Basically this is about some ideas that could be added down the road to DB2 based on issues that come up from time to time but never made it into the original danbooru 2 thread.
Pool post relevance voting
Allow posts to be voted on with regards to their appropriateness to "theme" pools aka dat ass and such.
Automatically remove them if they receive enough down votes. Hopefully we can assume that it is because people don't feel that the image fits the pool.
Policy changes put to the vote
More or less just put any issue to a vote for the period of say a week and after that time, the policy is changed based on the aye or nay votes.
Redo the rules
Based on the above, just start redoing none/some/all of the existing rules for danbooru2.
Can you explain, with examples, exactly why these changes are necessary? I'm not entirely convinced that the current method for dealing with policy changes is broken enough to require fixing.
glasnost said: Can you explain, with examples, exactly why these changes are necessary? I'm not entirely convinced that the current method for dealing with policy changes is broken enough to require fixing.
The first comes from the general issues with subjective pools when you look though the forum history.
A specific example would be forum #66212 and Shinjidude's second response. A lot potentially out of place but tricky to clean.
Generally if one person thinks "dat ass" and everyone else is thinking "why is this here?" there is a problem.
For the second it comes down to the basically the sheer amount of discussions that either die with nothing really accomplished or someone flat out "takes the reins".
Neither is ideal.
forum #66028 and it's 2 previous incarnations. forum #63240 which I can personally say was intended to be put more through its paces before it became the defaco "policy". forum #39811 which in part the above was based on. It was never truly fleshed out.
Generally it's been a case where discussion have really started to either have little participation or have basically just "withered on the vine" with the participants left wondering if it was "yes or no".
It also to me seems to have the advantage of giving set time limit and conclusion to a discussion that might otherwise die and come back again and again.
For the last part, that came from looking the the base rules (db2) that existed before the last major edit.
I am not saying the existing rules should be changed (outside of scans) but it just seems like it could be a good opportunity to get everyone together and sit down and look at where the rules currently sit and decid if they are the right fit atm.
as far as "Pool post relevance voting" goes. I would prefer that any conversations about specific posts be handled in the comments section of that post when dealing with pools. It's worked in the past with just a simple "why is this image in this pool?", and I don't see any reason for that to change. Granted if it starts to heat up too much, a mod should step in to stop it but I doubt that really happens enough to deter this process.
Zekana said: as far as "Pool post relevance voting" goes. I would prefer that any conversations about specific posts be handled in the comments section of that post when dealing with pools. It's worked in the past with just a simple "why is this image in this pool?", and I don't see any reason for that to change. Granted if it starts to heat up too much, a mod should step in to stop it but I doubt that really happens enough to deter this process.
Ideally it would take some of the subjectivity out of the discussions themselves in so much as the votes would be a clear yes or no.
It's too much of a hassle to implement and a simple vote says nothing about what the problem actually is. Because it's not some widespread plague, it is sufficient to have case-by-case discussions about pools.
Aristocrat said: It's too much of a hassle to implement and a simple vote says nothing about what the problem actually is. Because it's not some widespread plague, it is sufficient to have case-by-case discussions about pools.
Well the vote would say yes or no. I don't really see specific details as all that important to "fits or not". Think of it like the moderation queue.
It might not be a widespread plague but it is problematic. The more subjective the pool is (especially when people change the definition of what belongs) the more you see posts that don't fit.
BTW this comes out partially from the last discussion on subjective pool moderation. Nothing came of it since one person can't really make that kind of decision.
Anyway the thread is not just about these few ideas. If you think there is something that could benefit with a change post it.
