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Currently, it's allowed to link off-site respect threads or calculations, as long as certain rules are followed, as outlined in our Editing Rules...
I can see some threads of reasoning behind it, those being:
Also, while we're changing this rule anyway, I'd also suggest adding something about blogs which link to off-site calculations stating the results in the terms of our statistics. I don't want some slip-up where another website draws the line for "Massively Hypersonic" somewhere else, causing confusion.
Most of this makes sense, but I don't get the part in bold.If one desires to feature them, they must be backed up to archive.vn, after which the backed up pages are linked to in blog posts in the wiki (only link to one respect thread or calculation per blog post), with credit given to the original creator(s). It should then be requested that our staff and knowledgeable members evaluate which of the feats that seem reliable or not in the blog post comment sections, and uncertain cases may be handled in content revision threads as well.
I can see some threads of reasoning behind it, those being:
- The risk of a respect thread/calculation being difficult to link to, due to being cluttered with a bunch of other links.
- The risk of a user posting many at once, and them essentially getting no oversight due to that.
- Simply by changing the part in brackets to "formatted such that it's easy for a casual viewer to find the link they're looking for when directed there".
- Trusting that our staff/knowledgeable members won't be hoodwinked by that sort of thing, as we already expect with profiles and calculations posted directly on the wiki/forum (as there's no real limit for the characters handled by a CRT, or the number of calculations in one blog).
Also, while we're changing this rule anyway, I'd also suggest adding something about blogs which link to off-site calculations stating the results in the terms of our statistics. I don't want some slip-up where another website draws the line for "Massively Hypersonic" somewhere else, causing confusion.