Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-3467648-20140409150159/@comment-53539-20140409215106

Serza5 wrote: In other words you would rather "spoon feed" newbies rather than have them comply to (rather basic) forum notation on the off chance that it'll be "too scary" for them?

Maybe single threading is asking too much, I will not deny this too much. But there is a problem when the same "What is Yukari's item?" thread keeps gettng re-made over and over instead of one of the older ones being updated, or perhaps that "Rin/Len relationship" thread.

Sure these newbies may be encouraged to post but this comes at a stupidly heavy price of encouraging them to continue behaving in the way they do. Activity is nice yes but randomness is going to put off veteran users, as if not made obvious already. If you loose the newbies from here where will they go though? Devianart, youtube, Yahoo answers? Most vets are already at places like VO forums and on here we're more likely to blog then forum topic use.

Their more likely to make threads, more likely to comment and more likely to respond to other people on par then experienced fans/editors like us lot.

I'd rather focus on the action of encouraging fans to move to the more experience forums like VO, since this is important for keeping the peace between our communities and for a while now we've had a cycle going of introducing fans to VO.

At the end of the day, and again I'm speaking from experience, you have to decide what the focus of the wikia is going to put the most emphasis on. I cite the One Piece wikia, which has never regulated itself to this extreme, and over time this has paid off in the long run. Dont' forget, newbies won't be newbies forever, over time they mature and move on from shipping wars. :-/