On 2015-03-19 12:42 AM, Isarra Yos wrote:
> On 19/03/15 07:00, Daniel Friesen wrote:
>> On 2015-03-18 11:31 PM, Isarra Yos wrote:
>> Yes, Wikitext conversations did have a threading pattern.
>>
>>  From what I can see looking at a long discussion on a random FA
>> talkpage
>> archive it goes like this:
>> Users indent after each message.
>> Then when it gets too deep someone starts their message with 0
>> indentation.
>> Conversations with larger messages end up reset quicker.
>>
>> Unfortunately this model cannot be applied to LQT or Flow.
>>
>
> Um... LQT has exactly that model. Yes, you can keep going, but you can
> keep going in wikitext, too, even off the side of the page (which is
> exactly what uncyclopedians do sometimes precisely because they want
> to go off the side of the page because they think it's funny, because
> let's face it, it is funny), but normally you just start a new
> conversation/thread/topic/whatever you want to call it if it goes too
> far.
Can you point me to a LQT discussion that people have used that way?

In all the LQT discussions I remember being in people just replied to
the comment they were replying to.
No one seemed to go and reply to a post higher up just to break indentation.

And if things go to far you can't nautrally fork a LQT/Flow discussion
the way you do in a WikiText page. If you did that the people you're
talking to wouldn't be notified.

> but normally you just start a new conversation/thread/topic/whatever
> you want to call it if it goes too far.
Actually this part sounds like the best solution to the 8-levels deep
issue. Any discussion that deep should probably be forked.

Perhaps the Flow interface needs high level support for something like
that. Something like how Discourse lets you fork a message into a new
topic and displays an interface bit that links to the new topic.

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]


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