Forum:Caption contest feature spin-off

A month ago, I brought back the "caption contest" through The Sims Wiki Weekly News blogs. The game has been dubbed "Caption This!", and looks to consistently receive a handful of caption comments and several votes during the weekly voting periods.

I started Caption This with a couple ulterior motives. First, I wanted to get away from having a poll in the weekly news, since they are often hard to come up with and aren't terribly interactive. Second, I wanted to see if we could find a new community feature, one to possibly replace the flagging Monthly Question blog. Caption This has reached a point where I feel it could be spun off of the weekly news blog and could stand alone as its own feature.

I do not see the removal of Monthly Questions to be a bad thing. By introducing a new feature and retiring an old one, we're ensuring that our main page and our community features remain fresh. Additionally, I think that moving CT off of the weekly blog could open the door to having other "trial runs" of new features in the weekly news blogs in its place. I already have a few ideas in mind for what we could use this space for, but I hesitate to put them in now because I don't want to overload people with too much stuff in each weekly blog.

So in short, I'm proposing that we replace the Monthly Question blog on the main page with "Caption This," and open up the weekly news blogs to new features. -  LostInRiverview talk • blog  •  contribs 02:15, August 21, 2015 (UTC)


 * The Monthly Question blog seems to have died rather quickly, so I would indeed like to see a new feature surface and to keep our main page appearance crisp. Recycling old, unused, and unpopular features is a must to make room for new stuff that people will actually care about. --I am  k6ka  Talk to me!   See what I have done  02:25, August 30, 2015 (UTC)
 * I also suggest we archive past results, much like the battles are archived after each round. --I am  k6ka  Talk to me!   See what I have done  02:58, August 30, 2015 (UTC)

I think this would be a good idea. We've currently had the same Monthly Question since May, and participation still isn't great (I know I haven't bothered answering). The caption contest strikes me as somehow more accessible and it seems that people are finding it easier to come up with new ones. Vpetmad (talk) 10:08, August 30, 2015 (UTC)

I agree with this proposal, for all reasons stated above. —  The  Tim   Man  (TSW • AH • MGW • Contribs ) 04:39, September 15, 2015 (UTC)

Bump to attract more responses. I'd also like to ask the following questions and see what the community thinks about the answers for them: --I am  k6ka  Talk to me!   See what I have done  00:29, October 21, 2015 (UTC)
 * May users leave more than one caption? (And if so, is there a limit?)
 * Should captions left by indefinitely banned or blocked users (including users commenting in violating of their block) be kept?
 * Should users be notified when one of their captions are declared the winner?