On 11/2/05, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I am sorry to say that I have seen misrepresentations
occur on several
occasions. Problematic is that when you start adding comments like I do
now in this post, you are likely to have follow up reactions and as a
consequence you may not appreciate what was said later in the Wiki
format. Certainly when a comment is over several paragraphs this is
often seen. The worst case of splitting is when paragraphs are split up
resulting in something that that can really be badly read. Asking people
to refrain from doing this resulted in the statement that it is allowed
by the GFDL and that it is old style Internet working method (as if this
is an excuse).
[snip]
You do realize that you are complaining about inline responses while
responding inline yourself, no? :)
I like it when people respond inline in the wiki and break up my long
posts. Yes, sometimes it gets out of hand. However, since I assume
good faith it doesn't worry me.
Might I suggest an additional feature for mediawiki? How about
[{here}] which becomes a difflink to the edit where that tag was
inserted? People could add that to their signatures and thus every
post of their would be equipped to a handy difflink to an original
version.