On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 at 14:47:19 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
I got to a point of pain with the "Re: How can D become adopted
at my
company?" thread so I thought I would say something.
Good.
This list often has threads that go to 300-400 contributions or
more.
Good too.
After about 20-25 contributions the topic completely changes
and is
often completely unrelated to the subject.
Neither true in general nor in the particular case. Although
discussion deviated a little bit from the topic, I found it very
useful. Many people have their own ideas what to do with D in
which direction, and information sharing is the first step to
understand what D is and what it will be in future.
Quite quickly I think TL;DR
and so simply delete all future messages on that thread even
though this
means more than likely missing good contributions.
For those, who didn't followed discussion it may be TL;DR, but
what about contributors? Even erroneously published posts are not
deleted and I expect nobody would bother to moderate things that
are even not obvious off-topic.
The mis-match of
subject and topic of the contained contribution is impossible
to deal
with, so I think why bother?
Actually many people bothered to read and to answer (likely to be
a majority). In fact they bothered so much, that such big threads
are very few. It is unacceptable to delete discussions because
somebody TL;DR.
If people would change the subject field
and/or switch to a new thread with a new subject, it would
enable much
easier appreciation of the content, and hence more likely
contribution.
And this is a good advice.
