On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 7:59 AM Abe Dillon <abedil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Whoever posted last ends up at the bottom of the thread, so that I can >> read threads from top to bottom in chronological order. Getting the >> last word in shouldn't earn a spot at the top of the list. > > > That doesn't like any closer an approximation to a merit-based solution to me. >
Maybe not, but it's consistent. You can easily scan through a thread in the order it was posted. Anything that allows things to be upvoted above other things specifically encourages you to read only the most-upvoted answers. That works for Stack Overflow, since individual answers are meant to be coherent and self-contained, and have their own comments threads; it does not work for extended discussions (which is why SO specifically discourages extended discussions in comments). Got any ideas for a "merit-based" ordering? Or: got any definition of "merit" that would actually be useful to this style of discussion? ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
