User blog:Nikki Lee 1999/A proposal for "Upcoming ERB Suggestions" page

Sometimes, I think of what I would do if I were an admin the one thing I know I would want to do is manage the Upcoming ERB suggestions page more often. There are two basic ways that I wanted to propose doing that.

=Sufficient Support Proposal= Pretty much, when an anon or a regular user posts a suggestion and a certain amount (5 maybe? 10? idk) regular users (users with over 100 edits, not obvious socks or people from other wikis) reply with support, it gets added.

Pros

 * It wouldn't start much flame wars or clog recent activity. More suggestions would be added.

Cons

 * It may lead to too many suggestions being added.


 * Suggestions that a lot of people like but even more people dislike would find there way on the page. (I'd argue that there are already a lot of suggestions like that on the page)

=Majority Support Proposal= When an anon or regular user makes a suggestion and the supportive replies from regular users (again only users with 100 or more edits) outnumber the oppositional replies from regular users (100+ edits), after a predetermined amount of time (3 days? A week? A month?), it gets added.

Pros

 * Only suggestions that most people like will be added to the page.

Cons

 * Most of the suggestions on that page are made by AWCs and are terrible. So it would lead to a lot of "no" replies being put on the page.


 * It would be very difficult for any suggestion to be liked by the majority of the wiki's users.

=But= I can't edit the page, there are only 6 users who can and only half of them are even active, so it would need somebody to manage the page.

=Thoughts?=
 * Which proposal (if any) do you think is better?


 * What would be a good amount of users for the Sufficient Support Proposal?


 * What would be a good time frame for the Majority Support Proposal?

=P.S.= If we do end up doing this, and we decide we don't like the way the page is, we could always stop.

I think this would be worth trying in at least an experimental trial to see what happens. Then, if we don't like it, we will send it back to the way it is right now.