Forum:New Forums?

This is a very special request for comment. As some of you may be aware, Gaiacarra took it upon himself to create forums for the wiki here (please be aware that, as of this writing, this forum is not endorsed nor authorized as official by the Wikitroid administration). This vote is to determine whether or not this forum should be authorized as official and supercede our current forums sytem.

The (collected ) arguments in favor of the new systems is:
 * 1) Friendlier environment than the wiki's system
 * 2) More conducive to forming a community and for directing the project

However, there are more reasons as to why this is more trouble than it's worth:
 * 1) Organizational, administrative, etc. issues must be discussed on the wiki due to the wiki's open nature, so the forum is only useful for socializing
 * 2) We already have forums (sure, they're klutzy, but they are forums)
 * 3) There is no way to guarantee that user123 on the wiki is user123 on the forums (i.e., someone could register user123 on the forum without actually being user123 on the wiki)
 * 4) Do we have a large enough dedicated user base to make dedicated forums useful? The only wiki that I know of with its own dedicated forums is Halopedia (and they have at least 53x the number of users we have)

Please note that, while all users will be able to voice their opinion, it will eventually the administrator's decision whether or not to make the forums official. Thus, unlike a standard RFC, the votes will be split into two sections - administrators and non-administrators. However, feel free to voice your opinion, as your opinion will still be important in the final decision. -- FastLizard4 {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs&bull;Logs) 01:51, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Administrators
Oppose - for reasons I list above. -- FastLizard4 {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs&bull;Logs) 01:51, 2 March 2009 (UTC)