User:Jon Lupen/Questions

Concerning Questions, Comments and Dicussion on Topics on Arena Net Staff Member's Talk Pages -- Wyn

The following is segments from a discussion regarding the rapid growth in size or Linsey's page, but applies to any other high-traffic page. — Jon Lupen

I would like to ask for some common sense when posting on Linsey's page. We all know she is in crunch time for the April update, so can we please limit our posts to short simple questions that she MIGHT have a chance to answer? Writing walls of text means her having to read walls of text, which she just isn't going to do atm due to her time constraints. If you feel the absolute need to write a wall, do it in your space and then just add a link to it here. Her page is growing exponentially again and will soon reach the point where it needs to be locked again for her sanity, not to mention to keep it from breaking. She has gone out of her way to try to be responsive and respectful of the community, can't we do the same for her?

The problem with that [letting the page runs it's own coarse] is that as it gets so massive (currently 200k when Media Wiki recommends not exceeding 32k) it starts to become more and more difficult to access/edit. Since you know she isn't going to get to it right away, writing it up in your userspace, and linking it here will allow her to read it when she has a chance, yet keep her page small enough that people can continue to post, and the page won't have to be locked down again. If the discussion is limited to the talk page of the associate page in your userspace, there will be no split discussions.

I would rather see people using their userspace and just linking here (which is what Linsey was trying to say, rather than creating even more holding tanks). That way people can still post and discuss, and Linsey can read at her leisure. Her temp archive is still full from last time. I think she has proven she will respond in your userspace when she has time. However, if the walls of text continue here it will have to be locked down again, and then we will have another 3 months of no contact. It's up to the people posting to just use some common sense.

I'm not Linsey's keeper, but I am her friend, and am trying to keep what happened to Izzy on this wiki from happening to her. If you don't want to make an account, that's your choice, and you can continue to post here until her page gets so large it has to be locked down, and then NO ONE gets to post here. All I'm asking is for some common courtesy and respect for someone who is working her tail off for this community. We don't want to impose rules other than those Linsey has designed as we had to do with Izzy's page, but if it comes down to her page having to get locked down every couple of months because people don't have any sense, then we (the wiki admins) will.