Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5319459-20121204001843/@comment-75.67.35.35-20121217173009

not sure how that's trolling, but OK...The comments provided people with a lot of valuable information that was never added to the guides (forever lost). You know that and so does everybody else.

Each guide had it's own "forum" dedicated to it through comments. The message boards are just going to bunch all of the information up and force people to search a forum for what they had to search the wiki for... "1 extra click", but more like 2 searches...

I think trying to incorporate message boards into this wiki is a bad idea... less people will be contributing than the amount that did through comments. You can doubt it, but after a while you will see it will mostly consist of a place for people to answer the same questions in new threads time and time again and having your mods repeat "use the search feature" over and over again... I guess this will be one of those lessons you learn the hard way.

The mods will have plenty of work to do by combining threads and such into one topic if that even happens... I doubt enough people will actually use them to get too annoying though.

I actually enjoyed some of the spam with funny comments... I never felt like it took anything away from the actual guide and useful information, but I feel like this new feature has removed a lot of useful discussion and ideas.

I think a lot of the people who voted yes didn't acknowledge the fact that most people only commented because it was on the same page as the info. Less people will go out of their way to answer questions.

The comments were part of the guide and now they have been removed from the guide and placed into a forum, so people are much less likely to visit the forums after reading a guide unless they have a question. The comments drew you in because they flowed with the page, so people would read them. Not many people are going to search the wiki and then search again on the forums just to see if people have questions about it.

Either way good luck with the forums