Player submitted guides - input requested

[Fathi]

One of the reasons we'd prefer this to be a collaborative project with staff acting as editors and so on is for the reason Lizzie expressed. Once a document is on the website it's regarded as authorative, things change and we need to be able to change the documents with them.

With further thought it seems to me that having documents where authors are unwilling to have their work change would not work for this purpose. Submissions such as the stories is likely the best place for this kind of work. Guides on how to play this game need to be flexible.

This pretty much sums up my views on the subject.

I'd gladly contribute to such a project and I think it's a fabulous idea.

[spawnloser]

Ahem...

My first question is... wouldn't these best, instead of being 'guides', be better labeled as FAQs that are written by players and formatted/edited by the managing staff?

Additionally, are there projected topics that would be requested, or is this going to be a free-for-all sort of thing?

...ahem.

[Adhira]

I think these should be guides. They're guides formulated by players that they think would be useful in the world.

At the moment projected topics are not planned. We're doing this in response to the submissions that are getting mailed in, and threads we've seen here on the gdb. Staff will be maintaining the help files and offical guides, these player guides are a reflection of what players feel they'd like to see and also what they'd like to write about.

[Adhira]

Thanks for the feedback.

I'll be putting something together for this and hopefully getting working on adding this section to the website in the next week or two. More info will be given on how to submit an item once it's set up.

[Dalmeth]

Good work!