexpedia to host RPs should they want to.

And now a message to the RPers that see the vote on the first post and think. "Why do we need to compromise, we won. We have double the votes, the Board should stay the same." I understand where you are coming from. I know to a few of you it feels like we shouldn't opt for a compromise, as it feels like we are surrendering. Well I ask you, do you think if kept the Board the same that the mainspace editors would just leave the Board alone forever? Now we may outnumber them but will that always be the case? What if one day the resentment that is caused by the divide in the community builds up until someone snaps and decides to just remove the Board anyway. A lot of non-RPer users resent the RP community and think us only freeloaders that use the Wiki's space without contributing to it. Do you think those people will tolerate us forever? No, the answer is no. And because of that a lot of Drama will be caused and the community will suffer for it. We need to opt for the compromise now because it is not to late to mend this wound in the community without cutting it apart. We need to opt for the compromise because it would make everyone happy, it is the best thing for the community.