Forum:Manual of Style: Community discussions edition

Yeah my thread name was strange but believe it or not it's actually a legitimate topic.

Seeing as we've switched to the forum system for community discussions, I'd like to know what everyone would think of establishing an ideal formatting style (yeah like our MOS :P) for a discussions thread (note: this doesn't include any other forums, just this one). Ideally I have this in mind:

Proposal here.

Discussion
Point 1 here.

Point 2 here.
 * Possible reply 1.
 * Possible reply 2.
 * Possible reply 3 and so on...

Point 3 here.

Conclusion
Conclusion/"thread closed" note here.

This is what I think would work for a thread ideally aimed at discussions (anything containing a vote would follow the same structure plus the vote as a different header).

The reason I'm proposing this is really down to making discussion threads look cleaner and so they can accommodate more at any one time. For example, the structure I've created above shows that if a user has something to say in response to something another user said, they can do so without having the entire discussion aligned to the right hand side of the page, making everything look cleaner and easier to understand.

All in all, I think this would be a nice thing to implement and it relates to a primary reason why we switched to a forum-based discussions system - to accommodate more detailed discussions. If anyone has anything they wish to say related to my proposal then they are more than welcome to do so.

So what does everyone think? 19:48, November 21, 2012 (UTC)