Forum:The Fate of the Featured Forums

OK, so it has been brought to my attention that, in recent days and even recent weeks, the Forums for Featured Article, Featured Image, Featured Quote, and Featured User have dropped severely. Either there are very few nominees left (with only 3 left in the FI and FA voting forums), many nominees with more opposes than supports (which is extremely redundant and can be seen in the FU and FQ voting forums), or there are simply no more of any of these four things that people find as worthy to be Featured as those that already have been. Sadly to say, this Wiki is in a coma right now, and it has just been confirmed that this coma will last until January. Now from 2 months up to 2 and a half months might not seem that bad in terms of the wait, but that would be up to 12 weeks of continuing to drag out the Featured forums while they are clearly on their last legs. Thus, I propose this solution for handling this dilemma. This may sound a bit harsh, but once you think about it, I'm sure you would agree that this might be the best thing to do from now until TDR premieres.

We temporarily retire all four Featured voting Forums, starting on Sunday, October 30, 2011. The Featured forums will bring out their final decisions tomorrow, Sunday, October 23, and those will have their last week before the official retiring. Upon learning the airdate of TDR (which we usually learn about several weeks before the actual premiere), we will schedule a restarting of the Featured forums sometime after the season premieres, but most likely not immediately after the premiere (as many articles will still be under construction and not very high quality, as well as not nearly as long as they could be; many images will not be very high quality and the season could have more potential FIs; and many quotes may still come later in the season). As for FU, activity has dropped severely on the Wiki for all of us, even Council members. That cannot be blamed on the users, however. As it has now been over one year since a new episode of Total Drama has aired (due to the leaking of many episodes of TDWT from Australia), it has actually been a miracle that activity had lasted this long after the latest episode. Once TDR starts, we can restart the FU forum the Sunday after the premiere, as user activity is the one surefire thing that will increase steadily and with quality once the season starts, regardless of whether or not the season still has a long way to go.

So, that is my solution. Cast your vote, along with your thoughts, below.

Support
Yes, I support temporarily retiring the Featured Article, Featured Image, Featured Quote, and Featured User Forums for now until the new season has started.


 * 1) Per all my reasons above. --Cameron: "I want my bubble!" "I WANT MY BUBBLE!" [[Image:Camerontrailer-1.png|100px]] 16:35, October 22, 2011 (UTC)

Oppose
No, I do not want to retire the Featured Article, Featured Image, Featured Quote, and Featured User Forums for now.