Forum:Infinite Warfare, the Call of Duty app and Discussions

Hello! I'm here to give you a heads-up about Discussions, a new feature that we're currently beta-testing and rolling out to more and more communities.

Discussions is a forum-like conversation space that works equally well in a desktop browser, mobile browser, and in our community apps. With communities that already have Discussions, we've seen a big influx in new members for the community who created accounts just so they could use Discussions and talk to other users about their favorite game. Discussions has made wiki and community content more accessible for users who loved the topic, and enjoyed the articles, but couldn't quite find their niche to contribute before. I suggest checking out Fallout Discussions as an example to see what Discussions is like: http://fallout.wikia.com/d/f

Since Infinite Warfare is coming out shortly, and the Call of Duty app is already popular, Discussions has been enabled and we expect it become quite active. Indeed, after being on in the iOS app for only a few hours, there are already some posts. This could be an opportunity for you to reach new potential members and to grow the community, addressing some of the issues that your community has been discussing recently.

Admins and Discussions Moderators in this community will have special moderator rights in Discussions. You can lock and delete threads, undelete them, see posts that users have flagged as inappropriate, and customize your own guidelines for Discussions, for example, and we're still working on adding more moderation features.

Fandom staff will be active in Discussions, creating some content and moderating. We'll also set up some graphics in the desktop web layout, but admins can modify those at any time. If any experienced community members are interested in participating, please check it out! Creating high quality conversations and leading by example are the best way to make Discussions a valuable new addition to the community.

As the Discussions user base grows, there are many options. Some communities have done well with a Discussions-only group of moderators, some have a mix of experienced wiki editors and new Discussions users moderating, and some just expanded their regular moderation to include the Discussions conversations. Please let me know if you have any questions about this! -BertH (help forum | blog) 19:06, October 26, 2016 (UTC)