Discussion: Standardisation of Thread Headings

Almightyjosh

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This is not something vital to the essence of the game, but rather an idea to help make the game run smoothly and look less haphazard.

We should push for the adoption of 'thread tag' at the start of each thread name to define what it is.

For instance,
In all Forums
Resource:
(for non-posting archives. eg maps, stats)
Discussion:
(for citizen disscussion of many forms. eg citizen naming proposals)
Office:
(for non-deparmental offices)
Advice:
(for instructions, how tos, 101s and help threads)

In the Citizen SF
Proposal:
(for proposals from departments for citizen appraisal eg science queue, early agression)
Group:
(for citizen groups with in game aims. eg STG, the order)
Debate:
(election debates, official and soap box etc.)

In the RPG SF
RPG Group:
(for groups with no in game aims. eg Jedi [eyrei thinks so])

In the Gov SF
No pre-fix for departments/provinces, however
Most department names are made up of three parts, the department title (eg The Domestic Department) the term (eg Term 3) and an optional name (eg The Food Palace)

Standardise the use of the semi-colon : (to replace an assortment of . , - _ : ; ) between thread name parts.
Standardise the use of Department, not Dept. or Ministry (in department title not name)
Remove the word Fanatikan (thats obvious guys)
Use of 'The' should be discouraged.
Use the numeral, not the name of each number (ie 1 not one)
Standardise the title partitions and order
ie Department: Term: Name
(eg Millitary Department: Term 1: Ministry of War)


The value of this is functional and asthetic. It would serve us well to distinguish threads in the same way as polls (though this needs some work too). The Government SF is particularly ugly at the moment (yes, I have contributed to this!).

These guidelines attempt to encourage positive thread naming while preserving as much of our demogame convention as possible.
 
But it often happens a discussion becomes a proposal thread and vici versa. Also, many discussions are held in for example office or department threads... how do we handle that?
 
I like it. I'd use "-" for the separator instead of a colon. It looks better.

@disorganizer - The thread title can be changed if the focus shifts. When statements turn to discussions in an official thread, a discussion thread should be created. If not, there's not a whole lot that can be done. We can't cover every circumstance, just the vast majority of them.
 
What exactly would we gain by all of this?
 
It would be much easier to see what the thread type is when looking in the forum. Especially in those forums where there are many different types of threads it would be very nice.
 
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