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Valosity -> RE: More Leniant/Better (2/18/2014 14:06:53)
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To reply to Chaosweaver Amon:
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I do see why that is, and i agree with that some guides purpose isnt ever going to be useful. But, why not tell the guide owner that this is the case, instead of just not letting them make the guide at all? Who knows what they have planned for it, it may seem as if the guide is going in one direction, when after a good amount of work is done the guide creates a purpose for itself. It seems to me as if it would be best to let the owner know the guide as it looks to be turning out to be that it does not have a good purpose, but not to stop them. Because, the thing is, you simply dont know what direction they are going in with the guide.
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I do completely agree with your statement, as with the amount of people in the AQW forum create the potential for more rule-breaking and such, yet some things are reasonable, and other are not. Such as the duplicate threads being deleted or grouped together, but threads that have more of a purpose, a more specific purpose than the grouped together threads, should be allowed. I do not think just because a thread could fit into a grouped thread means that the thread should be locked, but ones that can fit directly into that grouped thread, and lack another purpose or point the grouped thread does not, it should be allowed. It really should depend on each individual case, not just the fact that they could be merged, but the fact that is this new thread something that is worth keeping, even if it somewhat relates to another.
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This is where i most certainly disagree with you. If you have 3 or 4 threads that could be combined into one, it depends for each individual case. If these topics where nearly the exact same thing, yes, they should be combined into one. If these topics each feature something significant the others do not, such as in my case i was not looking for people to say and just list the best/worst/favorite ect, as it is in that thread, but i had a couple different things, i think it was questlines, or items that you unlocked that i was specifically asking about, and i was asking about them simply for me to do, not like in where the other thread its all just whatever you best/favorite thing is or was. And, in this case, they would have amounted to very different things, not generally amounting to the same things. Mine would have given me answers and things to do and try out, while i have a lesser to no things to do by looking in the other thread, and even if i could find something, it would be a extreme increase in the challenge of it.
To reply to Technomancer:
I do agree with how guides are disregarded due to them being very much alike, as duplicates, and i do see why you would lock them based off of very little information at their start, but do not agree with it. Instead, it should be told to the guide owner that it is a duplicate, and that the way it looks to be turning out it will be a duplicate. But, as i said before, it may not, no matter how much you think it will turn out to be a duplicate or un-useful, it still can turn out very usefully. And, i see that this may arise the answer of "But its almost certainly not going to", yet what is it hurting the forums? It's in the pending guides section, it will effect things on a minuscule level.
And, in my guides case, I completely understood that it was very easily identified as a duplicate. When i received a message about it being locked, i understood why because of the other guide already covering all my guide would have contained. The only reason i created the guide was because i was looking for guides in the lower section, not the pinned section where the How To Play guide was located, and skimmed over it. In my case, my guide would have been a guide where an AK could have posted saying that there is the How To Play guide that mine is a duplicate of, and thats the direction i had intended for the guide, it would have included nearly everything being considered a duplicate, yet i could have altered it to make it a "new" guide that has a useful purpose, if i had a different direction intended for it.
As for the whole needless effort thing, this can be remedied by posting that the guide will likely be considered a duplicate, and if the person decides to put in the effort and had a plan to go in a direction that would not be considered a duplicate, and it would have had a purpose. Not every guide can be altered to be in some ways similar but enough different, nearly any guide can be changed to have a purpose on the same subject, relevant enough it doesnt need to just be added on to a current one.
I'm not saying any of this just due to my cases, those are simply examples of it. I am not trying to get them reversed, or to prove anything about them, they are only partially relevant to what i meant for this thread to explain, and only relevant as examples.
And, this is not at all majorly about guides, that is simply one of the multiple things that could be altered for the better. This thread is meant to be about how if the Battleon Forums, particularly AQW Forums, featured a less restricted structure.
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