VGC's stance on Thread Quality and Enforcement

[vivster]

FunFan said:

vivster said:

There is something as objective quality. If OP is not including vital information it does not improve discussion, it hinders it. If the discussion is truly worthy then someone will make a worthy thread. Discussion is not thwarted by requiring a minimum quality of the opening post that will improve discussion.

1. The value of something is not strictly correlated to quantity. Or strictly speaking: If the opening post is already trash, the resulting discussion has little hope to be very fruitful.

2. Do you think it hurts discussion if thread creators have to put a little bit of effort into their posts?

1. If a healthy discussion is still taking place, title/op quality is meaningless. If not, the thread had already defeated itself.

2. It hurts discussion if posters put little effort into their posts, op included. They are mostly just hurting themselves, though.

You say yourself that poor OP quality hurts discussion. So why not start improving that part first? And I don't agree that they hurt only themselves. It hurts the forum as a whole when too much trash is allowed through. It invites the wrong people.

Miguel_Zorro said:

Tagging.

I'll go through this in more detail when I'm not at work.  I'm interested in seeing what the community has to say about this.

I agree with much of what you wrote.  

Are people going to be supportive of us being stricter on this when it's somebody they like being moderated for repeated poor thread quality?

I kinda doubt that people who don't care about thread quality care much about who posts the thread. Also it's not like people are instantly banned for making bad threads. They will get their fair warnings fist.