-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 29/04/14 09:49, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: > I don't have a complete answer, but I suspect some distinction > should be made about conversations that go off on their own > tangents. > > Imagine a message is sent, and a few people all reply to that > message "in parallel". These might all be in the same vein, and > conversation naturally continues from them all as a group. > > Or one of them might be an interesting tangent that goes off on its > own, and if interleaved with the original conversation will just > get confusing. On a small screen, I'd hope that this case would > somehow be detected quickly, and that tangential thread disappear > away (with a little activity marker of some kind indicating where > it forked off and how busy it is, pulsing with each new message, > and also being a user-interface element that can be poked to switch > to that thread). > > As to how to distinguish a tangent on a particular point from > discussion continuing from a group of "parallel" replies? I'm not > sure, but I think the issue may be largely semantic - needing > understanding of the text being exchanged, or users doing something > explicit or implicit to say "This is in reply to this but not > that".
This is an intriguing idea. I feel like we ought to be able to identify some features of the reply-to structure between messages and the reply-to structure between authors that would allow us to find distinct sub-conversations within a larger conversation. Something like a hierarchical clustering algorithm... Cheers, Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJTYXPOAAoJEBEET9GfxSfMxykIAMCvudLe+1uZePF0IOheEIOb UhE6uIwT+R0m6HRPxFGyBTxyvYnhOGcqt3Pv7hi5nzTMFM+6/ccDD3sqJhmIhWlC j6zvqkuohNw+GxEhEvnUt/8HqJPZl5bR+mBGWwHx1aTfry/G6y1MJI17fqBgTtuo bmlwF7l7OEPwwTLteOWa2TZ3H+IDTcZHD8e1nbxP1ORIhHv4WfRgfu8FhLVNsEM7 QDeBhk16QO10rT4b+Goxpj2jrKCWP3R72zIje2p81mcdiReDaoUS675TFqBNQc5y tESyZFP6QYZ9gfBwMb06p79UpglBZKkrsWJHCxYVTLsdE2hOspC3PfZ+vaOduX4= =yjoW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Messaging mailing list [email protected] https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/messaging
