Forum:CT:Replacement

Oh, the irony.

The man that resurrected CUSWFN is now proposing it's closure.

Although not a total closure! CUSWFN's been good so far but, let's face it, it's not really read any more, it's not being released on time and, with no offence to Unit who's trying his best and doing a good job, the CUSWFN's basically in shambles. It's just not working. It's better that we kill it now than we end up all demanding it's closure in a few months. I've spoken to Unit about this, and he didn't seem too annoyed, although he did wish to release one, final edition - fair enough. I've spoken to Rhea about this, and he agrees with my idea for replacement.

Cue yet more irony.

I'm suggesting replacing it with a blog.

I refuse to use blogs on a Wiki on principle. I never will, for various reasons that I'm not going to go into, so as not to detract from the real issue of this. However, blogs off-site are vastly different, for yet more reasons I'm not going to go into for the same reasons as above. Indeed, I proposed the idea of a blog to my fellow Admin homies on Darthipedia, and it's gone ahead. We all agreed on this issue. Now, I wouldn't consider this a matter for community consensus but eh, we have our policies, and replacing CUSWFN is probably a community decision.

Let me point out the advantages of using a blog, first.
 * 1) It's an easily accessible way of posting news.
 * 2) It's easy to format.
 * 3) It can be easily controlled by the administrators.
 * 4) Anyone can write something and forward it to an Admin to post.
 * 5) It's easy to read.
 * 6) We can update it as and when we need to, rather than on a permanent basis.
 * 7) It's pretty snazzy.

So, for you people who like to use your blogs on a Wiki for reasons I really cannot understand for the life of me, you may ask why we don't use that feature?
 * 1) You can't have one user's blog applying to a Wiki wide feature.
 * 2) Some Admins, such as myself, wouldn't use or read it on principle.
 * 3) Using one on Blogger spreads our sphere of influence and may attract new users from Blogger.
 * 4) This is easier to read.
 * 5) Looks more professional.
 * 6) Easier to format.
 * 7) We don't have to work within Wikia's confines.

And all the rest that I'm sure you can imagine.

For an example of our incredibly awesome Darthipedia one, see here.

For a test example of what the Star Wars Fanon one would possibly look like, see here. --Darth tom  (Message me) (Contributions) 17:48, November 13, 2009 (UTC)

Support ( +1 )

 * 1) This has my full support. --Darth tom  (Message me) (Contributions) 17:48, November 13, 2009 (UTC)

Discussion
Feel free to shoot me any queries, questions or such here. --Darth tom  (Message me) (Contributions) 17:48, November 13, 2009 (UTC)