Discussion: A technical suggestion
I’ve been thinking about two problems recently, which seem connected:
- Frequently, players will forget to categorise a post (most commonly leading to a Proposal that isn’t, and spamming up the blog if the mistake isn’t caught within 5 minutes). This just creates a little extra tedium all round.
- Sometimes, I want to create posts for discussion, rather than posts that have a game effect. Like this one, for example, that discusses the blog software, or my posts that summarize the gamestate and invite discussion as to what lead to mysterious GNDT updates. We have a category for basically everything else, but not these.
Thus, I have a suggestion:
- Add a new “Discussion” category to the blog, intended for blog posts with no game effect (I don’t foresee any rules changes needed for this, apart from possibly a Glossary entry);
- If possible, configure the blog software to prevent the submission of posts that aren’t in any category (with a message like “Each post must be in some Category”).
This would both make it clearer which posts were intended to have no game effect (meaning that we have a nice little prefix on every post), and cut down on mistakes.
Helpful. Thanks!
ayesdeeef:
Yes.