On 6/6/14, Antoine Musso hashar+wmf@free.fr wrote:
Le 06/06/2014 20:17, Brian Wolff a écrit :
Personally I have yet to see a discussion system that surpasses (or really even comes close) to standard talk page ":::comment here. ~~~~" syntax. Honestly it would make me happy if we just used that in general.
Hello,
On the other side, the super long wikitext garbage on long talk pages is the exact reason I stopped being involved in the community and never ever read talk pages.
Receiving a watchlist notification because some other part of the talk page got changed (albeit I never contributed to that sub discussion) makes it nearly impossible to follow-up on replies. And I am probably not the only one.
Structuring the conversations will let us add worthwhile features such as ignoring/hiding a sub thread, getting notifications. Or heck even a talk page / mail gateway to reply by email!
-- Antoine "hashar" Musso
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To clarify, I'm not saying that "::comment ~~~~" is good. It just seems like the best out of a lot of really bad existing choices.
But obviously different people are going to value different things in a discussion system and come to different conclusions.
--bawolff