On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 10:01 -0400, Zachary Goldberg wrote: > On 7/2/08, Austin English <austinenglish@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Zachary Goldberg <zgs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I'm still terribly confused: Whats the problem with the status quo? > > > Things seem to be running very smoothly... > > > > > > -Zach > > > > > > > > > > Many forum users are forgetting to quote, editing their posts,etc. > > Can't we disable post editing on the BB? If people forget quotes I > dont think much harm is done. Theres always a little bit lost in > translation. Great harm is done: Context is 100% lost, especially since the forum breaks threading. > > > > Mailing list users are changing e-mail subjects, breaking threads. > > > > That breaks email threads too -- so thats a user consciously doing > something wrong. Not our issue. You might want to look into how threading works. It is not determined by the subject line in the slightest. You can have a thread with each message having a COMPLETELY different subject, or no subject at all. > None of this sounds like a big enough issue to warrant any change. > Maybe minor tweaking if some people are agitated but I doubt even that > thats the case. Read the archives. We are losing experienced people over this problem, and WineHQ seems unwilling or unable to do anything to fix it within the existing software. -- Paul Johnson baloo@xxxxxxxxx -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080702/bc38bd98/attachment.pgp
