We've found that it's easier to communicate with our community through the RTB thread in the modification discussion. In fact, the people on the RTB forums usually knew less about RTB than the people on these forums because we would post more frequently on these forums and we posted here first. Sometimes content would exclusively show up here and we'd forget to mirror it on the RTB forums, so more often than not, people on the RTB forums were in the dark.
There was a backlog of hundreds (maybe thousands) of moderator reports. It was mostly used as a hideout for people banned from this forum or who otherwise didn't fit in here. Overall it wasn't accomplishing its purpose.
By we I mean the RTB staff and by RTB staff I mean Ephialtes. I'm just used to writing we because I was a moderator on the forum and I was put in charge of a couple community initiatives (that failed or were scrapped) like the wiki and updating the blog.
I still think about the wiki occasionally and it's something I want to come back to, but I have to think about it more. Having this content available is good, but the wiki format is just way to cumbersome and unwieldy for our needs. There's a big laundry list of things it has to be able to do: it needs to be automated, it needs to give people credit for the work they do, it needs to be scalable and work well with 100 guides or 10 guides, anybody should be able to use it, you should only have to just type and drag and drop pictures into it to work, it should be free, it should be able to scrape the guides off the forums so we don't have to rewrite them, it should be both searchable and use a well organized tree structure for grouping similar articles, you should be able to write about anything you want, it should be able to integrate with these forums without requiring any work on Badspot's part (maybe using a script to automatically modify and bump a thread in modification discussion?)... Ideally we'd have some kind of FAQ/Guide subforum here where people could just post stuff using the forum software and it'd get grouped, tagged, indexed, and thrown in the forum search results automatically, and people would be able to modify/update the OP with some kind of permission system, but that's not very likely. When I come up with something I'll let you guys know.
