[sldev] Re: [POLICY] New mailing list keywords posted

Tim Shephard tshephard at gmail.com
Fri Sep 7 19:30:30 PDT 2007


Because it sucks, makes it hard to follow, and discourages further
conversation that undermines the Authority of Linden Lab and let's the
community organize.

Ebay did the same thing with their message boards.

Seriously people, why are we even having this conversation?

On 9/7/07, Dale Glass <dale at daleglass.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 08 September 2007 02:10:16 Callum Lerwick wrote:
> > I agree!
> >
> > On talk pages some people indent when replying and some people use line
> > breaks, some people sign their comments and some don't (or forget).
> > People might post something at the top of the page, the bottom, start a
> > new section in the middle, and there is nothing tying everything
> > together to give you a feel of the timeline. Without reading through
> > every diff in the history it is hard to see who said what, and peoples
> > comments often get changed or deleted and lost unless you are in the
> > habit of reading through every changelog for every wiki page you read.
>
> Agree too.
>
> I still don't get why use a wiki for discussions when it's about the most
> inconvenient way of having one there is online. But well, I already said
> all I wanted on that subject months ago on that talk page.
>
> I'm not opposed to moving discussion elsewhere per se, but seriously, why a
> wiki?
>
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