Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-25941663-20150119211557/@comment-25428589-20150120163915

MrDupin wrote: I like the writer self-promotion idea. But I think it will be difficult to pull off without encouraging spamming. I have two ideas.

a) Why don't we make a new forum topic (like 'Writer's Workshop') but for promoting stories. I have seen a couple of threads on the WW that simply linked to their story on the wiki and that somehow got their stories more exposure. Without their threads I wouldn't have read their stories. The stories weren't actually that good and got deleted, but they did get (some) exposure in the first place.

Of course, that would only be a first step, it won't actually change much. But it surely is a step towards the right direction.

b) This one is more daring and difficult than my first idea. It is basically a section about the best pastas on 'New Pages'. People who read stories in the 'New Pages' can add a story they liked on that section. Then others will read the story and if it is bad they can remove it. I would support the first idea, as it doesn't require us to change anything major and would be useful for both people looking for new pastas and people trying to get their work noticed. It would require some strict rules to prevent spamming - if they are too lenient then I can see the place becoming filled with one or too people constantly posting about the same story. Maybe you could only post a link to there within a month of the story's creation...?

The second option sounds like it would be Hell to moderate, especially if normal users are allowed suggestions by other users - I can imagine this could create a lot of fighting and edit warring between users. Also, it's difficult enough to moderate PotM as it is, we would effectively be doubling our workload.