Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-26197005-20150429213844/@comment-26197005-20150502163039

For me personally, AzuraKnight Opposing this is the death blow... Above and beyond my fanboy status for him, he is the one who gives the most good answers to MY questions... I also see him as being the one who would have benifited the most from this. Specificly marking as answered and then locking a thread, being able to change topic line to include "Question:" and "Answered", etc.,. It was and is my intention to try to help find a solution for this problem, one that will enhance the functionality of the forums. Frankly, if AzuraKnight does not see this as accomplishing that purpose, then it is settled. Back to the drawing board... But, that is not the end of the world, eh?

What is disheartening is the fact that the predominant reason given that this will not work is that we as a community will not be bothered to follow the "rules" or even read them... To be honest, that one brreaks my heart my friends... If we cannot implenent changes to our behavior that will improve the flow and acces of information on our own wiki, what does that say about us to new users?

At a gaming store that I frequent, Poki-Kids were banned, because they were thugs who threatened other gamers and wiped poop on the walls. Litterally... I have never been able wrap my head around it.

To me rules become laws when no one will follow them... So if we need to create a stricter format for our forums where people have no choice but to follow the rules, because the code will not allow anything else, then so be it... But, I wish there was another way... It says something about the state of affairs here and our confidence level in our community of users that we do not believe it is worth the effort to even try.

Let me be clear here: I believe that AzuraKnight and the other staff here are frankly amazing! The internet and publications on it are my familys business. I see my brother go through hell trying to heard cats all day every day. If people like AzuraKnight do not believe that such a poilcy, or really any poilcy will be followed, then scripting poilcy into laws is the solution. I also believe that we have an amzing core of users here, one I am honored to be a fringe member of. I am new here. But, I see true believers! And, I love it! The whole of TESwiki is greater than the sum of it's parts. But, this is an indicator of a larger problem. One that has me on my heels. We sneed to face that as a community, before it is our undoing...

Once again, due to my admiration of AzuraKnight, I no longer have confidance in this as a solution, this is not an attack on the man! dear god! Please no one take it as such! Quite the opposite...

Despite our locking horns in the past, the same goes for SuperSajuuk. I admire the mans efforts to find solutions to problems that he finds, as well as his drive to search out and solve problems in the first place. I may not agree with him at times, but htat does not mean that his heart is not in the right place or even that he is wrong, as in fact I may well be the wrong one. Case in point: this attempt at a solution.

A house devided against itself cannot stand... If we are divided against our users, how can we function? Even if they are one time casual users, who only popped in to find an answer... Once I was just such a one... And  the quality of this wiki drew me in! It's core of users and it's awesome staff, all drew me in! For reasons of having to deal with net stuff all the time, frankly, I never join these things... Too much like other things I have tried hard to avoid (cat hearding... politics...), yet I did join. And I have been very pleased with that decision.

I move to close this consensus

Nomar, the Nomarian