Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25150955-20160909010405/@comment-26402117-20170112184008

TOTMGsRock wrote: Accidental duplicate posts can be dealt with by pressing the delete button, but Discussions, however, is very hard to moderate. There is no edit history at all, and there is no "this reply has been removed" notification for deleted messages. Also,  Dysfunctions Discussions looks too much like a rip-off of a social media network, and that just doesn't match the style of the wikis of  Fandumb powered by Wikia. Be careful of absolutes. Moderation actually has a workflow in Discussions and in general is distinct to post transparency. I think Forum goes a bit too far in the direction of post transparency - to redundancy. A removed reply notification does not need to be seen by users, unless there is a reply dependent on it in a threaded comment system such as Reddit. The removed reply should be seen by admins, and I've heard of JS scripts that can unhide deleted replies for anyone. And my experience of moderating Discussions wasn't plain sailing, but it got easier after getting to know my way around the place. Mainly recats and the odd case of human spam.

I do miss the edit history and that pushes Discussions into the wrong direction, so I'll probably contact staff about it. I could think of numerous ways the wiki design has issues - it needs a sprite update, layout tweaks to the page header and a removal of all background gradients. Discussions has a more advanced UI than Twitter (they share just the 1-2-1 columnation and wiki logo positioning) while Forum is not unlike Facebook. Its all been said before. Besides, I've had the opportunity to use Discussions for myself and reskinned it.