Board Thread:Community Discussions/@comment-2089817-20160507161739/@comment-2182964-20160508101719

1: RPCQE: Should it be kept? Or should it be reorganized a bit? Personally I'm against it. As it stands at the moment a new user needs to "prove" themselves before they're allowed to make characters of a certain level. It discourages new users. The whole point of a wiki is that they're free to edit by anyone. At the moment that isn't the case here. When I first started posting on wiki I did it simply because I had a tonne of ideas and wanted to share them with people. Later I did so because I was having fun and interacting with new people with whom I had a common interest. Take that away and people lose interest and will ultimately look elsewhere.

2: RPCQE Remodelling: If we do decide to keep the exam I feel we can allow a higher "ceiling of power", without compromising too much with what the exam is designed for. Most of the characters people are attracted to are Captain-class. Why? Their stories usually involve their own version of the Gotei 13. We could heighten it to Lieutenant-class or even characters in-and-around the level of, who occupies the gap between Lieutenant and Captain. In regards to improving the exam we need notifications, otherwise people wait around and grow impatient. I understand everyone has a life outside wiki. But when someone actually works hard on an article in the spirit of the exam, with every intention of passing, but has to wait weeks at a time for their grade can be just as discouraging as a flat-out fail.

3: Featured article: This gets mentioned every now and then and it always plays out the exact same way. The first month works but subsequent months? People loose interest. The blogs or forums for it are never posted and when they do, they get little attention, if any at all. The last set of nominations where carried out by Chico and only six people contributed. Instead of a featured article I'd actually suggest we try a featured wikian instead. How this would be determined would obviously need some ironing out, but for now I'll just put it on the table and see what you guys think.