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News and Announcements Guidelines (STAFF ONLY)

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Thank you for the reply.

I have added the new rules text:

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Discussion_Rules?type=revision&diff=7781612&oldid=7770559

Here is the current description text for our News and Announcements subforum:

"Important news and information regarding the wiki.

Any threads created to incite drama or cause other damage to this community should quickly be deleted or closed by our staff."

And here is the current description text for our General Discussion subforum:

"This board is for general conversations about the wiki."

Does somebody here have suggestions for how exactly they should be modified?
 
As said before, something like
This board is for general conversations, some not necessarily related to this wiki.
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I'd like for the description to also make it clear that this board is a bit serious, at least more so than the Fun and Games one, but I can't think of a good way to fit that part without inviting misconceptions.
 
Thank you for helping out.

Do any of our staff members here have suggestions as well?
 
Antvasima said:
Thank you for the reply.

I have added the new rules text:

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Discussion_Rules?type=revision&diff=7781612&oldid=7770559

Here is the current description text for our News and Announcements subforum:

"Important news and information regarding the wiki.

Any threads created to incite drama or cause other damage to this community should quickly be deleted or closed by our staff."

And here is the current description text for our General Discussion subforum:

"This board is for general conversations about the wiki."

Does somebody here have suggestions for how exactly they should be modified?
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Good and well-considered help and suggestions would be very appreciated here.
 
Antvasima said:
How about this draft version?

"Our News and Announcements subforum is intended to feature crucial site-wide announcements, ranging from new staff memberships to changes in indexing standards, or other important topics that directly concern our wiki and community as a whole. Topics regarding deaths of prominent actors or authors, major recent entertainment media releases, or similar should usually be posted in our General Discussion subforum, as they do not directly concern the running of our wiki in itself."
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This looks good to me

News and Announcements should only be for very important VSBW related messages
 
Thank you very much for helping out with input. It seems safest to wait for some more staff evaluations though.
 
Looking back at the discussion, it seems this bit was forgotten to discuss, so I may as well share it so staff don't have to be pinged twice:

Bobsican said:
I also think that posting threads (not commenting on them, I'm sure XenForo supports that) in there should be restricted to staff members, not only is this baiting misuse especially from sockpuppets, regular users shouldn't have the right to highlight whatever they want without a good reason, and at that point they should ask an staff member for approval.

I know some of this may seem a bit excessive, but imagine if any user could just "pin" in the wiki anything they want, it's detrimental at best.
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SamanPatou said:
I also agree that the description looks good.

The General Discussion forum should simply feature a describtion that points out that its purpose is for broad discussions on various topics, from discussion threads on media, news and such, maybe with a clause forbidding specific irl topics such as politics.
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Saman took the words out of my keyboard. Something along the lines of:

"This board is intended for general discussions on various topics pertaining to the interests of this wiki and the broader media surrounding it, including personalities and companies. However, discussions involving serious real world topics, like politics, are not allowed."
 
Thank you for helping out. 🙏🙏🙏

So would something like this be fine to apply then?

News and Announcements Forum description text:

"Our News and Announcements subforum is intended to feature crucial site-wide announcements, ranging from new staff memberships to changes in indexing standards, or other important topics that directly concern our wiki and community as a whole. Topics regarding deaths of prominent actors or authors, major recent entertainment media releases, or similar should usually be posted in our General Discussion subforum, as they do not directly concern the running of our wiki in itself."

General Forum description text:

"This subforum is intended for general discussions regarding various topics related to the interests of this wiki and the broader media surrounding it, including entertainers and companies. However, discussions involving serious real world topics, such as politics, are not allowed."
 
Thank you. It seems best to wait for a few more replies before I apply this though.
 
Antvasima said:
Thank you for helping out. 🙏🙏🙏

So would something like this be fine to apply then?

News and Announcements Forum description text:

"Our News and Announcements subforum is intended to feature crucial site-wide announcements, ranging from new staff memberships to changes in indexing standards, or other important topics that directly concern our wiki and community as a whole. Topics regarding deaths of prominent actors or authors, major recent entertainment media releases, or similar should usually be posted in our General Discussion subforum, as they do not directly concern the running of our wiki in itself."

General Forum description text:

"This subforum is intended for general discussions regarding various topics related to the interests of this wiki and the broader media surrounding it, including entertainers and companies. However, discussions involving serious real world topics, such as politics, are not allowed."
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I like that, that makes a good distinction and elaborates on what is or what is not allowed.
 
Thank you for the replies. I will (very carefully 😥) apply the new description texts then.
 
I have now done so.

Is there anything else left to do here?
 
Okay. I do not quite understand what you mean though.
 
It seems there's still the pending matter of restricting regular users from creating new posts in the News and Announcements subforum, and again, I don't mean just verbally, XenForo has a feature to this stuff, here's an example:

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Note how there's multiple threads an user may comment on by following the guidelines outlined in the respective OP, and in my case as I lack the user rights to actually post, the feature to do so doesn't appear.
 
Bobsican said:
It seems there's still the pending matter of restricting regular users from creating new posts in the News and Announcements subforum, and again, I don't mean just verbally, XenForo has a feature to this stuff, here's an example:

image.png

Note how there's multiple threads an user may comment on by following the guidelines outlined in the respective OP, and in my case as I lack the user rights to actually post, the feature to do so doesn't appear.
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I think that seems a bit excessive.
 
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