There are a LOT of posts in these forums, and it\'s REALLY hard to find some things that have already been mentioned - which leads to the usual \"you\'re stupid for asking a question again\" thing that is pretty much the one thing that annoys me on forums in general.
So, a suggestion is to have someone / some people in charge of getting decisions finalised and summarised. There are various ways this could be done...
1. Have \'sub-boards\' (I\'m mainly thinking of WishList here), entitled \'Closed Discussions\'. When a discussion reaches it\'s end, either when the devs have decided \'yes - we want that\', or when the fans have said they would like it (even if the devs haven\'t approved it yet - it\'s just a recommendation put forth to the devs), the topic(s) relating to that discussion are deleted and a new thread is added to the closed sub-board giving an overview of the points, and the final outcome.
2. Have a completely seperate webpage detailing problems/wish list discussions that have been closed. It would act as a knowledge base for people with problems, and a recommendations-document for the dev team (like a design doc, but not finalised).
I\'m willing to make a \'test idea\' for 2 if people are interested. This project seems to be spiraling outwards and upwards, and I would love to be able to see the future of the project by looking through just one place, and not gleaming little bits from here and there. I would be willing to go back through some old forum topics and make a structured page for the dev team, that would effectively be the bugTracker, but without the technical info, and obviously not mixed in with too many comments (it would be post-discussion items that have been decided upon or closed).
Thoughts? Comments? A better suggestion?
