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:A fourth category for news forum? I think we have such service in the past headed by CommanderTony, which utilised the Comment feature (now defunct). If we were to create this fourth category, then there is the question of who is eligible to post in it. I think it's better to post all news in the General Discussion category. If the news is of high-importance, we can always ''sticky'' it to make it appear the main forum list.— <span style="font-size:16px; font-family:OrbitronMedium;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 07:05, 21 December 2011 (EST) | :A fourth category for news forum? I think we have such service in the past headed by CommanderTony, which utilised the Comment feature (now defunct). If we were to create this fourth category, then there is the question of who is eligible to post in it. I think it's better to post all news in the General Discussion category. If the news is of high-importance, we can always ''sticky'' it to make it appear the main forum list.— <span style="font-size:16px; font-family:OrbitronMedium;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 07:05, 21 December 2011 (EST) | ||
::I think the fourth category should be limited to administrators (obviously) and anyone whose account is a certain age. Or similar to the Oracle Newsletter we had in the past, users could request to have the ability to post in this fourth category. We obviously do not want people coming in and making forums with terrible English and poor grammar. That would make it look unprofessional.--'''''[[Help:User Levels|<span style="color:green">Commander</span>]]''''' '''''[[User:Spartacus|<span style="color:green">Spartacus</span>]]''''' (''[[User talk:Spartacus|<span style="color:orange">Tenth Roman</span>]]'' ''[[Special:Contributions/Spartacus|<span style="color:orange">Battalion</span>]]'') 11:31, 21 December 2011 (EST) | ::I think the fourth category should be limited to administrators (obviously) and anyone whose account is a certain age. Or similar to the Oracle Newsletter we had in the past, users could request to have the ability to post in this fourth category. We obviously do not want people coming in and making forums with terrible English and poor grammar. That would make it look unprofessional.--'''''[[Help:User Levels|<span style="color:green">Commander</span>]]''''' '''''[[User:Spartacus|<span style="color:green">Spartacus</span>]]''''' (''[[User talk:Spartacus|<span style="color:orange">Tenth Roman</span>]]'' ''[[Special:Contributions/Spartacus|<span style="color:orange">Battalion</span>]]'') 11:31, 21 December 2011 (EST) | ||
:::Kinda defeats the point of a forum, which is to invite everyone to join in a discussion and not restrict them to a group of users. We could set up guidelines similar to HBO, whereby one can designate a forum as being OT (off-topic, normal spelling/grammar regulation), srs (serious topic, grammar/spelling regulation intensified) or not-srs (Not serious topic, hence grammar/spelling regulation relaxed). Of course, we shouldn't shut those that simply have bad spelling/grammar out of the forum. Some of our readers are not native English speakers. :/ | |||
:::Users can still post news to the wiki and request them to be circulated via [[Talk:Main Page/News]]. The only problem is that this talk page is not often visited by administrators, and as such news goes unnoticed.— <span style="font-size:16px; font-family:OrbitronMedium;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 13:50, 21 December 2011 (EST) | |||