I'm confused about how I'm supposed to use the Trivia Evidence board...

[mattwo]

Am I supposed to be using it for every instance of when I have more than one piece of evidence for each trivia? I'm guessing I should also be using it for when I have doubts of how good the evidence I supply is right? From what I can tell this is the case, but I haven't really seen any information pointing to it being so, just a vague hint from when I was pointed to the board to begin with:

One thing you can do that we can all help with is start a thread in trivia evidence with all you information. We can add to it and discuss it. From there, use it that page at the URL source.
Be patient with Dazz, he has his hands full. It's all good, though. Join in on the forums and hang around. Don't let trivia be the only reason you stay on this site. Good stuff. Personally, I joined to put in only one trivia. Been here since.

It did not occur to me at the time that I actually didn't really understand what exactly that board was there for or how to use it... for now, I'm just going to act on my intuition.

[Dazz]

That's exactly right. We state most of this information in the Submission Guidelines, which you had to read in order to submit:
http://www.vgfacts.com/guidelines/

[mattwo]

That particular part of the guidelines wasn't clear enough as to how exactly that worked though. For one thing, people seem to be making new threads for individual pieces of trivia instead of gathering all the trivia evidence on one franchise or series into one thread. There also is no clarification as to whether or not "around the web" also referred to different parts of the same website (i.e., different youtube videos).

[Petie]

I'm not sure what's unclear about the guidelines and I certainly didn't think this needed to be spelled out so explicitly but for the sake of preventing confusion:

People are supposed to be making new threads for individual pieces of trivia. When linking to a thread here as a source, there should be dedicated information about the information on the trivia, not a list of random posts vaguely related to the information you're looking up. Sure, you can jump to a specific post but individual threads allow discussion, further evidence, or discrediting of a particular piece of trivia so it's important to keep things dedicated.

"Around the web" referred to sourcing your information from more than one page, be it multiple YouTube links, different articles, references to physical books (that can be verified), etc. There have been plenty of submissions accepted with sources containing links to threads with multiple YouTube videos to verify them.

[mattwo]

There is no reason a trivia evidence thread containing multiple trivias for one topic wouldn't open for discussion. I admit though, it wouldn't be as organized, at least depending on how actively the thread was posted to.

[Petie]

Yeah, my concern isn't discussion in that particular part of the forum - it's ease of verification. That's why I personally prefer one thread per trivia.

[mattwo]

Well I'm confused again... I don't think it really matters all that much though right? As long as things can be gotten done either way.

[Petie]

I don't see what's confusing. If you need multiple sources, make a thread for that piece of trivia in the Trivia Evidence board and submit. It's really that simple.

[mattwo]

This is what's confusing me:

Sure, you can jump to a specific post but individual threads allow discussion, further evidence, or discrediting of a particular piece of trivia so it's important to keep things dedicated.

Yeah, my concern isn't discussion in that particular part of the forum - it's ease of verification. That's why I personally prefer one thread per trivia.

I don't get then why I couldn't just link specific posts in the same thread, or perhaps I should have been more clear on the fact that I was generalizing when I said "discussion", as a blanket term for the rest of the stuff you mentioned?

[Petie]

Because it's hard to follow up on specifics for a single piece of trivia in a thread supporting multiple pieces of trivia. So, let's make this very clear. The now official rule is one thread per trivia in the Trivia Evidence board.