Hmm, I feel I should give me 2 cents here too. I agree with what Phoopes is saying, I also agree that I don't find the CAP forum to be all that intimidating. But perhaps that's because I'm used to forum-dwelling, here and in other forums.
The person who already nailed my thoughts for me though, is bmb.
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Originally Posted by Fat bugmaniacbob
Essentially the CAP forum is always going to be intimidating because a) it's a process that has been refined for a long time and thus not intuitive to anybody not familiar with it and b) there is a certain intellectual threshold that dictates more or less who can and can't post here - if you're willing to put time and effort into thinking your posts through and making your opinions clear then yes, people pay attention, and if you don't, then yes, people will ignore you, heartbreaking as it is (and I know that as well as anybody). Personally I don't see that anything can really be changed without detracting from what is already here, aside from what can perhaps be added to make the experience more diverse
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I agree with most he said, but this nails is it for me. The CAP process has one inherent strength, which is also it's biggest weakness. Level of intelligence required to participate. I personally love debates of any kind, I'd even enjoy sitting in and listening to a political party debate for a few hours on end. Needless to say, I also love some thorough theorymonning and discussing. In hindsight of a lot of projects, it's easy to say that perhaps, we could've kept the level of discussions down a bit. (were 20 pages of discussion really required for stage x of cap y??, or something) Yet in the end, I feel our great final results actually come from the thorough discussions that have been held towards building the final product.
I understand Macle's point completely that 3 pages of posts with complete books of text are highly time-consuming and even intimidating to go through, yet I also dislike the idea trying to tone down the discussion part of the process, just for the sake of lowering the threshold. I feel that this is still a competitive project first and foremost, and that we need some intelligent discussion to get to our end results.
So, I for one, would hope the current 'rigid' process stays the way it is. I feel it works really well, and those that really want to contribute will do so anyway.
However, I support the idea of putting the process threads in a different subforum, just for the sake of making the first forum you enter into a bit less intimidating with all these locked process threads.
Whatever should be put in this main forum, however, I have no idea. I like the ideas that have been mentioned earlier.
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Originally Posted by Fat bugmaniacbob
Oh and if anybody tries to implement a tl;dr policy I will be very irritated and issue a referendum suggesting mild disapproval
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FUUU, I'd really dislike to tl;dr all my bazillion words posts just as much !! :<