There are several Friends Chat channels that provide useful information. For example:
- Vis Wax Fc for the Rune Goldberg Machine
- Portables for portable skilling stations
- World60pengs for Penguin Hide and Seek
- Menaphos for completing the Menaphos journal
- Whirlpooldnd for Deep Sea Fishing
However, RS:PDDA apparently extends to FC channels as well. That means we can't list FC channels that would otherwise be useful. So I'm thinking: would it be difficult for us to implement our own D&D trackers? --Ixfd64 (talk) 18:45, March 17, 2018 (UTC)
Discussion
Comment - Those "trackers" are actually manually updated each day. It wouldn't necessarily be difficult to pull from data sources like forum threads and Google Docs, but RS:PDDA would somewhat prevent this. We discussed in November last year in Forum:Establishing rules for FCs that there's no way of naming FCs (and likewise pulling their data) in a neutral way without favouring different friend chats. https://i.imgur.com/xHR7zpA.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/6encXAo.png 18:57, March 17, 2018 (UTC)
- Does RS:PDDA apply to names in citations? I know we could just copy the information from the Friends Chats, but it's probably bad form to do so without giving them credit. --Ixfd64 (talk) 19:50, March 17, 2018 (UTC)
Comment - This discussion brings forth the same potential problem I mentioned during the Forum:Establishing rules for FCs discussion. If we use information provided by a specifically named FC, it will appear we are favouring that FC over others that may exist for the same activity. I don't see how we can do this and remain unbiased and neutral at the same time. 
MAGE-KIL-R 
20:19, March 17, 2018 (UTC)
- Also there are D&D groups that don't use FCs. I'm pretty sure that they'd be displeased that the wiki favored fc-based info over forum/reddit-based info. --User:Saftzie/Signature 20:31, March 20, 2018 (UTC)
Comment - Per Jayden and MAGE-KIL-R, don't have anything else to add to that. Salix of Prifddinas (Talk) 22:44, March 17, 2018 (UTC)
Comment - Unless we could gather all utility FC's as they were made by people for utility it would be impossible to not show any bias whatsoever. User:RobbotRS/Signature 00:28, March 18, 2018 (UTC)
Comment - another idea: for activities with associated Friends Chats, how about add something like the following?
The official Minigames and D&Ds forum may have useful threads for this activity.
This would inform the player that there are useful player-run services without naming them, thus remaining neutral. --Ixfd64 (talk) 16:10, March 19, 2018 (UTC)
- That could work. Salix of Prifddinas (Talk) 23:07, March 19, 2018 (UTC)
- I'm happy to see that we may finally reach a compromise in this case. Unless anyone objects, I'll probably create a template soon. --Ixfd64 (talk) 03:34, March 20, 2018 (UTC)
- FWIW, I don't see any "compromise" in this discussion. I don't see much discussion, either. I see a few random comments to a highly non-specific non-proposal. --User:Saftzie/Signature 19:32, March 21, 2018 (UTC)
- I'm happy to see that we may finally reach a compromise in this case. Unless anyone objects, I'll probably create a template soon. --Ixfd64 (talk) 03:34, March 20, 2018 (UTC)