Closed Guide Competition

Or, say, a Complete tag and a Work In Progress tag, letting the creators assign what they feel is sensible.

 

You just suggested separate sections for complete and in progress guides. Presumably you did so because you felt it was a sensible idea. Make up your mind.

I think possibly you're misunderstanding the notion of tags. They serve as some sort of categorisation, nothing else. You tag your guide on leeching with, say, a Levelling tag, as does IslandSlut with their islander training guide. Then, at some point in the future when someone comes wondering where they might train, they look for guides tagged Levelling and immediately reduce the amount of guides to look through substantially, no longer being bogged down by guides on making money or fashioning weapons or how to kill a tail with horns.

That is to say: tags would not be only for extensive guides covering all there is to know about something. Instead, the tags would be a way to allow a reader to filter the long list of guides in order to make them more likely to find what they're looking for.

 

That has the disadvantage of not allowing a guide to cover more than one category, which is needlessly restrictive. Tags also have the advantage of being editable by the author, whereas moving things between subfora requires moderator intervention.

 

Yes, like with threads in the bug report section at present. Naturally, the community ought to protest if tags are used needlessly and out of hand.