They can't do that already?
Yes, this feature sounds like a good idea. Then the mods could announce, for example, "Fast Eddie has declared stock phrases are not tropes and will not be accepted for new tropes." and people might actually notice.
edited 16th Feb '12 10:39:24 PM by ArcadesSabboth
Oppression anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere.
someone
Do we really need something like this? I mean, this is catering to people who are too lazy to look at the wiki headlines box. It's right there. And it's not small either.
edited 16th Feb '12 10:40:49 PM by ThatHuman
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Do not make UI decision based on machismo.
Really, don't.
Unfortunately, a lot of people are that lazy, but they should at least be informed.
someone
It's right there. Seriously, if somebody actually cared about what's going on, surely they'd have noticed it? This looks like complaining to your city council that you didn't notice a new law in effect because there wasn't anybody going around and shoving announcement leaflets in everybody's faces, even though there were already news reports. Or something.
edited 17th Feb '12 9:02:11 AM by ThatHuman
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All hyperbole aside, I think it's a good idea. There are a lot of users who log on like once or twice every month or so, if not less often, and never go to the fora, and thus miss a lot of changes to wiki policy. The headlines get shuffled out as more news happens, so things can be missed. Remember, we're speaking from the viewpoints of people who log in almost every day. There are plenty of people who don't, and for those, this would be useful to pass along messages, such as the renaming of the Awesome Moment and Awesome Music, the renaming of the You Fail X Forever tropes, that sort of thing.
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Much more succinctly expressed than my keyboard pounding. xD
edited 17th Feb '12 3:43:13 PM by battosaijoe
Practically speaking, it is more efficient and less annoying to make sure even the lazy and rarely-logged-in editors are informed, than to spend hours and hours of our lives cleaning up after their mistakes.
EDIT: And we shouldn't condemn those who rarely log in, either.
edited 3rd Mar '12 2:51:00 PM by ArcadesSabboth
Oppression anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere.
So, basically, what these (,) two said.
edited 3rd Mar '12 2:26:44 PM by Ekuran
I have to Nth this request. Wiki Headlines stuff and other "not-every-day-but-super-important" things could be announced over a public PM. They aren't exactly hard to miss.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
The Other Troper
"It's right there. Seriously, if somebody actually cared about what's going on, surely they'd have noticed it?"
The fact is some people edit, and actually don't care to look. It sucks, but since we can't magically change human nature, we have to just work with it.
I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.
So...would any of you mods mind it if you chip in?
edited 22nd Mar '12 2:05:08 AM by Ekuran
This sounds essentially like a reminder PM about the newsletter being published. Might be useful if the Trope Report was published with a little more rigor. Meaning a regular publication date and some editorial cross-checking on article quality.
Goal: Clear, Concise and Witty
That...is a much better idea than my own. I'm all for it.
So...anyone else think we should implement this?
someone
Was actually referring to Fast Eddie's idea.
Besides, the original idea is still valid, as the mods can still limit Public Messages for big things (in response to your first link
). The second link's issue can be solved by having Public Messages be in a different format from normal PMs, like implementing FE's idea, but instead of using a reminder PM, they'd just send us the direct newsletter of Trope Report (with it actually saying something like "Here's your weekly Trope Report" instead of the standard PM notification.
edited 22nd Apr '12 4:24:33 PM by Ekuran
Hi
Bumping to gauge interest.
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
I support this suggestion. Too many forums for me to count implement such a feature.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Tropers often ignore or don't even know about the big issues being discussed in this wiki. Even if it's on the Wiki Headlines, they probably won't look at it. Hell, I don't bother to look at it most of the time.
That's why I'm proposing that the mods and admins have the ability to send public messages to every contributor. It forces us to at least know that something is going on.