"Gregory" == Gregory Maxwell
gmaxwell@gmail.com writes:
Gregory> Sure I've been on large talk pages, thought I generally Gregory> archive off the inactive sections once they get that Gregory> large!
Problem is that sometimes so called inactive sections will get comments and answers after a while, since it does not make to much sense to add that comments in new sections
- I can write this reply change its format indenting and the
like at will,
Gregory> You can change the indenting on a wikipage, and someone Gregory> walking into a discussion later doesn't need to waste Gregory> their time seeing 100x duplication of text as people quote Gregory> it since there is only one topmost copy.
Yeah but that chance of indent, adding : is a sort of PITA, because it is *not* WYSIWYG (as in emails/newsgroups).
As for (mis)quotes in mailing lists it depends what people quote, a lot just let the text stay end add text which has no reference to the quote (kill-paragraph is you friend in emacs/xemacs for those things)
- and have not to bother whether my reply gets edited
Gregory> Sorry, but the communities need to remove spam and to Gregory> refactor and otherwise focus conversations trumps your Gregory> paranoia about your comments being edited.
_paranoia_ ??? It happened to me 3 times, including once the reply got lost and could not be recovered. (Spam in say gmane seems not a huge problem to me)
Gregory> If we distrust our fellow editors so much that we must Gregory> worry about them editing our comments on a system that Gregory> preserves complete revision history, then we have already Gregory> lost and should just give up.
It has not necessarily be done by bad intention. The wikipage I am referring to suffers from editing by the participants (I am not talking about vandalism here)
- and the list offer me a reasonable threading such that I
can find my posting and the relevant answers in an instant.
Gregory> Whats wrong with searching for your signature or reading Gregory> in diff mode?
It is simply far less convenient than a mailing list newgroup thread
And these points you don't find convenient?
Gregory> I don't think any of them are sufficiently compelling or Gregory> unachievable with the existing behavior that a change Gregory> would be justified.
So the last and most annoying of all the points I mentioned, is the speed.
- I write that reply, run the spell checker (hopefully successfully) and sent it away.
- In the wikipedia discussion page, I would have to run several times the preview, before saving the page and if the connection is real slow. Roughly wikipedia discussions page are around 4 times slower before the relevant contribution is digested.