Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-26339491-20181129221531/@comment-24383490-20181216074142

Darkanine wrote: Atvelonis wrote: Darkanine wrote: Actually, most of the community does read them. Don't generalize every wiki just because a few do not. That's never productive. Beyond a "core" of powerusers who can really identify with a particular wiki's practices, that logic cannot really be applied to highlights. The vast majority of users do not and will never read every highlight in a list of more than one or perhaps two; that's just statistics. The powerusers who would are the kinds of people who will find these things no matter what, even if that means grouping what would otherwise be several highlights into a single announcement. And should a wikis built-in features not be used to cater to those who actually do work and get themselves involved into the community? We make content for those people, we expect some features to make community organization easier, and forum highlighting has proven to be consistently useful on the various "Battle Board" wikis at doing just that. Darkanine is entirely correct. In our case, highlighting threads almost always gathers a lot more necessary community participation for important topics.

We are a community that entirely revolves around constant discussions to get anything done, and it is a much more efficient way to get people knowledgeable about a certain important topic to contribute with their input.