[WikiEN-l] Recent events (OT) Threadiquette

[K P]

On 9/1/07, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> The original content of my post, under this subject header, was about
> the recent events involving a couple of our well-known and well-liked
> admins, and apparent accusations of checkuser abuses.
>
> The subject of how to deal with reading and catching up on threads was
> secondary, although still somewhat related, but nevertheless off the
> topic. This brought to mind the idea that people might integrate some
> basic courtesy in posting threads which deviate from the core topic,
> perhaps just by adding an (OT) in the subject line.
>
> More to the point, condensing excessively long subject headers would
> be good thing to do, particularly if they have words like "Nazis" and
> "rape" in them.
>
> -stevertigo
>
>
> On 9/1/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> > Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
> > > On 8/31/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Because in my personal opinion the quality of posts varies per author,
> > >> not per thread.
> > >>
> > >> Mind you, in practice I still read everything ...
> > >>
> > > I would call that impressive, but really, it's just mental :)
> > >
> > There are limits!  A loooong post from some sender that I don't
> > recognize, and that begins with "Some bastard just blocked me ..." is
> > likely to draw as much of my reading time as the post that I am now
> > answering. :-)
> >
> > Ec
> >
Yes, off topic notices would be good.  I try to remember to change the
topics, when I do, but believe I've only succeeded a few times.

KP