Hey y’all! As the Jan 5th and Jan 7th threads might indicate, the memory editing process seems to be very poorly understood due to the haphazard nature of today’s submissions. I’ve started tracking our submissions to these in the Memory Tracker Sheet, but its clear that we have very little data, and many people attempting the same / similar ideas without much planning. in light of this, I think itd be best to tell people not to spam entries or articles the next time an unverified page goes live, just so we can narrow down what’s going on and test out the waters and check off any theories we have.
Some useful things to know would be:
- What the hell are the stars for? Do they increase an entry’s chances to anchor? If so, what’s stopping everyone from spamming 5 star entries? Why have lower star entries at all?
- Is the system really expecting dated articles? Does it expect links at all?
- Is data convergence the main factor for anchoring a bloc? Could we, for example, anchor a bloc entirely about porwiggles by having different community members submit coherent, similar entries about porwiggles?
- What exactly causes the compliance percentage to go down? Is it having non-conforming pieces of data on the page together?
We could definitely come up with a set of test submissions to figure these out if / when we get another unverified set of blocs to run tests on together
A potentially high-value test would probably be something not immediately tied to NMS pre/post release coverage, have no articles, and all be rated the same star rating (1? 3?). If the copypasta is anchored (and since its the only thing being sent in, probably shoots up to 100%), then we can answer a lot of the questions above.
A potential submission Idea I saw floated around (and one I personally adored!) was a copypasta about the Chronicles of NED, with a 2 star rating. This would work wonders for some of the criteria above.
I’d love if other members could give their thoughts on this and help organize a submission, as well as inform participating communities of the plan! If any leaders think that this would be better off as a seperate topic, please shift this over too!