Forum:Userboxes

I don't like userboxes, knowing most of our users just get out of hand and start convincing them to work more on their user page versus anything beneficial to our wiki. We don't need language boxes since this is all English, and I see nothing that would help us on any level beyond superficial. If we did have this, everything would just get out of hand so I think we should get rid of them.

It seems that the main concern here is the implementation of userboxes detracts users from the main focus of the site ― editing articles ― and leads them to spend more time and energy on embellishing their userpages. In Wookieepedia, these templates have to be approved by the voting community before they can be used. This could be the case here, so that we curtail userboxes such as "This user likes rainbows and flowers" or "This user types quickly." Those are the kind of boxes used by those with loads of time on their hands. I don't think that seems to be the case here. Most users spend their time making signifigant edits.

-- Triskelle3 21:49, 8 April 2009 (UTC)