On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Daniel Brown <danbr...@php.net> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> So far that's two people that have expressed a concern against the >> feature. I seem to be the only one that thinks it's a good idea. >> Everybody else is indifferent or hasn't voiced their opinion on the >> matter. While two against one is large in ratio I believe the sample >> size is incredibly small and thus the possibility of error is likely >> to be high. Clearly, I'm in the minority. > > I'm not generally for the introduction of new features that change > the fundamental operation of the site, for a variety of reasons: not > least of which is the lack of maintenance on the code driving the > features, as well as the basic lack of actual necessity. This is one > of the rare cases where I see it not only as useful, but also as a > smart step in the right direction. Lately folks have been stepping up > and taking interest in notes management, but who's to say it'll > continue as a trend. I know that, for myself, having spent the last > few years working to clean up the notes portion of the site, it > becomes very tedious very quickly. After somewhere around forty-one > million, nine-hundred-sixty-two, seven-hundred-fifty-eight notes > moderated, I believe, is where I noticed that. > > So as long as you want to run lead on it, Sherif, and it's > something we can easily disable entirely, should some unforeseen > consequences arise as a result of the new voting/reporting features, > then you can count me in for a plus-one. >
I have no problem taking lead on it. I'm in it for the long-run and hopefully looking forward to finding even better ways to improve notes. My thinking was that if voting/flagging seems to generate something useful or in some way helps improve user notes that maybe it would open the doors to adding tagging, threading, or user authentication which are all things I've heard people voice a need for in the past. Of course as was discussed with me on IRC, trying to do too much usually ends up in getting nothing done. So I figured I'd stick to a few small changes and see how it goes. Cheers! :) > -- > </Daniel P. Brown> > Network Infrastructure Manager > http://www.php.net/
