Board Thread:Fanon Wiki Proposals/@comment-25429296-20180111074826

Hello all! I am here tonight to talk to you about a proposal that I have. Aishia and I were talking in chat and we both said how much we HATED writing cast bios. As you all know, I am probably the floppiest person on this wiki because I have began and canceled so many fanons in my time here. But what really makes it hard for me to get going is having to write the dreaded CAST BIOS!! It’s really difficult to write a meaningful bit about someone who I know if just going to be a pre-merge flop and it’s a big obstacle in the way of writing a season for me and many other people here. Let’s face it: cast bios are hard and very few actually enjoy writing them. I have always held the opinion: if you want to know so much about them, why don’t you read the season? Writing these bios are a lot of work and they often go to waste; people don’t read them as they’re just waiting for the episodes to start rolling out or people read them, forget them, and remember how they were in the season over how they were in their bio. Some of the best seasons (i.e. Maldives) are fantastic and written beautifully and don’t have bios. Would Maldives REALLY have been improved had Waffle but out bios?

I don’t know who was here at the time as I don’t remember when this took place, but Ian initially put this rule into place because so many people were coming here and creating season pages only to leave them behind and create spam on the wiki. He said, “We should all have to write bios so we know you’re invested in the season”. I agree with that, but some people can be trusted to not write bios and still go through with the season. I’m not here saying that we should get rid of requiring people right bios completely but I believe there is a better way to do it. What if we were to make it a rule that for everyone’s first season here they must have bios and for future seasons they are not a requirement because they’ve shown they can be trusted? Or maybe we can measure it by how long they’ve been a user and if you’ve been a user for a certain amount of time you are trusted and don’t have to write bios? I’m just spitballing here, I’m not saying these are the best ideas, but I believe something needs to be changed about the bio requirement.

Thank you for your time :)

(Note: I am not saying bios are a bad thing, I know many of you love to write and read them, BUT for those of us who dreads bios and let them create a roadblock to starting the fanon, I don’t believe we should have to write character bios.) 