[Python-ideas] Clearer communication

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 7:59 AM Abe Dillon <abedillon at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Whoever posted last ends up at the bottom of the thread, so that I can
>> read threads from top to bottom in chronological order.  Getting the
>> last word in shouldn't earn a spot at the top of the list.
>
>
> That doesn't like any closer an approximation to a merit-based solution to me.
>

Maybe not, but it's consistent. You can easily scan through a thread
in the order it was posted. Anything that allows things to be upvoted
above other things specifically encourages you to read only the
most-upvoted answers. That works for Stack Overflow, since individual
answers are meant to be coherent and self-contained, and have their
own comments threads; it does not work for extended discussions (which
is why SO specifically discourages extended discussions in comments).

Got any ideas for a "merit-based" ordering? Or: got any definition of
"merit" that would actually be useful to this style of discussion?

ChrisA