Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-16461120-20170221234010/@comment-61022-20170222185909

I'm going to have to agree with MrKermit on this. I am already not a fan of mentions. I think that adding more categories is just overkill on categories.

It's my feeling that we have to take a step back and ask what practical value all of these lesser "appearances" serve. Is someone really going to want to know every story that Wolverine is mentioned in? Or how many comics that Agamotto is evoked? What purpose does it serve? Other than someone saying "wow, that's a lot of mentions", I don't really see much of a point. It doesn't have any practical research applications, in that, if someone were to take that information and plug it into a character profile it would be full of such useless information. How informative would it be to read paragraph after paragraph of all the times Agamotto was evoked on his character page?

I also feel that the tags are getting a bit out of control as well. It's getting to the point where that's all people are interested in filling out. Presently, we have almost that are blank. I think instead of focusing on tags all the time, which spur endless debate and are incredibly divisive, we need to encourage people to work on plugging that gap.

We all talk about how people don't necessarily have massive library of comics to pull from and contribute, I think if we spend our time pumping out detailed comic book summaries the "lack of comics" argument becomes a moot point because people can review the comic book summaries for more information.

Sorry to get a bit off topic on the matter, but honestly, I'm kind of over adding new tags especially when there is more important work to be done.