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Current Day's Suggestions
READ THE Suggestions Dos and Do Nots and Frequently Suggested Ideas Page BEFORE YOU POST A NEW SUGGESTION.
Add new suggestions to Category:Current Suggestions - duplicate suggestions will be removed.
Below is a list of new suggestions on the Current Suggestions category page.
- Go there to make new suggestions.
| Other suggestions still open for voting. |
Suggesting
From the Urban Dead FAQ:
- Q. Can I send you some ideas?
- A. All players are welcome to suggest alterations and additions that they think would improve the game - we can't guarantee that they'll be implemented, but anything submitted to the Suggestions page of the Urban Dead Wiki will certainly be passed on and read, if it passes peer review. --Kevan
This page is for suggestions for new content to add to Urban Dead in the future. You are free to make whatever Suggestions you desire, but you must follow the Suggestions Guidelines when you Suggest them.
Once suggestions reach the end of their voting period they are moved to one of the following peer reviewed pages:
- For suggestions with a total of 2/3 or more Keep votes after 2 weeks of voting.
- For suggestions with less than 2/3, but greater than or equal to 50% of Keep votes after 2 weeks of voting.
- For all other suggestions after 2 weeks of voting, or those that comply to the 2/3 Spam votes rule.
- For amusing suggestions that would normally get thrown into Peer Rejected, but are fun to read.
- For a history of suggestions - check here first before submitting.
The Suggestion System
Advice before Making a Suggestion
- Read the Suggestions Dos and Do Nots page and the Frequently Suggested Ideas page for guidelines.
- Consider taking it to the Developing Suggestions page first. You will get a feel for how the community views such suggestions and often get some idea for fine tuning your suggestion. This step is recommended.
- Look for your suggestion in the following pages to avoid a duplicate suggestion (Use the Ctrl + F function to search for keywords):
- Repeats of Suggestions under consideration or already considered may be deleted without warning by any user unless there are substantial differences.
- New and sensitive users should be aware that voters will not always treat their ideas kindly. It may be helpful to wait a few days to get a feel for the place and the other users before subjecting your idea to any possible criticism. If you're unsure, the Discussion page is good neutral territory to suggest, gather feedback, and refine your idea before officially submitting it.
- Before submitting your suggestion, read what kind of suggestions are approved, and which rejected.
- If your suggestion is a basic functionality improvement, it will probably be accepted.
- If it makes characters, especially survivors, significantly more powerful, it will almost certainly be rejected.
- Again, read the existing suggestions before you post.
- Reading the Talk page is also highly recommended.
- Each author should not make more than one suggestion per day (i.e. in a 24 hour period beginning at 00:01 BST). This limit does not include suggestions which the author has removed for the purpose of revision. Suggestions may be revised once per day at most. Suggestions must be removed prior to revisions being posted. Frequent removal of suggestions to avoid having them spaminated is considered abuse of the system. Removal of suggestions in order to post non-revision suggestions the same day is also considered abuse of the system.
- Suggestions created entirely for the purpose of satire, insult, or comedy are considered vandalism and treated appropriately by sysops. If you want to post a joke suggestion put it on the Humorous Page.
Peer Reviewed Suggestions
Peer Reviewed Suggestions are not guaranteed to be implemented into the game. Suggestions that are Peer Reviewed are simply suggestions considered good and worthy by the wiki population, and being moved to that page places no onus on Kevan to implement them.
Cycling Suggestions
Please help to cycle suggestions into their appropriate categories.
Making a Suggestion
If this is your first time making a suggestion, consider taking it to the Talk:Suggestions page before starting in on the voting process as described below. The friendly people there can help you avoid formating errors and will let you know if the suggestion stands a decent chance of passing a vote, has glaring problems, or (good or bad) has been made and voted on already in the past. You may also find it useful to have a look at this Sample Suggestion to let you see what you need to put into your suggestion when you make it.To make a new suggestion:
- Copy and paste the following code to the bottom of Current day's suggestions:
- {{Subst:NewSug|SUGGESTION NAME}}
- Clicking here will edit the current day's suggestions list.
- There is no need to include the date, or to sign, the template will do all that for you. Please make your suggestion name descriptive, and no /'s or quotes.
