Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-1370845-20140901204342/@comment-1073312-20140903212158

I think part of this controversy is that we don't know what the main storyline is apart from some themes, and we don't have an ending in mind.

We have two choices really. Go by my proposal, to at least start off with no coordinators, that we create our own test fictions to map out new boundaries of this fiction. The users who are getting the most involved will be shaping this fiction. I don't see why this would go horribly wrong, its how the fiction universe works. In a sense, we are adding a new realm to the fiction universe, almost like a galaxy, although it perhaps is a lot more than that. Once these fictions are mapped out and integrated as events perhaps we can get the idea about what a central story, with more fixed ideas of a beginning and ending, and it or other plots may require coordinators. It almost sounds like anarchy. But it isn't anarchy really, and functions more like democratically. In fact, lets not conflate politics with the wiki at all, I'm sure there must be fundamental differences.

The second is to jump straight into making a centralised story. For that, to have a beginning and ending, coordination is I guess en-escapable. But then, I think we are trapped by limitations of having them. And why rush? None of us have the capacity to rush into with our hands tied already, and it would create a stagnant story with only a few users in my opinion.

If the fiction truly is impossible without coordination, then yes, we will have to make the switch. But if choose coordinators first, there isn't any going back.