Forum:Player Stories

Hey, I would like to talk about the player stories and why we Shouldn't of deleted them. Reason 1: We had more than 9,000 pages added together. Reason 2: If we set up a rule that you had to sign your posts with 4 tildes it might work and the one's unsigned should be deleted. Reason 3: People liked reading them and sometimes found it interesting and Users liked to write about them too! shame I didn't get to. Reason 4:It took too long to delete all of the Player stories by hand so we had to have Bot's to delete all player stories and that was wasting people's thought's on the game.

and those are the reasons so far. Devdevdev (talk) 11:27, December 1, 2012 (UTC)

Discussion
Well I guess my thoughts is....
 * 1) What's done is done...really can't revert what everybody (consensus) voted on.
 * 2) Signing posts really wouldn't change any thing at all.
 * 3) I don't think anyone actually READ them. They've probably skimmed....
 * 4) It took a while to pile up information for this wiki....so it'll take a while for bots to delete player stories....

I'm sorry but those were not really good reasons, to me of course. :/ Star -Talk  12:18, December 1, 2012 (UTC)


 * 1) We're aiming for quality, not quantity. I'd rather have 900 very good articles than 9000 terrible articles.
 * 2) We already had that rule and it was still broken - it became nearly impossible to moderate.
 * 3) Okay...
 * 4) Actually at the time, none of the bots were able to do an automated mass deletion process hence us asking Wikia staff to do it with a nuke script. My bot was upgraded since to support mass deletions but still.

Finally since you didn't make this clear when you created this thread, what is the purpose of this thread? What are you hoping to get out of it? I can only assume you want to propose that we re-introduce Player Stories to The Sims Wiki and on the offset, I don't support this based on the numerous issues we've had in the past. If however the community did want them reintroduced then I'll only show even a minimal sign of enthusiasm if we start on a clean slate rather than restore everything. Yes Abusefilter can regulate against profanity and whatnot but bearing in mind that wasn't the only issue, I can't see much hope the second time around unless we very carefully organise this.

tl;dr version: I'm against re-introducing Player Stories. 17:58, December 1, 2012 (UTC)

Indeed. I support encouraging players to use the Fanon namespace to make stories regarding canon sims. I and a few others have made precedents, so I don't see why we need to reintroduce Player Stories, given that those in the Fanon namespace tend to be better. MILK FOR THE UNYUUFEX, FLAT CHEST FOR THE CUTENESS THRONE, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL PROBES (user talk:Mathetesalexandrou) 18:13, December 1, 2012 (UTC)