Talk:Suggestion/@comment-25494824-20150225051023/@comment-24332640-20150225110057

The primary complaint seems to be that there are a lot of comments on the Recent Updates page. But let's be frank, most of these comments were never made with the intent of being archived and nobody really has any reason to go back to them. In fact if we were to just delete all comments older than a certain date I don't think anyone would care (OK, somebody would probably care...there's always someone who cares). As was already pointed out there threads already exist for more archived discussions. Perhaps we could try to make them more visible to people on the Recent Updates page.

If it's more a question of comment frequency and relevancy then I'm not sure what this proposal would actually do to change that. People are already not doing what they're 'supposed' to so adding more rules, etc. isn't going to suddenly make them comply.

I do think General Discussions needs to be advertised a bit better. When it was first introduced there was a ton of traffic that moved from Recent Updates (which used to be even more of a free-for-all) to General Discussions and that was pretty much universally hailed as a good thing, but for some reason interest in General Discussions seems to have waned. There are a lot of new people on the wiki who should be reminded of its existence, and perhaps encouraged to post there instead of Recent Updates.