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I agree with you. I also wish there was a third option to hatting and bombing — bombs are supposed to be "this isn't ready to be launched", but there's no way to distinguish between "this has potential, but isn't ready to be launched" and "this has zero potential, so let's discard it". Maybe add a "flag for discarding" option that can be used for troll TLPs and TLPs that have been deemed unviable? I'll make a wishlist entry for that.
Edit: After thinking about it for a while, I believe hat reasons are unnecessary because almost every valid one will be some variation of "it's ready to be launched", "it follows the guidelines", etc. However, I still think bomb reasons would be useful — there are multiple ways to mess up a TLP (bad trope name, unhelpful definition, bad formatting, zero-context examples...), so it'd be nice to let the sponsor know what is wrong.
Edited by MathsAngelicVersion
^ You would think that about hat reasons, but it's not true, as a lot of people either hat their own (underdeveloped) drafts or just use hats as a show of support, and there's been incidents of people using socks to give their draft hats or people just outright giving very badly written drafts 5+ hats for no clear reason. If people had to give a hatting reason it'd be extremely helpful to curb misuse. You're right about what the valid reasons would be, but the point is to stomp out bad hatting reasons.
Current Project: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
^ I agree that misuse of hats is a problem, but I'm not sure if mandatory hat reasons would be that useful. It would help us catch hats that were well-intentioned attempts to show support, but people and sockpuppets who hat underdeveloped drafts (often their own) to get them published will just write stuff like "the draft follows the rules" even if it doesn't. We could make hat reasons non-anonymous to bust users who try to pull that, though.
^ Yeah, I wasn't even thinking of these reasons being anonymous. Also, if a draft with no laconic, a one-line description and no examples is getting hats that say "this draft should be launched" then well it's pretty obviously BS even if nobody knows who tossed a hat. Best case scenario honestly would be if this de-incentives all wrongly-given hats.
Current Project: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
I'd love for this to be implemented. It would further more constructive criticism.
Edited by AudioSpeaks2 Art Museum Curator and frequent helper of the Web Original deprecation project
I'm pretty sure the admins are considering something like this now :)
Current Project: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Awesome
Art Museum Curator and frequent helper of the Web Original deprecation project
Yes this is on the list to be implemented for bombs, it’s just further down. Most TLP related changes, besides fixes like missing the preview functionality and being able to ping others, will be in the next batch after this current one going live this next week-ish.
Edited by kory Now monitoring Wishlist and Bugs
^Great to hear!
Yes, another TLP-related wish, I would like if the TLP compelled users to give a reason whenever they hat or bomb a draft. See, there's a lot of issues that I think this would fix-