EpicAdvice Improvements

Still looking around but you're likely going to get many posts/answers with links to long standing popular resources. Standing advice to RTFM - and provide a well marked up and documented list of the recourses may allow for more considered questions/answers than many people linking to threads or articles on other sites.

I know I've already in my contributing for less than an hour, linked to mmo-champion, rawr, wow insider and almost linked maxdps and elitest-jerks.

I'm trying to come up with any suggestions for you that would make this the go to place over all the other places one can ask and research wow info.

And I really wish I'd linked my unregistered post/user to this one correctly.

Instead of asking people to search the QA database before asking questions, maybe

• do it for them once they enter their question (our automated search found this- did that answer your question? If not, please press "ask anyways")
• Provide some centralized knowledge base that has known answers to common questions, and some way of retiring obsolete questions (maybe have a "valid in patch x" tag)

Odd to be answering with a question, but when should one answer and not comment? So far there is one thing I commented on, but upon reflection - suspect it may be better a comment. So a guideline or rule of thumb for that?

You really should try and purge the gold-selling adverts from the site. Every new WoW site that pops up is crawling with them. Since you're going to attract new players, for heaven's sake don't help the game with one hand and slap it down with the other!

Must say I don't really care for the current theme...

I have a feature request- could you let us save an RSS feed for questions that contain a tag, or a group of tags? Ideally this feed would only contain the initial question and not be updated every time someone edits or answers it.

The page you get when there is a server error of some sort still references stackoverflow's feedback page. I am not sure if this is a config thing on your end, or a bug in stackexchange code.

I don't know the exact page, it was the error page with a lolcat saying "Wait I'll fix it."

Because the mechanics of the game change fairly frequently, I think you're going to need some mechanism to "age" answers, or at least indicate what version of WoW the answer is correct for.

For example, if the site had existed a few months ago and one question was "What level do you get a flying mount at?" The answer that was correct from a few months ago would be incorrect now.

Ideally, users would go back through old questions and downvote formerly correct, but now incorrect answers; and upvote new correct answers. But realistically that isn't going to happen very much. All the stale, out-of-date pages on Wowwiki proves that.

I'm not sure exactly how you handle this. Maybe autotagging each answer with the current WoW version, so people can guess if it might be out of date. Maybe slowly automatically downvoting answers. I'm not sure.

My view of the site (which may not be yours) is that it's a good place to get a straight answer to a single question, without having to dig through 18 pages of EJ forum threads or run a giant DPS-calculating spreadsheet.

To that end, answers that simply link to EJ or some tool, without any discussion or explanation of the topic being asked about, should be discouraged.

Is there a way to implement some basic form of private messaging. I've found myself now wanting to, say, contact a mod about a particular site issue. Or maybe I want to offline with someone that I'm having a particularly contentious messaging back-and-forth with. I think there needs to be a way to step back from the public discourse and be able to talk with someone though some kind of private messaging scheme. Even if it just sends a message to their email.