Greg Strong wrote on Tue, Apr 3, 2018 06:36 PM UTC:
I personally do not think changing the name would be an improvement. These are not variants recognized by the world at large, they are variants called out for recognition by us - the CVP community. I never found that to be unclear, but the text of this page needs to be updated anyway, so it could certainly be made clear. And even if "Recommended" was considered slightly better, I still wouldn't be in favor of the change because (A) it has been the 'Recognized' variants page for probably 20 years and (B) it would be a significant amount of work to make the change - editing the HTML of dozens of game pages plus tracking down all the places in the PHP code where items with the Recognized flag triggers display of the 'Recognized' text. And we'd either need to change the name of the column in the SQL table, and deal with all the ramificaitons of that, or else live with that discontinuity probably forever.
I am certainly in favor of some changes to the game list, and soon I will weigh in a little more on the ideas posted recently. But if we are going to put in significant effort, I think there are other things on the site where our time could be better spent.
I personally do not think changing the name would be an improvement. These are not variants recognized by the world at large, they are variants called out for recognition by us - the CVP community. I never found that to be unclear, but the text of this page needs to be updated anyway, so it could certainly be made clear. And even if "Recommended" was considered slightly better, I still wouldn't be in favor of the change because (A) it has been the 'Recognized' variants page for probably 20 years and (B) it would be a significant amount of work to make the change - editing the HTML of dozens of game pages plus tracking down all the places in the PHP code where items with the Recognized flag triggers display of the 'Recognized' text. And we'd either need to change the name of the column in the SQL table, and deal with all the ramificaitons of that, or else live with that discontinuity probably forever.
I am certainly in favor of some changes to the game list, and soon I will weigh in a little more on the ideas posted recently. But if we are going to put in significant effort, I think there are other things on the site where our time could be better spent.