Push For Natter Awareness

Pepole read our wiki.

They see Natter.

They think it's okay.

The horrible cycle continues.

How could me make it more clear that natter is bad to the less initiated?

Any suggestions as to how to go about doing that?

I'm sure we can come up with something.

I guess it's not the best idea to just start a thread hoping for magic to happen without giving any ideas to start with.

Maybe when you get known, there will be a screen that pops of with big letters that say that natter is bad. Like so big that you cant miss it.

Very Special Episode?

A Natter Disclaimer?

Yes.

We have the editing tips, and we have the user agreement when getting known, and we have the Please No Natter page. What else can we do that isn't too intrusive?

edited 11th Mar '11 10:43:14 PM by Redhead

after finding this site and starting to "contribute", it took me a few months to get used to consistent voice. I bet that a tip for newcomers should be: "Try not to add two or more asterisks before reading the rules""

There's apparently an editing game in the works. We could encourage/force pepole to try that before editing.

That would fall under "intrusive".

I suppose I forced tutorial isn't a good idea either...

but it would nice to have a link to it on the editing page.

Natter Disclaimer? I thought Natter was pronounced Nah-Ter, not Nae-Ter

Idea: What if we wrote a form message that could be PM'd to people who natter? That'd help raise awareness.

Okay, Spell Blade, your idea has been installed.

The 'natterfy' button on the edit history sends a PM to the editor who made the change. It reads like this:

The [date and time] edit you made on An Article looks like discussion in the main article.

We try to keep the articles more like articles than discussions. Please feel free to make that kind of entry on the disussion page for the article or in whichever of the forums it is best suited to.

Thanks for helping us keep the wiki cool.

edited 13th Mar '11 1:08:04 PM by FastEddie

Sweet! That should really help.

So that's what that is.

I think SPOON might want to take a stab at the natterfy button. I found it a bit puzzling, and only figured out what it was after clicking it on one of my own edits.

"Natterfying" an edit sounds like you're turning it into natter. >_>

Wow, thanks!

I hope this feature doesn't get abused.

(Double post)

Could we have the option to confirm sending the PM in case someone accidentally clicks it?

Yeah, I may or may not have spasm clicked it a few times trying to figure out why it wasn't taking me anywhere.

^^ This.

My Journey: Just got a mystifying PM saying an edit "sounded like discussion in the main page", looked it up, realised it didn't at all, got confused, drafted confused reply, noticed the "natterfy" button, sent reply asking if they'd accidentally clicked that, and came to the forums to find out what "natterfy" was all about.

At the very least, could the P Ms admit to being automated messages? I thought the poor troper was deranged.

edited 13th Mar '11 4:16:05 PM by johnnye

Love the button, but agree confirmation could be nice.