Board Thread:The Celestial Toyroom/@comment-188432-20140512223153/@comment-188432-20140518134550

Variety3251 wrote: It was in a thread! Not in a page! Ahhh, I see. Yes, there are two technical things at work here, both of which are long-standing community decisions.

In the first place, we long ago decided not to employ article comments — which appear at the bottom of pages — but instead to keep the somewhat "old schooL" talk pages. That means that if we put this awards programme on a normal page, people would have to go to a physically separate page to comment on it. That's obviously undesirable.

In the second, we voted to close our blog feature some years ago, largely because it was attracting much more spam than interesting comment. The blog namespace has the advantage of allowing comments under the initial post, even though you haven't enabled article comments generally.

So with both of these features eliminated, the best spot for these awards on the wiki is a forum thread. In fact, it's not really so different from a blog post at all, and quoting other people is maybe slightly easier. Certainly it's a lot easier to attract people's attention to a thread than to a blog post, because you can highlight the thread, but not the blog post.