I think that it may be time to start a wider discussion about Liquid
Threads. I've posted a couple of times about it in various place on WE
but have not had any response, yet.

My feelings are that LQT are not desirable as the default for
discussion pages, and that what would be preferable would be a way to
turn them on in Talk pages if you wish; otherwise, the default for
Talk pages is the old way -- a blank page.  I've found myself posting
to discussion pages a lot less than I used to, I often find that I
want to post, but something about the page then kind of turns me off
and I don't. Also the fact that all discussion/talk tabs are now blue
links is annoying, i don't know whether to check a Talk page or not as
it looks like theres always something going on there, when often there
isn't. I've also yet to see a thread that has been summarized.

My thought are that LQT are probably more desirable on Wikis where
"teaching"(?) might be happening, where a threaded discussion might be
useful for following an argument or discussion between learners and
moderators, but on a site like WE where we are mostly engaged in
content development, they're just getting in the way. The problem is
that they seem to limit the Talk page to being structured like a
discussion, where as often this is not what is wanted.  I quite like
the way some languages on Wikiverisity have styled their talk pages
with a little bit of formatting using the wikis Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS) to display indentations in different colours.

What do others think?

brent.
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