The Library - Wipe it

[Caelphon]

As the title states;

The Library currently is full of useless books that no longer have any use. For example, theres some books still using inaprovoline and old-med. I think clearing it will actually encourage people to go to the Library - not only to read, but to write as well. 

I believe wiping the library will do more good than harm. 

[Star Dust]

4 minutes ago, Caelphon said:

As the title states;

The Library currently is full of useless books that no longer have any use. For example, theres some books still using inaprovoline and old-med. I think clearing it will actually encourage people to go to the Library - not only to read, but to write as well. 

I believe wiping the library will do more good than harm. 

As someone who plays a librarian I fully agree on this. If say some new players join the server and take a look at some of the outdated books thinking this is how the station and game works it can give them the wrong idea. I believe instead of wiping many of the books we update them instead. I know how unlikely that will be but still if you're going to remove a lot of the books something has to replace them so not to make the library not feel so empty, but still I fully agree.

Edited May 24, 2020 by Star Dust

[Faris]

13 minutes ago, Caelphon said:

As the title states;

The Library currently is full of useless books that no longer have any use. For example, theres some books still using inaprovoline and old-med. I think clearing it will actually encourage people to go to the Library - not only to read, but to write as well. 

I believe wiping the library will do more good than harm. 

There's some history to some of the books present.

You can trim the selection down which has been done a number of times already. 

[Caelphon]

4 minutes ago, Aboshedab said:

There's some history to some of the books present.

You can trim the selection down which has been done a number of times already. 

It would be easier to just copy the books, then mass delete the library and incorporate the books afterwards. If they're important, then they'll be saved. 

 

Theres still hundreds of books which are empty or downright just about three lines of pure garbage. 

[Carver]

Whilst the old reference guidebooks range from somewhat to completely useless, I would terribly miss a great deal of the other texts that might be lost in a purge. Even just seeing some of the character names of those who uploaded them brings back fond memories.

[Faris]

Easier is not always better. Even at a slow pace, I imagine it would only take a few days to go through the 808 books in the library. Get a group of 4 people and each person gets 202 books. 

Checking if a book is viable won't take long since the determination if a book is worth it can be determined quickly.

[Zundy]

Why not do it ICly and compile a list for "CentCom" to remove with a team of Librarians :^)

[goolie]

It would be silly to just remove it all. Even if it would be boring as hell, it would be best if every individual book was reviewed. 

[niennab]

I think what'd be better is if the lore/staff team went through and combed through the database. Wiping it outright would be silly. I have a list of books that I absolutely adore and if those players are gone, so are those books. I might be able to reupload mine, but those players who are gone likely won't. It's a history of our server.

As a side note, I have a small list of books that are either empty or need to be moved into their proper categories. I'd be happy to help in combing through what we have.

Edited May 25, 2020 by niennab

[Caelphon]

I see what you're all saying, and a review with Nienna's idea might be the best way forward. 

[Hesphos]

A library event like the TCFL Promo but then just unlimited librarian job slots that will comb through all the literature to see what stays and what goes.

Maybe an even better idea will be a Mercenary round event but instead of having to shoot guns the mercenaries are given stacks of books to read and audit.

[Alberyk]

I recommend that people foward those list and books to staff, so we can just deal with them. Ahelping during the round also works.

[Hesphos]

Then again, old outdated medicine books are kind of funny in my opinion.

Imagine finding an old medical book from the 1400's and being like. ''Hmhm, these are outdated practices, better burn it.''

[Scheveningen]

I think charging the lore team with the effort of removing some of the offensive/low-quality books from the database would be a worthy venture. There is a ton of library bloat right now.

[Carver]

1 hour ago, Scheveningen said:

I think charging the lore team with the effort of removing some of the offensive/low-quality books from the database would be a worthy venture. There is a ton of library bloat right now.

Bloat's a horrid term for it. Just axe the hidden WGW-tier shit and figure a way to mark old reference guides as outdated.

[Alberyk]

I removed around one hundred or so books from the library today, feel free to send me more stuff that you think that should be also axed.

[IAmCrystalClear]

There’s a whole bunch of books in there that are pure gold, especially ones from characters that are now gone.

combing through the books would be fine. Maybe we could add a new, almost comedic shelf consisting of “outdated guides” somewhat like an old newspaper shelf

[DronzTheWolf]

As long as we keep Rob Oster's guides to robustness.

[Carver]

22 hours ago, Alberyk said:

I removed around one hundred or so books from the library today, feel free to send me more stuff that you think that should be also axed.

Is there a list of the removed books?