On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 19:38:21 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 06:17:27PM +0000, bossfong wrote:
On Wednesday, 12 March 2014 at 18:30:37 UTC, Jesse Phillips
wrote:
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>I don't see anything from that which would make it better for
>heated discussion. A discussion is just a thread of replies.
"A discussion is just a thread of replies" is wrong I believe.
Discussions often evolve and diverge, whilst threads have a
static title and topic.
What Teoh says below, a divergent thread is a new discussion,
which may or may not relate to its parent. The only way to
separate it is for someone to decide it should be separate.
That's not true. That's only the limitation of the web
interface. NNTP
threads can have a new subject in every reply, should the need
arise.
AND it keeps track of the parent post, so that if you want to,
you can
actually trace the thread back to the parent thread! Show me a
web-based
forum that can do that, and I might reconsider.
Yeah, the web interface could handle new titles better (currently
keeps them nested in the same thread).
>Votes are probably the only thing missing because they
>eliminate
>the need for "+1" posts.
I agree. (see, how again some button would have been nice)
Frankly, I rather see voting as a waste of time. Either you say
something substantial, or don't say it. Getting rid voting
*and* +1
posts will be a good thing (though I'm guilty of +1 posts
myself :P).
Sometimes the only thing you need to communicate is that there is
more than one person who holds this opinion. Not really for
deciding what to do, but to encourage the poster to peruse this
point. Unlike Reddit or politics, votes shouldn't be used for
moving thread priority or deciding what action to take.
They are mostly meaningless, but can be a moral boost for the
poster.
