On 17 January 2013 17:47, Sherif Ramadan <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Mike Griffiths <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> I agree, there are lots of instances where this is a very bad idea,
>> especially when you consider the number of user notes which seem to be
>> replies to other notes but not referenced as such.
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> PHP user contributed notes is not a forum or a discussion board. Notes
> that reply to other notes for the sake of dialogue is normally discouraged
> and should not be  standard by which we display our notes.
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No, I agree.  But that does not mean that there are not any useful notes
that are replies.  Discouraging discussion board behaviour is important
though, so maybe you're right.

I appreciate that a sort feature may be difficult to implement in an aged
system, thought I would suggest it any way - I'm not as up to speed with
the code behind the user notes as others.


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>> Mike (mikemike)
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>> On 17 January 2013 14:44, Booksort <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> > Why have you changed to label posts as eg '1 year ago'?
>> > When reading User Contributed Notes and code suggestions on the site, it
>> > is often essential to know exactly what order they were written in.
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>> > now impossible.
>> > Especially when it seems the order of display can be voted for!
>> > This seems like dumbing-down in the extreme, to cater for people who
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>> > work out in their heads that 17th January 2012 is a year ago.
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>> > Please count this as a vote against it!
>> > Ian
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