Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24169511-20160608032023

'What Would You Do?' Scenarios Limited to 1,200 Bytes
Previously, we've been fairly relaxed in enforcing any sort of 'WWYD' limit purely out of laziness and lack of good tools to accomplish the job. Due to a rise in browser lock-ups directly related to the loading of large comments and their subsequent chains, we'll be placing a hard cap of 1,200 bytes on all 'WWYD' scenarios posted in the comments of main space articles.

The Rules page has been updated to reflect this change and all future instances of violations will be handled as per the disciplinary policy. Any 'WWYD' scenarios found to be over the 1,200 byte cap will be removed permanently with no possibility of retrieval. Along with that, the author responsible for said post will be reprimanded.

Why?
A limit to the length of 'WWYD' scenarios have always existed but went largely unenforced due to two main factors: laziness and the lack of suitable tools to enact our policy. Even though our lack of appropriate tools has not changed, we've been spurred out of laziness by the increase in reports of browser lock-ups and dysfunction caused by the loading of the excessively large comment chains found on some pages.

The core of the issue lies with Wikia's handling of the comment section and it's inability to scale to accommodate large amounts of data. This is not a problem we can address directly from our end so we've been forced to take enact more restrictive policies in an attempt to counter these hangups.

How do I check my post size?
Checking the size of your post is really easy and takes 2 simple clicks.

48 Hour Purge Window
Starting 48 hours from the time that this announce is posted, staff will be combing through main article pages and nuking all comments that exceed the new 1,200 byte limit. If you have an old 'WWYD' scenario that you'd like to preserve, you must save them within this 48 hour window or they will be removed forever and made unrecoverable. If you'd like to re-post your scenario, feel free to drop it onto a user blog or post it up in our new 'WWYD' subforum.

New 'What Would You Do?' Subforum
With the introduction of this new, restrictive policy, a few of you are probably wondering if this means the end of large 'WWYD' scenarios. Fret not, for these creative endeavors have a new home in the latest addition to our forums: the What Would You Do? sub. Scenarios of any length are welcome here and OPs are free to reply to posters in continuation of their adventure.

Rules and Limitations

 * For any 'WWYD' scenarios, even those under the 1,200 byte limit.
 * OPs are allowed to reply to users but frequent, back-and-forth RP should still happen on the RP sub.
 * All items listed in the User Created Content Rules apply to this sub.

 