On 8/26/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to see it removed in more cases; more intelligent handling of merges. And in the cases where it does come up, as mentioned above, I'd like to see people presented with a fancier interface (where possible), to make it all easier.
I'd suspect an edit conflict is up there with other horrendous quirks when putting newbies off participating in discussions.
It's obviously annoying enough that people frequently mention it in their actual posts ("argh! 2 edit conflicts!") Hardly ever happens to me. I must type too quickly :)
Steve