Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-4651179-20180806025410/@comment-61022-20181218214721

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the current model where people are listed by order of "appearance". The going idea behind that is so that people who don't have the comic knows the order in which characters appear in the story. Which kind of gets lost when you break appearances up in Featured/Supporting/Antagonist/Other Characters category. Also it gets kind of arbitrary when you've got a massive splash page filled with characters.

I've also always had issue with excessive tagging as it looks ugly when you list everything by appearance. You have characters that are listed as mentioned peppered in with everything else which makes it all look ugly. Also, why would a mention of Thanos precede listing a character who actually appears in the story.

Since we've implimented the Minor Appearance tag, I'd think a cleaner way of doing things is eliminating all the variations of the tags for minor appearances and just create a "Minor Reference" subsection of the comic template. Which would cover all non-chronological appearances. Mentions, Recaps, Photos, Non-Chronological on-screen appearances and the like. I've always said these are the absolute dregs of appearances. I would hope that the Minor Appearance tag would help clean this up and hopefully push for a new category to put all of these frivolous (IMHO) edits in a place where they don't overshadow more relevant information. That way there is a balance struck between the people who put that information on issue summaries and everyone else who finds it trivial, at best. (If that specific category could be collapsible and defaults as collapsed, so much the better, IMHO)