Forum:Global Discussions moderation help

Hi!
I’d like to introduce us first - we’re Speedit and Noreplyz, working as your wiki’s assigned global Discussions moderators! We want to offer our help shaping and growing your Discussions community, and use that added manpower to improve the atmosphere. In the meantime, we are happy to assist in just moderating until the forum has been concluded.

What we can offer
As said on Discord, we wish to work on this as a project with you all. We’ll go by the responses we get here, and take on your moderation guidance at Discord. Note that as global Discussions moderators, we have only a few months to turn Discussions around. Our goal is to make the Discussions forum a more attractive place to moderate in this time, and that will drive a lot of our input in this discussion.

At this point, we understand that the Discussions right now could be more satisfying for all the users involved. The users would likely appreciate content and conversation. Meanwhile, the moderators would like to cultivate high-quality Call of Duty conversation. It would help the wiki for users to “stick” in Discussions and be attracted into editing.

To overcome these issues, we can “seed” content like wiki blog posts on the main wiki (like this one). With the WWII release, there are plenty of news articles we could base good conversations around (be they from gaming websites, or FANDOM). There’s other material—like trailers, tweets and easter eggs—that we’d be interested in seeding, if possible.

What we can suggest
In light of having limited time to help, we also have alternative approaches to suggest with Discussions users, which we’d like everyone to vote on:   Locking without immediate deletion. This gives opportunity for a moderator to reply, potentially guiding the user to correct their mistake in the next post. The suggestion could reduce the desired level of quality, but that issue could be mitigated with a mod edit adding a notice, then deletion after a day.   Allowing Questions and Answers threads. This allows for linking to wiki articles, and potentially explaining wiki culture to the users if and when any misconceptions arise. In a later stage of the project, the category could be converted into an article suggestion box and wiki discussion area. Though it is very early days, such a full fledged category would help pervade the wiki culture in Discussions. </li>  Editors or admins posting CoD news and updates into Discussions (this ‘vote’ being on how willing or likely you’d be to do this).</dt> Posting news helps create a “feed” of fresh content for the app. It looks good to newer users, and is easy for CoD fans to interact with. This effect will naturally improve the quality of posts in Discussions, and lead new users to make higher quality discussion. This suggestion is most likely to attract users who are passionate about CoD, of which some could be recruited for editing and moderation positions.</dd></dl> </li>  Allowing users to create Looking for Players posts and Favourites posts in a separate category.</dt> This being suggested as an alternative to #1, as it is potentially more convenient to app users who may not stumble on the “Looking for Players” megathread. If general discussions become of a higher quality, posts about favourite weapons could become more in-depth too. This suggestion could free up time, which could be used to focus on seeding content more.</dd></dl> </li> </ol>

Looking forward
We’d like the War Room to reach a consensus in a couple weeks about what suggestions would be implemented, and give input on the other ideas offered. In the meantime, we are able to offer our help patrolling Discussions under your direction. We hope to co-ordinate the main project through the Discord server, starting in December. Later on in the near future, we plan to revisit the War Room and discuss the following:
 * Adjusting categories. This is to make sure they’re all being used often.
 * Updating the guidelines, to fit the wiki and community’s needs.

And that’s it for today! • speedy • 🔔&#xFE0E; • 🚀&#xFE0E; • 00:10, November 15, 2017 (UTC)