Board Thread:Suggestion Box/@comment-24492951-20150901042853/@comment-4199666-20150904034001

Right, so I was somewhat busy the other day so I thought I'd reply to this properly.

The original plan (even though it hasn't happened) was that people could suggest AUs on the AU Suggestions board and then once people were like yeah, I like this idea, we'd create a page for that AU. We obviously don't have an AU Page yet, so that needs to be made.

These pages would include: a description of that AU, rules (if there are any) and a list of all the characters who have a verse in that AU. In an ideal world where all pages were updated all the time and no one ever forgot to edit pages to add their character to them (ha) that would work fine.

Now, at the moment, I can see a problem with the idea of just adding categories to pages for AU Verses because there is absolutely no limits to what AUs there are. Obviously you could add a hundred verses to your character's page and then add a hundred categories, like 2025 Verse, 2030 Verse, Fish Verse, Blue Verse, Alien Time Travelling Verse, Alien Verse, Time Travelling Verse, etc. etc. We don't have a system in place that would make sure all characters were getting consistently marked with the same categories.

I don't know if all of you remember ship pages (which still exist by the way), but basically there were a million categories that went on them and no one really knew which ones to add. If you remember way back to VRPW you'll know how messy things get when there's no set guidelines for adding categories to pages.

So, yes, I do agree with this, HOWEVER, I think we need AU Verse pages first. They will have a specific category which will be listed on the page. For example the page for AU: 2025 or whatever will say on there, "If your character has a 2025 Verse, mark them with the category 2025 Verse"

That's just my two cents. Which in Australia rounds down to zero cents. So really, I've got nothing.