- Once you have added the template, it will produce a link to your new suggestion page.
- Follow the link, and add the {{SugHead}} template to the page, and press preview. Then follow the instructions it will give you.
Voting
- You are voting on Suggestions, not Users. The text of your vote should not personally attack or denigrate the user who has submitted it... no matter how ridiculous the idea. Flaming and/or Trolling will not be tolerated.
- Before voting please read the Suggestions Dos and Do Nots and Frequently Suggested Ideas Page to read about concepts that have been generally considered unworkable in the past. You do not need to follow the guidelines on these pages but they are worth consideration before casting a vote.
- One vote per user. No exceptions. You cannot use multiple wiki accounts to vote on a suggestion.
- To Vote, use the [edit] button next to the suggestion you wish to vote for. Then enter your vote in the suggest_votes field. Please ensure that your vote is placed before the double brackets of the particular suggestion (ie the "}}")
- Votes must include a signature in order to be considered valid votes. To sign a vote, use --~~~~. Please remember to sign your votes! Unsigned votes will be deleted after 30 minutes or when found.
- Each Suggestion will be open to voting for two (2) weeks, measured from the suggestion's Timestamp, unless it is a Dupe or Spam. If, at the end of that time, there are two thirds (2/3) more Keep votes than Kill votes, the Suggestion will be moved to the Peer Reviewed Suggestions page. Otherwise, the Suggestion will be moved to the Peer Rejected Suggestions page.
Rules for Discussions
Votes are NOT the place to discuss Suggestions. This page and archived suggestion pages are only to be used for the Suggesting and subsequent Voting of these suggestions. If you wish to discuss any of the suggestions or votes here, please select a specific vote's page by clicking on its link under Current Day's Suggestions and use the associated Talk page. Suggestions do not have to be submitted in order to discuss them. The Suggestions talk page can be used to workshop possible suggestions before they are submitted.
Valid Votes
- Keep, for Suggestions that you believe have merit.
- Kill, for Suggestions that you believe do not have merit. If you need to discuss a rule fix, use the discussion page.
- Spam, for the most ridiculous suggestions.
- Suggestions can be removed with Spam votes as described below in the Removing Suggestions section. If the criterion described there are not fulfilled, the suggestion must remain for the whole two weeks.
- Spam votes are not a "strong kill", they are simply here to prevent the utterly ridiculous from clogging up the system. If you do not like the idea, and it's not some crazy uber power or something else ridiculous, VOTE KILL, NOT SPAM. Spam votes will be counted as Kill when votes are tallied.
- Dupe, for Suggestions that are exact or very close duplicates of previous suggestions. For a Dupe vote to be valid, a link must be provided to the original suggestion.
- Dupe votes can be used to remove suggestions as described below. Dupe votes will not be counted when votes are tallied.
Invalid Votes
- Server Load and Programming Complexity are NOT very good Kill reasons. You are voting on the merit of the suggestion and whether or not you think it belongs in the game. Server load/complexity issues are up to Kevan to decide.
- X should be implemented first is not a valid reason for a vote. You are voting on the merit of THIS suggestion, not how it compares to others.
- Votes that do not have reasoning behind them are invalid. You MUST justify your vote.
Comments
- Re may be used to comment on a vote. Only the original author and the person being REd can comment. Comments are restricted to a single comment per vote, and it is expected that Re comments be as short as possible. Reing every kill vote is considered abuse of the Re comment. A Re does not count as a vote, and any subsequent discussion not part of the Re comment should be held on the discussion page if there is any extended commenting.
- Note is used by System Operators to invalidate trolling-based votes. Only Sysops may remove troll-based votes and they do so with a strikeout <s></s> in order to preserve the trolling removal for posterity. The voter may contest the strikeout with the Sysop that struck their vote out on the discussion page. Only a System Operator may remove a strikeout.
All Caps
Try to avoid YELLING, writing in bold, or using italics, except when emphasizing a point which has escaped other voters.
