I think your idea does a good job of compiling what everyone's been throwing around!
Everyone seems to like the thought of a discussion fixture to communicate what they've learned. I worry a little that if it's done exclusively OOCly, it could devolve into joyless hand-waving. However, I'm really intrigued by this idea of a hybrid you're suggesting — all top levels into that post can be very short OOC-style summaries (either of discoveries or of what's been being undertaken as investigation), and characters can ICly comment with their reactions, their questions, their speculation.
That could be a prospectively very elegant solution to keep things compact (through OOC summaries), responsive (with IC interaction) and timely (through a regular fixture). There's an inevitable danger of 'what if something is discussed ten times over in various subthreads,' but I admit I don't think that's ever going to be 100% avoidable.
I guess the one thing is: if characters aren't... really compelled to post ICly about their clues, would they submit their information to the compilation post? And who'd run it? I guess one easy answer would be having whatever NPC is in charge of them do it. Presumably characters would feel a tiny bit more compelled to answer the call of that 'authority.' Or enough so that it could give players a plausible reason to say they did.
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Everyone seems to like the thought of a discussion fixture to communicate what they've learned. I worry a little that if it's done exclusively OOCly, it could devolve into joyless hand-waving. However, I'm really intrigued by this idea of a hybrid you're suggesting — all top levels into that post can be very short OOC-style summaries (either of discoveries or of what's been being undertaken as investigation), and characters can ICly comment with their reactions, their questions, their speculation.
That could be a prospectively very elegant solution to keep things compact (through OOC summaries), responsive (with IC interaction) and timely (through a regular fixture). There's an inevitable danger of 'what if something is discussed ten times over in various subthreads,' but I admit I don't think that's ever going to be 100% avoidable.
I guess the one thing is: if characters aren't... really compelled to post ICly about their clues, would they submit their information to the compilation post? And who'd run it? I guess one easy answer would be having whatever NPC is in charge of them do it. Presumably characters would feel a tiny bit more compelled to answer the call of that 'authority.' Or enough so that it could give players a plausible reason to say they did.