Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-3279282-20160829215636/@comment-1251315-20160830142842

Seelentau wrote: Thread:213651 and Thread:213399 being two more examples. Then again, they're all by the same user, so maybe it's just him who needs to be educated.

But there are also others like Thread:214068, Thread:214165, Thread:214179, Thread:214062 and Thread:213325 (to an extent), Thread:213757. For the first two links by the same user, it might be a good idea to simply leave a polite message on their talkpage asking them to put a bit more detail into their battle threads.

As for the other ones, one of the threads linked was a pointless "troll" battle, which should probably be closed. The others I have no opinion on, as a few of them do include some details.

I think a general rule/warning should be implemented, to avoid other users doing the same. What's more, the OP most of the times posts their opinion later on in the thread, something which wouldn't be necessary if they would post their opinion in the initial OP. I don't mind them posting their opinions later in the thread. In fact, that is ideally better, for the reasons given earlier. If a user posts their opinion in the opening message, there is a high chance that users will focus on the opinion, not the debate/battle and that's more than likely to cause a problem.

Maybe a warning in the thread creation window would be the best. That would be possible to add (a simple notice that gets included in the versus debates forum only) and would probably be better.

Also, I was thinking of a template the users could use. The German Narutopedia uses one in their forum (and no, this is no hidden agenda to make this wiki/forum more like the German wiki), it looks like this. Good idea, but something like that isn't likely to get visibility. Unlike that forum, which has the ability to sticky threads, we do not have the ability to pin threads so they're always at the top of the list. We can only highlight threads, which just generates a notification that expires after a whole week.

Another way would be to do something like we do with : a notice that can be posted in threads with a link to a thread that explains things better. But again, there's no way to "make" users read such threads for the reason above.