>>>> "Gregory" == Gregory Maxwell
<gmaxwell(a)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.