Forum:Neatening War Room forums

hi

With the retirement of our policy on voting and since we operate on consensus, I'm proposing that we start to format our forums in a more straightforward way.

(see Forum:Removing themes for article templates) The main issue with our forums is that, for the first few days, all we do is say what we're already going to say in a voting section when somebody decides to call a vote. If we have to bring up another issue, we need to start a new vote entirely - which pretty much lengthens the amount of time the forum is open by around another week. So I propose that we change our system for forums to:
 * 1) make it so that right after the forum is open, we have users begin to support/oppose/comment as if they were already voting. This would make it so that we don't need to waste time by having users just say "I agree"/"I disagree" (or whatever they would already say during the voting process) in order for somebody to "call a vote" after a few days, which would shorten the typical number of days a forum is open by around half.
 * 2) get rid of the Support and Oppose templates to let us use Support / Oppose / Comment as well as other things, such as Solution (#x), which would make it easier for people to provide their input/solutions (as well as vote on specific solutions defined in the forum) and, if users agree with what somebody proposes, they can say  's solution so that we don't need to create another vote if somebody throws out a new solution to a problem.

How an ideal forum would look (roughly :3): User:Azuris/forums

If you think there should be more stuff to add to make our forums 10x cooler, feel free to say so.

-- 03:54, July 19, 2012 (UTC)