On 12/04/2019 04:44 AM, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote:
An advantage. If the topic goes round several times, the mods closing the topic freezes the thread so that the thread does not gets filled with unnecessary details.
By the time the topic has gone around several times, it is already filled with unnecessary details.
The idea behind is that list threads are gem mines for Python programmers. If you've followed the thread as it was unspun, that's great. Else if you are reading the archives, you have to untangle the right thread from a mess.
It's still a mess even if following it in real-time.
Another advantage of the proposed idea might be to make programmers more responsible by writing what is necessary and as in depth as possible.
I have not seen that happen in /any/ method of discussion. -- ~Ethan~