Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27561063-20160122101658/@comment-27561063-20160122183914

Mr. Newton wrote: Well, before anything happens, we should probably get the opinions of the other "primary editors" first, as this is a relatively major thing. That's what this thread is for ^^

EDIT: About the poll, is it possible to lock it to certain people only, or it is always completely open? Open and answers can be changed. You don't need to be logged in to vote and you can't end a vote either. See this for more infos.

2ND EDIT: I just thought of another thing to think about: when you look at the "Wiki Activity" page, it's completely full with comments. It's very hard to find a regular edit from the sea of comments in there. It'd be problematic if ,for example, someone posted an important forum thread or a blog post, or perhaps made a major update to a page, only for noone to see it because it got drowned out from all the comments and small little edits that happened. This is a very small problem, but it's just some more fuel for the fire. There is a site for admins to only see recently changed pages. Though I scroll through the Wiki activity feed anyway to filter for spam comments.

A suggestion I have is to see if you can get the people who like to comment to make forum posts in the "Fun and Games" section. It would be much tidier and there wouldn't be nearly as high a chance for something to get drowned from over-activity. The anonymous ones who don't bother to read two pages won't bother to visit the forum either. Thus they continue to post their questions in the comment section. Mostly on the wrong article. And it isn't 'us' who mainly fill the comments :)

In a highly extreme measure: if a user or contributor was posting uneseccary/stupid comments, was refusing to cooperate, and wasn't adding to the wiki through edits (collectively), it might be a good idea to impose a penalty on them. Trust me, I do take action if needed anyway. There are already some IP blocks in place.

I don't want to block to much though since it might happen that an innocent user gets an IP of a previous spammer and can't do anything on this wiki because that IP is blocked.