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Followup question: why has this not been changed, this question is three years old and yet the wiki under discussion still has the exact same homebrew banners that blend into the page's frame and have the "hey this is not official D&D content" part way over on the right, away from the natural eye-scanning flow.

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There are several slightly different possible solutions, nobody agrees on which solution is best and nobody dares - or cares enough - to actually do something without having the ok from everybody else. Finally the discussion just peters out without anything happening.

You can see the wiki’s admins talk about it here: https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/User_talk:Admin/Archive_3#Home...

It ends with “Aye aye, I certainly won't be implementing anything before passing it by here first.”

In my personal experience all the somewhat successful non-hierarchical communities I’ve been part of, had some principles which make it easy to get stuff done without waiting for an explicit agreement from everybody else. For example the consent-based government system Sociocracy encourages people to ask for objections instead of asking for agreement from the the others.

This was my first question as well. So many great answers given, and three years later absolutely zero change. To be fair, it sometimes takes me a really long time to get around to fixing things, but after so much discussion it's a bit sad to see it never went anywhere. Even just editing the graphic for colors and layout would make it harder to skip over.

My question exactly, especially because blindness to this exact banner accidentally led me to slipping a homebrewed poison that looks like a potion into a D&D campaign and expecting the players to be familiar with it. Only to have them hand it to a sickly NPC. Oops.

I did not understand the banner until I read your comment.

I read the banner and thought "of course this is user created content; that's typical of a wiki. I wonder what separates their 'official' wiki pages."

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