On Saturday, 8 April 2017 at 12:34:56 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
On Saturday, 8 April 2017 at 12:15:45 UTC, biocyberman wrote:
This is planned in a future update, as part of Markdown support.
So it is coming. This is great.
The forum software will already detect overquoting, and offer
to trim down quoted text automatically.
Sometimes, more than one level of context is required, when the
parent's post provides no context, such as replies like "What
do you mean?" or "I don't think this is true".
Yes, quoting only "I don't think this is true" does not make
sense. However, as the way the forum is doing now: 100% of the
third posts - like the one I am posting now - prompt manual
delete (i.e. user A post, user B reply, user A reply user B post,
and here he faces overquoting filter, and have to manually delete
quote text.) I would not use the force overquoting option. So the
gain for avoiding 'sometimes' silly post does not weigh over the
third post cases, which happens much more frequently. And after
all, users does have interest to make there posts meaningful, so
he/she will copy and quote the relevant parts.
however, copying text from multiple posts for the purpose of
replying to several posts at once goes against the threaded
nature of the underlying medium (newsgroup/email messages),
Here it depends how the forum developers envision the core
functionality. In my opinion, making a forum to fit
newsgroup/email threads conventions will limit its online
interaction features (i.e. text format, multimedia, user
interaction, etc). Mailing list is one thing, forum is another
thing; so making the current forum act as both will be difficult.
If the interface of a normal forum software is too convoluted,
the Quest and Answer interface like that of StackOverflow may be
a good alternative.
and the forum will warn against
this if it detects such an attempt.
Again, it is user best interests to make the post convey what
they want to say. A mechanistic enforcement requires much work to
make sense to human users. Maybe someday a advanced AI forum
engine can do a good job =)
Thanks for the feedback.
That's my pleasure. I hope dlang.org is a lively showcase of what
D can offer.
