On 1/22/08, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Not exactly. Under the present circumstances the preferred way of handling a two way discussion would mean that if I ask a question on your talk page you would respond on mine. The downside of that approach is that the exchange is fragmented in two places, and it gets considerably more complicated if more than two people are involved. What I am suggesting is that you could answer my question on your own talk page, and I would receive some kind of notice that you had answered. This could be either automatic, or it could be based on checking some box to notify the questioner.
Don't you just wish we could yoink the Facebook "wall" and drop it in? It works perfectly. Wall-to-wall lets you view conversations between two participants dynamically.
Actually there's a thought: is there any way to dynamically construct a sensible view of a conversation between two people? For this type of conversation it ought to work ok:
[A's wall] ==Blah== Why the hell did you delete blah? - B :That's a stupid reason -B ::Ok then. - B
[B's wall] ==Blah== Because - A :Just kidding. CSD A7. -A
A dynamic query could just pull out all the diffs to each wall made by the relevant party and assemble them as some series. I guess when people sometimes write on their own wall it wouldn't work as well...but then you wouldn't use that view?
Seriously, how hard would this be?
Steve