Timeline for What should we do about comment discussions?
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| Mar 12 at 13:50 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 Mod | @dave Flag this comment as "It's no longer needed." The system will automatically handle the flag, deleting the comment. | |
| Mar 10 at 22:23 | comment | added | dave | @wizzwizz4- Non-mods can delete others comments? I don't see any UI to do that. Am I insufficiently blessed? | |
| Mar 10 at 21:57 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 Mod | I should probably say: in December, the CMs floated some ideas about Discussions-esque functionality, and a CM cleared "they're considering different functionality (though, obviously, only if it's worth the implementation effort)" as a framing. This is probably still the official position. | |
| Mar 10 at 21:53 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 Mod | @dave A technical solution isn't required, but the design of the system limits what rules we can sensibly have. Currently, the system rewards people for deleting others' comments, and it's very hard to audit comment deletions. A policy saying "moderators will not move comments to chat, but the site's software will fulfil requests to delete them wholesale" isn't sensible. | |
| Mar 9 at 22:54 | comment | added | dave | I am under the impression that discussions in comments can simply exist until an actual action by a person to do otherwise (which may be just to say yes to 'move it to chat?'). Is this not the case? If it is, then the new rule is: just leave the discussion where it organically occurred. Why is a technical solution required? | |
| Mar 9 at 18:15 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 Mod | @dave This question is an attempt to solicit new rules. If you have a proposal that would allow comment discussions to work properly despite the limitations of comments on this site, please share it, preferably in an answer. (It might be possible to work around system limitations by writing a script and running it on a moderator's account, but owing to the risks of a bug and lack of test environment, that's a last resort.) | |
| Mar 9 at 12:31 | comment | added | dave | I note that Meta seems to regard discussions in comments as useful. And yet the self-evident fact that we in SE:RC regard discussions in comments as useful is something to be prevented. Hypocritical? | |
| Mar 9 at 12:15 | comment | added | dave | Yes. The persistent attempts to force members to obey arbitrary rules diametrically opposed to how the membership themselves choose to use the available facilities is, at the very least, tiresome. | |
| Mar 4 at 13:41 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 Mod | The current rules are mostly a historical accident, devised by a small team with some feedback from Stack Overflow users. (Shog9 considered comments disposable by Stack Overflow's first year, though the community-maintained FAQ didn't match this until three years later.) The rules have been rationalised over a long time by a lot of people, but that's a different thing. ;-) | |
| Mar 4 at 13:30 | comment | added | knol | I'm sorry, I have no idea. The current rules were devised over a long time by multiple people smarter than me I'm sure, so I can't give you a more expressive answer right now. :) | |
| Mar 4 at 13:24 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 Mod | There's only so far we can devise new rules, as long as we remain part of the Stack Exchange network. Until the Staging Ground starts moving again, our chances of getting any system changes are approximately nil. That said, it doesn't hurt to plan for the possibility. What sort of rules do you think we could have? | |
| Mar 4 at 13:12 | history | answered | knol | CC BY-SA 4.0 |