Forum:New policy for discussions

As the new discussions widget has been enabled without our consent, and has been explained as mandatory, we need to work on a new policy as soon as we can.

As a starting point I feel it should follow a hybrid of chat and blog rules. It's possible we can allow off-topic comments in this new system since it's not directly linked to anything on the mainspace. I also feel that since it uses similar rules to blogs, we should make it so Blog Patrol gets merged with Discussions moderator as that enables us to have users we know and trust running the comments section. This also means that only users that edit on the discussions board and wiki can get the rights.

So we'll be covering the basics really: COD:UTP, COD:DBAD, Call of Duty Wiki:Spoiler policy, being aware of overuse of swearing (especially if these discussion post are going to appear on any of our pages), ensuring everything is in English (so it can be moderated properly) and stopping flamebait and wars.

Another issue I've seen is that there is no form of block that only blocks a user from posting on discussions, so another issue may be how we handle blocks. Chances are since this is a form of a chat system, that an on-wiki block will be completely justified as they are using an extension of our platform to break policies, however this is also an annoyance as some of these users may simply be here for only the discussions, and unlike chat users that can simply be banned from that and only that, these users will rack up an on-wiki block record.

Also, as a wildcard option, we could simply bastardise the new system and veto doing anything. Staff have already stated that they will handle moderating discussions, so we could simply veto doing anything and act as if it doesn't exist and leave it to its own devices. This also means that we will not handle the giving out of moderator rights.

This is a bit rushed, but only because it had to be rushed and I didn't have the time to put more thought in to the matter. 17:16, October 28, 2016 (UTC)