Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24577221-20150726213748/@comment-24577221-20150731005943

Broadly speaking, assistance with cleaning/tidying is always welcome. You should probably stay away from major revisions until you've established some trust from the community, and even there, it's probably best to ask for opinions on significant changes (as I've been doing right here).

Can you point me towards posts that you regard as being entirely about nomenclature for no useful purpose? Keep in mind that a lot of the details of nomenclature are built right into the game, and it's reasonable for people to use that "jargon" in discussing it. If that's a barrier to new people playing the game, that's a problem for the developers. If it's a barrier to people participating here, yes, we should provide avenues for them to become familiar with the game's terminology.

I would very much like to have one (1) list of friend codes, rather than the proliferation that seem to have come from people looking at the long list and deciding that they want to create a new list so they can be the first person in it. (It was only a couple of months ago that one twit erased the entire existing list and stuck in his own code.  Quote: "I thought anyone could contribute to the page")  I have heard that there used to be a lot more of those lists before, until people focused on the one big list.

I agree that a bit more in the way of instructions on how that list of codes can be used (and what it can't do) would be a good thing. And a bit less "look at MEEEEE!!" stuff. It's a matter of finding a balance between promoting individual creativity and pushing back against people being annoying.

Putting in sections, arranged by dates... I suppose? The instructions used to tell people to add their codes to the bottom of the list, but most people paid no attention and put their codes at the top. Now the instructions tell people to add at the top, but some people add their codes at the bottom. Fundamental problem: a lot of people either don't read instructions, or don't follow them even if they do. I'm not convinced it makes a great deal of difference either way, nor that it's worth trying to be strict about it. I do think it's worth getting rid of spammers or other duplicates ASAP, and I try to keep on top of that. I should probably spend less energy on that, per my girlfriend.

I'll work on snipping out the old codes. The snipping itself will be quick and easy; the tedious part will be extracting a list of old codes from a year-old version of the page. After that, I just have to tell my computer to spit out the lines that don't match any of the old codes. The prep work is likely to take me a few days.