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It's common knowledge that not every CRT started will be finished; there are nearly 32500 on the forum right now, and it's futile to insist that every one of them must be finished. However, when it comes to Staff Discussions, there have only been around 900 since 2015 August 2017, making the prospect of consistently finishing them manageable, which, combined with their importance to wiki policy, makes me consider some motivation for completing them worthwhile. Recently, I have taken up the habit of periodically bumping a few inactive staff threads to draw attention to them and help them finish, which has incurred mixed responses from people who have told me that my bumping has been indiscriminate and unnecessary. As such, to remedy this problem once and for all, I propose the following actions/rule changes for staff discussions:
- All staff discussions from before the forum move (Pre-May 11, 2020) should be locked, as they are so old that it's hard to imagine their topics are still relevant to the modern wiki, so they should be closed. If anyone finds such a locked thread they believe still has merit, they may start a new thread on its subject.
- To ensure new threads don't push old ones into obscurity, there should be a cap on how many staff discussions can be open at once. My original idea was to limit it to 50, but I'm open to other suggestions. However, as more than 50 threads from after the forum move (Post-May 11, 2020) are currently active, this rule won't take effect until we finish enough to bring the count below 50. As such, we should comb through the abandoned staff threads from after the forum move to determine which ones should be locked and which ones still have merit and should be bumped. I've already handled pages 1-4, so we need to check pages 5-9.
- To monitor the staff forum, there should be a "meta" thread either pinned at the top of the staff forum or wiki management for discussions about the staff board, proposals for new staff threads, and managing a queue for proposed staff threads when the forum is full.