VOTING EXAMPLES
Keep Votes
- Keep - I am the author and I am allowed to vote once on my own suggestions. --MrSuggester 05:01, 11 Nov 2005 (GMT)
- Keep - Best. Suggestion. Evar. --Bob_Zombie 04:01, 11 Nov 2005 (GMT)
Keep - Good sugestion.no signature --FakeSuggester 07:39, 15 Nov 2005 (GMT)
Kill Votes
- Kill - This is a terrible idea, but you can totally fix it up. --NegativeGal 06:01, 12 Nov 2005 (GMT)
- Re - Please be more specific about how to fix it on the discussion page. --MrSuggester 14:01, 12 Nov 2005 (GMT)
- Re - Sure, I have detailed my proposed fixes here. --NegativeGal 23:38, 12 Nov 2005 (GMT)
- Re - Please be more specific about how to fix it on the discussion page. --MrSuggester 14:01, 12 Nov 2005 (GMT)
Kill - You will eat my poopie and love it! --PooEater 11:12, 13 Nov 2005 (GMT)- Note - Inane vote removed. Defend in discussion. --DaModerator 11:13, 13 Nov 2005 (GMT)
Spam/Dupe Votes
- Spam - Kung Fu CB Mama on Wheels is an inappropriate Survivor Class. --NoFunAtAll 09:01, 12 Nov 2005 (GMT)
- Dupe - Duplicate Suggestion --AnotherSuggester 05:01, 14 Nov 2005 (GMT)
Removing Suggestions
Suggestions can be removed for two reasons:
- Dupe If a suggestion is a duplicate of an earlier one, and has recieved at least 3 Dupe Votes linked to the Duplicated suggestion, then it can be deleted as per the guidelines below.
- Spam If a suggestion is deemed by the community to be either not made seriously, or simply completely awful and not worthy of inclusion on the Suggestion page for a two-week period, it can be Spaminated. The suggestion may be sent to either the Peer-Rejected or Humorous suggestions pages.
Eligibility for Spamination is acheived if there are at least 7 Spam votes and the number of Spam votes are equal to 2/3rds or greater of the total number of votes, with the author vote included in all these tallies. In addition, A Sysop can if they so choose delete any suggestion with three or more Spams as long as Spams outnumber Keeps; this includes their own spam vote. Suggestions may not be removed as spam unless voting has been open for 6 hours.
Authors are not allowed to use Re: to defend their work or correct the editor after a suggestion has been removed.
When removing a Suggestion, you take the responsibility to be mature regarding the situation. Each Suggestion is an author's child and they can be come quite passionate in regards to the Suggestion's removal. Please do the following when removing a Suggestion:
- Duplicate - If the removed Suggestion is a duplicate, you must:
- Confirm that there are absolutely no viable differences between the original and the duplicate.
- List the number of Dupe Votes received.
- Provide a link(s) to the Suggestion that it duplicates.
- Optionally note the Linked Suggestion status: Reviewed/Undecided/Rejected.
- Sign the removal.
- Be Polite and make no additional comments.
- Humorous - If the removed Suggestion is deemed humourous, you must:
- State that the Suggestion has been deemed humorous.
- Move the Suggestion to the Humorous Suggestions page.
- Sign the removal.
- Be Polite and make no additional comments.
- Bring fourth a vandalism case against the user who posted it citing rule 13 of making a suggestion.
- Spaminated - If the removed Suggestion has become eligible for Spamination, you must:
- List the number of Spam Votes received and the total number of votes.
- State that the Suggestion was Spaminated.
- List or summarize/paraphrase the comments/reasons made on the Spam votes.
- Move the suggestion to Peer Rejected Suggestions page.
- Sign the removal.
- Be Polite and make no additional comments.
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Previous Days' Suggestions
Due to the high amount of traffic on this page, Suggestions from previous days are placed on a dated page found at the Previous Days' Suggestions page. No changes have been made to any suggestions placed on its subpage. Voting may still take place on these subpages until their 2 weeks are up. Consider all subpages extensions to this page, and all rules regarding suggestions still apply to all subpages of this page.
Clothing Suggestions
Suggestions can now be made for articles of clothing that you feel should be in the game. There is a separate page set up for this here. It follows a different system of voting to regular suggestions, more details of which are on the page itself.
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