I'd imagine threaded conversations (which I think is what you are suggesting) are difficult from a usability perspective, as well as technically.
Remember this system is probably the first time many users have used a messageboard, and this sucker needs to scale like crazy - given the large numbers bbc.co.uk pushes (2.5bn pages/month on average [1]), particularly when a big news story happens. I'm sure there are people from News lurking around here. Failing that then perhaps a FoIA request [2] could be used to find out the criteria used in the purchasing decision [3]? J [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/research/ [2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/foi/ [3] http://www.bbc.co.uk/supplying/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nic James Ferrier Sent: 19 January 2007 09:01 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] crappy "have your say" forum "Jason Cartwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've never posted to it - although having a look at posts on there, it > does appear to have a rather simplistic moderation system when you > compare it to the likes of slashcode. > > What's your problem with it specifically? It's impossible to have a conversation. There are just 5 gazillion posts all at the same level. For the BBC licence fee debate a conversation is necessary. And no one else can really facilitate that discussion (or wants to). Apparently the BBC doesn't either. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
