Knucklefunk

ORGANIZED STUFF

											Secondary Content Presentation Update
* Expand “Tales” under SCP library and add things to end up with at least five hubs, Tale Series, Storytelling Projects, One-Shot Stories, Canon Hub, Groups of Interest

* Blow up the current tale hub, add hubs for things like tales by author and by year. Remove the GoI format hub and just have all GoI format articles be listed on the main GoI hub with their group. Canon hub should be organized better, if at least given a table of contents.

* Add the newly created hub links as well as links to collaborative things project crossover or project heimdall. Also add links to tale series with at least x entries or five entries with one entry rated at +XX. This is done at author request. We link 100 SCP blocks for SCPs so this shouldn’t be a matter of linking too much stuff.

											05 Policy Discussion Structure

* Committee process for discussing new prospective rules, processes, ideas, etc. Policy starts within a team and then goes to the floor, where it can be voted on for discussion by a majority of mods/admins. Before it goes to vote it is in a neutral ground where it can be discussed on 05 without the high stakes of possible policy resulting from the discussion.

* Policy season could be done in many different ways, such as having it always be in session and having staff recess it, one month on one month off, or having a small set of months out of the year. The important part is when policy season is in effect there are more formal rules to follow to enact policies, with the benefit being that they require only a simple majority vote in order to pass.

* This would use the reports module for people to pose the OP of what they want to have discussed, which is by default uncategorized_in_need_of_sorting. Any mod can then place it in the correct category by tagging it as green, yellow, or red. These would be on the front page of 05, with a timer for the current discussion. The current list of threads would remain. This would make sure we’re always working on things within a framework rather than throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.

											Guide/Hub Redux
* Many of our required reading pages are obsolete, have bad/outdated information or don’t reflect current site attitudes. These can be amended through discussion on what to update for them. How to Write an SCP should be redone to be How To Write/Contribute To The SCP Foundation Wiki.

* The essay hub should also be reorganized, remove the Roget and Aelanna sections and fold that content into the other pages. New categories can be made and old ones folded as the relevant team sees fit.

* Recommended Reading should be adjusted to include some non-staff essays like metacritique and things we wish people to look at in order to be a better user and community member. Maybe have different lists of recommended reading depending on how whether its an author, reader, wanderer or creator.

											Heritage List Redux
* Soften the protection from deletion clause to maybe require five staff votes without dissent in order to delete. There could also be a lengthened rewrite window. Might make people feel better about the blanket deletion protection.

* The next class should be all tales, so as to elevate them to the same position as these ten venerated articles. Folks who see them next to each other may be impressed by the implied equivalence in stature. We could also add an SCP class featuring primarily nonstandard SCPs like -EX’s and Jokes. I don’t think any GoI format articles are old enough.

* Instead of being a feature of iconic works that can never be removed, recast the Heritage Collection as a group of articles recognized by staff to be important and influential enough to merit special attention. They have to do something unique and innovative which cast a long shadow on the community. Place it up for a public vote by both site members and the wider community, with the votes from either being of equal standing.

											Promotion Cycle Regularization
* There should be at least 3-4 regularly scheduled promotion votes so that we don’t have people waiting for eight months as Junior Staff before they even get put up for a vote. The date should be of the public record doesn’t have to be a hard date just something as vague as a week in x month.

* If y number of Junior Staff haven’t been promoted after serving z time they get an automatic promotion thread without recommendations or blurbs about them, just a bare voting thing. This happens only if there is no vote imminently planned.

* When promotions go down, all junior staff members who have served for at least z amount of time should be put for promotion automatically even if there’s no blurb about them. This might weigh against their chances but if you’re to be staff most will know people at this point anyways.

											Tale Tags Navigation Update
* Genre tags should be added representing at the very least the twelve classic genres of Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mythology,  Non-Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Satire, Tragicomedy, and Tragedy. These would not be mutually exclusive and final say would be with the author.

* An SCP-XXX(X) tag which can have variants to any SCP article which is featured in an SCP explicitly either through direct linkage, reference, or other obvious marker. If the SCP is unclear and an author is not present staff won’t speculate. This would be useful in finding pages with a certain SCP in them other than wrestling with the search feature.

* Other out-of-universe tagging for things such as length(short-short, short-story, long-story, epic-length, etc.), the type of story(epistolary, prose, scientific-document, music notation, news writing, etc.) or other metrics interesting from an out of universe perspective (goi-interaction, k-class-story, post-apocalyptic, format-screw.) Some of these and the other aforementioned tags may also be applicable to SCPs, essays, GoI formats and other pages.

											Forum Criticism Redux

* Operational Staff should be able to award some sort of point or reward for persons doing critting, which would have a public leaderboard refreshed monthly. After this points can be redeemed for rewards like a shoutout on the social media pages, selecting an article to go into the feature pool, the highest rated person is the critter of the month or some other recognition. These points could also be given for effective counter-crit and such.

* Split up Drafts and Critiques Into First Impressions & Developed Drafts for people who don’t think they have a postable draft and the latter for people who have gotten crit(linking to their previous thread(s)) and wish to get feedback on a more developed draft. This would keep the stuff with potential and work segregated from slapdash first drafts and other low-effort works.

* Implement a Give-And-Get policy to allow for constructive thread bumping. If you post a thread there could be a requirement to link to feedback you’ve given to someone else. Also, instead of bumping we could allow for people to link to their threads asking for crit after they’ve given someone else constructive criticism. That way if they give low-effort crit to just bump their thread it’s easier to call them out on it. Plus it puts rewards in place for people to crit other threads and collaborate with their fellow community members.

											Article Deletion Reform

* Update the current guides with the policies of porting feedback, listing something about the article and such. Sending the author source code should be optional simply due to the fact that wikidot messages are slow and buggy. The source code could also be posted with the deletion post. We could lock those threads so that only mods are posting for deletions. We could make a separate self-deletion thread open for anyone to post in so that non-mods can still announce page deletion should they choose to do so.

* Once an article is placed in-deletion, then the rating module should be removed. This would slow down the downvoting which frequently balloons if the articles take more than a few days to be deleted as well as preclude last-minute vote fluctuation for pages hovering around deletion range.

* The deletion threshold for non-SCP articles should be lowered to -5 because they frequently don’t get voted on as much as SCPs do and many languish for weeks or months on lowest rated before accruing a critical mass of votes to deletion range.