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In lugnet.cad.dev, john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com (John VanZwieten) writes:
> [...]
> Well, jeez, Todd, you designed this thing, we expect you to know its
> features-- especially such a cool feature as this :-)
One of my talents as a UI-guy is to be able to forget things like that and
go into situations fresh. (Maybe I did too much LDS at Berkeley. ;-)
> > Another real bummer with the way things currently are is posts like this
> > (not pointing any fingers! -- just giving examples):
> >
> > http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.cad.dev:452
> > http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.cad:66
> > http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.cad:1170
> >
> > These messages are of course all variations on the theme of "Hey I just
> > posted a foofoo to lugnet.cad.dat -- check it out and let me know what
> > you think." Now, nobody's done anything wrong by posting these, but --
> > Ugh -- how unfortunate it is that this sort of thing becomes necessary
> > when discussions are separated from data. :-/ And with more groups,
> > it'll only get worse.
>
> But if the .dat file post serves as the announcement, then it would often
> need to be cross-posted to several groups, i.e. .cad and .starwars, or
> .robotics and .build and .cad. But the other groups can't (at least now)
> view the .dat files directly with LDLite.
True, even with discussions in the .dat groups, there will still be the
occasional need, to point -at- them in new posts in other groups. One way
around that of course would simply be to allow DAT content in all groups --
a la "LDraw -- resistance is futile!". :) But what I really just meant was
that (a) these types of "hey, go look" posts would decrease in a good way
with integrated discussions and (b) they would increase in a bad way with
non-integrated discussions. The only way to completely eliminate them would
be to allow DAT content in any group -- which -- ahem -- maybe, just, maybe
wouldn't be too bad an idea, as long as people were encouraged to cross-post
to the appropriate .dat sub-group, for example crossposting to .dat.models
when posting something to .starwars.
--Todd
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