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Part of my reasoning is that new threads and comments for older ones get lumped together in a single thread in the forums, requiring may uses of the "up" character to denote which topic someone is referring to. In the Queries, each topic is its own independent thread.
Questions get missed not because they stack up, but because nobody who follows the thread knows or wants to answer. Making it a query-type has a merit of letting people filter questions by unresolved and grouping conversations, but it'll effectively be just the same thread looking differently. Also if it "works like Ask The Tropers or Trope Finder", then it's used wrong, the thread is mainly for yes-no questions.
This is probably worth more takes from other tropers.
Edited by Amonimus TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
I think currently there's some jurisdictional conflict between ITAE and TF, so until we clarify which is for which, I don't think pulling ITAE out is a good idea.
Scientia et Libertas | Per Aspera ad Astra Nova
Is This An Example
is a forum thread that seems to function a lot like Ask The Tropers and the Trope Finder, but since everything gets lumped into a single thread, a lot of them get missed, not to mention that users have to slog through the forums to get there instead of using the sidebar. If it was brought out of the forums and turned into another element of the "Queries" set, that would not only make it easier to access, but making each topic its own thread would make accessing individual topics easier. The only real restriction could be that, instead of a custom title, you would have to input the trope and media (or "none" for the latter, if it's something you cooked up out of wholecloth) you're referencing.
Edited by Gofastmike